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Mitel Contact Center Solution for VMware View

Feb 29, 11:00AM

Mitel and VMware have married computer integrated telephony and virtual desktops to bring a new level of flexibility and control to call center operations.


Data-centric security approach becomes major focus at RSA 2012

Feb 29, 10:30AM

Data is intertwined with every security topic and concern, but it is ever more so these days as data can be shared so easily.


Dell: We'll have to step up R&D spending

Feb 29, 10:28AM

Dell's CFO says the company has toned down its R&D spending on PCs to redeploy dollars elsewhere.


Symantec CEO: Companies must avoid 'lockdown' (video)

Feb 29, 10:00AM

The "digital native" generation is going to change how the world does business, according to Symantec CEO and president Enrique Salem.


VMware Horizon Mobile set to launch with Telefonica

Feb 29, 9:15AM

VMware’s Horizon Mobile technology is finally set to launch, starting with Telefónica as announced at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona this week.See also: CNET’s Mobile World...


Man charged with threatening to kill Obama on Facebook, Twitter

Feb 29, 5:26AM

A man was arrested last week for two Facebook posts: he said he would a) assassinate US President Barack Obama by b) putting a bullet through Obama's head, and upload the incident to YouTube.


PowerPage Podcast Episode 154 - iPad 3 starts to get real

Feb 29, 5:24AM

In this episode we discuss the iPad 3 event on March 7 and how iPad apps like Photoshop Touch signal the maturing of the platform. And of course, we play "What's on your Mac."


REST for the web services-weary

Feb 29, 4:29AM

A refresh on REST, the other service oriented architecture.


Can you be trusted? The subtext of what you say in social media could be used against you

Feb 29, 2:47AM

Can someone be trusted? And can an algorithm work it out?


New 'HTTPS Everywhere' Web browser extension released

Feb 29, 12:09AM

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's great Firefox HTTPS Everywhere browser security extension has been improved and there's now a beta version available for Google Chrome Web browser users.


HP reportedly axes 270 jobs from webOS unit

Feb 28, 11:51PM

Layoffs continue with another Silicon Valley giant as HP prepares to let go of 270 employees from its webOS department.


Facebook tweaks app reporting options

Feb 28, 11:46PM

Facebook has modified the reporting options for apps on the social network. You, the developer, should also be aware of two upcoming breaking changes on March 1, 2012.


Reading, writing and energy efficiency

Feb 28, 11:08PM

Just 116 schools from 22 states managed to save more than 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in just four weeks, as part of the 2012 Green Cup Challenge.


Proposed law allows parents to monitor a minor's mobile

Feb 28, 11:00PM

Should parents be able to obtain their children's mobile phone records until they are 18?


Get your own Facebook, Google+ ID card

Feb 28, 10:52PM

Have you ever wanted your very own Facebook identification card? Have you ever wanted your very own Google+ identification card? Well, both are now unofficially available.


How long do we spend on social media sites? [Infographic]

Feb 28, 10:30PM

How long do you spend on social networks every month?


Google offering new app stats to Android Market publishers

Feb 28, 10:01PM

Developers and publishers to the Android Market have several new features for tracking app stats starting today.Here's a rundown on some of the new ways to track your Android app's progress:...


University battles Twitter parodies, strangles free speech?

Feb 28, 10:00PM

WKU has been accused of censorship and limiting free speech after fighting satirical and negative comments about the university on Twitter.


SMB online marketing marriage: Vocus pays $169M for iContact

Feb 28, 9:57PM

The merger will combine SMB search marketing, social marketing, email and public-relations services into one platform by late 2012.


Sony's Tablet P lands at AT&T March 4th for $399

Feb 28, 9:46PM

Announced last year, Sony's Tablet P is finally coming to the U.S. via AT&T.



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Daily Crunch: Cheap 3D

Feb 29, 9:00AM

1560Here are some recent Gadgets posts: Is The $300 3D Printer Finally Here? Makible Thinks So TC@MWC: The Huawei Ascend D Quad Is One Of The Nicest Phones You'll Never Buy LTE-Packing Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Hits VZW Shelves On March 1 HBO GO Finally Lands On Xbox 360 On April 1 (And No, It's Not A Joke) iPad 3 Rumor Roundup


The Man Who Predicted the Yahoo/Facebook IP War on Why Patents Still Matter [TCTV]

Feb 29, 7:59AM

yahoopatenttctvinterviewWhen news broke this week that Yahoo is accusing Facebook of violating as many as 20 of its patents, it took some people by surprise -- but at least one patent expert saw it all coming from a mile away. Erin-Michael Gill first publicly predicted a Yahoo/Facebook patent battle back in November 2011, so TechCrunch TV reached out to Gill to get his insights on the situation, now that things have finally started to come to a head.


Charts For Everyone: Cloud-Based iCharts Picks Up $3.1 Million For Consumer Push

Feb 29, 7:51AM

iCharts growthThis is another one for those who love to mark the consumerization of enterprise technology: iCharts, the cloud-based charting service that once described itself as the "YouTube for interactive charts", has now picked up $3.1 million in funding to try to do precisely that: make its platform something used by the public at large. The Series A round comes from a group of private equity investors that include German super-angels Regehr Capital Management Group; Saeed Amidi, founder and CEO of Plug N Play; and Lorenz Graef, founder and former CEO of Globalpark.


Esprit De TechCrunch

Feb 29, 7:20AM

Screen Shot 2012-02-28 at 11.06.15 PMIf there's anything to be learned from the past year, it's that media people are mostly power vultures -- pulling out their forks and knives at the slight sign of vulnerability from those that have influence. Oftentimes some are so eager for the kill that they slip up and impale themselves on those very knives -- the pattern repeats over and over again. Earlier this month, after being beat up by news cycle after news cycle about my -- yes, struggling, beloved company  -- I asked my investor friend why tech bloggers* were so petty. He responded with an adapted Wallace Sayre quote, "Because the stakes are so low."


ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps

Feb 29, 6:40AM

best-smart-free-iphne-appsBack in October, ReportGrid raised $750K from investors like Launch Capital, David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman -- not long after it graduated from TechStars' summer program in Boulder. The interest in ReportGrid was due to the fact that the company offers data analytics as a service (or DAaaS, if you prefer), providing companies with nifty scalable cloud database and visualization engine. In this way, it's meant to be a turnkey, hosted alternative for developers to save them from having to build their own.


EmployInsight Grabs $1M For Its Employee Measurement Platform (And NYSE As Its First Client)

Feb 29, 5:00AM

employinsight0logoEmployInsight, a web-based platform for measuring and quantifying employees' "soft skills" in the workplace, has raised $1 million+ from Founder Collective, Launch Capital, Sean Glass, Phil Bronner, Jarrod Yuster, David Cohen, Gus Fuldner and other angels, the company is announcing today. The startup is also revealing one of its first enterprise clients, and it's a big one: the New York Stock Exchange is up-and-running on EmployInsight's first product, a hiring application called HireInsight.


Tello Raises $2.7M From True Ventures To Give Businesses Consumer Feedback On The Fly

Feb 29, 5:00AM

telloTello,, a SaaS and mobile app that allows customers to give businesses realtime feedback on customer service, has raised $2.7 million in new funding led by True Ventures and Bullpen Capital. The company, which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, previously raised $1 million in seed funding from Dave McClure, True Ventures, Founder Collective, Chris Sacca, Aydin Senkut, Russ Siegelman, Marc Goines, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, and Shervin Pishevar. On the consumer side, Tello is a free web and mobile service that aggregates ratings for businesses (business listings are aggregated from Localeze) from across the web and allows users to post comments about their experience at a business. Users can provide feedback on specific employees, recommend an employees and share a positive or negative story about the employee. Via iPhone and Android apps, users can select a specific business, choose and employee at the business and rate the service with a thumbs up or a thumbs down.


Sonastand Is A Stunning Aluminum iPhone 4 Amplifier Dock You'll Actually Want

Feb 29, 4:36AM

leftfrontKickstarter is seemingly a place where people go to make iDevice accessories. Some are hits, most are not. The Sonastand is clearly the former. Apple's Johnny Ives would probably even approve of this one. The story goes that the Sonastand's creators are, as one of them puts it on Reddit, two normal nerdy dudes trying to do their thing. To be honest their creation is not very novel but it's still rad as hell. All the Sonastand does is prop up the iPhone 4 in a way that connects the dock's passive speaker horn to the phone's tiny speaker. But it's not just empty claims compensated by sexy looks. The creators tested the Sonastand and found its passive horn significantly boost mid and high-end frequencies. TWiT will never sound the same.


iPad 3 Rumor Roundup

Feb 29, 12:20AM

ipad_rumorsUnless Apple is conning the world, the iPad 3 should be announced next week. It, like its forbears, is the subject of many a rumor, some more likely than others. We've collected most of them here in this post with arguments for and against, for your convenience and flaming pleasure. Of course, we'll be there to cover the event live, and will (if past events are any indication) get a nice hands-on as well.


Why Google+ Doesn't Care If You Never Come Back

Feb 29, 12:07AM

Google Leave Me AloneAd targeting. Google+ is designed to power ad targeting, and for that it only needs you to sign up once. This lets it combine the biographical information you initially enter such as age, gender, and places you've lived with your activity on Search, Gmail, Maps and all its other products to create an accurate identity profile. And this powers targeting of more relevant ads it can charge more for. So despite comScore showing that the average Google+ user only spends 3 minutes per month on Google+, VP Bradley Horowitz wasn't lying when he told the Wall Street Journal "We're growing by every metric we care about".


Vocus Buys Email Marketing Company iContact For $169 Million

Feb 28, 9:18PM

icontact-pictureBig M&A news in the email marketing world. Vocus, the publicly-listed provider of cloud-based marketing and PR software, has acquired iContact, a company that provides email marketing services for small and medium sized businesses. The total acquisition price is $169 million. iContact's email marketing software automates the process of creating, sending and tracking email communications for businesses. iContact, which has raised over $50 million to date, also allows users to track email campaign effectiveness, accessing data around opens, clicks and more.


Startups: Durham Wants You In Their Smoffice

Feb 28, 8:54PM

thesmofficewindowWALL copyDurham (a city in North Carolina) is looking to vitalize their already burgeoning startup scene by giving away the "World's Smallest Office," a moniker I once reserved for my attic bathroom but can now be rendered unto a bit of space in the front of a Cafe in Durham's beautiful Downtown. Although the office shown above appears to be more like a monkey cage than a formal workspace, the Smoffice (as it's called) will be available to one small startup for six months. The startup will also receive living space in downtown Durham and (this is just conjecture) a supply of Scuppernong grapes, known also as North Carolina's state fruit.


Groupon Acqhires Uptake To Build Out Palo Alto Office

Feb 28, 8:48PM

uptake logoGroupon is acquiring travel startup Uptake. Liz Gannes at AllThingsD broke the news. We spoke to a source with knowledge of the deal who confirmed the details of the AllThingsD report. The purchase price was apparently between $10 and $20 million.


Twitter's Promoted Tweets & Accounts Arrive On Mobile Apps

Feb 28, 8:43PM

twitterTwitter announced today an update which will impact its mobile applications on iPhone and Android: it's bringing additional "Promoted Products" to the mobile platform, specifically Promoted Accounts and Promoted Tweets. The Promoted Products suite of advertising products, which includes Promoted Trends, Promoted Tweets (in search and in the timeline), and Promoted Accounts, have been available on the web for some time, including the mobile web interface at m.twitter.com. In select cases, they've also been available within the native applications. However, with the recent app updates being launched today, Promoted Accounts will now be added to both Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android, with Promoted Tweets to soon follow.


What's Happenin' Youse East Coast Staaht Ups? We Want To Hear From You!

Feb 28, 8:31PM

westcoast-eastcoast_72dpi350x225pxlWith all this fuzz and fizzle going down with TC inside politics, departures, and whispered depictions of TC as a sinking ship populated by the shambling walking dead, rats clawing through our brainpans and dropping out onto our laps as our fingers shamble across our filthy, befouled keyboards, low groans of agony and anger gurgling out of our deepest, darkest spaces, I thought it would be a good idea to go over some of the things we're focusing on here on the site and offer a bit of guidance for start-ups looking to make it in Boston, DC, NYC, and Hilton Head, North Carolina. We're a very SF/Valley-centered blog, but what are New York, Washington, Virginia, and/or Florida? Chopped liver? I think not. What about Chicago, Atlanta, and Scranton? They may not have In-N-Out, but by gum they do have hamburgers just as good as those found in Palo Alto.


Apps Round-up From The Streets Of Barcelona

Feb 28, 8:12PM

iPhone-4s-AppsWe've been trawling Barcelona for apps and startups during Mobile World Congress, so here's a little round-up of some of those that have been plying their wares - many of whom don't have the cash to exhibit at the official Congress, but who are pitching like mad in the hotel bars of Barcelona. BearCare from Tagofjoy is an Augmented Reality game with a freemium business model. In the game you have to protect your beloved helpless Teddy Bear and cuddle him to keep him happy (go with it, it gets better). The fun part is that it takes place in a real environment, which is blended with lively and playful 3D bears. The games ha two modes. One is a fast-paced action game, in which you have to protect your helpless bear from unearthly, evil toy bears. Another mode lets you take care of him and keep him happy by cuddling him, playing with him and feeding him when he gets hungry. It's a Tamagotchi basically, but re-done for a new world. PlayTales is a an interesting virtual store and publishing platform. It publishes interactive children's ebooks in 7 languages on Android, iPad, iPhone, Windows Phone and soon a flash web site. It's basically a dream come true for parents who want to read stories to their kids on an iPad. Mafuta Go! is a one from left field for you. Coming out of Uganda, this is an app that lets users find the nearest gas station with the cheapest prices. Should you need that. It's worth also pointing out that Swiftkey, which we've covered before, won the official GMA award for most innovative app, beating Google Wallet. Here's a few others:


Google's Schmidt: If Google Gets It Right, There Will Be An Android In Every Pocket

Feb 28, 7:32PM

schmidtThe number of people in the world has now reached 7 billion people, but the number that have been online are only at 2 billion, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, said today at a keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. "We need to be realists about technology," he said. The future, most easily, belongs to "ultra connected people" who can embrace the future of technology, but the majority of people do not fall into that category, he said as he kicked off a speech about what he sees as the role of technology in the world today, and carefully suggested what role Google could play in the game.


ASO (App Store Optimization) Is The New SEO, And Here's A Tool To Do It

Feb 28, 7:25PM

ipad-search-resultsWhat's the hardest thing about building a successful mobile app? If you answered "building a mobile app," you're wrong. It's getting your app found. With over 600,000+ iOS applications, and now some 450,000 on Android, the real challenge for developers is having their app surfaced higher than hundreds of other competitors in the app store search results. Doing this correctly involves ASO, or app store optimization. It's basically SEO repurposed for mobile, and because we're still in the early days of the mobile ecosystem, it's simpler to optimize apps than webpages. But developers are often lacking knowledge, and especially tools, to help them out on this front. That's where the newly launched App Store Optimization Keyword Volume estimator (whew!) comes in.


ClassPager Lets Teachers Quiz and Remind Students Via SMS

Feb 28, 7:21PM

ClassPager LogoWhy ban phones from the classroom when you can harness them? Bootstrapped startup ClassPager today launches its Twilio-powered SMS system that lets teachers and professors efficiently send their students quizzes and reminders, and receive answers and feedback. ClassPager can re-engage bored or shy students, and show teachers who's falling behind. The 30-second set up provides a classroom code students can text to participate, so teachers and students don't actually have each other's phone numbers. That means better grades with no prank calls and no inappropriate advances.


Keen On… Cary Sherman: The RIAA Needs To Give Music Consumers What They Want (TCTV)

Feb 28, 7:15PM

Screen Shot 2012-02-28 at 8.47.19 AMSo has the Internet been the best or the worst of things for the music industry? Some musicians, like Camper Van Beethoven's David Lowery, argue the latter; while some technologists, like BitTorrent's Bram Cohen think the former. And this all important question - the real impact of the Internet on both musicians and music consumers - is one that I asked Cary Sherman, the Washington DC based CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), when we Skyped yesterday.



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Cisco extends firewall platform with new context-aware measures

Feb 28, 10:30AM

Cisco Systems is upgrading its firewall technologies and even its own certification courses to better meet newer challenges in network security.


Dell is a PC company (for now): The numbers don't lie

Feb 28, 10:00AM

Dell doesn't want to be known as a PC company, but the numbers indicate that the company has more work to do.


Opera aims to bring mobile payments to 'all devices'

Feb 28, 9:00AM

Opera boasts that its new Payment Exchange platform brings mobile payments to the 99 percent.


Law firms: Facebook Credits violates antitrust law

Feb 28, 6:26AM

Facebook is once again being accused of violating U.S. antitrust laws by requiring that social game developers use Facebook Credits on its platform. This time two law firms are getting involved.


Fight the power: How to take AT&T to court if you're throttled

Feb 28, 5:21AM

Some tips on how to take AT&T to small claims court -- and win! -- if your iPhone's "unlimited" data plan has been throttled.


Facebook is used 19x more than Twitter, 135x more than Google+

Feb 28, 5:06AM

We already know that the time Facebook users spend on the social network is ridiculously high. It turns out that the time Google+ users spend on the social network is ridiculously low.


Stage 2 meaningful use has some advantages for patients

Feb 28, 5:03AM

There's been a lot of buzz about the new meaningful use standards announcements this past week.


IBM advances quantum computing ball

Feb 28, 5:01AM

Big Blue scientist Matthias Steffan said that quantum computing is moving from the experimental stage to the point where "it's time to start creating systems."


MWC 2012: The Android arms race is heating up

Feb 28, 3:57AM

With so much at stake, Android smartphone and tablet manufacturers are releasing devices in a never-ending war of escalating product specs. Who loses? The consumers.


Yahoo threatens Facebook with patent war

Feb 28, 3:01AM

Yahoo is now a patent troll. Its first target is Facebook. Yahoo is old and a failure. Facebook is new and a success. Instead of mooching off Facebook, Yahoo is biting the hand that feeds it.


The pros and cons of Facebook Credits for merchants

Feb 28, 12:44AM

Are you considering using Facebook Credits in your business? You should probably take a look at the pros and cons, according to a recent report from a merchant's perspective.


Cisco taking more 'integrated and holistic' approach to network security

Feb 28, 12:33AM

The common thread among mega security trends right now is the network, according to Cisco's new senior vice president of its Security and Government group, Chris Young.


Facebook IPO could mean $2.45 billion for California

Feb 27, 11:47PM

When Facebook goes public later this year, the company could significantly help the state of California's budget deficit. The total is estimated at $2.45 billion, according to a new report.


Google taking $453M loss with sale of Clearwire stake

Feb 27, 11:36PM

Google is selling its shares in wireless Internet service provider Clearwire at a steep discount - and potentially taking a $453 million loss on the deal.


Ringmark: Facebook's mobile browser test suite

Feb 27, 10:40PM

Facebook and Bocoup have built a mobile browser test suite called Ringmark. You can use it now, and you'll be able to contribute to it as well once the social networking giant open sources it.


4 model communities for electric vehicles

Feb 27, 10:35PM

When it comes to best practices for supporting electric vehicle adoption, some cities and states are ahead of the pack.


Facebook's COO just endorsed Coke

Feb 27, 9:24PM

Out of nowhere, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg just gave Coca-Cola a huge boost. Why is the social networking giant endorsing the beverage giant? Something tells me this is a marketing move.


STEM careers: How long can you survive?

Feb 27, 8:54PM

New research conducted at universities predicts how long STEM faculty members remain in department positions.


Why Facebook hasn't ditched PHP

Feb 27, 8:23PM

Have you ever wondered why Facebook is still heavily using PHP instead of just ditching the language at some point in the last eight years? A Facebook engineer recently answered the question.


Visa teams with Vodafone, Intel; intros new mobile commerce services

Feb 27, 6:58PM

Visa partners with Intel and Vodafone to further secure its potential worldwide dominance of mobile commerce.



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MTV Mobile Moves Into Social TV With Digital Agency AKQA

Feb 28, 9:58AM

MTV_Press_3UP_72dpiViacom's MTV is making one more move into trying to capture the youth market on the platform where it's increasingly spending most of its time: the company, in partnership with digital agency AKQA, has launched "Under The Thumb," a new social TV app. MTV and Viacom are calling this a "world first" in that it will let users watch MTV content on the mobile, share it on the go with others, and then watch the program simultaneously with those friends. It builds on a pretty extensive business that MTV has already established in Europe, including its own mobile service.


Daily Crunch: Mobile World

Feb 28, 9:00AM

1559Here are some recent posts from TechCrunch Gadgets: TechCrunch at Mobile World Congress Texas Instruments Announces New Partnerships For OMAP 5, But Wait…There's More Quietly Brilliant, But HTC Sure Made Some Noise At MWC Hands-On With The HTC One V: This Little Guy Feels Great Asus Officially Unveils The Accessory-Laden Padfone


Opera Takes Over Payments In Its App Store; Inks Deal With Yandex In Russia

Feb 28, 8:35AM

Opera-logo-PNGMobile browser company Opera -- which claims to be the world's largest, with 160 million monthly users -- today announced two more developments in its drive to make more money from mobile: today it is launching its own payment exchange for its Mobile Store app store; and it has named its first regional partner for the service, Yandex, which will become the preferred method of payment in Russia and the CIS. The news is the latest in a week of mobile money and payment announcements -- including the news that Facebook will also offer carrier billing for mobile users of its apps.


DataSift Unlocks Access To Historical Twitter Data Dating Back To January 2010

Feb 28, 7:59AM

DataSift |DataSift, one of Twitter's data partners which currently provides developers and third parties with access to the full Twitter firehose in realtime, is about to unlock a whole new set of Twitter data to the ecosystem. The social data platform has launched Historics, a cloud-computing platform that enables entrepreneurs and enterprises to extract business insights from Twitter's public Tweets dating back to January 2010 (we originally reported on the pending launch here). Developers, businesses and organizations can essentially use DataSift to mine the Twitter firehose of social data. But what makes DataSift special (besides the premier access to Twitter data) is that it can then filter this social media data for demographic information, online influence and sentiment, either positive or negative. As we've reported in the past, DataSift does not limit searches based on keywords and allows companies of any size to define extremely complex filters, including location, gender, sentiment, language, and even influence based on Klout score, to provide quick and very specific insight and analysis.


PowerReviews Attempts To Make Reviews More Social

Feb 28, 7:57AM

powerreviews-1PowerReviews, a company that provides customer review technology for retailers and e-commerce sites, is debuting a new suite of tools that helps companies promote, reward and measure customer engagement and review generation. PowerReviews, which launched in 2007, provides retailers and brands with the ability to collect, organize and analyze comments and other user-generated content. PowerReviews 5,500 customers include Staples, REI, ESPN, Callaway and Jockey.


Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, And Obvious Put $4.5M In Sleek Social, Mobile Gifting Platform Karma

Feb 28, 4:59AM

kKarma, a new social, mobile gifting service from the founder of TapJoy, has raised funding from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, The Obvious Corporation, Stephen Gillett, Felicis Ventures and other angel investors. While Karma declined to reveal the exact amount of the funding round, which was raised last summer, SEC documents reveal the startup has raised around $4.5 million. In addition to announcing its investors, Karma is also debuting its disruptive mobile, social gifting platform that could change the way people give and receive gifts. Founded by  Lee Linden, and Ben Lewis; Karma aims to give users the option to give friends gifts on the go via iOS and Android apps. While there are a number of mobile, social gifting apps on the market, Karma's service combines intelligence, social discovery, and the easy of gift giving in a sleek app that's definitely worth a look.


Jack Dorsey Will Field Your Questions About Entrepreneurship

Feb 28, 4:58AM

TokBoxGet your questions ready because Twitter founder and executive chairman and Square CEO Jack Dorsey will be hosting a video-mentoring session (which you can watch and participate in here) as part of an initiative to foster entrepreneurship among high school students. Dorsey will be partnering with BUILD, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit that promotes college readiness via entrepreneurship education. Using TokBox's Dorsey will host the chat on BUILD's web site tomorrow, Tuesday February 28 at 4:30 PT, and is encouraging students and fledgling entrepreneurs to ask him questions via the live chat.


Brad Keslowski Makes NASCAR History With First In-Vehicle Tweet & Pic During A Race

Feb 28, 3:42AM

AmtWD3yCMAAoLIaAs I'm writing this the Daytona 500 is under a red flag due to a bizarre accident. Juan Pablo Montoya's #42 car malfunctioned under a yellow caution and hit a massive race track jet dryer directly in the fuel center, causing a large fire on the track. Both the racer and the driver of the truck are fine. So what's a driver to do during a red flag? Well, Brad Keslowski just happened to have his iPhone on him from pre-race activities and is putting it to good use. He just tweeted a pic of track fire from inside his race car but is also fielding questions on Twitter (@keselowski) while waiting for the race to restart. Per the FOX sportscasters NASCAR race car drivers are now having holsters built for their phones for testing purposes. Apparently Keslowski still had his on him.


Why You Can't Dismiss Nokia's 41-Megapixel Phone

Feb 28, 3:04AM

sensorMy first reaction upon hearing about Nokia's 41-megapixel 808 Pureview was that it was an absurdity, a perfect example of the very worst of consumer electronics, and a total miss. But the more I read, the better I understood that this phone isn't just some freak of nature with a ridiculously high number attached to it. It's just the slightly awkward first steps of a serious move by Nokia to differentiate itself. If you've only skimmed the news, there are some things you should probably know about this strange beast of a camera. First, the 41 megapixel figure is really misrepresentative, not to say untrue. It doesn't take 41-megapixel photos in any way, shape, or form. Even in the special high-res creative mode, it "only" produces 38 megapixels. Mostly it will be taking normal-size shots, between 3 and 8 megapixels. So what the hell does this 41 megapixel figure even mean?


Following Thefts, Luxury Car-Sharing Service HiGear Acquired By Rent2Buy

Feb 28, 2:47AM

rent2buySan Francisco-based HiGear, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service for luxury vehicles, has been acquired. The news follows the company's decision to shut down operations last month, after a criminal ring targeted HiGear, resulting in multiple incidents of theft involving its members' cars. The criminals stole four cars totaling $400,000 by using stolen identities to bypass HiGear's background checks. Today, the company is announcing its assets have been sold to another peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace known as Rent2Buy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.


A Few New Bag Designs From Golla

Feb 28, 2:18AM

IMG_6117I spent a good portion of my adult career as a graphic designer. I still look at the world through that lens, so I am always happy to stumble across some beautiful designs, no matter where they might be. Stumble I did, into the Golla booth at the Mobile World Congress today (2 hours of sleep and about 300 calories of food in the last 36 hours) to find a pretty killer lineup of beautifully designed bags for all your gadgets.


Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back, Says Pay For Its Patents Or Get Sued

Feb 28, 1:51AM

stabAfter years of positive relations, friendly blog posts, and referral traffic, Yahoo may have just been biding its time waiting to declare war on Facebook. Today it suddenly accused its former ally of infringing on 10-20 of its patents. It demands a settlement from Facebook or it says it will sue. The betrayer only warned Facebook privately once the New York Times had publicly published details passed to it by Yahoo. Though dastardly opportunistic, this patent trolling could produce a big windfall for Yahoo's investors.


Well, That Was Fun

Feb 28, 12:22AM

spinningThis is my 4,212th post on TechCrunch, and my last as editor in chief. The past few months have been a whirlwind for everyone at TechCrunch. We've had a lot of departures lately, but behind the scenes we've also quietly been building a new TechCrunch. For every departure there's been a new hire, we've been rolling out new features across the site (like the video and events hubs), and there is more goodness in the works including an awesome tablet app I am personally excited about. I didn't want to leave until TechCrunch was set up for the next few years. And now it is.


Poppin Seals $6M Series A From Shasta and First Round To Beautify Your Bland Office

Feb 27, 11:38PM

Poppin LogoFugly offices kill morale and make every task a chore. But Poppin knows a happy employee is a productive one, and wants to keep yours that way with its online store full of colorful office supplies. With the ongoing talent crunch making employee retention more crucial than ever, Shasta Ventures sees a bright future in Poppin, so it's led a new $6 million Series A in Poppin. Joined by First Round Capital and several angels, the round will give Poppin the gusto to expand into furniture and other essentials, and spray rainbows over the supposed $300 billion office product market.


A Swedish Company Claims It Owns A Swipe Patent Used By Apple

Feb 27, 11:31PM

Image (1) slide_to_unlock.jpg for post 87958Another front has opened in the multi-faceted story of patent battles: Neonode, an optical touchscreen tech company based in Sweden, says that it has been granted a patent in the U.S. that covers the touch-and-glide gesture that it claims is used on devices like the iPhone and iPad. The patent is notable not only because Neonode says the patent covers functions like the horizontal touch gesture that Apple uses between screens on its iOS devices, as well as in the slide-to-unlock feature. But also because slide-to-unlock is the same feature that Apple has been citing in its own patent lawsuits against Android device makers Motorola and Samsung.


Texas Instruments Announces New Partnerships For OMAP 5, But Wait…There's More

Feb 27, 11:06PM

TI2Texas Instruments announced earlier today that they are partnering with Harman and iRobot to provide OMAP 5 as the core processor for new products being developed in these two companies. To understand what this means in TI's greater strategy, we need to back up a bit to take a look as some other initiatives they have going on and see where they all tie together.


Dude, You're Getting An Enterprise Solution Based On Best-Of-Breed Dell Technology!

Feb 27, 10:50PM

Dell_DudeBarring a change of heart or a wild, consumer-driven financial upturn, it looks as if Dell is out of the consumer PC business and is turning its Sauron-like eye towards the enterprise - the one place where people upgrade their PCs at least once a year. According to PCPro, Dell will is "dramatically changing" their entire business with a focus away from "shiny boxes" and more focus on barebones server and fleet hardware. To be fair, the statement could portend far less than we should expect. Dell has been among the walking dead in PC hardware for most of this decade, producing little of interest (the Adamo was their big consumer play and presumably Alienware will remain a consumer-facing company) but there's still money to be made in selling commodity hardware for a few percentage points over cost. I doubt the outcry will be as vociferous as it was when HP threatened to pull its consumer business, mostly because Dell has no products of any interest to the enthusiast. The anger at HP was more about their destruction of Palm rather than the possibility that we wouldn't be able to by a handsome, staid PC in a black/grey case.


Goodbye Erick, Hello Eric

Feb 27, 10:01PM

Screen Shot 2012-02-27 at 1.50.21 PMTechCrunch has been through a lot lately, and we need to focus on what truly matters: covering startups and innovation. So, this post is going to be short. But here is what's going on: Erick Schonfeld is leaving and Eric Eldon is replacing him as editor. What can you expect from TechCrunch now?


Office Wars

Feb 27, 9:56PM

officewarsOffice represents an increasingly minor amount of screen time in my computing experience, while social computing is transitioning much of that work to stream-based objects. Google's forced march of Google + data into its social experience may be a good long term move for the search company, but it comes at the cost of meshing with Apple's accelerated Twitter interoperability. As Chatter builds out support for Customer Groups across Salesforce business customers and their partners, Twitter's direct messages and @mention authority model are being extended in this new form of collaborative communication.


Your Google+ Is In My RSS Feed! No, Your RSS Feed Is In My Google+

Feb 27, 9:52PM

Screen Shot 2012-02-27 at 4.36.28 PMIf there's one thing wrong with Google+ it's a lack of a real non-browser interface. There are workarounds and widgets, but there's never been a real way to pull your G+ feed into a more comfortable format. While many would complain that RSS isn't even close to a comfortable format, it's bettern' nuffin'. That said, a new free service called GPlusRSS allows you to create a public RSS feed of your G+ account. You can potentially share this feed with others (here's mine) or you can keep it for yourself. The feed consists only of public pronouncements so private messages won't show up.



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Use it free - Xeround offers Database as a Service

Feb 27, 10:37AM

Xeround offers a free subscription to a MySQL-based database as a service limited offering. Will this move popularize database as a service offerings? The simple answer is yes.


MWC 2012: Skype for Windows Phone beta now available

Feb 27, 9:32AM

Skype for Windows Phone is one of the most anticipated apps for this new platform and today a beta version is available for you to try out for free.


Nokia announces 808 Pureview Symbian smartphone with 41 megapixel camera

Feb 27, 9:32AM

Nokia's flagship Symbian handset.


Tomorrow's world vs today's problems

Feb 27, 8:28AM

Designing quality business strategy that realizes the power of modern technologies requires alignment with traditional business values; the siren song of projected futurism can look embarrassingly...


McAfee rolling out new security, privacy options for mobile devices

Feb 27, 8:01AM

One of the primary goals of McAfee's new mobile security solutions is to provide further support (and reassurance) for the bring-your-own-device to work trend.


A Mountain Lion ate my MacBook Air

Feb 27, 8:01AM

Mountain Lion DP1 is actually a pretty compelling release, but it's still a developer preview which means that it has some nasty bugs. As I learned this weekend.


Better know a blogger: Jason Perlow (video)

Feb 27, 2:38AM

ZDNet's Jason Perlow is the first to sit under the hot lights of Skype in our Better Know a Blogger series. Think you know Jason? Think again.


HTC reveals One X and S with Snapdragon S4 CPU at MWC 2012

Feb 27, 1:07AM

Get the HTC One X from AT&T or the One S from T-Mobile, but you will have to wait until at last April.


Enterprise 2.0 success: Yum! Brands

Feb 26, 11:55PM

Overcoming the organizational challenges to geographic distribution of employees is one of the primary use cases for enterprise social software. Part 5 in our ten part series on Enterprise 2.0...


Apple CEO: Facebook is a friend

Feb 26, 10:50PM

Apple and Facebook have a complicated history, but their relationship could get better. Apple CEO Tim Cook considers Facebook a friend and believes "the two companies could do more together."


MWC 2012: HTC unveils the One series in three flavors, two bound for U.S. carriers

Feb 26, 9:50PM

There will be lots of phone news from Spain this week and to kick things off HTC announced their new HTC One series. Thankfully, two of the three new devices are coming to the U.S.


Samsung updates the Galaxy Beam, its projector-packing smartphone

Feb 26, 7:49PM

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Beam, an updated version of a phone it announced in 2010.


Facebook, Flickr, others accused of reading text messages

Feb 26, 6:21PM

Reports surfacing this weekend claim that popular smartphone applications can access users' text messages amongst other personal data, even when that phone is not being used.


The Android game is so hard: HTC yesterday, Samsung today, Huawei and LG tomorrow

Feb 26, 6:08PM

Smartphone makers are planning to up the Android ante with hardware specs that can be matched in weeks and months. Good luck with that race to the bottom.


TeenTech Weekly: NYPD student surveillance, stealing for credit, free speech rights

Feb 26, 3:54PM

The weekly roundup of Generation Y and student resources you may have missed.


Do you need quad-core and LTE in your pocket? Probably not

Feb 26, 3:05PM

Quad-core and LTE would give you bragging rights, but not much more.


What is Post-PC? I'm thinking mobile OS vs. desktop OS

Feb 26, 12:58PM

What does Post-PC really mean, and why does the term get under folks' skin?


6 new rumored features of the iPad 3

Feb 26, 2:04AM

8" iPad, Retina Display, smaller dock connector, LTE, and more, coming March 7th from Apple


Bluetooth stole my wife's phone call

Feb 26, 1:29AM

With Bluetooth on, can a device be compromised these days without pairing?


How ActiveRain destroyed their search engine rankings with one text file

Feb 26, 12:51AM

Let this short cautionary story serve as an example for why you shouldn't always take your rankings and site normalcy for granted!



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JetBlue Chairman Talks Search Funds, Investing, And Why Startups Need Leaders

Feb 27, 10:35AM

Joel PetersonBack in 2009, Chris Dixon wrote a blog post called "Man And Superman," in which he talks about, among other things, what separates the best leaders (or CEOs) from the rest. Most companies (or leaders) pull off one great coup, riding those as long as they can before fading away. Rarely do they repeat with the same success. The same can be said of investing; you can make a killing from one huge exit, but many have watched their coffers shrink in the attempt to turn one big hit into two, three, five. Joel Peterson isn't a superman, but he does have a long history of successful growth capital investments -- across a number of industries. He's the founder of Peterson Partners, a private equity group that's made 50 investments since 1995 and has half a billion under management, as well as Peterson Ventures, which invests in startups.


Gadgets Week In Review: Print Screen

Feb 27, 9:00AM

1558Here are some highlights from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Tale Of A Wolfram Research Co-founder And His Beloved "Periodic Table Table" [Video] Tabber Adds An LED Light Show To Any Guitar This Kit Lets You Print Out The Internet Dumb Buyer Beware: Chinese State Police Seize Hundreds Of Fake Apple iPhone… Gas Stoves Should You Upgrade To Mountain Lion?


John Wang, HTC: 'We Have Not Given Up On Windows Phones'

Feb 27, 8:53AM

tony wangIn Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, Taiwanese handset maker HTC yesterday gave us a glimpse of its new, lean-and-mean smartphone strategy, HTC One -- a unified set of Android complete with devices features and services that it hopes will help bring it back into the thick of things. One thing that was very absent, though, was the M word.


Nokia Unveils Their Newest Windows Phone: The Budget-Conscious Lumia 610

Feb 27, 8:21AM

610-2And there we have it! Nokia's Executive Vice President of Mobile Devices has just taken the stage again here at Nokia's MWC press conference to officially unveil their new entry-level Lumia 610 smartphone.


Live With Nokia At MWC: Nokia's New Smartphones Are Its Feature Phones

Feb 27, 7:48AM

elopI'm sitting in the packed press room for the Nokia press conference. Stephen Elop has just come out and right off the bat praised his company's performance in the last year, a huge one for the company in its turnaround strategy with a new operating system (Microsoft), and a shift away from its own Symbian platform. It's proven that "We can rapidly execute our new strategy."


TC@MWC: Hands-On With The HTC One X

Feb 27, 1:07AM

onex1Ah yes, the One X. It's been shrouded by rumors and half-truths for so long now that it's quite a thrill to get one in my hands. While I like the One S's build quality quite a bit, I found myself taking a shine to the One X's industrial design almost immediately. It's 9.7mm waistline is remarkably thin considering all that HTC managed to jam into it (Tegra 3 chipset, 1GB of RAM, killer camera, etc.), and the use of multiple materials adds a welcome bit of sensory contrast. The device's back is made of a solid polycarbonate shell that becomes glossier along the device's edges, while a glass plate stretches nearly from edge to edge on the One X's face. Though I'm sure many more will enjoy the One S's slim metallic frame, there's just something very alluring about the way the One X has been put together. Strange as it sounds, it's a sort of visceral feeling that I haven't felt since I first laid eyes on the iPhone 4. Kudos to HTC's design team for this one.


TC@MWC: Hands-On With The Sony Xperia U

Feb 27, 12:29AM

x1Besides a fear of imminent conjunctivitis from handling the same phone as hundreds of others at the Sony Xperia Press Event at the GSMA Mobile World Congress...what else comes to mind? This phone — a model marketed mostly toward a younger segment — is, to me, reminiscent in some minuscule way of the old Sony W series phones I loved so much (way back in the day). I think it's the thickness that reminds me of its Cro-Magnon predecessor.


TC@MWC: Hands-On With The HTC One S

Feb 27, 12:01AM

ones4The HTC One X is clearly the device everyone wants to see, which is why I decided to give its little brother a bit of spotlight first. The One S is sort of a puzzle to me. Though it's meant to be more of a mid-range device than the powerhouse that is the HTC One X, the One S sports an arguably handsomer exterior. Unlike its polycarbonate-clad counterpart, the One S sports a frame made from single piece of aluminum, which imbues it with a more robust, premium feel despite its light weight and slim (7.9mm!) frame. Much as I like the One X, I think there's a very real chance that the One S will ultimately be the real leader of the pack when it comes to popularity.


Meet Intel's Newest Smartphone, A Low-Cost Device Designed For Orange In Europe

Feb 27, 12:00AM

Orange Santa Clara -Orange Wednesdays - 2The next step in Intel's ambition to become a central player in the mobile ecosystem is dovetailing with mobile carrier Orange's strategy to grow its line of own-brand smartphones. At MWC, the two are together announcing a new device, code-named "Santa Clara", that will be Intel's first handset for the European market, and the most ambitious, own-branded device yet rolled out by Orange.


Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts

Feb 26, 11:30PM

2386473Face it; you're hooked. It's your uncontrollable urge to check for email notifications on your phone. It's your compulsion to visit Facebook or Twitter for just a few minutes, but somehow find yourself still scrolling after an hour. It's the fact that if I recommended a book to purchase, your mind would flash "Amazon" like a gaudy neon sign. If habits are defined as repeated and automatic behaviors, then technology has wired your brain so you behave exactly the way it wants you to. In an online world of ever-increasing distractions, habits matter. In fact, the economic value of web businesses increasingly depends on the strength of the habitual behavior of their users. These habits ultimately will be a deciding factor in what separates startup winners and losers.


Merchants Accepting Square's Card Case Doubles In Four Months To 40,000

Feb 26, 10:45PM

cardNearly a year ago, Square introduced us to the next evolution of its payments product—Card Case. For anyone who has used and witnessed the app being used to actually purchase something (I have), the experience is pretty awesome. Basically it's totally seamless, and you walk away feeling that perhaps this is the future of the way people will pay for goods in stores. Except, that Square is doing this now and actually growing in usage. Back in November, Square told us that 20,000 merchants had signed up for Card Case, and four months later that number has more than doubled to over 40,000 businesses using the loyalty and mobile wallet platform. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Card Case is a mobile app (iOS and Android) that you can fill with 'cards' of all the merchants they visit and buy from who accept Square. These mobile cards include locations, merchant contact info, coupons, photos, menus, comments and reviews from other customers, order and purchase history and more. The app also allowed you to create a tab at a restaurant under your name without having to pull out cash or a credit card, as the app has your credit card info saved. Square Card Case also includes a merchant discovery feature, that allows you to see a directory of merchants nearby your phone's location as well as a list of the most popular spots that Square customers are frequenting.


Almost Three: A Brief History Of Foursquare Time (And A Look At Its Future)

Feb 26, 10:38PM

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Six years ago I first set foot in Silicon Valley to attend one of the early "Hack Day" events that are now perpetual. It was an event where fellow nerds were creating web-apps using whatever technology they could get their hands on. VC's and Valley luminaries were judging and dishing out fat prizes. Mike Arrington was moderating. We were being treated like rockstars, and I was hooked.

I quickly found myself obsessed with creating products; trying to follow the work of Steve Jobs and other product leaders that did it best. With so many approaches to product management, I found but a single common philosophy that bound all successful products together




HTC One Lineup Revealed: The One X, One S, And One V

Feb 26, 9:16PM

image008 copyThe rumors were true, everyone. After months of anticipation and speculation, the device once known as the HTC Edge (or Endeavor) has been officially revealed here at MWC as the HTC One X. The One X (called a "multimedia livewire" in the press release) has an 8-megapixel camera, 4.7-inc LCD display, and 1080p video recorder. The new One X runs Android with the HTC Sense 4 UI overlay.


HTC's Answer To iCloud: A New Deal With Dropbox

Feb 26, 8:47PM

IMG_5800Slotted in the middle of HTC's Android phone announcements tonight in Barcelona, the CEO of HTC, Peter Chou, revealed a new development that is the handset maker's answer to Apple's iCloud: a deal with Dropbox, currently the big name in cloud storage. HTC says that those who buy an HTC One, the company's new flagship device, will get 25 gigabytes of storage free for two years -- a huge deal, considering that currently it costs $9.99 per month for 50 gigabytes of storage (two gigabytes is the only free service offered).


It's Official: HTC Unites New Android Smartphones Under "One" Brand

Feb 26, 8:22PM

htconeThe rumor mill has been hard at work these past few months circulating information about HTC's latest line of smartphones, but now HTC CEO Peter Chou has announced that the company's new line of smartphones will indeed sport the "One" brand Chou hasn't yet jumped into details about specific phones yet, but expect that to come shortly.


What Pharma Can Learn From the Railroads and IBM

Feb 26, 8:05PM

Train wreckPharmaceutical companies are in trouble with ongoing patent cliffs with a clear choice facing them. They can follow the path of the railroad industry which is the path most are on right now. Alternatively, they can follow the path IBM took when its future was similarly bleak. IBM demonstrated how it's possible for a large company to shift from a product-centric culture to a customer and service centered company. It's clear that pharma companies will succeed or fail based not on how many drugs they sell, but on how well their offerings improve health outcomes.


Scoop: Facebook To Speed Up Biz Analytics Tool Insights To Report In Real-Time

Feb 26, 7:46PM

Facebook Real-Time InsightsFacebook's analytics tool Insights will soon begin showing Page performance data in real-time or near real-time rather than on average 48 hour delay, according to our sources. Work on preparing for the switch to real-time reporting is apparently the cause of recent atypically long delays of 4 days or more, chronicled by one-off website WhyIsFacebookInsightsNotWorking.com. Impressions, reach, negative feedback, "people talking about this", and demographics of engagers could all start showing up live in the graphical Insights interface as well as the API. Real-time data reporting in Insights could give businesses the understanding necessary to drive higher ROI, which could attract more brands and advertisers to Facebook in the lead up to its IPO.


Welcome To Our New Europe Channel, Covering European Tech, VC And Startups

Feb 26, 7:17PM

Screen Shot 2012-02-26 at 20.16.44Well, here we are. Excuse us while we unpack a few boxes, but as you can see we're just about moved out of the old EU.TechCrunch.com sub-domain, into this palatial place called TechCrunch.com/Europe. Yes, folks, after five years or so out there in the wilds of the EU, tapping away about startups on the other side of the Atlantic, our European secret agents are coming in from the cold... Put simply, we've moved the archive of the old TechCrunch Europe sub-domain site over to the TC mothership and this is where you'll be getting your regular feed abut the European tech scene from now on.


Facebook Accused Of Reading Users' Text Messages

Feb 26, 6:35PM

paper_birdAhead of Mobile World Congress and an appearance by Facebook to explain its next moves in mobile, the social networking giant is coming under increasing strain over its use of users' personal information. Mobile startups and operators are both fretting over the issue this week, as smartphones and the apps that come with them increasingly eclipse the feature phones of old. We've already seen how Path ignited the debate around privacy by uploading iPhone address books to its servers without explicit permission, just as many other apps have done without anyone realizing for some time. Path was by no means the only offender. The latest accusation is being leveled at Facebook. In today's Sunday Times newspaper, published out of London, a story (behind a paywall) alleges that Facebook has "admitted" to "reading text messages" during a trial to launch its own messaging service. Now, given that British Sunday newspapers have a tendency for crying wolf to help copy sales, we're trying to ascertain what the substance of this is.


Sony Officially Unveils The Xperia P And Xperia U At MWC

Feb 26, 6:16PM

xperiasWhile the idea of skipping Sony's event to watch a beautiful Barcelona sunset was strangely appealing, we nevertheless come to you from Sony's press event where the recently divorced company has just (officially) revealed two new handsets, the Xperia P and the Xperia U.



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