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Motorola's Droid RAZR M 4G LTE Gets Detailed Ahead Of Official Unveiling
Aug 28, 3:48AM
In case you hadn't heard yet, next week is going to be a busy one for gadget fiends — Amazon's got something brewing on the 6th, while Nokia and Motorola will be duking it for eyeballs since both have launch events scheduled for the 5th. Rumor has it that both of them will also be unveiling a pair of new smartphones — Nokia has the Phi and the Arrow, and Motorola is expected to pull back the curtains on the RAZR HD and the newly-leaked Droid RAZR M 4G LTE.After Removal By Apple, Privacy App Clueful Returns Via The Web
Aug 28, 12:57AM
Back in May, security company Bitdefender launched Clueful, an iPhone app that looked at the other apps on your phone and identified what they were doing with your data. However, according to Bitdefender, Apple removed the app from the App Store in late June without an explanation. Today, Clueful has relaunched ... but not on iOS. Instead, it's now a website where users can search for different apps and get basic facts like which ones are accessing your location, tracking your in-app usage, and reading your address book. For example, one of the apps that I use the most on my iPhone is Routesy, so I can look it up on the Clueful sit and see that it can display ads and track my location, while also encrypting my data. (Basically, nothing to worry about — which is good to know.)Jack Dorsey To Keynote At TechCrunch Disrupt SF
Aug 27, 11:19PM
People don't give technology enough credit as an art form -- the specifics of infrastructure and hard science behind it ultimately overshadow its more inchoate creativity. But the cliched trope of a socially awkward engineer coding in a hole somewhere is on its way out. Instagram is a mass product used to cover news events, Twitter is a celebrity playground and you can use Square to pay at Starbucks: The people who build technology companies now have as much influence as Oprah. In fact, Oprah is hanging out on their platform.MasterCard Inks 5-Year NFC/Mobile Payments Deal With UK's Everything Everywhere, Covers 27M Users
Aug 27, 10:48PM
MasterCard is once more extending its reach into mobile money services in Europe in partnership with a carrier -- this time in the mobile-savvy UK market. The payment processing giant has cut a five-year deal with Everything Everywhere, the JV between France Telecom's Orange and T-Mobile, to develop mobile payment solutions, with a "co-branded, prepaid solution for mobile devices" enabling contactless NFC payments one of the first planned out of the gate. Later, the two want to include money transfers, loyalty rewards and more. Everything Everywhere is the UK's largest carrier and the deal will cover 27 million subscribers. It comes on the heels of MasterCard inking a mobile payments partnership with Deutsche Telekom covering Germany and other T-Mobile operations in Europe, as well as a deal with Turkcell in Turkey. MasterCard has also worked for the past three years with Orange on QuickTap, the first commercial NFC payment service in the UK, as well as the Orange Cash prepaid card.Twitter API Changes Are Already Posing Challenges To Tweetbot Developers
Aug 27, 10:19PM
Tapbots has announced on their blog that the alpha version of Tweetbot for Mac will no longer be available. Now that Twitter limits an app's user base to only 100,000 users, Tweetbot is one of the victims of Twitter's new API rules. The third-party app currently offers a better user experience than Twitter's own official app. It is therefore a controversial outcome. Tapbots contacted Twitter to see if they could implement a workaround to prevent wasting user tokens during the free alpha test, but Twitter was intransigent.Marissa Mayer Appoints Former Lockerz CEO & Amazon VP Kathy Savitt As Yahoo's New CMO
Aug 27, 10:14PM
While the search continues for a new top executive for Flickr, Yahoo and its new CEO have found a new chief marketing officer -- and one with former operations experience. This afternoon Yahoo announced that Kathy Savitt will be joining the company as CMO on September 14th and will report directly to Marissa Mayer. Yahoo gains significant experience at the top of its marketing arm, as Savitt has held a number of consumer, retail and tech executive positions during her career. Most recently, she was the founder and CEO of social commerce company, Lockerz, a site that now counts 45 million users.Samsung V. Apple And The Obviousness Standard
Aug 27, 10:08PM
Editor's Note: Leonid ("Lenny") Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in computer-related technology areas. He specializes in developing IP strategy for young technology companies and blogs on this topic at StartupsIP. Follow Lenny on Twitter: @lkravets and@startupsIP. In the wake of Apple's billion plus dollar win in their patent suit against Samsung last week, much of the focus appears to be on the flaws in the patent system. Many argue that the suit involved patents that are "obvious," and that Apple is a bully in enforcing them. These arguments show blatant disregard for the job of Patent Examiners in reviewing patent applications and prior art, and the jury in hearing and deciding the case, which listened to both sides of the arguments and decided that the patents are valid.Sequoia's Alfred Lin, Kleiner's Aileen Lee, SV Angel's David Lee, Greylock's James Slavet And Google Ventures' Bill Maris Will Be Disrupting SF
Aug 27, 9:55PM
After a decade bereft of IPOs, venture-backed tech companies have come roaring back into the public markets over the last couple of years. But in case you think this means we're in a bubble, some of these companies -- including Zynga, Groupon and Facebook -- have struggled in their market debuts. So how are top investors handling the opportunities and pitfalls of taking top companies public in the current era? How are they changing their strategies to prepare the next generation of startups for big exits? You'll be hearing all the details at Disrupt SF during our panel with leading VCs on Wednesday, September 12. Here are some of the things we'll touch on... (and get your tickets here!)FAA Reviewing Use Of Gadgets In The Air, But Forget About In-Flight Cell Phone Calls
Aug 27, 9:53PM
Don't expect to make mid-flight phone calls from your smartphone anytime soon. While the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is putting together a group to re-examine current testing procedures and policies airlines have in place for gadgets, they will not be considering airborne use of cell phones for voice communication. But that is a small price to pay for safety, especially considering that these policies and procedures are way behind the speed at which we adopt new technology. The government-industry group will look at how these devices are tested for use in the air, as well as the current standards for use of portable electronic devices on board an airplane.Apple Promotes VPs Craig Federighi And Dan Riccio, Announces Bob Mansfield Will Stay On
Aug 27, 9:43PM
Apple announced today that Craig Federighi, vice president of Mac Software Engineering, and Dan Riccio, vice president of Hardware Engineering, have been promoted to senior vice presidents, where they will report to Apple CEO Tim Cook and serve on Apple's executive management team. The company also announced that senior vice president of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield will stay on at Apple to "work on future products."Founder Steve Perlman Is Leaving OnLive, Investor Gary Lauder Takes Over As Chairman
Aug 27, 9:19PM
Cloud gaming company OnLive has announced that the company's founder and CEO Steve Perlman is "departing to work on his myriad of other projects." Lead investor Gary Lauder is taking over as the company's new chairman, while Charlie Jablonski, the VP of operations, has become Onlive's COO and acting CEO. The news follows a fairly convoluted piece of corporate maneuvering, presumably brought on by financial pressure, that saw the company sell its assets to a new entity that will also do business under the name OnLive. The new OnLive said "almost half of OnLive's staff were offered employment at their current salaries," with the rest offered consulting positions in the new company in exchange for stock options. (None of the previous options transferred over.)Sony's Shape-Shifting, Windows 8-Powered VAIO Duo 11 Caught In Leaked Images
Aug 27, 9:14PM
Microsoft's Windows 8-powered surface tablet may be nabbing all the headlines (at least partially because some of Microsoft's myriad hardware partners were miffed by the company's decision to make it in the first place), but a newly-revealed convertible device from Sony seems like it may be able to give the Surface a run for its money. PocketNow managed to score some images of the forthcoming Sony VAIO Duo 11, a Windows 8 tablet with an awfully familiar-looking gimmick — the (reportedly 11-inch) touchscreen slides up and latches into place, revealing a full-size, back-lit keyboard.Reddit Gets Two New Donation Options Powered By Crowdtilt And Dwolla
Aug 27, 9:13PM
Dwolla, the web-based payments platform, and Crowdtilt, the web-based crowdfunding platform, are formalizing Reddit's capacity to tap into the power of the Internet as a force for good with today's introduction of reddit Donate and reddit.Crowdtilt.com. To be clear, neither of these are official reddit products, but were built in conjunction with reddit for use by its community leaders - or in reddit lingo, "subreddit moderators." Dwolla's service makes it easy for them to embed buttons on their page's (their subreddit's) sidebar to raise money for a given charity, while CrowdTilt offers both official and more informal fundraising opportunities.Dude, Take A Vacation — What VMware CEO Paul Maritz Says He Is Excited About Now That He Is Moving On To EMC
Aug 27, 8:57PM
CEO Paul Maritz has kept pretty quiet about what he wants to do now that he plans to take his new job reporting to EMC CEO Joe Tucci. But in a press conference today at VMworld with his replacement Pat Gelsinger, Maritz gave a bit of insight into what he is thinking about and what he is excited to be doing over the next few months. The backdrop here is a shifting focus to the cloud but very much in a VMware centric view of the world, which you can get a glimpse of from my last post.Twitter Appeals Court Decision Against Occupy Wall Street Protester Malcolm Harris
Aug 27, 8:09PM
Twitter just filed its appeal against a New York court decision requiring the company to turn over tweets and account information for Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris, who is being prosecuted for allegations of disorderly conduct. According to Twitter's brief, the New York County District Attorney's office subpoenaed Twitter earlier this year for information related to two of Harris' accounts, @destructuremal and @getsworse. The requests came at different times for the two accounts, and cover slightly different information, but in the case of @getsworse, they include all public tweets, as well as "[t]he following subscriber information: name; address; records of session times and durations; length of service (including creation date); types of service utilized; telephone or instrument number or any other subscriber number or identity, including any temporarily assigned network address."Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene
Aug 27, 7:31PM
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are heading west. The Winklevoss twins, the 31-year-old Harvard grads who are probably best known for their years-long legal fight with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook, have put $18 million of their Facebook settlement cash toward buying a brand new bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills, according to a report today out of TMZ.Fashion-Focused Kaleidoscope App Readies Personalized Shopping & Recommendations
Aug 27, 7:06PM
Kaleidoscope, the mobile and desktop app which is the e-commerce equivalent to Pinterest's fashion-focused boards, helps users - primarily women - not just find outfits they like, but actually purchase them. The company recently rolled out an updated version of its app which represents the first step towards an important, forthcoming feature: Kaleidoscope is moving into personalized recommendations for fashion. What this means is that, going forward, Kaleidoscope won't be just about randomly browsing through tops and skirts and handbags and shoes - it will begin to learn what it is you like.Call Them Maybe: LoanLook Simplifies Student Loan Payments With Live Advisors
Aug 27, 6:53PM
Student loans aren't just a pain, they're a travesty. Yet a new crop of startups is looking to make this process better, not least of which is LoanLook. A subsidiary of Ceannate, LoanLook seeks to organize the process of paying off student loans, while providing the student with as much information as possible. Unlike a Tuition.io, however, LoanLook is aiming to partner with schools to build the user base more directly. Their main differentiating feature is real-life investment counselors that are available to chat through LoanLook's Customer Care center and web chat.As Samsung Tries To Get Galaxy Tab Injunction Lifted, Apple Names Eight Samsung Products It Wants Banned
Aug 27, 6:38PM
After Friday's $1.05 billion verdict in favor of Apple, Samsung is now trying everything to reverse the trend while Apple is charging foward at full speed. Even though the injunction hearing will take place on September 20, some Samsung devices, such as the Galaxy Tab 10.1, were subject to preliminary injunctions. The jury decided that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 did not infringe the iPad D'889 design patent — Apple's trade dress — and therefore invalidated the prior injunction. Samsung requests a dissolution of the sales ban, the $2.6 million bond from Apple that protected Samsung if it was determined that the injunction was unnecessary, and probably damages for lost sales. Meanwhile, Apple just named the eight Samsung products it wants banned from the U.S. The full list is after the jump.Diaspora Founders To Move On, Handing Over Decentralized Social Network 'To The Community'
Aug 27, 5:46PM
It was a good run, but it looks like the founders of Diaspora have reached the end of the road -- at least for their full-time leadership of the project. Diaspora, the Kickstarter-backed initiative launched two years ago by a group of NYU students aiming to create a decentralized social networking alternative to Facebook, announced today that it will now be "a community project." The announcement was made in a blog post authored by Diaspora founders Maxwell Salzberg and Daniel Grippi which read in part:If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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