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Spotify App Will Land On Samsung Smart TVs Later This Year
Oct 10, 8:08AM
Samsung has signed a deal with Spotify to bring the streaming music service to Samsung's Smart TV range, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems later this year. It appears to be the first TV manufacturer to do so. It'll mean TV purchasers having instant on-demand access to a library of over 18 million tracks, so long as they are Spotify Premium users. New users will be able to test the service for an (unspecified) limited time period for free, and the service will be included for all existing Spotify Premium users with a compatible Samsung internet-connected Smart TV.Jetsetter Takes On Hotel Tonight With Last-Minute Hotel Booking And Deals In Mobile App
Oct 10, 6:59AM
It was only a matter of time before Jetsetter, Gilt's luxury travel vertical, got into same day hotel deals for travelers on the go. Another startup has been primarily playing in this space—Hotel Tonight, which just raised $23 million and is growing fast. Starting today, Jetsetter is debuting same-day, last-minute booking offers from Jetsetter-Verified hotels with the launch of "Jetsetter Now," an update to Jetsetter.com's iOS app.Hands On With The Kupa UltraNote, A Modular, Customizable Tablet That Makes Windows 8 Shine
Oct 10, 4:25AM
At the Pepcom MobileFocus event at CTIA MobileCon, an unlikely underdog made a very big impression on me. It was the Kupa UltraNote, and it was my first hands on with a tablet that ships with Windows 8 installed. The Kupa impressed, from its modular design that allows for ample customizability, to its pen-based, pressure-sensitive input system that makes drawing on the tablet a pleasure.Two Years In Coming, Art.sy Finally Brings Pandora's Genome Project To The Wacky World Of Art
Oct 10, 4:16AM
At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May 2010, a young startup named Art.sy took home the "Rookie Disruptor Award" for its art-focused search engine, which allowed users to find art by style, category, size, color, and more. Art.sy also tapped into users' social graphs to offer personalized recommendations to make art discovery a little less overwhelming. The idea caught the attention of investors, and over the next year-and-a-half, Art.sy raised $7.25 million in two rounds from the likes of Eric Schmidt, Jack Dorsey, Keith Rabois, David Tisch, Charlie Cheever, Dave Morin, Peter Thiel, Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital, Wendi Murdoch, and Dasha Zhukova.Hands-On With The Optimus L9, LG's Most Recent Mid-Range Mobile
Oct 10, 4:03AM
LG has been getting plenty of attention these days because of some recent carrier announcements (case in point: Sprint announced it would carry the LG Mach and Optimus G), but that's not all the LG hardware here at MobileCON 2012. T-Mobile recently outed a new LG device of its own -- the decidedly mid-range Optimus L9 -- and I spent a few moments getting to know it a little better.Zillow Puts Its RentJuice Acquisition To Work, Launches A Free Marketplace For Rental Professionals
Oct 10, 4:00AM
Zillow just announced the launch of Zillow Rentals, the company's new ad free marketplace for rental professionals and landlords. Zillow Rentals, the company says, will allow it to help serve rental professionals to better market and manage their listings.T-Mobile's Nokia Lumia 810 – We Go Hands On, But This Phone's Literally Got No Guts
Oct 10, 2:57AM
T-Mobile recently announced it would be offering the Nokia Lumia 810 Windows Phone 8 device, sometime in the coming weeks, and it had the handset at the Pepcom's MobileFocus event at MobileCon today. But the hardware wasn't really the hardware as such – it was a dummy unit with nothing on the inside. But it still showed off some of what the phone will offer users.Wired's Chris Anderson: Today's 'Maker Movement' Is The New Industrial Revolution [TCTV]
Oct 10, 2:19AM
As the longtime editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, the author of The Long Tail, the coiner of the term "freemium," to name just a few of the things that he's known for, Chris Anderson is well-renowned for having his finger on the pulse of trends just as they're starting to coalesce into movements.The New King Of Web Optimization? Optimizely Has Run 100K A/B Tests On More Than 1B Visitors
Oct 10, 1:16AM
Optimizely co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker shared some big numbers today about the A/B testing service's growth. Let's go with the biggest one first. Siroker says Optimizely, which makes it easy for websites to conduct tests to optimize their design and content, has now delivered those tests to 1,303,364,329 visitors around the Web. (He provided the number this afternoon, so those last few digits are probably too low now.) He also says Optimizely has run a total of 100,000 tests.Sling Releases Its First New Hardware In Years, The Slingbox 500 And Slingbox 350
Oct 10, 1:00AM
Slingbox is announcing two new products today: the Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350. The devices have a lot of the same features as old Slingboxes -- but also have a few upgrades. For one thing, they can stream up to full 1080p HD video to all the same smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other connected devices supported by the older generation of Slingbox devices.Clayton Christensen: "Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them"
Oct 10, 12:02AM
If you get the opportunity to hear Clayton Christensen hold court, seize it. Speaking at BoxWorks in San Francisco today, Christensen was characteristically soft-spoken, self-deprecating and good-humored, even prompting Ron Miller to describe him as "the Steven Wright of business research" and the anti-Aaron Levie.Lenovo Updates The ThinkPad Tablet & Laptop Hybrid With The ThinkPad Twist, An $849 12.5″ Ultrabook
Oct 09, 11:41PM
Lenovo is apparently not convinced of the post-PC lingo, with its latest series of announcements. The good old ThinkPad brand is used once again for another model, the ThinkPad Twist. It is a 12.5" tablet/laptop hybrid powered by a third-generation Intel Core i7 processor.As #BoxWorks 2012 Wraps Up, Here Are 10 Words With Box CEO Aaron Levie
Oct 09, 11:26PM
Attending this year's #BoxWorks conference has been extremely interesting for me, as I've gotten to talk to a group of people that I rarely interact with, enterprise folks. There's a nice mix of developers here, too, which makes it feel much more comfortable for those of us not working for a gigantic company. Well, I suppose I work for a gigantic company, but you know what I mean.Facebook May Ditch Its Boring Logged Out Homepage For This 3D Polygon Art Or This Cute Couple
Oct 09, 11:20PM
Facebook doesn't want to look like just another website, so it's testing colorful new versions of Facebook.com on a very small percentage of logged out visitors. One features a 3D polygon art map of the Facebook universe, while another showcases an adorable couple. So next time you login, or finally surrender and sign up, you might be greeted with something a lot more vibrant than text inputs.The Humble Ebook Bundle Is Back With Works By Doctorow, Gaiman, and Scalzi
Oct 09, 11:19PM
Everyone's favorite ebook bundle charity online sale thinger is back and you have 13 hours to grab eight sci-fi books from folks like Neil Gaiman, John Scalzi, and the Craphound himself, Cory Doctorow.Lenovo Introduces The IdeaPad Yoga 11 and 13, The First Tablet & Laptop Ultrabook Hybrid
Oct 09, 11:12PM
Tonight in New York, Lenovo introduced two brand new tablet/laptop hybrids under the name of IdeaPad Yoga. Those two devices will be Windows 8 powered. Two screen sizes are available, 11" and 13". The 13" model is the first hybrid laptop that meets the Ultrabook requirements.Flavorpill GEL Is An Event-Planning Service That Lets You Rally Your Friends To Fun
Oct 09, 11:00PM
Humans, like the bonobos monkey or the blesmol, are social animals and, as such, they enjoy occasionally gathering for festive activities, such as sexually variant group mating, tunnel debris removal, and Matmos concerts. Now these three species of fauna can plan their nights out with something called Flavorpill GEL, a DIY event-planning service that allows you to create "playlists" of cool stuff to do in your town.Hands-On With The Surprisingly Solid, QWERTY Keyboard-Packing LG Mach
Oct 09, 10:56PM
Sprint finally joined the phone announcement fray earlier this morning and added a handful of new devices to its official roster. While LG's Optimus G may garner all the love, the newly-revealed LG Mach deserves its share of attention, and I got a bit of hands-on time to do just that.PublicStuff Raises $5 Million To Connect Residents With Their City Governments In Real Time
Oct 09, 10:55PM
PublicStuff, the New York City based startup that makes a system to let citizens make real-time requests to their local governments for public services, has raised $5 million in new funding. The financing was disclosed today in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission.Sprint's LG Optimus G Has A Better Camera Than AT&T's – Here's How It Performs Hands-On
Oct 09, 10:52PM
Sprint is going to be offering LG's new Optimus G this fall. The smartphone is LG's flagship Android device, and has the specs to own that role, with a Quad-Core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro Processor and 4.7-inch1280 x 768 pixel display. Back in September, Chris went hands-on with the international version, and today at CTIA MobileCon we took the Sprint version for a spin.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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