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Twitter's Vine Experiences Its First Service Outage 5 Days After Launching
Jan 29, 7:10PM
Vine, Twitter’s latest foray into video sharing, seems to be having some service issues at the moment. We’ve been trying to access and use the app here at TechCrunch with no progress, and Vine has tweeted to confirm the service issues. Vine launched last Thursday and has had a whirlwind of a week. Though relatively buggy for an app launched by a major company like Twitter, Vine was welcomed by the tech blogosphere as the next Instagram, as it lets you share six-second looping videos (with or without sound) to all your favorite social networks. However, the fun ended quickly as users noticed a slight porn problem on the app. A porn clip called “DildoPlay”, which showed up on the app’s Editors’ Picks section on Monday, made matters even worse. Twitter claims that the clip was chosen because of “human error.” Then, Apple removed Vine from the App Store’s Featured section, presumably after seeing that a porn clip had been featured within the app. Vine has since started censoring the app, filtering out searches for various porn-related search terms. Today, the string of obstacles gets a bit longer with the reported service outage. Vine is experiencing a temporary service interruption. Thanks for your patience. — Vine (@vineapp) January 29, 2013 Is everyone looking for the newly-hidden pr0n on Vine all at once, because the service appears to be down. — Eric Zeman (@phonescooper) January 29, 2013 We’ll be sure to update the post as soon as Vine is back up and running. Stay tuned.Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…If There's Room After More PhDs
Jan 29, 6:57PM
"In the 21st century we can no longer afford to have an immigration system where less than 10 percent of the people who come here do so based on the skills that they bring to this country," said immigration reform leader, Senator Marco Rubio, as he introduced a new high-skilled immigration bill. Once a country where "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," was the mantra of immigration, the overwhelming presence of technology is changing America's values to prioritize the promise of innovation over the world's neediest.Over $1B In Gorilla Glass Sales In 2012 Helps Propel Corning To New Single Quarter Sales Record
Jan 29, 6:49PM
Corning announced its quarterly results today, and the company beat Wall Street expectations despite a drop in quarterly earnings, thanks in part to a 14 percent year over year increase in sales. Sales for Q4 2012 topped $2.14 billion, with sales of Corning's Gorilla Glass, the ultra durable material used in the construction of many smartphones and tablets including Apple's iPhone and iPad exceeding $1 billion for the year.WalletKit Hustles Its Way Into 500 Startups With Its Mobile Pass Builder For Apple's Passbook
Jan 29, 6:25PM
WalletKit, a 500 Startups-backed platform allowing businesses to create passes for mobile wallets like Apple Passbook, is today making its public debut just ahead of 500 Startups' Demo Day. Although pass-building toolkits are now a fairly crowded space, WalletKit offers a couple of differentiated features - anyone can update the passes created on its platform with new promotions, offers and other changes, and it's also planning to target all top wallet platforms eventually, not just Apple's.Shirley Hornstein Apologizes, Promises Change
Jan 29, 6:13PM
Five months after we wrote about Shirley Hornstein and how she fooled a number of startups, Hornstein has responded in a blog post apologizing for her behavior and declaring that she has "made the decision to stop." My initial post included a legal complaint by Founders Fund against Hornstein alleging that she had been falsely claiming a connection to the venture capital firm and its partners, and I also posted as a number of images where Hornstein had Photoshopped herself next to celebrities. Other than that, I didn't delve into many specifics, instead outlining a pattern of behavior that I'd heard about from a number of sources, where Hornstein would get involved in startups by claiming important Silicon Valley connections and making big promises, then fail to deliver. BetaBeat went into more detail, describing allegations that included credit card fraud.PhotoSocial Just Updated Your iPhone's Photo Gallery For The First Time Since 2007
Jan 29, 6:00PM
Apple has made some amazing upgrades to the iPhone since it launched in 2007. We've met Siri, moved from plastic to glass to anodized aluminum, and experienced a number of design changes both physically and on the software level. But one thing that has changed very little since 2007 is Apple's Photo gallery. But 1UP Industries founder Jeff Bargman has plans to change all that with a new iOS app called PhotoSocial. In his own words, it's a modern day photo gallery that's socially aware.LG's Nexus 4 Finally Returns To The U.S. Google Play Store
Jan 29, 5:52PM
There are whole host of new smartphones waiting for their time to shine at Mobile World Congress (not to mention an event or two before the big show), but you're in luck if you're a domestic Android fan smitten with LG and Google's Nexus 4. The hard-to-obtain handset first reappeared in the German Google Play Store earlier today, and now those of you in the U.S. can finally purchase one again too.Ceph-Powered DreamObjects Now Ready For Production Use
Jan 29, 5:38PM
DreamObjects, DreamHost's scalable cloud storage solution built atop Ceph, is now available to the general public. DreamObjects offers APIs compatible with Amazon S3 and Swift, making data migrations (in or out) fairly easy. And to celebrate the announcement, DreamHost is offering introductory pricing for new customers.DB Networks Raises $4.5M From Khosla Ventures For Database Security To Protect Against Malware
Jan 29, 5:26PM
DB Networks has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding from Khosla Ventures for its database security equipment. DB Networks has developed a security platform for real-time advanced database attack detection.Fly Or Die: Temple Run 2
Jan 29, 5:21PM
Temple Run was one of the biggest games of 2012, so it only makes sense that the guys from Imangi Studios would create a sequel. Since launching on January 17, the app has seen some solid success, with over 6 million downloads on opening day alone. This could be thanks in part to the new Temple Run course, which includes ropes, train cars, curves, stairs and hills. However, Temple Run 2 still keeps the same familiar gameplay we've come to know and love.Mixpanel Launches Revenue Analytics To Track The Lifetime Value Of Your Customers
Jan 29, 5:16PM
Back in December, analytics startup Mixpanel made a splash when its co-founder Suhail Doshi and its investor Marc Andreessen called for an end to "bullshit metrics". What is and isn't a vanity metric (to put it more politely) can be debatable, but today it's launching analytics for something that's squarely in the "not B.S." bucket — a company's revenue. Doshi said that for many companies, revenue data is usually stored in a database, requiring some work and technical expertise to extract — which means that teams often operate with a limited idea of how much money they're making at any given point in time. With Mixpanel's revenue analytics, companies can view their revenue data in an easy-to-understand dashboard. The product can integrate with their existing database, and businesses can also add a snippet of code to their website that sends data to Mixpanel every time there's a transaction.500px Returns To The iOS App Store, With Mature Content Warning And Photo Reporting Button
Jan 29, 5:06PM
Toronto's 500px got its popular photo sharing iPhone app back on the iTunes App Store today, following a takedown that Apple said stemmed from multiple user complaints about pornographic material. The app returns with an age-gate warning, advising that the content in the app is for 17+ audiences, and also adds a new "Report Photo" button to help users quickly tag things they find offensive for potential removal from the network.Pluto Media Nabs $500K From OpenFeint, Webvan Co-founder & Others To Create An Educational Gaming Platform For Kids
Jan 29, 5:00PM
Another day, another vote of investor confidence for educational gaming. Today, Pluto Media, the Menlo Park-based maker of educational, tablet-based games for kids, announced that it has raised $500K in seed funding from Learn Capital's Rob Hutter, along with individual investments from NewSchools Venture Fund's Jennifer Carolan and Peter Relan, the co-founder of OpenFeint, WebVan, Crowdstar and YouWeb. The follow-on seed financing adds to the $500K the startup raised from former Accel partner Abhay Parekh and Silver Lake's Dave Roux in December 2011, bringing its total funding to $1 million.BeauCoo, The Mobile Fashion Network For Women, Expands To The Web
Jan 29, 5:00PM
The Calgary, Canada-based fashion network BeauCoo, which aims to connect women with other women who share a similar body type to make online and offline shopping more social, fun and practical, launched as a mobile-only service late last year, but the team has now decided to also embrace the web. BeauCoo, which raised a $1.1 million seed round led by Zinc Ventures last September, is launching its full web presence today, which, just like the mobile site, is only open to women.TC Makers: Engineering The Perfect iPhone Cover At Element Case
Jan 29, 5:00PM
A buddy of mine who lives in Shenzhen said that the best tech business to be in - the one that offers the most profit for the least amount of work - is soft goods, meaning cases, bags, and other paraphernalia. Don't tell that to the guys at Element Case. Their amazing metal and wood iPhone cases take hours to build, months to design, and they look simply amazing.Apple's Next iPad Could Sport A Slimmer Shell, Take A Page From The iPad Mini Playbook
Jan 29, 3:59PM
Apple's next iPad might look like an enlarged iPad mini, according to new pictures received by 9to5Mac that claim to represent the device's new back casing. The pics aren't "verified," the blog says, but 9to5Mac's track record is solid, with another example that it generally posts good info coming earlier this week. And let's face it, Apple has nowhere to go with the big boy iPad except for slimmer and lighter, if it wants to keep the thing appealing.HTC May Unveil Its New Flagship Phone At New York And London Press Events On February 19
Jan 29, 3:53PM
Mark your calendars, Android fans -- HTC has just started sending out invitations to press events in New York and London on February 19. Granted, those invitations are very vague (no teasing any big features a la Motorola, I'm afraid), but the Taiwanese company is widely expected to officially reveal its latest flagship Android smartphone, codenamed "M7."Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Arrives (Half A Decade Too Late)
Jan 29, 3:26PM
In 2006, Google announced its first public release of what later became Google Docs, today known as Google Drive. It's 2013, and only now does it feel like Microsoft is fighting back. Microsoft today announced the reinvention of its Office flagship application for consumers, with the debut of Office 365 Home Premium. The service - yes, it's a subscription-based service - includes support for up to five devices, all the familiar Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc., etc. - as well as additional online storage in Sky Drive (20 GB), and 60 free minutes to use on Skype each month.The Surprisingly Comfortable Mio Alpha Heart Rate Watch Does Away With Those Pesky Chest Straps
Jan 29, 3:20PM
The Mio Alpha made a bit of a splash on Kickstarter earlier this year when it promised a heart rate-sensing watch that didn't use chest straps or similar encumbrances to measure your exertion. They went $200,000 over their goal of $100,000 and just started shipping in time for pre-marathon season.Google Giving Grant Worth $1M To Fund Free Raspberry Pi For 15,000 U.K. Schoolkids (Updated)
Jan 29, 3:16PM
Google's philanthropic arm, Google Giving, has awarded a grant to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to fund 15,000 U.K. schoolchildren to get their very own Raspberry Pi micro computer to learn to code. The size of the Google Giving grant has not been disclosed but the Model B Pi, which the kids will be getting, retails for $35 -- so taken at face retail value the grant is worth $525,000.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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