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HP's Android-Powered Slate 7 Tablet Is Cheap And It Works, But Is That Really Enough?
Feb 24, 8:04PM
HP surprised more than a few people earlier tonight when it officially revealed the Slate 7, a $169 Android tablet that's set to ship in the U.S. for $169 in April. It struck me as a safe move for HP, especially after it whiffed so profoundly with its ill-fated TouchPad. After all, people are buying plenty of Nexus 7s, so clearly there must be a market for a cheap, small tablet. I got the chance to muck around with the Slate 7 at Pepcom earlier tonight though, and to be quite honest, I'm not convinced HP has a winner on its hands.Jason Kincaid On The Mythology Of TechCrunch
Feb 24, 7:17PM
I was happily surprised to see Hunter Walk interview Jason Kincaid, one of the first TechCrunch employees. The interview is here and I’m reprinting it below. Jason joined TechCrunch when it was still being run out of my house (before the city of Atherton kicked us out). Even after “retiring” he’s still no. 11 on the all time tech writers list. Jason broke a lot of big stories. But he also has the rare ability to write thought pieces that shape Silicon Valley culture and thinking. From the moment he joined he was part of the core backbone of TechCrunch. From the article I wrote when he resigned in 2012: Jason has the rare ability in a writer to both break big stories on his own, as well as write strong opinion articles on the topics of the day. Younger writers (who were often older than him) looked to him for leadership and guidance. He could have quite easily run TechCrunch entirely after we left. Jason also became, as he says in the interview, a counter voice to many of the editorial and other decisions we made internally. Jason is not the kind of person who would just go with the flow. If he disagreed with something he’d immediately speak up. We often changed plans based on his input. Anyway, this interview is interesting because it talks about some of the things that happened early on, things that became part of the mythology of TechCrunch. It was great to see this. Early Employees: Jason Kincaid & the Rise of TechCrunch Jason Kincaid, early TechCrunch reporter (@jasonkincaid) Q: When did you join TechCrunch and how did you originally get connected to the team? A: I usually tell a sanitized version of this story, but what the hell. It was March 2008, and I'd just graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in biology, a minor in 'society and genetics', and zero sense as to what I wanted to do with my life. My good friend Ed McManus (now cofounder of Yardsale) invited me to a party being thrown by an investor in honor of Scribd's (the 'YouTube for documents') first birthday. The party was unlike anything college had prepared me for — and the likes of which I haven't seen since. Caviar and vodka shots. Sculptures made of seafood. A basement that had been overhauled to resemble a vintage gas station. Waiters
WeVideo Brings Its Cloud-Based Video Editor To Android Mobile Phones
Feb 24, 7:00PM
WeVideo is rolling out its Android app to make it easier for users to create, edit, collaborate on, and publish mobile video projects on the web. The app will allow users to record video straight from their phones, and includes all the same features you'd expect from a video editing suite: Users can trip and arrange clips together, adjust audio volume, and add themes, transitions and titles.Iterations: Inception, Courtesy of Public Relations
Feb 24, 6:00PM
"FOR every reporter employed in America, around six people work in public relations: a few too many, some might think." So began The Economist's obituary for Daniel Edelman in January 2013, a sharp eulogy commemorating the life of a public relations giant. For decades, Edelman, in addition to founding and running the firm that bears his name today, successfully convinced legions of companies and brands to work with him to win the "air game" of public relations.Firefox OS Hits The Ground Running With Phones From Telefonica, T-Mobile, Firefox Marketplace For Apps; 18 Carriers In All Signed Up For Mozilla's Open Web Effort
Feb 24, 5:04PM
Firefox OS, the new, HTML5-friendly mobile OS from Mozilla, is today taking a big step forward in its strategy to become a viable third player in the smartphone landscape currently dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS. Mozilla is announcing that 18 carriers have now committed to its Open Web HTML5 device push; the launch of the Firefox Marketplace app store to aggregate content for the platform; and some of the first low-cost handsets coming out of its carrier partnerships that will be coming out this summer.CrunchWeek: Sony's PlayStation 4 Madness; Google's Big Hardware Week And Albumatic's Launch
Feb 24, 4:45PM
It's time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven days and talk about a few of the week's most interesting stories.
Huawei Tries To Power Up Its Global Profile With The 1.5GHz Quad-Core Ascend P2
Feb 24, 3:30PM
Chinese mobile maker Huawei has confirmed a new addition to its Android family: the Ascend P2. The P2 is the sequel to last year's relatively mid-range P1 but puts more power under the hood -- with a quad-core 1.5GHz chip -- and pairs that power with a more modestly sized screen (4.7 inches) than the pair of phablets Huawei unboxed at CES.New Atlantic Ventures' John Backus On Google Glass, The Battle For The Living Room, And Impending Cyberwar
Feb 24, 3:09PM
Some of the best conversations I have about the tech space are with investors — along with being rich and generally smart, they seem to have the best predictive insights into the industry. At a time when the Chinese seem to be making very real attacks to our cyber infrastructure, when legislation could make or break the evolution of the television industry, and when Google Glass stands to store more lifestyle data than any other computer in existence, I thought it only fitting to bring on a DC-based investor, John Backus, to chat out the latest news. John Backus is a managing partner at New Atlantic Ventures, and before that, he overlapped at Bain Capital with none other than one Mitt Romney. But John has had his eye on the needle of the tech industry for decades, and offered some interesting opinions of what we can expect to see in 2013 and beyond.Why Local Commerce Will Be Larger Than E-Commerce For The Next Decade, An Analysis
Feb 24, 3:00PM
Editor's note: Mike Ghaffary is the vice president of business development at Yelp. Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman recently debated whether software would eat traditional retail, leaving no brick-and-mortar presence behind. Both noted that e-commerce is currently only 5 percent of retail in the U.S., while the other 95 percent is brick and mortar.Mozilla, AT&T And Ericsson Team Up To Demo Seamless Web-To-Mobile WebRTC Integration At MWC
Feb 24, 11:00AM
What if your browser could know when you are getting a call on your mobile phone? Earlier this month, Google and Mozilla demonstrated how their browsers’ WebRTC implementations could interoperate. Today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla is going a step further. The organization has teamed up with AT&T and Ericsson to show a proof-of-concept called WebPhone, which demonstrates how its Firefox browser can use Mozilla’s Social API, AT&T’s API Platform and Ericsson’s Web Communication Gateway to let Firefox users sync with a user’s existing phone number and provide calling services without the need to install any plugins or special apps. WebPhone, which isn’t currently available to the public, demonstrates how users can receive calls and texts on their desktops. The system was built on top of WebRTC, the developing standard that allows for in-browser file transfers and real-time video, audio and text chats without plugins. According to Mozilla, this demo shows “how consumers can easily take and receive video calls from their mobile phones or desktop browser using WebRTC or share their web experiences with friends or family who might be on a desktop PC or mobile phone across the other side of the world.” The demo shows how users can start a call from their Firefox browser. Using the operators’ APIs, the web application in the browser gets access to the user’s contacts on the phone and could eventually allow them to, for example, start calls on their mobile device and then transfer them to their desktop once they get home and receive calls right through their browser. "We believe there is value for operators bundling mobile and fixed broadband offerings with browsers, and Firefox will be the first browser to give them this opportunity,” Magnus Furustam, Vice President Product Area Core and IMS, Business Unit Networks at Ericsson said in a statement today. “The open source project with Mozilla means operators can contribute resources to the project and in a new way, jointly collaborating with other innovators to shape the future of web communications." We will likely hear quite a bit more about WebRTC as this year’s Mobile World Congress gets underway. The standard is now stable enough that developers can feel relatively confident that most browser vendors will support it in their stable release versions relatively soon (with the exception of Microsoft, which is backing a different version of the standard). Browser developers areMobile World Congress 2012 Flashback: Jerzy Drozd Basses (Video)
Feb 24, 9:00AM
Up a steep hill, far away from the hustle and bustle of the Plaça d'Espanya in Barcelona is a small Luthier shop called Jerzy Drozd Basses. Last year in February of 2012, as my travels to Barcelona approached for the Mobile World Congress, I realized that Jerzy Drodz was actually based in Barcelona. What luck and what a shame it would be to travel 8000 round-trip miles and not see the shop of this most interesting Luthier.How To Get Top Engineers To Open Your Email Then Join Your Company
Feb 24, 7:00AM
Editor's note: Adam Jackson is a San Francisco-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor. No part of building a startup is tougher than recruiting your team. Current supply is not meeting the demand for qualified people. And while innovative approaches, such as Google's Summer of Code, to increase the number of experienced engineers will help in the long term, they aren't of much consolation to those of us in the entrepreneurial trenches who need engineers to help us build products.The Weekly Good: Embrace Wants To Give All Infants An Equal Chance For A Healthy Life
Feb 24, 6:29AM
Disruption comes in all shapes and sizes, and benefits people of all shapes and sizes. When you think about global entrepreneurs solving hard problems, you might not think about creating hardware products that aim to save the lives of premature babies.Mobile Is About Doing One Thing Great, Not Just Being Mobile First
Feb 24, 5:00AM
Editor's note: Mrinal Desai is co-founder and CEO of addappt, developer of an iPhone address book app that your friends maintain. Many startups present themselves as mobile-first operations. These discussions about whether to be mobile- or web-first mimic discussions that take place about companies in the retail space. But what exactly is it about the mobile market that changes the rules of the game and why might this be the best thing for startups?Galaxy Note 8.0 Features Air View-Enhanced Flipboard App, Free Awesome Note For Android, And Other Content Perks
Feb 24, 2:00AM
The Galaxy Note 8.0 -- the newest device in Samsung's many-sized range of tablets, unveiled today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona -- has just managed to trump Apple's iPad Mini in the small tablet category with one-tenth of an inch more of screen space (more on the device in our hands-on). At the same time, Samsung is also introducing a few new services and features -- including expanded hovering capabilities and more apps, which it hopes will also help it gain more consumer ground against the world's biggest tablet maker. The extra features show that Samsung sees improved services and content this as key to improving its market share in the tablet space.The Real Top 15 Venture Capital Deals Of 2012
Feb 24, 2:00AM
Editor's note: Brad Garlinghouse is CEO of YouSendIt, the cloud file collaboration service. He is an avid angel investor in and advisor to several consumer and enterprise tech companies. The news that electric car company Fisker Automotive could potentially be acquired by Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor for about $425 million reminded me of an article that's been eating at me for some time.Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0 Will Make Its International Debut In Q2, We Go Hands-On
Feb 24, 2:00AM
That Samsung was tinkering with a slightly smaller Galaxy Note tablet shouldn't come as a surprise, but consider this the final word if you still weren't a believer. Samsung has just officially revealed that the Galaxy Note 8.0 is indeed a real product, and that it's planning on rolling the tab out across the globe starting in Q2 2013. Though the company didn't have anything firm to share when it came to release dates or pricing, it did have plenty to talk about in terms of hardware. The Note 8.0 tablet runs a TouchWiz'd version of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, and sports a Exynos 4 Quad processor clocked at 1.6GHz, 2GB of RAM, and (you guessed it!) an 8-inch TFT LCD display running at 1280 x 800. Perhaps it's not the most surprising spec sheet we'll see here at MWC, but it's certainly plenty of horsepower for a tablet this size and it shows (more on that later).You Don't Want An iWatch
Feb 23, 11:08PM
Proposing that entrenched sub-cultures should try something new is dangerous. Going into guitar forums with a new idea is a prospect fraught with peril for anyone who dares move beyond the six-strings-and-a-dream mentality of guitar purists. The same goes for folks who pitch wine in a box at a vintage tasting session and those who might want to add some new technology to a classic car. In short, the if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it crowd will tell you to get out of here with your fancy new concoction.What Games Are: Consoles Are Sinking. Get To The Lifeboats!
Feb 23, 10:00PM
While the Sony press event this week has largely been received as a wasted opportunity, it speaks more to the fate of the game console than the PS4. Microsoft may win the next generation, but will winning really look like total victory or merely an example of being the best loser? With microconsoles shaking up the entire industry from top to bottom, the game console as we know it looks doomed.What's Slowing Down Mobile Video Adoption? Android, Disagreements On HLS And MPEG-DASH Standards
Feb 23, 10:00PM
Editor's note: Bismarck Lepe is co-founder and president of products at Ooyala. Mobile World Congress kicks off next week, and business and technology leaders from around the world will converge in Barcelona to see what's next in mobile tech. But one thing you won't find amid the keynotes, networking gardens and after parties is a frank discussion about why mobile video continues to be a huge pain for viewers and broadcasters alike.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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