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Website Editor Jimdo Launches An iOS App So Users Can Build And Edit Sites >From Their Phone
Aug 22, 3:05AM
Jimdo, a Hamburg-headquartered company offering easy-to-use tools for building websites, already seems pretty mobile friendly. Jimdo-powered sites can also be viewed in mobile-optimized layouts, and earlier this year the company announced a "mobile express" format, where businesses create a landing page that highlights their most important information. What's left? Well, actually creating and editing sites from a mobile device.Google's Street View Ups Its Panda Count, Adds 6 New Zoos
Aug 21, 11:43PM
For quite a while now, Google has featured Street View imagery from zoos around the world. Today, the company decided to highlight some of these image collections on its new Views site and also added six new zoos to its lineup.HP CEO Pitches Patience And Progress To Investors, Who Send Her Company's Stock Down 7% After-Hours
Aug 21, 11:35PM
Today during its earnings call, a sober HP discussed recent progress in executing its five-year turnaround plan that remains in its early stages. HP had a difficult quarter that merely managed to meet expectations. The company failed to demonstrate that its recovery efforts are proceeding more quickly than anticipated. It's a fix and rebuild year, the company stated, with some business units that are doing well, some that are essentially flat, and others that "haven't yet turned the corner."Bradley Manning's Tough Sentence Shows White House's Uncompromising War On Data Leakers
Aug 21, 10:26PM
Wikileaks source Private Bradley Manning was slapped with a 35-year prison sentence today — the largest sentence ever of its kind. “It’s further indication that the Executive Branch is very serious about discouraging classified documents,” Yale Law School professor Eugene Fidell tells me. “It struck me that it was a little on the high side, but within the range of reasonableness.” Manning is responsible for arguably the largest data leak in U.S. history: 250,000 sensitive diplomatic cables to the rogue journalism outfit, Wikileaks. The cables preceded mass upheaval in the Middle East and are widely considered a factor in the 2009 Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. As a result, his punishment has no comparable precedent. In 1985, for instance, Naval Intelligence Officer Samuel Morison was sentenced to two years for leaking satellite surveillance photographs (President Clinton eventually pardoned him). While Obama is a pioneer in non-classified open government, he has been aggressively anti-leak. In a cordial, but testy exchange with Bradley Manning supporter Logan Price at an expensive fundraising breakfast in San Francisco in April, Obama had this to say: Obama: Look, there are better ways and more appropriate ways to bring this up than interrupting and causing a scene… Price: I understand. That's why I am asking you now. I wasn't singing or chanting and I want to know. I think he is the most important whistleblower of my generation. Why is he being prosecuted? Obama: Well, what he did was irresponsible and risked the lives of service members abroad. He did a lot of damage. So people can have philosophical views on… Price: But I haven't seen any evidence of that, and how can you say that the leaks did more harm than good? What about their effect on the democratic revolutions in the Arab world? And isn't this going to help the war on terror? Obama: No, no, no, but look, I can't conduct diplomacy on an open source [basis]. That's not how the world works. And if you're in the military… I have to abide by certain rules of classified information. If I were to release material I weren't allowed to, I'd be breaking the law. We're a nation of laws. We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. The Secret Service was beginning to tug on Price's arm, but Obama waved them off. "No he's being fine," he toldCourt Eventually Stopped NSA From Collecting Millions Of Communications
Aug 21, 10:11PM
Two new fun facts today regarding America’s surveillance state: the National Security Agency was collecting hundreds of millions of communications up until 2011, but a military court stopped them. In a recently declassified and heavily redacted court order, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ruled that a potentially defunct mass email snooping program violated the 4th Amendment. ”The court is unable to find that NSA’s targeting and minimization procedures, as the government proposes to implement them in connection with MCTs [Multi-Communication Transactions], are consistent with the 4th amendment.” In the course of sweeping up communications directly from fiber-optic cables, including screenshots of emails, the government can inadvertently view the communications of Americans who are not suspected of terrorism. These “multi-communication transactions” disturbed the court enough to supposedly shut down a program that was reading the content of emails, not just the records (so-called “metadata”). Judge John D. Bates found that the government “advised the court that the volume and nature of the information it has been collecting is fundamentally different from what the court had been led to believe." In other words, the NSA was either ignorantly or willfully misleading the court charged with limiting its power. While this is evidence that FISC does in fact have some meaningful oversight, it apparently can take a while for the court to exercise its power. It’s actually good news that the government can exercise restraint over spy agencies, but it’s disturbing how long it takes.US Director Of National Intelligence Launches Tumblr Site "IC On The Record" To Assuage Surveillance Concerns
Aug 21, 10:09PM
The U.S. office of National Intelligence launched a new site today to promote government transparency in the wake of the months-long scandals surrounding the National Security Agency's surveillance tactics. "In June, President Obama requested that Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper declassify and make public as much information as possible about certain sensitive NSA programs...This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: SHIELD Me From These Idiots, I Want A Wacom And Google's Now Octopus
Aug 21, 9:30PM
Midweek, we're here for you! Our hump day tradition of the TechCrunch Droidcast continues into its third episode with your host Chris Velazco, myself and special guest Romain Dillet delivering some worldly charm. This week, we've got some new Android-powered hardware to discuss, including the Nvidia Shield portable gaming console and Wacom's new Cintiq Companion Hybrid combo Android tablet/PC or Mac drawing tablet. Both niche devices, but good examples of what Android can do when it isn't just being used for phones or tablets.With $1M In New Funding, Betterfly Launches Live Video Platform Tailored To Online Learning
Aug 21, 9:21PM
Chicago-based self-improvement startup Betterfly has been connecting teachers and students in real life for music lessons, relationship coaching, juggling instruction and just about anything you can imagine. But the startup is finally bringing its model online thanks to a live video platform launch today. Betterfly LIVE connects students and teachers for real-time video chat, with a platform built specifically for coaching and teaching.Zendesk Launches A Help Center That Combines Self-Service With Design Themes Reminiscent Of Tumblr
Aug 21, 9:13PM
Zendesk has unveiled Help Center, a business app that resembles standard WordPress or Tumblr themes and serves as a knowledge base in a format similar to Quora: It becomes more refined as people add comments. According to its own benchmark data of 16,000 customers, Zendesk customers are four times more likely to use self-service systems than calling a customer-service desk. Zendesk used that data as the genesis for Help Center.Foursquare Begins Crowdsourcing Local Business Data Collection With Questions That Appear After Check-Ins
Aug 21, 8:54PM
Foursquare, a company now focused on transforming itself into a source of local business information and reviews more along the lines of Yelp, is releasing a feature which it hopes will help to extract more value from users' check-ins. The company says it may now ask users a brief question about the business they're visiting after their check-in, which they can then respond to directly in the app.Amid Executive Changes, HP Posts Declining Q3 Revenue Of $27.2B As Its PC Division Weakens
Aug 21, 8:10PM
Today HP announced its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $27.2 billion, down 8 percent year over year. The company earned $0.86 per share on a non-GAAP basis. The street had expected revenue of $27.3 billion, and earnings per share of $0.86 on a non-GAAP basis. Today a number of executive changes leaked that were not detailed in HP’s earnings release, including the move of Chief Marketing Officer Marty Homlish and Enterprise Group Executive Vice President Dave Donatelli to new roles. HP’s personal computing division posted revenue of $7.7 billion, down 11 percent year over year. The larger personal computing market — measured as laptop and desktop shipments, and not tablets and smartphones — is in sharp decline, with shipments falling 11 percent in the second quarter, following a record 13.9 percent decline in the first quarter, both measured on a year-over-year basis. In after-hours trading, following its slight earnings miss, HP is down sharply, losing around 2 percent in regular trading. Revenue Growth HP’s top line is in slow decline. Though its revenue sources are decently varied — services, printing, and its personal computing OEM business — the firm as a whole has seen sequentially declining revenue in every quarter for more than a year. In 2011, HP’s revenues totaled $127 billion. In 2012, full year revenue was $120 billion. Analysts expect around $111 billion in the current calendar year, and $107 billion in 2014 top line. HP, as a recent CNBC segment noted, has more than three hundred thousand employees, providing it with ample room to cut costs. By doing so it can sustain profitability at levels previously attained with higher revenue and not lower expenses. However, that dance becomes harder in time. What HP needs to prove is that it can grow its non-PC and printing businesses to more than staunch declines in those two industries, but also to shift the company’s aggregate momentum away from measured decline. The printing group at HP posts a year over year loss in revenue of 4 percent. That, combined with the 11 percent slip in PC division revenue and the magnitude of the task ahead of HP, becomes plain. Top Image Credit: Windell OskayTech Gets Its Own "Modest Proposal"
Aug 21, 8:03PM
In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" he postulates that one solution to the problem of poverty in Ireland is that the poor sell their offspring to rich people as food. In Patrick McConlogue's "Finding the unjustly homeless, and teaching them to code," he makes a similar logical leap, that fixing the "lost pieces" of humanity can happen with a couple of books of JavaScript How-Tos and an old laptop.Okkervil River Debuts 8-Bit Point-And-Click Game Created By Lead Singer Will Sheff Ahead Of Album Release
Aug 21, 7:48PM
Okkervil River's Will Sheff grew up playing games like Maniac Mansion and King's Quest, and as part of the release of his band's new album "The Silver Gymnasium," he's teamed up with Eyes And Ears' Benjamin Miles to build his own point-and-click adventure. The game feature basic but beautiful 8-bit graphics, a chiptunes soundtrack composed by Miles based on music from the album, and can be played in any desktop browser.Foundation: David Copperfield On The Art Of Magic And Eternal Curiosity
Aug 21, 7:15PM
In this episode of my Foundation video series, I travel to Las Vegas to interview famed illusionist, magician, and entrepreneur David Copperfield. David explains how he combines magic with storytelling, recounts the moment when Francis Ford Coppola taught him to text, and shares his theory that people who are eternally curious are never truly satisfied.Facebook Aims To Be A News Source By Now Letting Everyone Embed Public Posts
Aug 21, 7:00PM
With hashtags, trending topics, verified profiles, and now the ability to embed public posts on external websites, Facebook is making a big push to become a primary source of real-time news, both for journalists and readers. It opened post embeds to a few partners last month. Now anyone can grab embed codes from public posts, and Facebook's added in-line video playback, and better mobile display.Meet The Original Hyperloop… For Rocks
Aug 21, 6:32PM
The Hyperloop isn't a new idea. In fact, the concept was so compelling that an engineer named Stephen Fairfax built one to carry phosphate ore back and forth through a mine. Because the entire system needed to survive in a dank, dirty environment and have as few moving parts as possible, a Hyperloop-like maglev system made perfect sense. He spent four years - from 1996 to 2000 - building a demo unit that could move 3 million tons of ore per year at a phosphate mine. The resulting system (you can see it shuttling back and forth here) is a cross between Mad Max and Epcot Center.Maker Studios In Deal To Buy Blip As It Works To Reach More Screens
Aug 21, 6:30PM
YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios has agreed in principle to acquire long-running video distribution network Blip. While it hasn't closed yet and there are a number of issues to be worked out, the deal would bring more content under the Maker umbrella, and could give the company more technology and distribution outside of the YouTube platform.Google Updates Its Keep Note-Taking App With Reminders, Location-Based Alerts And Google Now Integration
Aug 21, 6:12PM
When Google launched Keep for Android and the web a few months ago, it was essentially a basic note-taking application. Today, the company is launching a major update to Keep that turns it into a far more useful application. The update, which will start rolling out today, is centered around the new "Remind me" button, which now lets you schedule time-based reminders and location-based alerts that hook into Google Now.Morphlabs Raises $10M To Support Growth In The Greenfield Asia Market
Aug 21, 5:55PM
Morphlabs has raised $10 million for its OpenStack management console that optimizes the hardware and the software with Flash technology for better speed and performance in cloud infrastructures. The round was led by Tallwood Management and Entropy Research Lab and also included existing investor G2iG. Morphlabs has raised a total of $22.5 million.LinkedIn Revamps Pulse Apps With Faster Search, More Discovery Tools
Aug 21, 5:31PM
When LinkedIn acquired newsreader Pulse earlier this year for $90 million, it said the Pulse apps would remain and the two companies would instead find ways to work together. Today, LinkedIn continues to make good on those promises with an update to the Pulse mobile apps on both iOS and Android, which introduce improvements to search, discovery and recommendations.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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