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Slingshot: Curiosity Vs. Friction
Jun 18, 7:59PM
Facebook Slingshot’s core mechanic ‘reply to unlock’ makes sharing a fun game or an annoying chore depending on how you look at it. The new standalone photo and video mass-messaging app is delightfully designed, but much of it still feels like Snapchat with a layer of polish, years late. The question is whether Slingshot holding content hostage will lure people in, or if… Read MoreThe Best Amazon Fire Phone Features You Won't Get In Any Other Phone
Jun 18, 7:42PM
Today, Amazon introduced the long-rumored Fire Phone. It has the killer 3D effects that everyone anticipated. But it also has a few neat features that you won’t see in any other phone out there… Read MoreAmazon's Shopping Phone Comes With Free Prime Membership For A Year
Jun 18, 7:32PM
Amazon has just announced its head-tracking, shopping-focused $199 smartphone, the Fire Phone. And for those who might be wavering about shelling out top dollar (it’s $649 off contract) for a newbie smartphone, the company is currently throwing in a free year of its Amazon Prime membership service to sweeten the deal. Read MoreShasta Ventures Raises $300M Fourth Fund
Jun 18, 6:49PM
Shasta Ventures, a firm whose investments include Nest, Mint and Turn, announced today that it has raised a $300 million fourth fund. The firm has now raised more than $1 billion. Each Shasta fund has been larger than the one before it, and Shasta Ventures IV was no exception — the firm raised its $265 million third fund back in 2011. Read MoreFacebook's New Open-Source Data Switch Technology Is Designed For Flexibility And Greater Control
Jun 18, 6:46PM
Today Facebook announced new modularized top-of-rack networking switch technology and a new Linux OS to control these switches. The company will eventually share this technology as part of its Open Compute Project. Jay Parikh, Facebook’s VP of Infrastructure Engineering, made the announcement at GigaOm’s Structure Conference in an interview with Derrick Harris. Read MoreAmazon's Mayday Service On Fire Phone Means It Might Be Able To Sell Its Unique New Features
Jun 18, 6:36PM
Amazon has brought Mayday to the Fire Phone, it announced today. The Mayday service offers one-tap access to customer service agents who can talk to phone users via video chat, and take over the screen on their devices to show them exactly how to do something, complete with annotations. The service is available 24 hours, and service representatives will respond to requests within 15 seconds… Read MoreAT&T Will Sell Amazon's Fire Phone For $199 On A 2 Year Contract
Jun 18, 6:35PM
Given that Amazon’s newly announced Fire Phone is largely one gigantic portal for Amazon to sell things (there’s a dedicated hardware button just for recognizing products!), some folks were betting on the device itself being free — or at least really, really cheap. Read MoreAmazon's Fire Phone Uses Depth And 3D Effects To Stand Out
Jun 18, 6:34PM
We’ve been hearing about head-tracking technology on phones for a long time now. Some have ventured into this territory already, with Samsung releasing camera-based head tracking in earlier generations of the Galaxy S phones. Today, Amazon is trying out its own version of the gimmick with new 3D effects enabled by four cameras on the front of the phone. (We totally called this, btw.) Read MoreAmazon's Fire Phone Introduces "Firefly," A Feature That Lets You Identify (And Buy!) Things You See In The Real World
Jun 18, 6:23PM
With the debut of the Amazon Fire Phone this afternoon, the company introduced a new feature called Firefly, which is largely designed to let you identify — and then, of course, buy — things you see out in the real world. Firefly takes advantage of the smartphone’s camera to let you identify things like phone numbers, movies, books, games, CDs, food and more just by pointing… Read MoreHere Are The Startups From Hardware Accelerator Highway1′s Second Batch
Jun 18, 6:15PM
Hardware is hot, and nowhere is that more evident than in the startup scene. But most startups don’t have the requisite experience needed to handle sourcing materials and managing a supply chain — basically taking their products from prototype to mass market product. To help them out, consumer electronics manufacturing company PCH International announced last summer that it was… Read MoreThe Cloud Is Key To Amazon Fire Phone's Ambitious Plan To Win Over Smartphone Photographers
Jun 18, 6:14PM
Amazon unveiled its new smartphone today, the Amazon Fire Phone, and the first thing it talked about after going over the design specifics was the camera. Jeff Bezos said that “our phones are also our primary cameras,” and went on to describe the Fire Phone’s camera hardware, which includes a 13-megapixel, rear-facing shooter. Read MoreAmazon Announces The $199 Fire Phone, The First Smartphone With Head-Tracking Technology
Jun 18, 6:00PM
Meet the Fire Phone, Amazon’s first venture into smartphones. At first blush, the phone looks like any other smartphone currently on the market, but it has a secret: the ability to track a user’s head. This is done through four corner-mounted, front-facing infrared cameras and produces wild 3D effects. Jeff Bezos calls it the phone built for the Amazon Prime customer. Read MorePoint The WineGlass App At A Wine Menu, See Reviews And How Much To Pay
Jun 18, 5:46PM
A wine menu is just a string of confusing French words to most people. But take a photo of one with WineGlass, and the app overlays reviews, tasting notes, and what you should expect to pay for each bottle on the menu. WineGlass could keep you from getting ripped off, find you vino you actually like, and make you a hit at dinner parties for just $5. Developed by a Roddy Lindsay, a six-year… Read MoreMicrosoft Kills Vendor Program That Offered To Pay People To Write About IE
Jun 18, 5:31PM
Repeat after me: Don’t pay people to write about your thing. Repeat after me: Don’t offer to pay people to write about your thing. Repeat after me: People will write about your thing if they think that your thing is cool, or newsworthy, so build things that are cool, or newsworthy. Microsoft was called out last night for a program, executed through a third party, offering… Read MoreTwitter Now Supports Animated GIFs Online And On Mobile
Jun 18, 5:20PM
Um, finally. Twitter today announced a small, but SUPER AWESOME change to its social network: It will now support the ever-popular animated GIF format. The change, the company says, is live as of today on the Twitter.com website, Android and iPhone. Read MoreCarlypso Could Change Everything About How We Buy And Sell Used Cars
Jun 18, 5:19PM
Let’s say you’ve got a used car that you’d like to get rid of. You’ve basically got two options: Sell it to a used car dealer, or sell it yourself. The potential perils of getting ripped off by taking the first route have been well-documented with decades of “used car salesman” jokes. But selling a car by owner is no walk in the park either. Read MoreFront Is A Shared Inbox App That Makes Email Suck Less
Jun 18, 5:18PM
Meet Front, a service to collaborate, comment, assign and reply to those pesky emails that you receive on your support@, jobs@ or contact@ email addresses. Launching today, Front is part of Y Combinator’s current batch. “With Front, we want you to receive all your company’s incoming feeds in our app and collaborate in real time on these requests,” co-founder and CEO… Read MoreDoozers Become Real Thanks To These Cement-Laying Minibuilders
Jun 18, 5:14PM
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona is working on a set of robots that will soon be able to build complex structures by extruding layers of concrete, a process that might be a bit slow but that will allow strange, unique shapes to be formed using concepts popularized by plastic 3D printers. Read MoreThe Most-Liked Instagram Photo In The World Took 4 Days To Edit
Jun 18, 5:07PM
Remember the time that Kim Kardashian proved that social media popularity has very little to do with talent by posting the most liked photo of all time? It was a photo of her and her brand spankin’ new husband Kanye West kissing at their wedding, and it stole the crown from Justin Bieber with 2 million likes in about 24 hours. Read MoreWattpad CEO Says The Social Reading App Will Be Free Forever And Make Money From Native Ads
Jun 18, 5:06PM
Wattpad, which lets authors share their stories with a community of readers, has attracted lots of interest from investors, having most recently raised a $46 million Series C. It’s also seeing impressive user engagement — the company says that 27 million of its 30 million users are active each month. But founder and CEO Allen Lau noted that until recently, Wattpad hasn’t… Read MoreIf 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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