The goal of the “Nielsen Twitter TV Ranking” will be to measure the unique audience tweeting about individual programs. [Read more] …read more Nielsen to roll out Twitter ratings for TV shows on Mon...
Chủ Nhật, 6 tháng 10, 2013
Google works to demote mug shot sites in search results
While legal, many Web sites charge fees to have removed the very images the sites posted themselves. [Read more] …read more Google works to demote mug shot sites in search resu...
LG's New Nexus Phone Gets Detailed In Leaked Service Manual
There has been no shortage of leaks that claim to show off Google’s next Nexus smartphone (including this not-so-subtle nod from Google itself) over the past weeks and months, but we may have just hit the mother lode this weekend. The folks at Android Police have gotten their hands on a hefty, near-final draft of a 281-page service manual...
Seedrs Lets Armchair Investors Take A Punt On WebStart Bristol's First Incubator Cohort
If the premise of equity-based crowdfunding is to enable a greater range of individuals to take a punt on a startup, while oiling the wheels of investment overall, then a natural evolution of the model would be to enable would-be investors to place bets on a group of promising startups in one pool. In what it claims is a first for the equity-based...
The Already Abysmal NSA Surveillance Panel Is Now On Hold Due To The Government Shutdown
Under-promise, and then under-under-deliver is the name of this game. The panel to vet the NSA set up by the President, and nurtured by current Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, is now on hiatus, its funds being frozen as part of the larger governmental shutdown.The panel, one of the President’s small promises that were...
An appreciation for the Nexus 4, the little smartphone that could
The Nexus 4 proved that you could offer a great smartphone with a fantastic off-contract price. Will the Nexus 5 continue that welcome trend? [Read more] …read more An appreciation for the Nexus 4, the little smartphone that co...
Airport Car Rental Service Silvercar Is Headed To LAX In November
Silvercar continues to expand its tech-focused airport car rental service into new markets, and in a few weeks will be making its biggest debut yet. According to an email sent to customers late last week, Silvercar said that on November 4 it will be launching at LAX, which will soon house its largest fleet of Audi A4s.As we’ve written before,...
Fly Or Die: iPhone 5s
What’s there to say? It’s the flagship iPhone 5s. To say that it won’t be wildly successful would be silly. We already know that Apple sold 9 million units of the iPhone 5s, alongside the more colorful iPhone 5c, in the very first weekend of availability. That’s more than any previous generation. So instead of asking ourselves whether this...
Why Tech's Hottest Companies Want To Hire More Female Engineers
Judging by the job fair section at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing held this past week in Minneapolis, it was very clear that all the hottest companies in tech are working as hard as ever to hire more engineers — and if they happen to be female, all the better. After all, though women make up half the population,...
Student Tablet Hardware Melts, Districts Suspends $30 Million Amplify Program On Safety Concerns
An North Carolina school district has suspended the use of 15,000 tablets after reports of multiple hardware issues, including the device’s charger melting at home. Guilford County Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green has rounded up $30 million worth of errant tablets on safety concerns.The recall is a major sting for NewsCorp’s Amplify, which...
Samsung shrieks: Captain Kirk, Fred Flintstone talked to watches
A new ad trying to make the poorly reviewed Galaxy Gear somehow relevant, features Captain Kirk, and a host of other watch-talkers throughout entertainment history. [Read more] …read more Samsung shrieks: Captain Kirk, Fred Flintstone talked to watc...
Dad sues Sprint, says son found porn on new phone
A Los Angeles man claims what he thought was a new phone in fact contained pornographic pictures and videos of store staff, which was viewed by his young son. [Read more] …read more Dad sues Sprint, says son found porn on new ph...
Mental Exhaustion Before Exercise May Hinder Your Workout
We all have tight schedules, but a recent study found that if you do something mentally draining before exercising, your workout may be less effective—even if your muscles are well rested.The study, performed at the University of Kent in England and the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, aimed to uncover how mental exhaustion...
Samsung's Galaxy Gear Ads Show A Dated Device, Not A Futuristic One
Even Samsung thinks its Galaxy Gear is anachronistic – at least if the commercials are to be believed. New ads for the new Samsung Galaxy Gear that popped up on the company’s official YouTube page this weekend are supposed to be an exercise in wish-fulfillment, but they end up showing off a company and design mentality that’s been stuck...
The Future Of Mobile Taps And On-Demand Services
Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor - as a disclaimer for this post, he is an investor in one of the companies mentioned here, Instacart. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.One of the hottest trends in “mobile...
Google wants to patent splitting the restaurant bill
It’s one of the great social difficulties of our time. Now Google would like to offer (and own) an allegedly equitable solution. [Read more] …read more Google wants to patent splitting the restaurant b...
Can MonoPrice's $84 five-speaker/subwoofer system outperform a sound bar?
The Audiophiliac pits this super-affordable 5.1 channel sub/sat system against a couple of sound bar/sub systems, and the winner is? [Read more] …read more Can MonoPrice's $84 five-speaker/subwoofer system outperform a sound b...
My Response To @Dickc: Twitter Must Lead Silicon Valley On Diversity
Editor’s note: This post is a response to a Twitter exchange between Vivek Wadhwa and Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo. Vivek Wadhwa is a Fellow at Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford Law School and Director of Research at Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University. We have included the full exchange...
Five Best Personal Project Management Tools
When your to-do list becomes a monster, and an item next to a checkbox will actually take a long time and multiple people to complete, you need more than a checklist to keep track of it. What you really have is a project, and you need a tool designed to manage them. This week, we’re going to look at five of the best personal project management...
How the helicopters of the future are shaping up
The Pentagon is looking ahead several decades toward future fleets of rotorcraft — and working now to lay the plans for getting there. [Read more] …read more How the helicopters of the future are shaping...
PureVPN Hit With A Zero Day Exploit, But CEO Says Email Alleging Data Compromise Was Fake
PureVPN — one of the VPN tunnelling services that assign new IP addresses to a users’ connected devices, useful for those accessing the Internet in firewalled countries or those who want to use services that are usually geo-restricted at their current location — has been dealt a double blow by malicious hackers in the last several hours:...
Playing the market: When video games and stocks collide
Video games have mimicked real life for years. Not even trading stocks on Wall Street is safe from virtual attempts to cheat at getting rich. [Read more] …read more Playing the market: When video games and stocks coll...
Cutting through the bull: Toyota Auris
Dave Ross takes us through why the Toyota Auris isn’t the Corolla it should be. [Read more] …read more Cutting through the bull: Toyota Au...
Thứ Bảy, 5 tháng 10, 2013
CrunchWeek: Twitter's S-1, The Silk Road Shutdown, And The Rumored Amazon Phone
So this is what CrunchWeek is like without adult supervision.Leena Rao and Colleen Taylor, the show’s two regular hosts, were both out of town this week, but there was still plenty of news for TechCrunch writers — specifically Greg Kumparak, Alex Wilhelm, and me — to talk about. We weighed in on the anticipation around Twitter’s IPO filing...
Give Chrome's App Launcher a Keyboard Shortcut for Instant Access
If you use a lot of webapps, Chrome’s new app launcher is a great addition to your taskbar. Weblog Google Operating System shares a tip for making it even more useful: give it a keyboard shortcut for Start-Menu-like quick launches.Just right-click on the shortcut for Chrome’s app launcher, head to the Shortcut tab, and give it a Shortcut...
Dear Apple, what's wrong with shenanigans?
This week, Apple’s Phil Schiller took to Twitter to sniff at Samsung’s alleged “shenanigans.” But, as a CNBC broadcast about JP Morgan underlined, shenaniganing is just part of businessing, isn’t it? [Read more] …read more Dear Apple, what's wrong with shenaniga...
This Massive Beer Chart Guides You to a Great Drink (and Glass For It)
We’ve featured a few tools that make it easier for you to find a great beer, but this massive chart puts most of them to shame. Organized by type and and specific sub-categories, it’ll help you find a great beer based on the ones you like, and also show you pick the perfect glass to enjoy it in.The chart really is huge, so make sure to click...
Chrome Beta for Android Gets Better Application Shortcuts
Android: Chrome’s new beta version has a useful new feature: the ability to quickly add application shortcuts to your home screen.You could always do this by adding a site to your bookmarks first, but this new method—available in Chrome’s menu—is much faster. However, it gets cooler: if that webapp is designed to be used on its own, launching...
Avoid Email Distractions with a Custom Auto-Reply Message
Most of us spend way too much time wading through email every day. Blogger and reader Doug Belshaw solved this problem by turning on his “out of office” email responder—for an entire month.Instead of notifying his co-workers that he was out of the office, though, Belshaw used it as more of a reminder that he isn’t attached to email all day,...
Limping BlackBerry makes buyout overtures to Google, others -- report
The beleaguered smartphone maker is seeking “preliminary expressions of interest” for all or part of the company from Google, Samsung, LG, and others, according to news agency Reuters. [Read more] …read more Limping BlackBerry makes buyout overtures to Google, others -- rep...
Navigate Straight to an App's Settings with Siri in iOS 7
In iOS, most of your apps have their settings tucked away in the main Settings app—not very useful if you’re in the app itself and want to tweak something. In iOS 7, you can ask Siri to jump right to that app’s settings for you.For example, say you’re in the Mail app and you want to change some of the Mail-specific settings. Instead of going back to your home screen, opening the Settings app, and heading to “Mail, Contacts, Calendars,”...
New Nokia ad says Samsung wants to copy Lumia 1020?
A peculiar Nokia ad, presaging the launch of the Lumia 1020 in Abu Dhabi, features parachutists. It also has a weird Asian man at the end who seems to be up to no good. [Read more] …read more New Nokia ad says Samsung wants to copy Lumia 10...
As MacBook Air ages, Apple rivals show the way to Retina
It’s time for Apple to update the Air and/or a thinner, lighter Pro with a Retina screen. It’s certainly doable. [Read more] …read more As MacBook Air ages, Apple rivals show the way to Ret...
Security camera catches USPS worker's amazingly lazy delivery
It’s bad enough when FedEx or UPS throw your delivery onto your porch. But a home security camera catches a USPS truck driving across a front lawn so that it can get closer to the front door. [Read more] …read more Security camera catches USPS worker's amazingly lazy deliv...
Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem
At its heart, Twitter is a firehose. Everything you tweet shows up to every one of your followers. It’s what makes Twitter feel like the real-time pulse of the world. But it could also be preventing Twitter from growing. Follow too many people, and you lose track of those you love and stop following anyone new.Imagine you’ve just joined Twitter....
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