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NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
Id probably feel slightly smug, if I didnt feel so sick. Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency, the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view. Unfortunately its hard to feel smug ha …
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“Horrible Things” Slink Back Into Zynga
Just five days ago Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said mobile subscriptions, among other scammy offers, would be removed from Zyngas popular Facebook and MySpace games. We have also removed all mobile ads until we see any that offer clear user value, he said. So we were surprised yesterday to see a screen sh …
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Think The Droid Launch Was A Let Down? Not So Fast.
Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports of lines elsewhere, I failed — the Verizon store in Palo Alto was a ghost town, as was the Best Buy dow …
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Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does.
Last month, Apple rejected the Someecards iPhone app because it contained satirical comedy about public figures. After attempting to make their case and getting stonewalled, Someecards eventually gave into Apple and removed the offending cards which made fun of Hitler and Roman Polanski, among other …
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Apple Rushes Out Apple TV Update To Cure Disappearing Content
Last week, Apple released its new 3.0 software for the Apple TV. Unfortunately, it looks like it came with a pretty big bug in tow: Disappearing content. Heres the problem in Apples words: There is an issue with Apple TV software version 3.0 that can possibly cause your content to disappear after a …
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IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and rei …
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SnapNames: Apologies Shouldn’t Be Conditional, Especially When You Steal From Customers
Earlier this week the domain name industry was rocked by a shill bidding scandal at SnapNames. The company made the right early moves by admitting the problem and promising refunds, plus interest, to customers. Now, though, they are forcing customers to release them from liability to get the refund …
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Services Made Flesh: 10 Weird – and Not So Weird – “Avatar” Gadgets
The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don’t answer that. Manufacturers, in their wisdom, decided to do s …
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The Font Kingdom: Search, Explore, Create, and Download Fonts for Free
Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. Its becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. Im guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help u …
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Skype Founders Assembling Killer Team For New Online Music Startup
Now that they got what they wanted a renewed stake and board representation in the Skype that will be spun off eBay soon the Scandinavian duo Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis can divert more of their attention again to the latest Internet venture theyre putting their weight behind: Rdio. The yet-t …
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Snoop Dogg, Entrepreneurship and Rajasthan
Im in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture has go …
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YouTube Is Falling Apart Again
The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona. Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like hes made from plaster. Halfway through …
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Marissa Mayer Chosen As A Glamour Magazine Woman Of The Year
Googles Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the execs lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazines 2009 Women of the Year. …
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The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
If youre a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek, a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It wont s …
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Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web
Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web. This works because Androids browser is closely tied to the device …
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textPlus 2.0 Hits The App Store For Free Texting
textPlus, a text messaging app thats powered by GOGII, has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text messages you can send per month, its just a matter o …
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My Not-So-Epic Quest To Find The Elusive Verizon Droid Line
Today is Droid day — an event that I, like many tech bloggers, have been looking forward to for quite some time. Unlike some people, I wasnt graced with a test Droid last week, so I was forced to go out and get one the old fashioned way: by getting to the store as early as possible, before the preci …
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MSNBC Having A Bad Friday (NSFW)
I think its safe to assume their Twitter account has been hacked. Update: Yep. Now suspended. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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Europe’s Biggest Paper Blocks iPhone Browsers To Force Sales Of Its App
So much for the coming mobile nirvana of free mobile content at least for iPhone users in Germany. Today Europes biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessin …
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Chomp Eats Up Some Seed Funding. Next, Will Bite Into The Mobile Space.
Its not yet clear what Chomp exactly is, but we do know that its a rather hot property right now. It took the still stealth start up just 10 days to raise a nice seed round from Ron Conway and a few other big name angel investors, we hear. So what do we know? Well, the company is definitely in the m …
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