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Our cities are huge networks of solar energy collectors, as our buildings literally bake in the sun all day. While solar panels are increasingly being installed on rooftops to capture and distribute the energy produced by the sun’s light, very few people have found ways to turn them into exciting design elements. Urban Tiles,...
Despite being the only TechCrunch writer in Seattle, I don’t get out to Microsoft nearly as much as one might expect. The fact is it’s on the other side of a big lake and getting there usually involves a lot of traffic. But when I get an invite like I did recently, to join...
Hashtags Save Lives Knowing if there is a shooting going on in a certain part a city is not just about satisfying one’s curiosity, but about one’s safety. Many of the recent violent episodes in Mexico last long enough that knowing about them can be a life-saving piece of information. Since the mainstream media...
When you look at the combined 70 percent smartphone market share of Android and Apple in the U.S. compared to Microsoft’s measly and shrinking 6 percent, it seems like it’s game over before it really began for Windows Phone. Windows Phone is a decent mobile OS, even promising, but so far it has failed...
Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. A story that ran this weekend in the NY Times about how students are getting around...
Editor’s note: Guest contributor David Cowan is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, the co-Founder of Verisign, a lead venture investor of LinkedIn, Reputation.com and Lifelock, and a blogger at Who Has Time For This? The debate on pseudonyms persists in the NY Times, as Google continues to eject pseudonymous accounts from Google Plus. Google crafted its Common Names Policy...
If you keep up with the TC/Gadgets crew you know we can’t resist a good R/C anything. We’ve reviewed AR remote control cars, and just recently a Syma S107 R/C chopper, but those are toys compared to what launched today: AR.FreeFlight for Android. AR.FreeFlight is a free augmented reality piloting application you can use...
Last Wednesday we brought you news of a lawsuit that accused Microsoft of directly infringing on the privacy of users of its Windows Phone 7 line of mobile phones. Today, Microsoft responded, saying that the suit is incorrect in its portrayal of the company’s actions. The issue stems from an alleged issue with the camera button...
Trend Micro announced a new version of its Deep Security suite to offer protection across both physical and virtual servers and desktops. Trend purchased this software last year from Third Brigade, and the new version is a significant upgrade in that it consolidates protection across both physical and virtual platforms and does so with...
While everyone is jumping with excitement over data visualization these days, here’s one video of Pure Data Visualization that will only have the geekiest of geeks on the edge of their seats. This pure data is an audio visual trip through the back of the binary code, and its hidden qualities: structure, logic, rhythm,...