Vyclone The Vyclone app (Click to enlarge) Two years ago, British musician Joe Sumner approached his relative David King Lassman with an idea. He noticed on tour that a lot of fans took mobile videos during concerts. There’d be hundreds of videos on YouTube from a single event, but there was no way to...
Last week we wrote that Anonymous grabbed data from five oil companies, posting more than 1,000 email and passwords combinations online, but now it has emerged that a large portion of the data may have been faked. NovaInfoSpec, which initially reported the results of the operation against Shell, Exxon, BP, Gazprom and Rosneft, has...
AP We wanted to see how people are using the iPad, and how that use has evolved over the last three years. So we ran a reader survey. We got 2,242 responses which we have gathered here as a series of charts. This is the third time we’ve run this survey (first here, second...
Hey, now I can identify Sen. Al Franken! My gut instinct is to call Senator Al Franken a well-meaning fool when it comes to his latest outcry — this time against the advent of facial-recognition software — but he actually has a point. For the record, I have nothing against Sen. Franken (D-MN). In...
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Nokia World will take place this year on September 5th and 6th. Whatever the company announces during those two days will likely set the tone for its holiday sales cycle, and next-generation product line. News out today is of a closed Nokia store in Helsinki that is decked out in the following way, via...
With the goal of becoming nothing less than the world’s next big design brand, commerce site Fab announced on Wednesday that it had raised $105 million. The Series C round of financing was led by Atomico and included Pinnacle Ventures, ru-Net Technology Partners, Mayfield Fund and DoCoMo Capital, as well as current funders, such...
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Every year at Comic-Con they wrap up with a battle of fantasy logic called the Starship Smackdown, where a bunch of well known nerds get together and argue down to the last about which spaceship is the best of all time. This year, it came down to the Enterprise NCC 1701 and the NCC...
Design-oriented flash sales site Fab has raised $105 million in new funding, the company announced today. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and was subsequently confirmed by Fab CEO Jason Goldberg in a detailed blog post. You can’t say we didn’t warn you: TechCrunch editor extraordinaire Alexia Tsotsis reported just...