Google has dropped an Android-shaped bomb on China’s mobile market, after comments from the company potentially affected some of the country’s most powerful Internet firms and their strategy of modifying its Android operating system to develop platforms of their own. The company spoke out in response to allegations that it pressured Acer into cancelling...
Daily Archives: September 14, 2012
Twitter Bug Randomly Swaps Out Avatars For Some Accounts, Profile Settings Now Disabled
Well here’s a Twitter bug that is kind of alarming. Apparently, for some verified accounts, avatars were swapped out with other random users’. Currently, the profile settings are disabled for all users, so you’re stuck with what you have now. Can you imagine trying to tweet and seeing some random Joe in your place?...
Zynga’s Unredacted Response To EA: Uh, You Weren’t Suppose To Sue Us Over These Hires
Earlier today, Zynga filed a scathing legal response to EA’s copyright lawsuit — with a few sensitive areas redacted. However, it turns out that TechCrunch readers are even more awesome than I expected, because one of them figured out how to un-redact the document and sent us the full countercomplaint, sans black bars. So...
Github: database migration sparked outages
Github’s outages early this week emanated from what was supposed to be a “rather innocuous” database migration that turned out to be anything but. The company was updating older MySQL databases with a new 3-node MySQL cluster, according to a Friday afternoon post to the Github blog. The goal of the work was to streamline failover. In...
GitHub Says Database Issues Caused This Week’s Outage and Performance Problems
A database migration gone awry caused the outage and poor availability that GitHub customers experienced this week. In a lengthy blog post today, GitHub’s Jesse Newland apologized for the outage and said overall it was way below the company’s standards. The root of the problem stemmed from a database replacement done last month. During that maintenance,...
How much would Apple sell an iPad mini for?
At an event earlier this week, Apple introduced the iPhone 5 and a brand new iPod touch. Both devices have a the same 4″ screen and add to the top end of their respective Apple product lines. But, if the rumors are true — and we believe they are — Apple also has an...
Apple Is Repeating Itself: Last Year It Said It Was ‘Blown Away’ By iPhone 4S Pre-Orders, Too (AAPL)
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images See Also 8 Things The iPhone 5 Still Can’t Do Here’s How Samsung Beat HTC To Become The Biggest Android Phone Maker Apple Says It’s ‘Blown Away’ By Response To The iPhone 5 When Apple told news outlets it was “blown away” by iPhone 5 pre-orders, something about it...
T-Mobile may not get the iPhone 5, but it’s getting its SIM cards
Even though it’s never officially offered the device, T-Mobile has long supported the iPhone on its 2G networks by simply selling its customers SIM cards they can slot into their handsets. The new iPhone 5, however, uses new nano-SIM technology – try as hard as you like but you won’t be able to cram...
YouTube Rejects White House Request To Pull Video That’s Causing Anti-American Protests
Wall Street ends at multi-year highs on Fed A comedown may be waiting after Fed high Apple did not violate Samsung patents: U.S. trade judge News Corp studio co-chair Rothman resigns as film, TV split After Zuckerberg talks, Facebook gains $6.8 billion SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc rejected a request by the White...
Whack off to silence your pesky smartphone: Microsoft’s awesome mobile patent application
Having your phone ring at the wrong time is painful. The opera. A funeral. A test. A meeting. An interview. A wrong-ring can wreck a week. Obviously, when the moment comes in which your pocket begins to produce sonic waves bordering on the Richter, you want to turn that piece of shit off as...