Not saying that it won’t happen, or that it can’t happen, just that it hasn’t happened yet, so if a young looking blond TechCruncher in a pushup bra friends you on Facebook, beware. “TechCrunch employee” Rani Girard is apparently going around friending guys in the tech community for, well, reasons. Her jig was up...
Mozilla today announced Firefox Health Report (FHR), a new feature that sends data back to the company in order to help them “build a more excellent browser.” In addition to improving and prioritizing development, Mozilla also says FHR will “help us improve performance, fix problems and let users see how their browsing experience compares...
Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro),...
LetsLunch continues to spread its vision of professional networking through lunches — it just launch in the United Kingdom. Tied to its UK launch, the startup says it’s also releasing version 3.0 of the service. Now, I usually spend my lunches frantically cramming down food while writing posts or doing briefings, but if yours are a...
Just like a drunk boyfriend, the web is unreliable and not always available to apps. That means that mobile app developers need to think differently about building for the mobile experience as compared to the desktop experience. And figuring out how to do that is hard for all the people out there who may...
Educational apps and interactive textbooks may look flashy, but we still have a long way to go before we can truly leverage tech in the classroom: That was one of the key takeaways from a mobile education panel at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference, where Rafter CEO Mehdi Maghsoodnia complained that most educational applications still feel...
Twitter just launched a very cool feature in Japan called Lifeline. It allows Japanese users of Twitter to use their postal code to find and follow local accounts that are important in emergencies. These could be accounts that are maintained by city, district or prefecture governments, which will be updating in the event of...
Square made headlines this year after its landmark deal with Starbucks, which will put the mobile payment darling’s product in stores across America. But Square’s chief operating officer Keith Rabois said Friday that the company isn’t running out to hire new salespeople. “We’re in the software business, so we produce technology that substitutes for human...
We’re pretty big fans of the Glif tripod adapter from Studio Neat here at TNW. It’s a slick rubberized accessory that slips onto the corner of your iPhone and adds a tripod-ready 1/4 20 threaded port on the bottom. It’s clever, well-designed and a pleasure to use, just like the iPhone. They even offer...
Happy Friday everyone. As you stretch out the next few hours, pretending to work, you might as well learn a touch while you scroll Reddit and fret about how many minutes until you can leave early and not feel guilty. Enter this nifty matrix that contains a great number of technology firms’ business models,...