Time to live blog April Fools 2010! Some of us got a jump start on the time-honored tradition (not to name any names here), but we still have about 24 hours of shenanigans left. As the new hire, I have the dubious honor of managing the TechCrunch April Fool’s Scorecard. If you spot a good one please e-mail me at aprilfools@techcrunch.com (seriously, we have an account for this), with “APRIL” in the subject [...more]
The first iPad reviews, from tech grand-daddies David Pogue and Walt Mossberg among others, are live. Go read [...more]
There is obviously a lot of excitement around the iPad. Kleiner Perkins is doubling its iFund to launch more companies around the new device. And everyone from existing iPhone app developers and media companies is rushing to create iPad versions of their apps [...more]
When Google wants to try out a new consumer-facing product, it usually puts it in Google Labs . That is where experimental products can be found [...more]
You can watch Steve Ballmer talking about Ford and Microsoft's new partnership here but we'll run a liveblog for you all here so you don't have to whip out the headphones. [...more]
Everyone remotely involved with online video is quick to jump on the iPad bandwagon – we’ve recently covered announcements from the likes of Ooyala , Brightcove and Kyte . [...more]
The rumors keep circulating. The latest came yesterday when the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was working on a CDMA version of the iPhone. To most people, that means one thing. [...more]
Back in fall 2008, when the App Store was less than 100 days old, I wrote about an incredibly trippy and innovative application called RjDj (iTunes link). The app is a bit hard to describe, but it essentially takes audio or motion input from your iPhone, passes it through a variety of filters, and outputs music that’s customized to your surroundings (you really need to try it for yourself to see what it’s like). Now, RjDj is taking its application to the next level: the company has released a new desktop app called RJC1000 that allows Mac users to easily build their own reactive music for use on any of RjDj’s growing roster of applications [...more]
When Steve Jobs tells the technology industry to get in line, it gets in line pretty quick. All the initial hair-pulling and angst surrounding Apple’s decision to not support Flash on the iPad is already mattering less and less [...more]
Over the past few months, Automattic’s popular blog platform WordPress.com has taken an in-depth look at their blogging ecosystem, and realized that one of the major pain points for the 12.1 million users who self-host their WordPress.com blogs is security and restoration. WordPress.com backs up all of the blogs that it hosts, but those users who self-host their WordPress.com-powered blogs need to download outside plugins, such as this one, or use backup services like Mozy or Backupify to protect their data and content. Today WordPress.com is changing that with the launch of its own blog protection and restoration service for self-hosted blogs, called VaultPress. [...more]
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