When companies have employees based in different locations, collaboration can often be difficult. At TechCrunch, we use Yammer to communicate. But what if you want a team to collaborate and provide feedback on the development of content and features on websites and web platforms [...more]
Nicholas is live at the Barnes and Noble Irex reader event and will report back what he's seeing including, but not limited to, information on the e-reader. [...more]
peHUB yesterday caught wind of Microsoft's supposed acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing , a company specialized in bringing the power of parallel computing to desktops, but was declined an official comment to the news following a request for confirmation. [...more]
While Mac users grow impatient for Google’s Chrome browser to come to the platform, there’s a small bit of good news today: A new beta version of the excellent Camino browser. Camino is a browser built by Mozilla specifically for the Mac [...more]
Is Dakota Fanning a caring soul, or what? The New Moon actress is taking time out from her busy schedule to support Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA's Holiday Card Art Program, which sells holiday cards created by sick children. Proceeds from the sales go to the Child Life/Child Development Program, which provides specialists to young patients to help them express themselves creatively and ease the fear of lengthy hospitalization [...more]
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Matt Galligan , CEO of CrashCorp , a company working on a product called SimpleGeo providing “location as a service” as well as an Augmented Reality SDK for app developers. (We covered their founding here .) As such, Galligan clearly has a stake in the AR game, but he was genuinely surprised by the revelation of the AR element to the Yelp app update yesterday. [...more]
The CX2 has the same 9.29Mp CMOS sensor as the CX1 we reviewed earlier this year , but its optical zoom has been upgraded from 7.1x to 10.7x, its burst-mode upped to 5fps, and its face-recognition and auto-focus have been improved. Ricoh has also added "High Contrast B&W" and "Miniaturize" modes. [...more]
If you're like me you've always wondered about making an iPhone game. What mad skillz do you need [...more]
I’ve been taking a brief respite from my international travels, but the last weekend in August I am hitting the tarmac again. This time, it’s a few weeks in Brazil [...more]