![U.S.A. on Road to Amputee-Sports Glory [Paralympics]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/bf3d060e29icfoot.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
The New York Times reports on the development of a new, potentially world-class American sprinter : Jerrod Fields, who lost his left foot and lower leg to an IED in Baghdad. Four years after taking his first tentative steps on a prosthetic foot, Fields now sprints so fast that he is considered a top United States prospect for the 2012 Paralympic Games - someone who just might knock off Oscar Pistorius of South Africa. According to the story, Fields originally wanted his mangled leg amputated so he could get back to Iraq sooner [...more]
![US Pays More For Cellphone Service, Carriers Insist That We Are Not Getting Screwed [Cellphones]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/d66e7bc1f9ripoff.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
A survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revealed that the US, Canada and Spain pay considerably more for cellphone service than dozens of other nations. Of course, the carriers were quick to spin the findings. [...more]
Of course, nothing can really ever compare to the two bowling extravaganzas forever etched into my memory. These would be Shawnee Lanes and the inconceivably named Mr [...more]
“We’re dumbfounded. We’ve been working on this deal for four-and-a-half years. I don’t know how, all of a sudden, the numbers don’t work.” JMW Development Principal Mark Johnson From the Minneapolis / St [...more]
Today at our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp event in Redwood City, CA, Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are kicking off the show by talking with angel investors Ron Conway and John Borthwick about the opportunity for investment in real time. Below find some live notes (paraphrased): Note before: Conway invested in Google at a $75 million valuation. Michael Arrington : What is real-time [...more]
In this new series we'll be offering you a list of cool things to do in cities across America and around the globe. This Geek Weekend we present Philadelphia, the city of geek love, where you can check out ENIAC, a Star Trek exhibit, and buy a geeky faucet. For questions about Philly, Tweet VisitPhilly . [...more]
New stats from monitoring service StatCounter suggest that for the second time since its launch, Microsoft’s Bing has surpassed Yahoo Search as the second most used search engine in the United States. Shortly after publicly debuting the new service , Bing already jumped over Yahoo Search - if only for one day - which many attributed to the launch momentum . But Bing has proven to be a very solid product that many seem keen to try out even after a month [...more]
One of the startups launching today at the Real Time Stream CrunchUp is Lazyfeed , and it is also opening up its service a bit this morning. We have exclusive invites for the first 300 TechCrunch readers to sign up at the site with the promo code “lazytc”. Lazyfeed is an interest feed for blog items. [...more]
There are a couple of places where you can go to get your fill of tech-related information and keep track of breaking news and events outside of your RSS reader or e-mail inbox. [...more]
A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google App Engine was “seeing elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates.” He noted that the problem began around 6:30 AM Pacific time and that the team was looking into it. A few minutes later he updated that Google App Engine was going into “unplanned maintenance mode” — over 4 hours later, it’s still not back up. That’s a long time for any service to be broken, but especially one that is the backbone for many startups’ web apps [...more]
