With close to 100,000 iPhone applications now available on the App Store, finding the ones the ones that you will actually enjoy and use can be difficult. There are other apps and sites that offer a resource for you to find and share popular apps, and even present customized recommendations, such as AppsFire, 16 Apps or Sidebar, which we recently wrote about here. But what about tapping into your social graph to help find the apps that are popular amongst your friends? [...more]
GSI Commerce, a company that powers e-commerce platforms for major brands, recently made headline with the acquisition of Retail Convergence, which operates RueLaLa.com, a private sale site and SmartBargains.com, an off-price e-commerce marketplace, in a deal valued as high as $350 million. [...more]
A large number of customers of Rackspace Cloud , including Techcrunch, have been experiencing downtime for the past 1h 20m or so. [...more]
It’s been about two months since Opera introduced the non-beta version of its Opera 10 desktop browser , and today the Norwegian software developer is following up on that release with that of the latest beta build of Opera Mobile , a custom browser specifically built to give Symbian and Windows Mobile equipped handset users a (much) more pleasant Web browsing experience. The company’s latest ‘State of the Mobile Web’ report, which was based on usage data from their other mobile browser product, the popular Opera Mini , suggests that mobile web usage is still increasing at a rapid pace . [...more]
Facebook is much more than a social network. Twitter is much more than an information network or serendipity engine [...more]
Our favorite jingle guy is at it again. Jonathan Mann, who TechCrunch readers will best know as the guy behind the awful Bing jingle , has released another new video (as he does every day), this time to serenade the children of Keith Valley Middle School who recently performed his Bing jingle [...more]
Startups like Bump Technologies , which recently got some funding , and My Name is E are trying to kill the paper business card, but even in 2009, many of us, including myself, still use business cards. The biggest hassle with business cards is getting the contact information into your address book as fast as possible — that’s where Business Card Reader [ iTunes link ] for the iPhone comes in. Business Card Reader scans and “reads” the picture using ABBYY’s text recognition technology and enters the data into the iPhone or iPod touch address book [...more]
It's time to put on the Swami hat and predict just what we have in store for 2010 and beyond. Considering all of the movement in the gadget world in the past few months, I'm fairly sure most of this going to be accurate. [...more]
There is absolutely no way I’ll be able to make this relevant to tech. But I’m posting it anyway. Our Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger , vetoed a California legislative finance bill – AB 1176 [...more]
We’ve spent the past several months closely tracking the progress of Chrome for Mac. Well over a year after its release for Windows, there hasn’t been so much as a beta version for Mac (or Linux, for that matter) yet. [...more]
