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CE-Oh no he didn't!: Valve's Gabe Newell says 'Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone'
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Always-outspoken Gabe Newell, the big cheese at Valve, made quite a few interesting statements at this year's Casual Connect conference, including the quote above. Gabe believes Microsoft's impending update will drive manufacturers away from the OS and he reiterated Valve's plan to make the entire Steam catalog available on...
LoveFilm / Aardman deal brings cheese-loving stop motion animation to Amazon-owned UK site
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Great news for UK movie lovers who just can't get enough of eccentric inventors and clever sheep: Amazon-owned LoveFilm has struck a deal to bring Aardman content to its service. The agreement adds properties like Wallace & Gromit, Morph, Creature Comforts, Shaun the Sheep and Rex the Runt to...
The 10 Most Important Companies In Cloud Computing
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Cloud computing, the idea that all kinds of computing can be delivered totally over the Internet, is changing everything. It affects our daily lives ... you don't have to go into the office to grab a file. You can share stuff with anyone across any device. It affects billions of...
Mor.sl Offers Recipe Recommendations To Hungry Webonauts
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An entrepreneur we met in DC, Mili Mittal, told us about her site, mor.sl. Unfortunately, she didn’t describe it fully, leading me to believe it was far less cool than it really is. That failure has been averted thanks to a quick browse and subsequent salivation. Mor.sl is, in short,...
Say Cheese! Twitter Debuts In-App Photo Filters
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Well that didn’t take long. Just two days after I reported Twitter hoped to release its photo filters in time for the holidays, the company did just that. The company updated its app on Monday, now allowing users to tweak and filter photos from inside the Twitter application. Twitter...
Apple releases "Bounce" TV spot for new iPods
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Apple on Wednesday published a new commercial for its new line of iPods. The ad shows Apple’s colorful media players bouncing around to music. Frankly, it’s an odd choice to me, since it seems like a false advertising lawsuit waiting to happen once someone buys an iPod and tries to...
Google launches Knowledge Graph today, wants to understand real things (video)
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Americans and Brits might chuckle at their respective understandings of words like chips, pants and biscuits -- a search engine, however, can't be quite so discerning. As it turns out, Google actually thinks it can, and has been working on its Knowledge Graph project to prove it. Beginning today,...
LetsWombat Founder On Turning Product Sampling Into A Trackable Marketing Channel
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When I think of product sampling, I remember the glorious days of wheeling around the grocery store with my mom and picking up every cheese and meat-laden toothpick in the building. My mom hated it. She was quite organized, and knew exactly what she wanted from the trip, while...
Now You Can Pin Quotes to Pinterest
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Pinterest is the new home to images from around the Web. Artists, interior designers, fashionistas and excited brides-to-be are using Pinterest to organize and curate their aesthetic. Among the photos of vintage duffle bags and cheese plates, word-only images have begun to pop up. Toronto-based developer Adam Rotman saw the...
Deep-Pocketed Wine Site Lot18 Cuts 11 Employees, Scales Back After Heady Expansion
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Mr. James. (Photo: Crunchbase) New York-based Lot18 may have gotten ahead of itself there for a bit. The members-only flash sales site for wine, which raised a total of $44.5 million from investors, is down to 70 employees after a reorganization that was finalized internally today. The company is cutting 11 employees and...
The new Bing is here, start peppering your friends with questions
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A week after previewing its revamped Bing, Microsoft has released the latest version of its search engine to people in the U.S. Head over to Bing.com/new to test out its new social features and annoy your friends. So far, it only lets you sign in with a Facebook or Windows...
Jolla's Marc Dillon takes over as CEO, Jussi Hurmola to focus on Sailfish
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Following big news from Jolla almost two weeks ago, it's reluctant to go quiet, instead taking to Twitter to announce that Jussi Hurmola is no longer its CEO. This isn't a story of scandal or corporate dissent, but merely a restructuring to allow Hurmola to focus on Sailfish, the...
iPhone App Reveals Tons Of Crazy Facts About What People Eat
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Last week we told you that New Yorkers drink nearly seven times more coffee than other city folks. The finding comes from Massive Health using data collected by an iPhone app called The Eatery. The app lets users snap a picture of their food, label it (i.e "apple" or "cheeseburger") and then give...
The connected home: why your fridge may soon be sending you messages
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Manufacturer Siemens has showed off technology at IFA that suggests the future for your appliances may be rather funWhen we talk about "technology", we tend to think of computers, smartphones or operating systems. Is Android better than Apple? Does Nokia make better phones than HTC? The prosaic stuff - fridges,...
Earn real recipes while playing Zygna’s new game, Chefville
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Zynga announced their take on the restaurant-simulation genre today with ChefVille at its Unleashed Expo. And what’s the perk for playing ChefVille? You receive something that’s of real use in your kitchen: recipes. Chefville general manager Jonathan Knight promises that the game will be the most innovative in its...
Amazon Appears To Be Inflating The List Prices Of Some Discounted Items (AMZN)
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You know how when you shop on Amazon there is a price and a then a "list price" which is usually much higher? The effect is that you feel like you're getting a big discount shopping on Amazon. It turns out Amazon might be publishing list prices that are...
Behind the global 'coldscape' that keeps fresh food on our tables
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The refrigeration system keeping food cold and fresh across the globe is probably one of the most underrated pieces of modern technology, argues Nicola Twilley in a piece for Cabinet Magazine. Now, the global "coldscape" touches some 75 percent of the food consumed in the US, despite mass refrigeration...
Google Offers gets a boost from new deal partnerships, debuts in four new cities
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Google announced Wednesday that Offers, its daily deal arm of the company, is getting new deal partners and is rolling out its service in Austin, Houston, Philadelphia and Miami. It sure feels like the daily deal space is crowded these days. Groupon and LivingSocial are duking it out for the top daily...
Legendary Vinod Khosla Wants To Hear Your Tofu Startup Pitch
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The legendary* Vinod Khosla spoke with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington at Disrupt today, discussing some of the unordinary startups he has invested in, including an efficient lettuce picker, dairy-less cheese and high-tech beef. Khosla said one of the companies is trying to develop salt that is “as salty as salt”...
Android-Based Siri Challenger Maluuba Launches Full Version In India, Partners With OpenTable And Locu In U.S.
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Maluuba, the Android-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco finalist, just announced that it has partnered with OpenTable and the menu and restaurant hours database Locu. Maluuba is also launching a full version of its app in India, allowing users there to access local information about movies, businesses, restaurants...
Android-Based Siri Challenger Maluuba Launches Full Version In India, Partners With OpenTable And Locu In U.S.
LG Motion 4G arrives at MetroPCS with LTE, lower cost unlimited plan
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MetroPCS is adding the LG Motion 4G smartphone to its stables today. Spotted in a leak last month, the phone is the carrier's first smartphone to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In addition to running on Metro's 4G LTE network, the Motion 4G also supports the carrier's voice...
BlackBerry: Now More Embarrassing Than Your Dad [VIDEO]
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If you had to assign every smartphone maker a musical genre, picking out Apple’s would be easy: aging, inoffensive alt-rock. (Hence the Foo Fighters appearance at this month’s iPhone 5 presser or Coldplay “jamming” at its big music event in 2010.) Corporate, with a fading patina of cool. But you...
10 *MORE* SXSW Parties That You Really, Really Don’t Want to Miss
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This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can follow him at @garysguide and reach him at...
Samsung debuts Galaxy S III with S-Voice
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Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy S III in London, and the smartphone boasted a ton of new features, such as “S-Voice.” The built-in feature is Samsung’s equivalent of Siri, but it does much more than Apple’s offering. It controls certain functions and is customizable with up to four wake-up commands. For...
Sprint's quad-core LG Optimus G now on pre-order for $199 with contract
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Sprint just announced its customers could pre-order the LG Optimus G starting today for $199.99 with a new two-year contract or eligible upgrade. So, what’s so special about this particular LTE Android smartphone? Well, it has a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 processor. It also features a 4.7-inch True HD IPS Plus...
Watch Apple's First iPhone 5 TV Ads: "Physics", "Cheese", "Thumb" and "Ears"
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Apple’s making commercials again, but this time they’re really really good. If you’re not sold on picking up an iPhone 5 yet, these ads spotted by Macstories will probably get you stoked. Each ad has a theme and a one word name. The ads show off different capabilities of the...
Remains of the Day: Mongering rumors
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It's time once again to return to the wonderful world of iPhone rumors. Will the new model have a faster processor? Will it come out in October? Will it come in mauve? Meanwhile, Universal makes its movies more...well, universal. The remainders for Monday, April 9, 2012 have, in their lifetime,...
Apple Put Out These 4 New iPhone 5 Ads In A Row -- And They're Good (AAPL)
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As if the hoards of people camping out to get the iPhone 5 wasn't good publicity enough, Apple rolled out four brand new iPhone 5 ads in quick succession Friday night. And they're good. It's about time considering that for a while, the only iPhone 5 related spots we were...
Don't Fund Anyone Over Thirty
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Everyone in the tech industry knows this simple fact: the pace of change is accelerating. Legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said that this is having an interesting affect on the industry. Khosla, who is 57, was speaking on Thursday at the prestigious Churchill Club event series. He explained that the...
WeatherMob, a Social Network Around the Local Forecast
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Everyone talks about it, but nobody does anything about the weather. A mobile social network centered around the weather seems as unlikely as one for fancy cheese. But Weathermob, a new app for the iPhone, is trying to attract people from all over the world on one of the top...
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