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Tablet Zero

December 9, 2011
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Tablet Zero

The global slapfight between Apple and Samsung shows no sign of abating – a victory here, an injunction there, a ruling here, a reversal there – like Aesop’s goats, neither will give way and chances are they’re both going to end up the worse for it, though not likely at the bottom of a...

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The TouchFire Chronicles: The Year Of Bad Prototypes

December 8, 2011
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The TouchFire Chronicles: The Year Of Bad Prototypes

Editor’s Note: This week we’re running a three part series by Steven Isaac, a programmer with an amazing resume including stints at Sun, Microsoft, and even a hardware start-up that brought the first (non-portable) tablets. For years he’s dreamed of an easy-to-use device with a full keyboard that slides out when needed and, together...

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Retailers Aren’t Ready For iPad Shopping Trend

December 6, 2011
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Retailers Aren’t Ready For iPad Shopping Trend

New data from Compuware finds conclusive proof of the popularity of iPads as a shopping device. The firm took a look at the website traffic for 70 U.S. retailers’ delivered to an iPhone or iPad over the start of the holiday shopping season (November 14th through Cyber Monday). On Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber...

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Welcome To The Future: Every Instrument In This Song Is From An iPad App

November 30, 2011
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Welcome To The Future: Every Instrument In This Song Is From An iPad App

I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t tried my hand at making music with various iPad apps. I’d also be lying if I said any of that music sounded even halfway decent. Imagine someone getting into a fist-fight with a duck. Add some reverb and a terrible bass track. It generally sounds like...

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Report: Microsoft To Bring Office To iPad In 2012

November 30, 2011
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Report: Microsoft To Bring Office To iPad In 2012

The iPad hasn’t been much of a revenue stream for Microsoft, which has been focusing on developing its own competing tablet ecosystem. But as a software company, it can’t ignore the scores of millions of Apple devices out there for long. Sure, it has a few things in the App Store, but one of...

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eBay Sold Four iPad 2s Per Minute This Cyber Monday Morning

November 29, 2011
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eBay Sold Four iPad 2s Per Minute This Cyber Monday Morning

Online commerce giant eBay this morning ran a Cyber Monday deal for a white Apple iPad 2 WiFi 16GB, selling the popular tablet for $449 or exactly $50 off the MSRP (+ free shipping). Turns out a lot of people figured that was a great deal. And they were right, too. After all, Apple...

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Going shopping

November 27, 2011
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Going shopping

With all these amazing tools we have, it’s not a little surprising how much we take the traditional forms of media as the way things are and should be done. The iPad exposes the mediocrity of our expectations, with its Reader button in the address field stripping the comments and jingle jangle out and...

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Despite Poor Reviews, Kindle Fire On Track To Be #2 Tablet

November 21, 2011
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Despite Poor Reviews, Kindle Fire On Track To Be #2 Tablet

According to new consumer survey data from ChangeWave Research, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is poised to become the first real competitor to the Apple iPad, with one in five planned tablet buyers (22%) indicating they will purchase the Kindle Fire. This is the first time since the original iPad’s launch that the number two device...

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TechCrunch Giveaway: iPad 2 Loaded With Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Experience

November 19, 2011
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TechCrunch Giveaway: iPad 2 Loaded With Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Experience

We have an Apple iPad 2 to give away today. Do you want it? Would you say you’re a big Jimi Hendrix fan? Then you’re in luck. Not only are we giving away an iPad 2, but we are giving one away that has a pretty awesome Jimi Hendrix app already installed on it....

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The Death Of The Spec

November 14, 2011
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The Death Of The Spec

Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec...

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TechCrunch Giveaway: Apple iPad 2 #TechCrunch

November 4, 2011
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TechCrunch Giveaway: Apple iPad 2 #TechCrunch

It’s been a big week in the news. We’ve wrapped up our first international Disrupt event in Beijing, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg & co-founder and former Ning CEO Gina Bianchini invested in Levo League, Apple promised an iOS 5 update to help with battery life, we have two new amazing writers joining our team,...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

Read more »

Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

October 30, 2011
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s...

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