1. Nokia’s Elop keeps pumping Meego and Symbian – but what developer will now bother creating those apps?  permalink

Nokia’s Elop keeps pumping Meego and Symbian – but what developer will now bother creating those apps?
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has been on stage tonight at a Mobile World Congress press conference talking about Nokia's future relationship with Microsoft. Various blogs have been live blogging (here's a post from Engadget). But sitting back and listening to Elop's explanation about how Symbian devices will still be shipped and a Meego device, due to ...

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Chris Ziegler / Engadget
Nokia’s Elop keeps pumping Meego and Symbian – but what developer will now bother creating those apps? Live from 'An Evening With Nokia' at MWC 2011!   —  We've been gathered at the same cozy venue as two years ago (for the introduction of the E52 , if memory serves correctly) for Nokia's event at MWC 2011 this evening... and frankly, in light of what's happened the past few days, we're not quite sure what to expect. CEO Stephen Elop should be on stage to take some questions -- but in terms of ...

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch
Nokia’s Elop keeps pumping Meego and Symbian – but what developer will now bother creating those apps? Intel Kept In The Dark Over Nokia’s MeeGo Plans; Operators Reject First Device   —  Prior to the public announcement on Friday, Intel was kept in the dark with regards to Nokia’s plans to relegate MeeGo to a glorified R&D project, sources with knowledge of the situation tell TechCrunch Europe. The U.S. chip maker, it appears, was caught off guard as were many media outlets and analysts - this publication aside - with the ...

2. Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution  permalink

Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

While you can debate about the exact role of social media , specifically Twitter and Facebook, in Egypt's revolution, there is no question about its role as a new global media channel. Where once people tuned into CNN to watch governments collapse, this time around they tuned into Al Jazeera on the Web (at least in English speaking countries lie ...

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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch
Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution People, Not Things, Are The Tools Of Revolution   —  Warmest congratulations to the Egyptian people, whose truly grassroots revolution has reminded the world what political action is supposed to look like. Although the work is far from done, and reconstituting a government by the people and for the people is perhaps the more difficult phase, it is right that they, and the world, should take a ...

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Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution #Jan25: “Sorry for the inconvenience, but we’re building Egypt.”   —  Its been a remarkable few months in the middle east.   Most recently the events in Egypt have captured the world and Al Jazeera’s english web site has become the place to watch many of the events unfold.   Given that the channel isnt carried by most US cable companies the web site has been the means to view the channel live over the ...

3. Close or View  permalink

Close or View
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch

Push notifications are the new prime time, water-front property, Boardwalk and Park Place of phase 2 realtime. The domino effect of this alert mechanism will transform the iPad and therefore the downlevel iPhone and Web clients in turn. Soon we will be able to write filters directly to that middle layer buffer where state is stored, with ...

4. The End Of History, Part II  permalink

The End Of History, Part II
Jon Evans / TechCrunch

The world is quaking. Egypt and Tunisia are overthrown; Gabon, Jordan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are rocking. Some say this is thanks to Twitter and Facebook. Others, notably Malcolm Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov, say that social media are politically irrelevant and/or dangerous. China has censored "Egypt" , Syria has legalized Facebook , and the ...

5. Why Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups  permalink

Why Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups
Guest Author / TechCrunch

It is truly a great time to be an engineer building new things. Gadgets from sci-fi movies of 10 years ago are creeping up on us in the real world and mobile devices and social networking have made the internet go truly mainstream. We are on the cusp of seeing even more world changing ideas becoming a reality when everyone is walking around with ...

6. KindleLendingClub Forced By Amazon To Rebrand; Now BookLending.com  permalink

KindleLendingClub Forced By Amazon To Rebrand; Now BookLending.com
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

In early January, Amazon rolled out a feature that allows Kindle users to lend books to another Kindle user a for 14 day period. KindleLendingClub spawned from this feature as a way to connect people for lending their e-books. The service quickly accumulated more than 12,000 people lending and borrowing on the platform. Users can post books that ...

7. Google Explains, Apologizes For, CR-48 Spam  permalink

Google Explains, Apologizes For, CR-48 Spam
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

Early this morning people who have received a Google CR-48 notebook, and people who've requested one, got hit with 100 or more emails from a newly created Google Group. Google sent out an email this evening apologizing for the emails and explaining what happened. Google was planning on launching the group next week for all users who have been ...

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch
Google CR-48 Notebook Owners Besieged With Flood Of Google Group Spam   —  We're still trying to figure out exactly whats happening, but Google CR-48 Notebook owners, and even some people who just signed up to get one but haven't yet, started getting hit with dozens, and then over 100, emails this evening. It all started at around 12:23 am PST. Why? It appears that people were automatically added to this Google Group - ...

Google Earth Blog
Google Explains, Apologizes For, CR-48 Spam New Google Earth Imagery - February 12   —  Google has just pushed out another update, and they've already pushed it completely out, as this imagery can already be found in Google Maps and in the official updated areas KML file . Thanks to GEB reader 'Andreas' for letting us know about it! The updated areas include: Brazil: Many small patches across the country Chile: Various areas India: ...

8. The Guardian’s David Leigh Talks About Julian Assange and Wikileaks  permalink

The Guardian’s David Leigh Talks About Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Paul Carr / TechCrunch Europe

“Freedom of speech is being denied [to] Luke Harding while Wikileaks and Julian are getting in to bed with these dictators; these enemies of freedom of speech…” – David Leigh I’ve just posted my review of the Guardian’s Wikileaks book, co-authored by Investigations Editor David Leigh and Moscow Correspondent ...

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Paul Carr / TechCrunch Europe
The Guardian’s David Leigh Talks About Julian Assange and Wikileaks The Guardian’s Wikileaks Book Is This Generation’s “All The President’s Men”   —  Two weeks ago, I reviewed the New York Times’ book: ‘Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy‘. It’s a remarkable work of journalism, combining the paper’s collected reporting on Wikileaks, with editor Bill Keller’s personal account of working with Assange. For my money, Keller’s account was the stand-out highlight of ...

KL Tech Muse / Geek News Central
The Guardian’s David Leigh Talks About Julian Assange and Wikileaks DataLocker Protecting Your Data   —  Todd Cochrane and Tom Newman spoke to Peter Whitman Director of Operations for DataLocker, about the importance of encrypting your data, especially when traveling. Peter Whitman talked about DataLocker newest product the DLS3. The DLS3 is an encrypted portable hard drive. It connects to your computer by USB 3.0 technology (it will work on USB [...]

9. UberMedia, Indeed. Bill Gross’ Twitter Ecosystem Empire Just Acquired TweetDeck  permalink

UberMedia, Indeed. Bill Gross’ Twitter Ecosystem Empire Just Acquired TweetDeck
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

The number of companies in the Twitter ecosystem keeps contracting. But not for a necessarily bad reason, but because they keep getting purchased. And what's crazy is that it's largely one person who has been buying them up: Bill Gross . We've just learned that his company, now called UberMedia , has just acquired TweetDeck . We're hearing that ...

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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe
Ten steps to see if you are in a bubble. It looks like Tweetdeck just sold for $30m – so what does the founder have to say?   —  While TechCrunch has reported a rumour that UberMedia has just acquired TweetDeck , the company itself is staying tight-lipped. CEO Iain Dodsworth told me today "We're not going to comment on acquisition rumours." Heck, that's his prerogative. That being said, we have very good sources that told us today that the deal was for $30 million, ...

Scriptingnews1mail / Scripting News
Ten steps to see if you are in a bubble. Microsoft got in trouble doing what Twitter is doing   —  One paragraph in an email to a developer list, defines the next drama in the Twitter develosphere. "We also want to acknowledge that there are going to be some things that developers want to do that just aren't supported by the platform. Rather than granting additional privileges to accommodate those requests, we encourage developers to focus on ...

10. Lissn Strips Down To Its Skivvies: Three Anonymous People Chat While Others Listen  permalink

Lissn Strips Down To Its Skivvies: Three Anonymous People Chat While Others Listen
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

When Lissn launched on stage at TechCrunch50 in September 2009, we described it as sort of a " broader Twitter meets a simpler Google Wave ". Well, like the latter, the idea behind Lissn never really caught on. By March of last year, the service decided to pivot a bit to be based more around individuals rather than specific conversations. But ...

11. Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I’m Glad We Did It Anyway  permalink

Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I’m Glad We Did It Anyway
Guest Author / TechCrunch

Right now I'm neck deep in product launch mode, putting the finishing touches on our new mobile video application— Socialcam . Of course, I’ve been here before . . . Years ago when we launched the Justin.tv show we had no idea what we were doing. This much was obvious to anyone who watched. Outsiders attribute far more strategic thought to ...

12. Gillmor Gang 2.12.11  permalink

Gillmor Gang 2.12.11
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch

On the Gillmor Gang, I recalled that moment when Gabe Rivera suggested I log into Twitter. Then came the year where I posted nothing, followed by the gaming of Track, the FailWhale, and a lot of noise about how social media and the enterprise didn’t have a thing in common. Of course, they were wrong, and Marc Benioff proved us right. Chatter. ...

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Dominic Rushe / Technology news
Twitter: the people's voice   —  From Stephen Fry's thoughts to protests in Egypt and Tunisia, the micro-blogging site has changed the way we communicate. But will it become the voice of revolution or another social media cash cow? Blame Stephen Fry. In Twitter the preening polymath found his true calling, sending out an ever changing and oddly riveting mix of self-promotion ...

13. Fred Wilson Explains Why He Wouldn’t Invest In Groupon Or Pandora  permalink

Fred Wilson Explains Why He Wouldn’t Invest In Groupon Or Pandora
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

Few VCs have a hotter hand right now than Fred Wilson. His firm, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare, Tumblr, Etsy, Clickable, and more . In this episode of Founder Stories , he talks to host Chris Dixon about Union Square's investment thesis has changed from going after all web apps to companies that are " ...

14. Lessons From TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Choice Winner Badgeville’s Launch  permalink

Lessons From TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Choice Winner Badgeville’s Launch
Guest Author / TechCrunch

I was honored to have been selected to launch my social rewards and analytics company, Badgeville , this past September at TechCrunch Disrupt. Badgeville made it to the final round of the Startup Battlefield and won the Audience Choice Award. As a result of our success at TechCrunch, we've had the opportunity and good fortune of selling over $1 ...

15. 10 Reasons To Buy A Tablet  permalink

10 Reasons To Buy A Tablet
John Biggs / TechCrunch

You've held out for months, waiting and watching the market for some sign of a tablet that you think you'd like. But maybe you're asking the wrong question. Instead of "Which tablet should I buy?" maybe you should be asking why you need a tablet in the first place? We've written out a brief guide to deciding whether you need a tablet at all. As ...

16. How to Fix the Flawed Startup Visa Act  permalink

How to Fix the Flawed Startup Visa Act
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch

Many foreign-born techies in the U.S. and abroad are pinning their entrepreneurial hopes on the passage of a bill, sponsored by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), to create a startup visa. Tech-industry notables such as Paul Graham, Eric Ries, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, and David McClure have lobbied for this. I, too, lent ...

17. Sony: “Publishers Are Being Held To Ransom By Apple”  permalink

Sony: “Publishers Are Being Held To Ransom By Apple”
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch

There's much to be said in favor of a successor to iTunes. Not just the application itself, though I'd love to see it disappear, but the whole service. Things move fast, and although Apple moved faster than the music industry, it now finds itself in a distressingly similar, and vulnerable, position. Sony seems to think the iron is hot, and ...

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Ross Miller / Engadget
Sony: “Publishers Are Being Held To Ransom By Apple” Live from Sony Ericsson's MWC 2011 press event!   —  It's really no secret what Sony Ericsson plans to show off at its MWC 2011 press conference -- leaks notwithstanding, the Xperia Play (aka PlayStation Phone) was unveiled and made quite official in a Super Bowl commercial . We're about to see it presented all over again, but we'll also get a chance to see what else the company has up its sleeve...

PhysOrg Team / PhysOrg.com
Sony: “Publishers Are Being Held To Ransom By Apple” Verizon to sell Sony Ericsson's PlayStation phone   —  (AP) -- Sony Ericsson says the first "PlayStation phone" is coming to Verizon Wireless in April, marking a change in strategy for Sony and a coup for Sony Ericsson, which has been trying to get back into the U.S. market.

18. Telogis Raises $2.9 Million More To Help Companies Manage Fleets, Reduce Emissions  permalink

Telogis Raises $2.9 Million More To Help Companies Manage Fleets, Reduce Emissions
Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch

Telogis, a location-based technology firm in Aliso Viejo, Calif. has raised another $2.9 million, according to a new SEC filing , to help businesses track and manage their fleets of vehicles, and workforce using GPS, mobile and web technology. The company touts its "mobile resource management" software and services as environmentally beneficial, ...

19. In A Step Back Towards V3, Digg Ending RSS Submissions For Publishers  permalink

In A Step Back Towards V3, Digg Ending RSS Submissions For Publishers
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch

In a step back towards the old Digg , Digg Product manager Mike Cieri just sent out an email to partner publishers stating the intent to remove the RSS submitted stories feature. For those of you that remember, the RSS submission feature was how stories from the Reddit publisher account on Digg were sent to the Digg front page in an act of ...

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In A Step Back Towards V3, Digg Ending RSS Submissions For Publishers Digg Bans RSS Submissions   —  In a letter to publishers, Digg product manager Mike Cieri announced that the troubled social news website will no longer accept content submitt…

20. The Internet Scores Its Second Victory Of The Day, Borders Nears Bankruptcy  permalink

The Internet Scores Its Second Victory Of The Day, Borders Nears Bankruptcy
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch

A while back a Seeing Interactive post entitled "You've Got Mail Is Ripe For A Sequel " went popular on Hacker News. In You've Got Mail the movie, which is a bit of a joke around TC HQ because of its ties to Aol, The Shop Around The Corner, a small bookstore run by Meg Ryan goes out of business because Fox Books , a huge Borders-type book store ...

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The Internet Scores Its Second Victory Of The Day, Borders Nears Bankruptcy How Borders bookstores fell from popularity to the brink of bankruptcy   —  Starting off as a used-book store in 1971 in the Michigan college town of Ann Arbor, Borders grew into a successful nationwide chain of superstores, widely castigated at one time for helping stamp out many small, independent stores around the country.

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The Internet Scores Its Second Victory Of The Day, Borders Nears Bankruptcy Will Sports Illustrated’s Subscription Plan Rescue Digital Magazine Sales?   —  At a press event in New York City Friday, Sports Illustrated and parent company Time Inc. announced a new subscription plan that spans the web,…