Archive for January, 2010

  • Amazon fighting with publishers over pricing

    Amazon fighting with publishers over pricing

    Posted on January 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Apparently all is not well in e-book land. In an unusual move, publisher Macmillan took out an ad in the Publishers Marketplace magazine protesting the tactics being used by Amazon regarding pricing. The issue is Macmillan is trying to price at $9.99, and Amazon is trying to lock the lowest price at $15 per title.

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  • Jobs calls Adobe lazy, calls Google on their “bullshit”

    Jobs calls Adobe lazy, calls Google on their “bullshit”

    Posted on January 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Ahh Steve. You can always be depended on to serve up a healthy dose of crazy. It's just fortunate that people put up with your own special brand of crazy that no other CEO could put up with. For example, at a company wide Town Hall, Steve Jobs had some very special things to say about Adobe and Google and their business practices.

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  • Mario Kart (and more) for your Palm Pre

    Mario Kart (and more) for your Palm Pre

    Posted on January 31, 2010 | No Comments
    A WebOS port of the popular GB/CGA emulator is pretty rocking’, even though it only runs at 90% speed on a good day. The hackers who figured all this out will get it back up to speed shortly but don’t expect to download this at the Apps Market or whatever Palm is calling it. This [...]

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  • Google’s Nexus One manual has sense of humor

    Google’s Nexus One manual has sense of humor

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Sharp eyed reader Mike noticed a little humor in the Nexus One manual screen shots. It looks like the the writers weren’t content with the name “Jane Doe” for a change. Hubris –noun excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. (thanks to Mike for the tip) Crunch Network: TechCrunch obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies

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  • Tesla’s $100M IPO: Losses Expected Until At Least 2012. Musk Taking $1 A Year.

    Tesla’s $100M IPO: Losses Expected Until At Least 2012. Musk Taking $1 A Year.

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Electric car company Tesla Motors has filed for a $100 million IPO. There were rumors recently floating around that the company, which is led by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, would go public “soon.” One interesting tidbit from the filing: Musk only takes $1 in yearly salary.

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  • CrunchRumor: iPhone OS 3.2 to support video calls, multitasking?

    CrunchRumor: iPhone OS 3.2 to support video calls, multitasking?

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Looking at the iPad SDK, programmers are starting to say that the new version of the iPhone OS will support video calls, file downloads, and some sort of multitasking. There's also several other features in the SDK that won't work with the iPad, but would be applicable to the iPhone in it's current configuration.

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  • Remember when I was all like “The iPad does Flash?” Yeah. Well. No.

    Remember when I was all like “The iPad does Flash?” Yeah. Well. No.

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Yes, I knew Apple would never add Flash. Yes, I knew it was probably an accident that they showed Flash. But Apple, as we see, does nothing without running it past a vat full of lawyers. That they showed Flash on an iPad running on the NY Times website was clearly a mistake and, more [...]

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  • Sweet Merciful Yoda, that’s a big Star Wars collection

    Sweet Merciful Yoda, that’s a big Star Wars collection

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    This, my friends, is a close up. This is further out. And this is all of it. Wow.

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  • The next frontier: Converting 2D to 3D

    The next frontier: Converting 2D to 3D

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember at CES when all of the companies were like "We'll convert your 2D to 3D?" Yeah, ummm, nah. What will happen is that studios will back-convert some of their old movies - or movies not shot in 3D - to 3D using a time-consuming, partially automated process. Like in love, the first cut is the deepest:
    The first step is to separate the shot into somewhere between two and eight layers of depth. Take, for example, an image of a man standing in front of a brick wall, with a blue sky behind the wall. The graphic artist might separate the shot into three layers: the man, the wall, and the sky. Then, he would take each layer and draw contour lines around any object that appeared there. He'd start by marking depth lines on the man using a computer, turning the image into a sort of topographical map. He'd repeat the process for any objects in the other layers. (If there were a bird in the sky, he'd draw lines there, too.)

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  • Weekend Giveaway: Sporty Friends Commemorative Olympic Swatch Watch

    Weekend Giveaway: Sporty Friends Commemorative Olympic Swatch Watch

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Yeah, guys! Do you like Yetis? Penguin things? Vancouver? Well today is your lucky day because we're giving away one sexy Swatch watch commemorating the upcoming 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

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  • Apple, here, this is the iPad we wanted

    Apple, here, this is the iPad we wanted

    Posted on January 29, 2010 | No Comments
    It seems so elementary to all of us around CrunchGear’s HQ that the iPad should have had three simple features: a camera, SD card slot, and external battery indicator. I mean, the iPad missed the mark by a lot in many areas, but it’s just silly that Apple didn’t included those items. I won’t bother [...]

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  • Firefox Mobile For Maemo Officially Launches

    Firefox Mobile For Maemo Officially Launches

    Posted on January 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Good news, everyone! Firefox is officially available for Maemo devices, like the Nokia N900! What’s that you say? Firefox has been available for Maemo for a while now? Sure, but now it’s official. Now, that’s not to say that the past releases were “unofficial”; they were just “Release Candidates”, which is sort of a fancy way of [...]

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  • Stealth Jets. Now in Russian!

    Stealth Jets. Now in Russian!

    Posted on January 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Air superiority hasn’t been top news in a while. But Russia’s got a nifty new stealth fighter jet they’re showing off. Video after the jump. The Sukhoi T-50 was created jointly between Russia and India, and seems to be aimed at rivaling the United States’ F-22 Raptor. The proposed feature list looks pretty impressive: All-weather flight Ability to [...]

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  • 5 Things The iPhone Could Learn From The iPad

    5 Things The iPhone Could Learn From The iPad

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    As is to be expected of any device that the masses get excited about prior to it actually existing, the iPad has torn the Internet in two. Some love it, seeing it as the first iteration of an eventually world-changing device; others just don’t see a point. “It’s just a big iPhone,” they say, “and [...]

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  • iPad? What were they thinking?!

    iPad? What were they thinking?!

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    The iPad? What were they thinking? Didn't they consider the implications of people mocking the name? “How will Twitter react?” Doesn't Apple have a social media ninja on its payroll?

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