Monday, March 11, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 11, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 11, 2013

Galaxy S IV Reportedly Leaks, Remains Visually Similar To Galaxy S III

The Samsung Galaxy S IV is being announced later this week at a special event, but we've already seen plenty of leaks regarding the flagship phone's hardware,... read more

For A Crazy $5.99 A Month, The $99 TiVo Mini Will Pull Recordings From A TiVo Premiere

Remember 2005 when the name TiVo meant something? It was a synonymous with DVRs. Crappy Comcast boxes were called TiVos because consumers didn't know any... read more

Someone Calculated How Many Calories A Mouse Click Burns

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Early Apple iPhone Developer Prototype Looked More Like An iPad, Had Ethernet And Serial Ports

Apple has been working on the iPhone since long before it hit the market in 2007, and today a new prototype has come to light that shows how it might have... read more

LovePalz, The Real-Time Virtual Sex Toy For Long-Distance Couples, Will Launch On March 29

LovePalz, the virtual sex gadget designed for long-distance couples, has finally set a launch date for both its products and Web-based control center. On March... read more

Philips Debuts Open APIs And An iOS SDK For Hue Connected Lighting System

Philips Hue is a lighting system that changes the definition of what your standard home lighting setup is, and now there's an official developer program for the... read more

Samsung Tops China's Smartphone Market For The First Time As Sales Triple, Says Strategy Analytics

Samsung Electronics topped China's smartphone market for the first time in 2012, according to data from Strategy Analytics (reported by Yonhap News Agency). The... read more

Berlin-Based iversity Relaunches As MOOCs Platform, Sets Its Sights On Becoming The Coursera Of Europe

The fast expanding universe of MOOCs has a new addition. Berlin-based startup iversity, founded in 2011 to offer online collaboration tools for learning... read more

Alibaba Names Insider Jonathan Lu As New CEO, Replacing Founder Jack Ma

Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant, today named insider Jonathan Lu Xaoxi as its new CEO -- filling a hole two months after founder Jack Ma announced that he... read more

Michael Arrington Is Newest Aol CEO's Favorite TechCrunch Writer

Much like this gif, Aol added another layer of management last week. Aol Brands got its own CEO, Susan Lyne, to round out the triumvirate of Aol Networks CEO... read more

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 8, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 8, 2013

Thermodo Smartphone Thermometer Doubles Its Kickstarter Goal In 24 Hours, Now Offers Stretch Rewards

For a company making a difficult switch from creating software to building hardware, Robocat is making very good early progress. The Danish startup's Thermodo... read more

Age Of Empires II HD Is Coming To Steam, And We're "Reeeaady"

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How A Fired Republican Staffer Became A Powerful Martyr For Internet Activists

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Rent-Your-Car-Out Service iCarsClub Gets $482,000

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MessageMe: A Richer, Faster Messaging App That Quickly Grabs Doodles, Videos & Images

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No Winning Exploit Found For Chrome OS At Annual Hacking Competition, Pwnium 3

Google's operating system Chrome OS survived all attempts to hack it at this year's Pwnium 3 competition, which took place at the CanSecWest security... read more

Ambify, A Music App For The Philips Hue Lighting System, Shows The Potential Of The Connected Home

The Philips Hue lighting system is pretty neat on its own – it lets you control lighting in your house from your iPhone or iPad, adjusting bulb color and... read more

Online Gaming Company Bigpoint Appoints New CEO In The Face Of Industry "Transition"

Bigpoint, the European free-to-play online gaming company that has seen shareholders invest around $460 million since 2002, is finally announcing a new CEO.... read more

Google's Motorola To Cut 10% Of Workforce After Laying Off 20% Last Year

After laying off 4,000 Motorola employees last year, representing around 20 percent of the total workforce, Google just announced that it would increase job... read more

JDSU Buys Arieso For $85M In Cash To Boost Its Mobile Network Business

This morning, JDSU, a specialist in optical networking software, announced that it would pay $85 million in cash to acquire Arieso, a UK-based startup that... read more

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 7, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 7, 2013

The Truth About Google Glass

There's very little to be said about this viral video except that it's a cute rendition of what will happen for maybe the first two weeks after Google Glass is... read more

Android Accounted For 79% Of All Mobile Malware In 2012, 96% In Q4 Alone, Says F-Secure

Is it because Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the world right now, or is it because it's just fundamentally easier to attack? In any case,... read more

Incredimail's New iPad Version Turns Email Into A Flipboard-Style Interface, Easy For The Average Person

Who'd have thought email would suddenly be the hot app startups were going after, but that appears to be what's happening. And it's being driven both by a... read more

Meet Thermodo: A Tiny External Thermometer That Lives In Your iPhone's Headphone Jack

Danish startup Robocat has built a lot of software for Apple's iOS devices, but today the company is branching out with the launch of a new hardware accessory... read more

Rovio Pulls Down Paywall For Original Angry Birds On iPhone, iPad To Reignite Downloads On Legacy Games As App Of The Week

Angry Birds may be one of the most popular apps of all time, but it's also not exactly a spring chicken, and so, to boost its downloads, publisher Rovio is now... read more

Google Shows Off Its New 'Adverapp' Concept, A Volkswagen-Branded Road Trip Journal

Google published a blog post today in which it details the first fruits of a pilot program launched last year to reimagine digital advertising for the mobile... read more

Apple Patents A System For The Resale And Transfer Of 'Used' Digital Goods

A new patent application published by the USPTO today shows that Apple has been thinking hard about how it might be able to make it possible for users to resell... read more

Urban Storage Startup Boxbee Wins Best New Startup Prize At Launch, Zillabyte Takes Enterprise With Its 'Pandora For Leads'

Boxbee, a startup that's looking to make urban storage (not of the digital variety) less of a pain in the ass, just won the best new startup award at the Launch... read more

Tablets Now Taking A Greater Global Share Of Web Page Views Than Smartphones, According To Adobe's Digital Index

The proportion of web traffic coming from tablets has pushed past smartphones for the first time, according to Adobe's latest Digital Index which looks at more... read more

Delhi Startup Playcez Gets Seed Round For Location-Based Social App For India

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