The Apple Store is down (Updated)

July 29th, 2011
Everybody’s favorite yellow sticky is back in action, as Apple’s online store is down and has been for a while now. It’s the wee hours of Friday morning in the United States, so it’s not out of the question that we might see updates to some of Apple’s gear; the Mac Pro … Read More

Softbank Shifts Focus To Early Stage Companies, Renews Focus On New York Startups

July 28th, 2011
Today, Softbank Capital is announcing a series of updates, including the launch of its redesigned website. Some of these changes have been brewing for some time now, but, hey, the redesign of its website is as good a time as any to spread the word. Over the past year and a half, … Read More

ASUS Eee PC X101 product page goes live, still no release date

July 28th, 2011
ASUS has gone and made its super svelte Eee PC X101 official with a dedicated product page live on its site. We’d already gotten our hands-on with the crimson-colored ultraportable, but now there’s a whole list of specs to flesh out this 920g wonder. The MeeGo-running netbook’s rocking a 10.1-inch 1024 x … Read More

Vogel’s RingO iPad mounting system: The versatile iPad 2 mount

July 28th, 2011
Netherlands-based audio/video mount manufacturer Vogel’s first introduced their iPad mounting solution in October of 2010. Now the company has brought its universal mounting system for the iPad 2 — named RingO — to American soil for the first time. I recently had an opportunity to try out the complete system, which consists … Read More

Daily Crunch: High Chair

July 23rd, 2011
Here are some recent stories from TechCrunch Gadgets:

Where Is My Magical NFC Phone Wallet?

Doubts About Lytro’s “Focus Later” Camera

For The Geek Who Has Everything: A Gold-Plated Atari 2600

Belkinz Feedaway Cardboard High Chair: Folds Flat, Throw It Way When Soiled

Memento Corruptionem: Sprout Watches Are Biodegradable

BlackBerry Bold 9790 Bellagio offers unsanctioned tutorial (video)

July 23rd, 2011
Well BlackBerry fans, yet another variation of the Bold is now making the rounds on the internet: it’s the 9790, otherwise known as the Bellagio. Although the device was first leaked in late May — where we learned it would feature BlackBerry 7 OS, 8GB of internal memory, a touchscreen, and NFC … Read More

App Store expands to 33 additional countries

July 23rd, 2011
Apple has expanded App Store availability to an additional 33 countries. With this latest expansion, App Store apps are now available for purchase in about 123 nations. Apple still has some room left to expand, with several African, Middle Eastern, and South Pacific nations remaining unrepresented on the App Store.

New countries added … Read More

Augen mysteriously dies, dirt-cheap Android tablets can’t keep it afloat

July 7th, 2011
Tragic. Just tragic. It seems like just yesterday we were dashing to our local Kmart in hopes of securing one of the hottest, most demanded products on the market. First, it was the $99 GenBook, and days later, it was the Gentouch 78. Now, it appears that neither of those absolutely astounding … Read More

Display Ad Consolidation: Collective Acquires Tumri

July 7th, 2011
The wave of a display ad space acquisitions shows no sign of slowing, and ad tech firm Collective has been one of the most active buyers lately. The New York company is acquiring creative ad tools provider Tumri as it seeks to broaden is “ad optimization” abilities.

While not a direct reaction to Google’s $400 million pending purchase … Read More

Video App Demo: Music Marquee

July 7th, 2011
Music Marquee is a well-designed and easy-to-use social app for you music lovers. Listening to a great song and want to share? Music Marquee allows you to post to Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, Tumblr, FriendFeed and Ping.fm. Last.fm allows scrobbling, and wherever supported Tasty Cocoa software has used token-based authentication instead of storing … Read More