Glenn Beck: We Must Stand Together Against All Violence (With A Gun In Our Hands)

Apparently, right wing pundit Glenn Beck likes to stand against violence with a gun in his hands. At least that’s the impression you might get if you visit his website. . One of the top three featured articles right now is his response to the Arizona shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords with the reasonable quote: “We must stand together against all violence.” But if you look to the side, you might also catch a photo of Beck peeking around the corner a gun in his hands (see...

Nokia N900 firmware 1.3 coming soon, will enable dual boot MeeGo configuration

Nokia’s N900 is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. Sure, it’s powerful, but with all these new versions of Android and iOS popping out almost every few months now, Maemo 5 is beginning to show some signs of aging. We’ve seen the Nokia N9 already, and Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review has called the hardware “near perfect” while the software on the other hand, unsurprisingly, is a bit lacking. So what’s going to tide people over between now and early next year...

LG Comes Out Swinging: “Our Tablet Will Be Better Than the iPad!”

It’s an unwritten rule that every other tablet of 2010 and beyond is gunning for the iPad. Apple’s device pretty much defined the tablet market and has been sliding off the shelves at a feverish pace. Most companies are content with letting analysts compare their devices with the iPad–particularly since they have little to no experience in the tablet segment when launching that first device. LG, on the other hand, is personally taking the fight to Apple. Chang Ma, president of mobile...

Why I’d Use Shopkick But Not Foursquare

Sometimes it feels like I am the only one in the world who is not into Foursquare . Or at least the only one in Silicon Valley. Or at least the only one who works for TechCrunch. I’m definitely the only one on staff who has never written a post about them, and that includes our guest poster Vivek Wadhwa who usually obsesses about issues like patents and immigration. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a smart idea, and I have plenty of friends who get sucked in by the cleverly-exploited game...

Washington Attorney General Hits Intelius With Fine, Injunctions

Well, it’s official . The Washington Attorney General is one of the first government entities to do more than yell about post transaction marketing scams like the ones we’ve been writing about at Intelius for years now. A Consent Decree filed in the King County Superior Court in Washington requires the payment of $1.3 million in fines by Intelius. And they’re also restricted from engaging in some types of post transaction marketing, particularly where the consumer’s credit card is automatically...

AT&T Tripled Wi-Fi ...

On the heels of the news that AT&T delivered its best quarter ever in terms of smartphone sales, the communications company and carrier is releasing its quarterly data on the number of AT&T Wi-Fi connections made in Q4 and in 2011 as a whole. AT&T says that it tripled Wi-Fi...

Shoply Aims To Socializ...

Exclusive – On a mission to democratize e-commerce and help take the concept of social shopping from fad to reality, Shoply is making its formal debut today after a year of bootstrapping. The bootstrapping days are over, as Shoply has raised an undisclosed amount of seed financing...

What Apple Should Do Wi...

“Kill Hollywood,” is the latest battle cry from Silicon Valley. If you are Paul Graham, that’s not a bad way to motivate young would-be founders to create new startups. But what if you are Apple, trading spots with Exxon on any given day for the most valuable company in...

Knewton Prepares To Tak...

Here at the World Economic Forum in Davos, among the banking, shipping, steel and transport magnates of the global economy, there are a number of technology entrepreneurs floating around. As they rub shoulders with the likes of Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker, Loic Le Meur and Robert Scoble,...

Pirate Parties Organizi...

The Megaupload troubles make for interesting discussion because there is much to be said on both sides. Whether the illegal aspects of the network “outweigh” the legal aspects is a question that will be discussed for months and perhaps years. But one thing can’t be...

Twitter Changes The “...

Twitter has announced in a blog post a glorious new ability: “the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” At last! There are two ways of looking at this new “ability,” one...

Dirty Money...

The New York Times has published a long article on Foxconn which, while it doesn’t provide much in the way of new information, does act as a sobering reminder of just how companies like Apple can make so very much money. When our own John Biggs visited Foxconn , he focused on the...

Keen On… Caleb Melby:...

Walter Isaacson has unleashed a torrent of new books about Steve Jobs and Apple. But nobody has written anything quite like Caleb Melby’s The Zen of Steve Jobs , a graphic novel that charts Jobs’ relationship with a Buddhist priest called Koby Chino Otogawa . The book is a...