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...
Gmail Revamps Its Contacts Area To Be More Like Gmail. Which Is To Say, Good
Gmail is a great product; easily one of my favorites on the web. But it has an Achilles heel — well, actually it’s more like a bum leg: Contacts. Despite a solid contact area being a vital part of pretty much every email and productivity service, Gmail’s is awful. Or, it was awful. Today it’s getting a lot better. Starting today, Google is rolling out its latest version of Gmail to users around the world. As you can see, it has been slightly redesigned to more prominently display both Contacts...Thanko Waterproof HD Sp...
Want to be the next James Bond? Thanko has come up with a new spy watch camera, dubbed the VICAWMD4, which is a waterproof spy camera that is capable of shooting videos at 640 x 480 resolution at 30fps. It’s also capable of still shots at 1600 x 1200, and will offer 4GB of...Sony High-end MDR-EX100...
If you happen to be living in Japan and are looking out for a new set of high-end earphones, Sony is slated to release its MDR-EX1000 earphones on October 23rd for 61,950 Yen ($735). These earphones sport a sensitivity of 108dB/mW, a bandwidth reproduction of 3-30,000Hz, impedance of 32...Samsung Galaxy Tab Root...
As we previously mentioned, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is getting plenty of attention this week, and now perhaps the device has gotten a little too much attention for Samsung’s liking. The tablet hasn’t even been made available for mass consumption yet, and the folks over at...