Everyone with eyes in their head can see the bright future of multi-touch displays, but the huge variety of technologies out there makes it hard to place a bet. Will capacitive film rule? Or will it be the IR overlay ? Or will Microsoft’s foresight in nurturing the Surface project pay off once...

Free speech is a basic human right and is essential to creativity and innovation.  But every society places limits on this, particularly when it transgresses into “hate speech” – which disparages someone or some group on the basis of race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual...

Editor’s note: Earlier this week, guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan wrote a post about the state of online video . In this post he follows up with some thoughts on what’s holding back this budding industry. Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo , a leading producer of premium,...

Frank Gruber , Aol’s Principal Product Manager of Lifestream Platform, has just announced that today will be his last day with the company. Gruber’s official role at Aol included planning and building products like its lifestream , but he was also one of the company’s few public faces,...

With all the excitement about the Crunchies awards, I thought I should cast my ballot: Twitter. No, not because it’s the best product (I think Android is), but because it has impacted me the most. To young TechCrunch readers, this post will seem pretty lame. An old professor trying to seem hip by...

I’m in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture...

An Ivy League degree may get you a job as an investment banker or VC, but it won’t increase your odds of becoming a successful entrepreneur. So you couldn’t get into Stanford, Berkeley or Harvard, huh? Don’t sweat it. You can still make it big. Some people might believe that an Ivy League education...

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–Drive about 350 miles down U.S. 101 from Yahoo’s Silicon Valley campus and you’ll find what CEO Carol Bartz appears to believe is the future of her pioneering Internet company. Yes, we’re talking about Yahoo’s often-ridiculed Media Group headquartered...

IBM is slated to launch a Web-based version of its Lotus Notes e-mail platform, which is expected to aid the tech giant’s plans to go head-to-head with Google Apps. To be delivered as part of IBM’s online LotusLive service, LotusLive iNotes is designed to simplify e-mail, contacts and calendar...

Dell Inc.’s second-quarter results reinforce what other tech heavyweights have shown recently about the health of the personal-computer industry: it’s still wounded by the recession, but is staggering back to its feet, thanks to consumers, bargain prices and little “netbook” laptops...

This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa. I have a suggestion for our President on how to boost economic...

It is the end. Jason “The Animal” Calacanis is thinking about maybe quitting using Apple products , reporting that the company has gone all corporate and mainstream and that Steve has lost his hippie, dippy LSD edge. Look at this language, people: Years and years after Microsoft’s antitrust...