Yesterday, we saw Microsoft shamelessly go after the iPhone with a video which played at Mobile World Congress for its new Windows Phone 7 Series. But it’s not just Apple that Microsoft is taking on with videos, it’s competitors like Google and OpenOffice.org as well. On the Microsoft Office...

Google has recently been making a lot of waves with regard to Internet speed. Last June, the company posted a blog post detailing its need for speed . And yesterday it announced plans to deploy a fiber-optic 1Gb/sec network to a limited number of customers to explore what kind of services could be built...

When the iPhone first launched in 2007 I was sure I wasn’t going to buy one. Then I played with one. 15 minutes later I was $600 poorer. It was arguably the best tech purchase I’ve ever made. After the Apple event today, I got a chance to play with the new iPad for quite a bit of time. My...

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,...

The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona . Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he’s made from plaster. Halfway through,...

“YouTube is down for maintenance and will be back shortly,” says the site . The site first went down at around 9:30 California time. Or possibly earlier, we’re sorting through the Twitter barrage – “ is down ” is a trending topic right now. Most companies plan maintenance...

This guest post on the struggles of online music services to reach profitability is written by Michael Robertson , the founder of music sites MP3.com and MP3Tunes , as well as a number of non-music related startups like Gizmo and Dealipedia . As one of the first entrepreneurs to battle the music labels...

Twitter is getting a ton of spam tonight for the hashtag #sept2nd along with vague sounding warnings about something bad happening on that date. There’s also a YouTube video and a Digg story that is just starting to get clicks. What is it? Some 4Chan users are trying to stir up some good old fashioned...

If you’re looking for a top quality feature packed Blu-Ray player that isn’t a PS3, but don’t want to pay a PS3 price, this could be for you.   On the outside the player is relatively thin and aesthetically pleasing, the inside packs power to load up your blu-rays quickly and in full HD....

I don’t recall how the YouTube user Pruane2Forever , aka “Sexman”, came on my radar, but I definitely remember a few of his videos from a couple years ago. ( Here’s a old favorite — Not Safe For Work .) Basically, it’s this kid who does movie and new media reviews that...

Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management . In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event - a place where companies can launch to rabid fans and tech press. These launching companies are the stars of the show, and they...

TuneWiki is one of the most ambitious social music projects we’ve seen. It is part licensed lyrics spooler for your own songs and for streaming YouTube videos, and part network–you can see where else in the world other TuneWiki users are playing your track. What began as an Android app created...