The news of Professor Rajeev Motwani’s untimely death on Friday afternoon spread quickly throughout the couple of hundred attendees of tonight’s TechFellow event in San Francisco. The mood of the event turned from cheerful cocktail sipping banter to stunned silence
The question that has been on everyone’s minds regarding the PSP Go (”Um, what do I do with all my games that I bought) has been answered, though somewhat vaguely. John Koller, Sony’s Director of Hardware Marketing, said that there will be a system in place for people to get their UMD-based games onto their PSP Go.
There’s a popular story on Digg right now about a 104-year-old British woman who uses Twitter. It’s an obvious headline: “ World’s oldest Tweeter talks cuppas and casserole .” It’s Digg bait
I’ve fiddled with the beta version a few times before, but I’m happy the Vienna, Austria-based startup is now ready to release its eponymous service, Play.fm , publicly so I can finally tell you about it, too. Yes, it’s another online music startup, but worth a second look if you want my opinion
Since launching back in 2004, Gmail has set the gold standard for webmail clients, offering a large amount of storage and a highly usable interface, free of charge. But for many people it has remained out of reach - no matter how appealing Gmail might be, they’ve racked up thousands of messages on other services that they simply can’t give up. Today, that changes.
Streaming video platform Brightcove has added another partner to its already-impressive group of associates. Vudu , purveyors of fine set-top boxes, have struck up a deal to stream Brightcove-associated content.
If you’ve been reading some of the comments on TechCrunch recently, perhaps you’ve noticed some backlash against our coverage of Twitter. As is usually the case with comments, a small, but vocal minority get all worked up about something and air their grievances — over and over again.
Ever notice that laptop batteries seem to die before cell phone battery?
Twitter Search is easily the most promising aspect of Twitter.
As promised, I went to go visit the Google goats today — you know, the goats that were brought in to replace lawnmowers in Google’s ever-expanding quest to go more green. I was told the goats would be in the big field at the corner Rengstorff & Amphitheater (on Google’s campus in Mountain View), and sure enough, I found a few hundred of them there.
