Earlier this evening, as early adopters across the country started getting acquainted with their iPads, a very interesting (albeit short) video landed in our inbox: Crysis running on the just-released device. We’ve embedded the video below.
No, Apple hasn’t secretly packed a state-of-the-art desktop graphics card into the groundbreaking device. We’re told the game [...]
Tags: Competitor, Crysis, Desktop Graphics, Early Adopters, Form Factors, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 4, Graphics Card, Hasn, Inbox, Ipad, Ipads, Omnia, Onlive, Processing Power, S Graphics, Senses, State Of The Art, Streams, Tech Demos
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Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
We’re two weeks away from the SXSW Interactive, a drinking festival with a side of tech that takes place each year in Austin, Texas (before the larger SXSW film and music portions). While the conference itself is interesting, more interesting is usually the “next big thing” that comes out of it. And I think I [...]
Tags: Alum, Austin Texas, Badges, Early Adopters, Film Music, Iphone, Location Services, Mainstream Popularity, Mature, Momentum, New Entries, Sxsw Conference, Sxsw Film, Sxsw Interactive, Twitter, Web Award
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Fri, February 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Facebook has been doing background checks, known as due diligence, on the location-based social network Loopt, a source with knowledge of the talks tells us. Generally speaking, due diligence of this kind is only performed when a company is in acquisition or fundraising talks.
Loopt won’t comment on this story, and a Facebook spokesperson says “As [...]
Tags: Background Checks, Carrier Relationships, Due Diligence, Early Adopters, Facebook, Footprint, Google, Hesitation, Jupiter Research, Launch, Location Applications, Location Based Services, Location Features, Mobile Applications, Mobile Device, Mobile Devices, Mobile Location, Privacy Concerns, Sidelines, Silicon Valley
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Thu, February 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Google’s Chrome browser is quickly gaining market share, with one estimate putting it at about 5 percent of total usage, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is seeing a drop in overall share. But among TechCrunch readers Chrome is already beating every browser except for Firefox.
A look at our Google Analytics numbers for the past 30 [...]
Tags: Browser, Early Adopters, Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer, Market Share Gains, Microsoft, One Fifth, Population, Safari, Techcrunch, Vanguard, Web Surfing Habits
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Tue, February 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
As soon as Google Buzz was released earlier today, all the early adopters piled in to give it a spin. Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmal and a founder of FreindFeed, was among them and his initial reaction was: “This seems vaguely familiar . . .” Or, as he put it elsewhere, “There’s [...]
Tags: Buzz, Deficiencies, Early Adopters, Email, Engineer, Fashion, Flickr, Gmail, Gmal, Google, Initial Reaction, Link Photo, Mail, Silo, Social Commentary, Status Updates, Streams, Tweet, Tweets, Videos
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Wed, February 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments