Cisco FlipShare TV

FlipShare TV from Cisco, the makers of the runaway hit Flip Video camcorder, is now available. Here are some of the reviews below. Looking for a place to buy FlipShare TV? Try Amazon. Review Highlights Engadget: FlipShare TV review Flip's certainly on to something with the idea of the FlipShare TV, and particularly with...

Arrington’s CrunchPad garage project finds new home in DeadPool

Dirty laundry is once again being aired today on TechCrunch in a rambling, he said/she said post by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington about the death of the CrunchPad, a would-be tablet Internet Browser. Over 18 months in the making, it was a joint project between Arrington and a partner, Fusion...

Magellan releases Navigation app for iPhone, Google #1 threat

GPS makers, notably Magellan and Garmin (GRMN, market cap $6.2B), are in full scramble mode. Surprising no one, earlier this month Magellan released an iPhone app version of its Roadmate navigation system for $79.99 (regularly $99), now available on iTunes. Although I'm sure they've seen it coming for a while, Google is...

Black Friday Motorola Droid deals

You may have heard about a new smartphone called the Motorola Droid? You may have also gotten tired already of my incessant cheerleading... blogging about Android this, Moto that. The phone is remarkable. An iPhone killer, no—again, that requires an iTunes killer first. Content is king. But for now it's the...
Best Twitter app for Android

Top 3 Twitter client apps for Android and Droid

A rival to TweetDeck on the desktop, I've been a long-time fan of Seesmic.

Swype, a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard?

A promising new technology from a Seattle-based company called Swype appears to be a compelling alternative to hunt-and-peck typing on the trusty old QWERTY keyboard. It's another potential start-up success story launched at TechCrunch, in 2008. Instead of tapping on keys, the user types words by tracing a path across...

Take that Droid and Verizon: Apple fights back with new ad campaign

Set to launch tonight, Apple wants to set the record straight with a new ad campaign for its flagship iPhone. It seems that Motorola and Verizon have found a way to get under the skin of the previously unflappable titan of all things gadget cool. In recent weeks millions of...

Google adds automatic captioning to YouTube

The whiz-bang kids in Mountain View are at it again. With a wave of their billion dollar wand they are now making the world a better place for the hearing impaired. While YouTube allows for manual captioning, thanks to Google's voice recognition technology a new feature just released enables videos...

LAX and Motorola Droid: Google Places Directory, Aloqa apps

Two things were clear to me after our Baja adventure came to an end tonight as we landed in LAX: the Loreto Bay development in the Baja is going to be just fine; and the Motorola Droid is a definite keeper. Despite the lack of Verizon coverage in Mexico,...

Palm corporate survival: Don’t swim upstream (aka partner with Google)

I've been following the avalanche of all things Android for the past few weeks. While I'm still on the fence myself, I do know two things: Motorola Droid is not an iPhone killer (what's needed is an iTunes killer, folks) and that Palm is going down in flames... again....