One of the more interesting pieces of hardware making an appearance at CES 2013 this year is the i’m Watch device. The i’m Watch is basically an Android device in the form of a wristwatch. It does use a special version of Android called i’m Droid 2 based on Android 1.6.
The VAR Guy, Nine Lives’ Kim Daniels and EMC‘s Michelle De Hertogh had dinner last night. The big topics of discussion: Storage? Cloud Computing? Sorry, the conversation was off the record. Except for this juicy tidbit: Carmine’s, New York City’s legendary family style restaurant, will open in Las Vegas in Winter 2013. The VAR Guy is a fan. De Hertogh is a fan.
No one wants to read thousands of reviews. You just want answers. Luckily there’s TipSense, a new startup whose algorithm sorts big messy data sets. TipSense’s site DishTip tells you what to order at restaurants, for example, while its AppCrawlr deduces an app’s best and worst features and lays them out with competitors on a comparison chart.
To say last night’s Galaxy S 4 event was cheesy might be an understatement, but one thing they did do was effectively explain all the new features of the phone itself. Sure, we could have done without all the pomp and circumstance, but you don’t bring 3,000 people into Radio City Music Hall without at a little.
As I watch todays jump by Felix Baumgartner – it’s been running non-stop on most major news channels, the same channels that gave a Space Shuttle launch about two minutes between video of a talking dog and what Kim Kardashian just ate – I’m struck by the notion that what we’re seeing, albeit in an Evel Knievel kind of way, is the future of scientific discovery.
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Hewlett-Packard‘s (NYSE: HPQ) Q1 2013 revenues fell 6 percent and net income fell 16 percent, but the results beat analyst expectations. The earnings come as HP Global Partner Conference 2013 — a mostly upbeat gathering — wraps up in Las Vegas. So what’s the reality check for HP PartnerOne partners?
If you were searching for your daily dose of morning hilarity, look no further. CollegeHumor has just posted a Nickelback parody of the Photograph music video, substituting the theme of physical photos for the much hipper, Facebook-owned Instagram.
It’s day three at CES 2013. It’s a bit cold out. But here we are, for the third episode of TechCrunch Gadgets Live.
We’ll be chatting with Pebble Watch. Did you hear it’s going to ship soon?
Review Last year, Mark Shuttleworth christened Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, saying the disto would be stylish and create a good, lasting first impression.
While its debut in beta form is smart looking and definitely chases the fashion in operating-system design it’s also the single worst beta release of Ubuntu I’ve ever tested.
That’s not to say
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