Blurb launches crowd-sourced books

Blurb, a self-publishing startup which specialises in illustrated books, is launching a new service to enable people to collaboratively create books. The new service is called Community Books and will

Ezmo: Another Online Music Application Nibbling At iTunes

We’ve come a long way since the record industry sued MP3.com in 2000. Listening to copies of your digital music online is quickly becoming commonplace and Norway’s Ezmo is another web appl

MadeIt Leverages Social Networking to Take On Evite

Let’s say you want to plan a party or some other get together. You have no shortage of options as to how you can get the word out to your guests. Your most reliable solution is probably just to

Apple picks Orange in France

Told vous so. Press release

Asus's eee PCs get names, specs, real

When the lines between UMPC and laptop get blurred, we get confused, angry, agitated, and aroused. It’s an odd reaction mixture, sure, but our shrink says it’s natural. That’s what w

Will DRM-free music lead to DRM-free games?

GigaOM asks: is this Radiohead experiment going to change how things work, or is it a symptom of things changing? It’s not a philosophical question: something’s going on, as it’s bee

Do you have what it takes to be…

a Cyber Soldier? The kids and even some adults (those over 21, though, they’re still punk kids) are obsessed with Starcraft. I don’t understand it. Walk into any PC cafe/room whatever you

Hell on Earth: Seoul's E-mart

I can’t really understand anyone’s fascination with the E-mart in Yongsan. It’s not like you’re going to find super cool gadgets or anything. The reason this place is so famous

Private BuyOut Of Ancestry.com For $300+ Million

Spectrum Equity Investors has led a $300 million investment to acquire a majority interest in Provo Utah-based The Generations Network (the parent company of Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com and other sites

iPhone SDK at MacWorld will make us all happier than we've ever been

If the LX hadn’t come along I’d still be fondling my iPhone with a manic intensity. But after updating to 1.1.1 and fearing for my life and my $400, I was almost about to relegate the phon

Sean Captain's photoset of Nakano Broadway: Naked dolls FTW, NSFW

Japanese graduation caps Those Japanese! Always up to something. If they’re not texting on their superphones or inventing the Walkman, they’re watching women ejaculate rubber phalli and co

CircleLending Becomes Virgin Money USA; Gets Makeover and Millions in Funding

Peer-to-peer lending service CircleLending has been taken under the wings of Richard Branson’s Virgin empire and rebranded as Virgin Money USA. Virgin’s US investment firm recently bought

Skype Equips MySpace Users to Make Free Calls

Starting in November, MySpace’s 110 million active users will be able to make free calls using Skype-enabled version of MySpace’s instant messaging client, MySpaceIM. This marks the first

Tales from the Crunchboard

Here are a few jobs I picked out from our newly-launched Crunchboard jobs board which look kind’ve interesting. Jobs are often an indication of where things are heading in any market… Blas

A friend helps out when times are tough, or when Xbox 360s expire

A real friend is someone who’s there in a time of need. If you have someone close to you that has an Earth-shattering loss, like that of their beloved Xbox 360, it is your job, as a friend, to c

Transformers comes to DVD today

Just a reminder, friends, that the greatest movie of the year comes to DVD today. And HD-DVD, if you’re into that, which I’m not. I will be reviewing the 2-disk set tomorrow, if I’m

T-Mobile, Treo get popped by iPhone sales

Ceci n’est pas un iPhone According to NPD, current iPhone owners are three times more likely to have owned a Sidekick — after you see the LX you’ll probably just go back to the Sidek

Signs of Life at Yahoo

Yahoo’s third quarter earnings came in this afternoon above Wall Street’s estimates ($0.11 per share versus the expected $0.08), but its net income of $151.3 million (on revenues of $1.8 b

Laptop rates the best budget DSLRs so we don't have to

Digital SLR cameras are falling in price, making them a viable option for hobbiests and neophytes alike. But there are also more on the market now than ever before. So which DSLR is your DSLR? We&#821

Palm's Centro: First Impressions, Unboxing

We don’t know why you love unboxings, but you do. Here we have the first Centro from Palm, running on Sprint’s Power Vision Super Extreme Mega network. For those of you who might not know,
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