Nikon makes the D3X official

Nikon finally took the wraps off the D3X tonight and everything we’ve been hearing about it are true. The full frame DSLR from Nikon features a 24.5-megapixel CMOS sensor and ability to capture five

Power.com: For Social Networking Power Users

<img alt="" />Chances are you use at least two major social networks - 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October 2008 (Comscore, worldwide). Nearly 7 million people

The Times Gets Pwnd

<img alt="" />We were doubtful last night when the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/11/29/reports-of-new-microsoft-yahoo-search-deal-hard-to-believe/">story first broke</a>. There were just too ma

Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web

<img class="shot2" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/fbconnect11.png" alt="" /><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/28/facebook-connect-launch-scheduled-for-november-30/">Today's the day</a> t

Calacanis Rips NY Times' Stross Over Tesla Editorial

<img alt="" />I'm with you on <a href="http://calacanis.com/2008/12/01/on-bailouts-and-sports-car/">this one</a> Jason. Randall Stross' <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30digi.html?

Dear Amazon, here’s how to sell even more Kindles

Love it or hate it, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book reader is selling well — in fact, even at $359 there currently aren’t any in stock. So Amazon certainly doesn’t need any advice from me about

CrunchDeals: Good Walmart video game two-for deals

Walmart has some pretty good video game deals going on right now. Available games are limited to certain titles, some better than others. For instance, there are 63 Wii titles to choose from but only

If gamers ruled the world?

Wow. That’s pretty much the only word that can describe Tom Armitage’s “If Games Ran The World.” Its thesis is that, in the next few years, people who grew up playing video games will

No more embarrassment: Non-nude body scanner to undergo tests this week in Germany

Last week’s attacks in India have reminded us all of the keen danger that terrorism poses. But one tool that was to be employed at airports to combat terrorism, those body scanners that sometime

MyQuire Gets Acquired, Won't Tell Us By Whom

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/myquire.jpg" />The company behind <a href="http://myquire.com">MyQuire</a>, a simple but pretty powerful online application that lets indivi

Japan Post goes ecological, plans to use over 20,000 electric vehicles for mail services

It seems that Japan is getting greener almost by the week. Now Japan Post announced it will start a field test with electric vehicles (EVs) for postal services and other business activities as early a

The First-Time CEO's Recession Survival Guide

<img title="Redfin CEO Glenn Harris Kelman" src="http://blog.redfin.com/files/2008/11/glenn-kelman-redfin-ceo-sm.jpg" /> Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so

2 examples for Japanese style nonthreatening CCTV cameras

Surveillance cameras can sometimes give you a creepy feeling (especially the ones you can’t directly see) but the nation of cute- and friendliness, Japan, now offers two solutions for that probl

Want A Kindle Before Christmas? Get Ready To Pay

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/kindle.png" class="shot" />Last year Amazon had trouble filling orders of the then-new Kindle, so eBay took over and prices <a href="https://techcrunch.com/

Reports Of New Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Hard To Believe

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/ymsx.jpg" /> The UK's <a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article5258258.ece">Times Online</a> is reporting

10,000 iPhone Apps… and grooooowing

148Apps, which tracks and reviews iPhone Apps, says 10,000 applications have now been released on the iPhone App store (the site is named after the fact that you can add up to 148 applications to an i

A Modest Proposal For The Auto Industry: Stop Building Cars

<img alt="" />Everybody these days has some advice for the beleaguered U.S. auto industry. Bail them out. Break up the unions. Do something about the dealerships. Do something about spiraling health c

Joost iPhone App makes us remember Joost again

Joost launched their iPhone application on the App Store this evening, giving users access to 46,000 Joost videos, including major television shows and films. The iPhone has a built in YouTube applica

The intersection of social media and the cloud

The competition for the next wave of enterprise computing has heated up since Microsoft announced its Windows Azure strategy a month ago. While the jury is out in some quarters about Microsoft’s

Comment of the Day: Ask a Query!

From the briny deep comes this mad-eyed comment on a post about game companies: Hi. I regularly scan this forum. This is the head together unequivocal to ask a query. How multitudinous in this forum a
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