Leaked Windows 8 Ads Confirm Once Again Microsoft Has Given Up On The Desktop I use Windows daily. I have since Windows 95. I wouldn’t call myself a fanboy, but I prefer Windows’ desktop environment over that of OS X. Yet, like many of you, I’m not looking forward to Windows 8. These leaked Windows 8 ads found by an Israeli website show why. Windows 8 is designed for the post-PC era, a time when w

With the launch of Windows 8 just a couple of weeks away, it appears some are chomping at the bit to get the word out. First, HSN started (briefly) selling some Win 8 PCs ahead of schedule and now an Israeli website has found what appear to be new ads for the OS. The ads, which appeared on Techit, are in English and appear to be very Apple-esque. Like Apple's commercials, these ads take a "product

To mankind, Wi-Fi represents many things: Freedom of speech, access to information and the ability to keep in touch with both family members and strangers, near and far. But what does Wi-Fi stands for? Some will claim it's shorthand for Wireless Fidelity, sort of like how people of New York call the region south of Houston Street "SoHo" and San Francisco calls South of Market "SoMa." But, that's n

Samsung Galaxy S III Mini specifications have been unearthed by German site Mobilegeeks, and if you expected a powerhouse, you're in for a disappointment. The Galaxy S III Mini is not -- as some may have hoped -- just a smaller version of the powerful Samsung Galaxy S III. According to Mobilegeeks, it has a 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and a 5-megapixel camera on the back. The screen size is 4-inche

Media & Entertainment Groupon Gets Down To Commerce, Releases Newly Acquired Point-Of-Sale App Breadcrumb [Updated] Four months after buying restaurant-focused, point-of-sale app Breadcrumb, Groupon is putting the acquisition to work in its bid to grow its local commerce business. Today it is launching the iPad app nationwide across the U.S., following a limited pilot in New York — and is throwing

Media & Entertainment Deezer Pulls Back Curtain On Growth Strategy: Adds 76 More Countries, Free Version, Social Features Armed with a fresh $130 million in funding from Warner Music owner Access Industries and Idinvest, music streaming company Deezer has this morning revealed more details on what it plans to do with that cash. The short version is as follows: Push on with Rest Of The World (ROW)

The rumors were true: Samsung is debuting a mini version of its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone on Oct. 11. The new device, which will launch at a special event in Germany (invitation for the event pictured above), has been confirmed by the head of Samsung Mobile Communications, JK Shin. Hardly a "mini," though, the handset is actually a 4-inch version of the humongous 4.8-inch Galaxy S III. "The

Hardware Hands On With The Kupa UltraNote, A Modular, Customizable Tablet That Makes Windows 8 Shine At the Pepcom MobileFocus event at CTIA MobileCon, an unlikely underdog made a very big impression on me. It was the Kupa UltraNote, and it was my first hands on with a tablet that ships with Windows 8 installed. The Kupa impressed, from its modular design that allows for ample customizability, to

Startups Two Years In Coming, Art.sy Finally Brings Pandora’s Genome Project To The Wacky World Of Art At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May 2010, a young startup named Art.sy took home the “Rookie Disruptor Award” for its art-focused search engine, which allowed users to find art by style, category, size, color, and more. Art.sy also tapped into users’ social graphs to offer personalized recommendatio

Hardware Hands-On With The Optimus L9, LG’s Most Recent Mid-Range Mobile LG has been getting plenty of attention these days because of some recent carrier announcements (case in point: Sprint announced it would carry the LG Mach and Optimus G), but that’s not all of the LG hardware here at MobileCon 2012. T-Mobile recently outed a new LG device of its own — the decidedly mid-range Optimus L9 — and

Hardware T-Mobile’s Nokia Lumia 810 – We Go Hands On, But This Phone’s Literally Got No Guts T-Mobile recently announced it would be offering the Nokia Lumia 810 Windows Phone 8 device sometime in the coming weeks, and it had the handset at the Pepcom’s MobileFocus event at MobileCon today. But the hardware wasn’t really the hardware as such – it was a dummy unit with nothing on the inside. But it

Despite a plan to cut thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in annual spending, Intel remains vulnerable to declines in PC sales, say analysts. “A penny saved is a penny earned” seems to be the new motto for Intel—struggling to grow its revenue due to overdependence on PC sales—and is instead looking at an annual spending cut of up to $10 billion a year by 2025. Intel reported a 20% decline in

As the longtime editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, the author of The Long Tail, the proponent of the concept of “freemium,” to name just a few of the things that he’s known for, Chris Anderson is well-renowned for having his finger on the pulse of trends just as they’re starting to coalesce into movements. So, inquiring minds want to know: What is he obsessed with right now? The answer is “maker s

Startups The New King Of Web Optimization? Optimizely Has Run 100K A/B Tests On More Than 1B Visitors Optimizely co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker shared some big numbers today about the A/B testing service’s growth. Let’s go with the biggest one first. Siroker says Optimizely, which makes it easy for websites to conduct tests to optimize their design and content, has now delivered those tests to 1,3

Enterprise Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them” If you get the opportunity to hear Clayton Christensen hold court, seize it. Christensen is a Harvard Business School professor and renowned author and innovation expert, perhaps best known for his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” which had a profound influence on many thinkers and business lea

Hardware Lenovo Introduces The IdeaPad Yoga 11 and 13, The First Tablet & Laptop Ultrabook Hybrid Tonight in New York, Lenovo introduced two brand new tablet/laptop hybrids under the name of IdeaPad Yoga. Those two devices will be Windows 8 powered. Two screen sizes are available, 11″ and 13″. The 13″ model is the first hybrid laptop that meets the Ultrabook requirements. The 13-inch model feature

As #BoxWorks 2012 Wraps Up, Here Are 10 Words With Box CEO Aaron Levie Attending this year’s #BoxWorks conference has been extremely interesting for me, as I’ve gotten to talk to a group of people that I rarely interact with — enterprise folks. There’s a nice mix of developers here, too, which makes it feel much more comfortable for those of us not working for a gigantic company. Well, I suppose I

Facebook May Ditch Its Boring Logged Out Homepage For This 3D Polygon Art Or This Cute Couple Facebook doesn’t want to look like just another website, so it’s testing colorful new versions of Facebook.com on a very small percentage of logged out visitors. One features a 3D polygon art map of the Facebook universe, while another showcases an adorable couple. So next time you login, or finally surre

Hands-On With The Surprisingly Solid, QWERTY Keyboard-Packing LG Mach Sprint finally joined the phone announcement fray earlier this morning and added a handful of new devices to its official roster. While LG’s Optimus G may garner all the love, the newly-revealed LG Mach deserves its share of attention, and I got a bit of hands-on time to do just that. First off, let’s talk looks. The Mach’s indu

Startups Flavorpill GEL Is An Event-Planning Service That Lets You Rally Your Friends To Fun Humans, like the bonobos monkey or the blesmol, are social animals and, as such, they enjoy occasionally gathering for festive activities, such as sexually variant group mating, tunnel debris removal, and Matmos concerts. Now these three species of fauna can plan their nights out with something called Flav

PublicStuff Raises $5 Million To Connect Residents With Their City Governments In Real Time PublicStuff, the New York City based startup that makes a system to let citizens make real-time requests to their local governments for public services, has raised $5 million in new funding. The financing was disclosed today in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. We’ve reached out to PublicS

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