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PrimeSense Demos A Gesture-Based Next-Gen TV Interface Top
We've all seen the Kinect, or at least heard about its wonders. Well, the same company that hooked up Microsoft during "Project Natal" development has showed off some pretty wonderful technology at CES last week. It uses a 3D camera on top of your TV to let you interact with your television through gestures. To be honest, it looks a lot like any touchscreen interface you're already used to (with similar transitions and gestures) but you just happen to be 10 feet away from the screen.
 
Microsoft To ARM Win8 Tablet Makers: No Dual Boot For You Top
LockdownThis may seem a bit of inside baseball, but it's a fairly interesting fact for folks looking forward to thin-and-light Win8 devices running ARM chips rather than Intel. According Computer World, devices running ARM versions of Win8 will not be able to run other OSes, like Android, thanks to something called Secure Boot.
 
Instant Messaging Service Imo.im Launches Real-Time Social Network Top
imo-logoImo.im, which you probably know as the multi-platform free instant messaging product for the web and mobile devices is launching its own real-time social network today. For now, the network is only accessible online, but the company says it will soon integrate the new features into its mobile app lineup, which currently includes apps for the iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Nokia devices.
 
TC Alum Sarah Lacy Launches New Tech Blog, PandoDaily Top
sarahlacyIn case you hadn't noticed, the state of technology reporting isn't exactly refreshing these days. There's a lot of the same news getting rehashed over and over. There's a lot of interesting stuff that isn't getting discussed at all because it doesn't have the word 'Apple' in the headline. And there are some bylines that used to appear on this site that have been unceremoniously pushed out of the building. Sarah Lacy — formerly Editor at Large at TechCrunch, who spearheaded our conference in Beijing this past fall — is looking to help improve the situation. Today Lacy announced the launch of her new site, a startup-focused tech blog called PandoDaily that, among other things, is going to "bring more civility into the blogosophere" (yay!). And she's also gunning to break plenty of news.
 
Young Polling Startup Pollbob Acquires Older Site Misterpoll Top
pollbob-logoPollbob, a small, three-person polling startup from New Orleans' The Idea Village accelerator has just acquired the older polling site Misterpoll. Prior to the acquisition, which closed on Friday, Pollbob had over 12,000 downloads and 7,000 active registered users. With Misterpoll's 270K+ userbase now in tow, Pollbob is ready for rapid growth, says Pollbob Co-founder Zach Kupperman.
 
Agile Project Management Software Swift-Kanban Aims To Help Organizations Get Lean Top
Swift-KanbanDigité, a company that develops lean/agile application life-cycle management products, is announcing that it is offering its Lean/Agile Project Management software Swift-Kanban for free to non-profits. Digite is also launching integration of Swift-Kanban with Atlassian's Jira to bring developer issue management and helpdesk operations to the Kanban board. Swift-Kanban leverages the Kanban Method developed by David J. Anderson to help organizations become more lean in communications and product development using highly visual management and as a result deliver products and services more quickly and with higher quality.
 
Uberlife – The Next Foursquare, But For Future Real-world Meetups? Top
uberlifeI've been fascinated by social mobile location services since at least 2006 when, three years before Foursquare and year after Google acquired Dodgeball, a UK entrepreneur created BuddyPing, now sadly defunct, and right up to the launch of Pin Drop the other day. The rise of the iPhone shortly after created an ecosystem of location-aware apps which has continued to mushroom ever since. But there's one thing that has frustrated me. Seeing where people are right now is all very well. But I what really want to know is - where will they be next? Now I think I may have found potentially my Nirvana: Uberlife (an alpha iPhone app is here).
 
Wimm Labs VP Tim Twerdahl Shows Off The Android-Powered Wimm One Smart Watch Top
There are plenty of smart watches out there in the world. The iPod Nano doubles as one, and the new MotoACTV watch is a pretty solid offering, as well. But over at Wimm Labs, they're taking the concept to a whole new level. We got the opportunity to sit down with Wimm Labs VP Tim Twerdahl who let us get up close and personal with the new Wimm One Smart watch. It's "a wearable platform" as Twerdahl would call it, based on Android and packed with fun features like WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, accelerometers, magnetometers and plenty of other fun stuff.
 
Viewsonic VP Mike Holstein Demos New Android, Windows Tablets Top
When I think of tablets, I think of the usual suspects -- Apple, Motorola, Asus, HTC, and the like. Viewsonic never really comes to mind, but that hasn't stopped them from pushing out their own tablets and smartphones, and their VP of Business Development Mike Holstein joined us at CES to show us what the company has been up to.
 
Our Favorite CES 2012 Interviews, Videos And Events Top
tc-cesCES was a blast this year. It was the best show in recent memory. Everyone from the press to vendors were upbeat and seemingly truly happy to be there. Attendance was up. The show was the largest ever (too big for some). Best of all, we shared a wonderful booth with the Engadget crew, which allowed us to conduct more interviews and chill on some comfy couches when not livestreaming from the show floor. Below is the best of our booth interviews and roaming coverage. We truly hope you enjoyed our unique coverage. Any outlet can stuff people in a room (or trailer) and write up press releases nonstop. We strive to bring the entire show to you by webcasting our shenanigans from the floor and interviewing the smaller guys from the booth. Here's our nine favorite videos from this year's show.
 
Hulu To Debut Its First Original Scripted Show "Battleground" Next Month Top
huluHulu is launching its first-ever original scripted series with its 13-episode order of Battleground, a political comedy following the campaign trail of a third-place candidate in Wisconsin angling for a seat in the Senate. The show is kicking off Hulu's foray into scripted programming, and will be followed by two other original shows: a second season of documentarian Morgan Spurlock's A Day in the Life series, and Up to Speed, a travel show from Dazed and Confused director Richard Linklater.
 
Ooma CEO Eric Stang Shows Off The New HD2 VoIP Handset Top
At CES 2012, there are quite a few products that would totally change the way you do things (or at least save you some money) that just don't get enough coverage. We reported on Ooma's new HD2 VoIP handset, but nothing beats getting the facts straight from the CEO of the company. Luckily, Eric Stang had a chance to meet with us and chat it up.
 
Symantec Buys Cloud-Based Email Archiving Company LiveOffice For $115M Top
liveoffice-1Security and storage giant Symantec has announced the acquisition of cloud email archiving company LiveOffice. The acquisition price was $115 million. LiveOffice is a SaaS provider of email archiving, compliance and hosting. In addition to providing cloud based email archiving, LiveOffice also archives email which is on-premise. By hosting email archives with LiveOffice, customers can migrate from their current provider to a cloud provider without having to deal with the possibility of losing sensitive information.
 
TinyProj Shuts Down, Users Sent To TechStars Grad GroupTalent Instead Top
grouptalent-logoTinyProj, a project marketplace started by Forrst founder Kyle Bragger is shutting down.  All 8,300 of the service's registered developers and designers who used the site to find project-based work will now be transitioned over to GroupTalent, a recent TechStars grad.
 
Former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce As EVP Of Emerging Markets Top
Vivek KundraCRM and cloud giant Salesforce has announced a key hire today—former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. Kundra has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets. Kundra joined the Obama administration in March of 2009. As the first Chief Information Officer of the United States, Kundra managed more than $80 billion in technology investments and was an early evangelist of cloud computing in the public sector. Kundra also authored the 'Cloud-First policy,' which aims to guide government IT organizations around the world on how to be efficient with fewer resources.
 
Atlassian's 2011 Revenues Were $102 Million With No Sales People Top
AtlassianOne of the fastest growing enterprise software companies is Sydney-based Atlassian, which makes product management software for software development. CEO Scott Farquhar and president Jay Simons were in New York City last week talking to investment bankers exploring an eventual IPO and dropped by the TCTV studio. Revenues for calendar year 2011 (which is different than its fiscal year) were $102 million, up 35 percent, Farquhar tells me in the video. And the company has been profitable for years. The company employs 450 people worldwide, mostly in Sydney and San Francisco, where it just opened cavernous new offices. But none of them are in sales. "We have no sales people," says Farquhar.
 
Dropcam CEO Greg Duffy On Getting Into Hardware: "Don't Ship Before It's Ready" Top
If you were paying attention last week, you can probably surmise that we have about a billion hours worth of footage to process from last week's CES International show. There's live streaming coverage that has now been archived, as well as quite a few recorded interviews including this one with Greg Duffy, Dropcam CEO. Speaking with John Biggs, Duffy shows off the new Dropcam HD and speaks on the transition from hardware buyer to small OEM.
 
Ex-TechCruncher Launches Semantic Q&A Service Beepl Top
beeplBeepl is a questions and answers service, which launches today. Co-founder/CEO and ex-TechCrunch blogger Steve O'Hear actually left TC to do this startup is convinced that Beepl can take on the the so-called Q&A field better than Quora. But how?
 
Brainient Raises $1.8 Million To Scale Video Ad Performance Platform Top
shoesWe've been watching online video advertising startup Brainient for a little while, given that the online video market looked poised for a lot of growth. Just how much growth was revealed at CES last week when YouTube stood up and predicted that 75 percent of all future channels will be born on the Internet and it had logged a trillion hits in 2011. That's a lot of potential advertising inventory and someone out there is going to have to come up with some answers to make this work. To that end Brainient has brought round a few people to the same idea, given that today it lands $1.8 million in funding from a number of strategic investors.
 
Gadgets Week in Review: To Go Top
1522Here are some of the past week’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: IK Multimedia Adds MIC Cast, STOMP and MIX to their iRig Line TC/Gadgets Interview: Up Close With The Lytro LG Styler Refreshes Your Stinky, Wrinkly Clothes With Steam New Pocket Projectors From 3M Pump Up The Lumens EV Mini Sport: Mini Electric Sports Car From Japan (Video) Bre Pettis Of Makerbot: "The Future Is Already Here"
 

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