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Developer Sells iPhone App On eBay, Starting Price: $1 Top
BuckShotMobile app developer Neal Schmidt, maker of the scavenger hunt game Buckshot, is selling his iPhone app on eBay where it had a starting price of just $1.00. The app was posted to eBay on December 29th, and, according to the listing is for "complete ownership" of the game, including both the free and paid versions. As of today, the app has received 17 bids and is currently up to $202.50.
 
The SiriusXM Lynx Is A Portable Satellite Radio… With A Twist! Top
You may have forgotten that there was such a thing as "satellite radio," what with all the streaming services available now, but it exists and its still going fairly strong. The latest way to listen to this form of radio is the Lynx, a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capable player that records up to 200 hours of music and offers a full schedule of upcoming shows for your listening pleasure.
 
The Swift Rise And Sad Fall Of The Asus Transformer Prime Android Tablet Top
primeThe Asus Transformer Prime was the latest tablet to wear the title of iPad killer. It was supposed to rise up, powered by the all-mighty quad-core Nvidia Terga 3, and finally stand tall against the iPad. It was supposed to use its keyboard dock as a mighty quarterstaff and deliver a memorable blow against Apple's champion. But that didn't happen. The Transformer Prime is dying at the hands of Asus.
 
SOPA, Freedom, And The Invisible War Top
File:Bradley_Manning_2_(cropped)While laughable in scope and reach (not to mention ridiculous in terms of potential enforcement) the Stop Online Piracy Act is seen as a very real threat to our freedom to, in short, surf the Internet. Although its ramifications are far more draconian than I'm letting on here, I posit that the government is the least of our concern when it comes to online freedom. Let's catch up since our last few articles on the topic. Since the GoDaddy kerfuffle, SOPA has gained traction as the hacker cause du jour. Designed to help copyright holders protect their property (something any casual observer can support), the bill, would allow the US government to essentially "turn off" part of the Internet that it doesn't like. Most of these sites would be "rogue" or, more precisely, out of US jurisdiction. From the Bill:
 
RIM Co-CEOs May Soon Be Stripped Of Their Chairmen Roles Top
18rim650As RIM navigates some particularly rough seas, it appears as though the company may soon kick-off a good old-fashioned corporate governance shakeup in order to please their shareholders. Although they'll retain their positions as co-CEOs, the Financial Post reports that RIM's Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie may soon be ousted from their positions as chairmen of the board.
 
Netflix To Debut Original Series "Lilyhammer" Next Month Top
NETFLIX, INC. LILYHAMMERNetflix is launching a new original series next month called Lilyhammer, which will kick off the company's foray into original programming for 2012. The series will star The Sopranos actor and E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt in a "fish out of water" story that takes place in Norway. The story follows New York mobster Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano as he enters the federal witness protection program. He moves to Lillehammer, the Norwegian town that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics. He calls it "Lilyhammer," however, which is how the show gets its name.
 
Social Network For IT Professionals Toolbox.com Acquired By Ziff Davis Top
toolboxDigital media publisher Ziff Davis has acquired Toolbox.com, a social networking and knowledge exchange website for IT, HR and Finance professionals that has been around since the late nineties and was previously owned by a company called the Corporate Executive Board. Terms were not disclosed. For Ziff Davis, which was acquired and 'relaunched' as a digital-only media publishing company by former Time Inc. exec Vivek Shah in partnership with PE firm Great Hill Partners back in June 2010, this is the fourth acquisition in the past twelve months.
 
Miss Your Cat? Now Fluffy Can Send You Tweets All Day Long Top
KittyTwittyYou like cats. Even if you're a "dog person," or allergic, I still know your little cat-loving secret. And how do I know? Well, since you're here on TechCrunch it's apparent that you're at least mildly interested in the internet, which happens to be infested with cats.
 
Siri Android Clones Are Laughable At Best Top
siri-for-android-official-appWhen we first introduced the Siri clone Iris, I figured that would be the last of the outright Siri-alikes. I was wrong. Programmers are taking advantage of less experienced users and creating apps that are downright insulting to the average intelligence. One app, called Siri for Android is a hard link to Google's voice controls while another, called Speerit is a Korean clone that purports to connect to Apple's servers (which is untrue).
 
Murdoch's Wife's Twitter Account, @Wendi_Deng, Was Fake Top
wendi-dengFollowing media mogul Rupert Murdoch's arrival on Twitter this week, wife Wendi Deng (@wendi_deng) showed up shortly afterwards, tweeting alongside her husband, flirting with comedian Ricky Gervais, politely declining to engage with the man who attacked Mr. Murdoch with a pie, pushing @rupertmurdoch to take down a questionable tweet (which he did), and generally being a spicy character worthy of a Twitter follow. Only one problem: that wasn't Wendi Deng Murdoch.
 
RIM's New PlayBook Promo: All Models For $299 Top
playbook-dyingWell, if you were hoping to snag a BlackBerry PlayBook on the cheap, it looks like now's the time to act. In what seems like a move born of desperation, all models of the PlayBook are now going for $299 on RIM's online store. Previous PlayBook sales have set the beginning price point at $199 for the 16GB model, but this time you'll be able to purchase a 64GB PlayBook for the same price as a 16GB model.
 
RJMetrics Raises $1.2M For Hosted Business Intelligence Software Suite Top
rjmetricsExclusive - I first learned about hosted business intelligence software startup RJMetrics a few weeks ago, when Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg wrote how he made creative use of their software suite for his latest fundraising round; in fact he said he liked it so much he asked to invest in the company. Fast forward to today: RJMetrics has landed $1.2 million in seed financing from Goldberg, early-stage VCs including SoftTech VC, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel and Zelkova Ventures, and other angel investors such as Wharton Professor Kartik Hosanagar and DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg.
 
Internap Buys Hosting, Cloud Services Company Voxel For Up To $35 Million Top
voxelIT infrastructure solutions provider Internap this morning announced its acquisition of privately-held Voxel, an enterprise hosting and cloud services company based in NYC, for $30 million in cash. Under the terms of the deal, an additional $5 million in cash could be put on the table over the next two years, subject to certain performance-based criteria. Founded in 1999 in founder Raj Dutt's dorm room, the company provides on-demand dedicated hosting and cloud services to enterprises and Web-centric businesses.
 
Sanwa Supply Rolls Out Micro Projector For iPhone 4/4S Top
400-PRJ011_MXJapan-based accessory maker Sanwa Supply started selling the 400-PRJ011 [JP] in its online store, a DLP micro projector that slides onto an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. The device comes with a 2,100mAh battery, which takes about five hours to fully charge and provides enough juice for 2.5 hours of projector usage. With the projector function turned off, buyers can also use the device to charge their iPhone (it adds 100% to the life of the phone's battery).
 
Report: 522 Exits Of Venture-Backed US Companies Netted $53.2 Billion In 2011 Top
NotausgangAccording to a Dow Jones VentureSource report released this morning, fewer US-based venture-backed companies exited in 2011 than the year before, but the deals netted more capital as the median price for M&A and buyouts, as well the median amount raised in initial public offerings, spiked. Dow Jones VentureSource says there were 522 exits of venture-backed companies in the US throughout 2011, which represents a significant 4 percent drop in deal activity compared to 2010.
 
Blippar Raises Seed Funding From Qualcomm For Mobile Augmented Reality Technology Top
blipparBlippar, the UK startup behind an eponymous mobile image recognition and augmented reality platform, has landed seed funding - the size of the investment was not disclosed - from Qualcomm Ventures. The startup, which is based in London, says the seed funding serves as a springboard for a bigger Series A funding round it expects to close in early 2012. Read more over at TechCrunch Europe.
 
Daily Crunch: Smudge Top
1511Here are some recent stories from TechCrunch Gadgets: The Commodore 64 Is 30 Years Old Sleep Buster: Japanese Company Develops Anti-Sleep Driver Seat Sheet They're Alive! Pics Of Unannounced Asus Eee PC Flare Netbooks Leak Stop! It's A Really Bad Time To Buy Most Gadgets! Want To Make Your iPhone's PIN More Secure? Repeat A Digit.
 
Updated: Google May Have Violated Its Own Paid Link Policy With Chrome Promo Campaign Top
Chrome Sponsored Link CampaignGoogle appears to have paid bloggers to write about Chrome in a way that violates its own paid link policy, according to Search Engine Land. If Google applied a similar penalty to those it's doled out to past violators, the Chrome download page would be removed from its search engine results for between a month and a year. Don't bet on that happening, though. The campaign is another example of how Google's diverse business can lead it to trip over itself.
 
This Month's Apple Event To Focus On Publishing And iBooks Top
Screen Shot 2012-01-02 at 6.56.54 PMApple will be holding a product event later this month in New York, Kara Swisher is reporting, and we've confirmed independently with a source. According to the source the event will not involve any hardware at all and instead will focus on publishing and eBooks (sold through Apple's iBooks platform) rather than iAds. Attendance will also be more publishing industry-oriented than consumer-focused.
 
What have you done Top
treeoflifeThis was not a movie for the normals, even with and expressly because of the presence of Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. This was a big budget and highly technological rendering of an enigma. But within that frame, I found myself intuitively understanding things just as they happened, only later finally getting enough data to confirm my instinct. Something powerful was at work, on the fulcrum between the normal and the human condition. For most of the last eight years and certainly the last two, we have been driven by the filter of a man who knew he was dying. Steve Jobs may have done what he did given a more gentle fate, but how he did it within the boundaries of his time left has profoundly altered our sense of what we have done.
 

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