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- Netflix To Debut Original Series "Lilyhammer" Next Month
- Social Network For IT Professionals Toolbox.com Acquired By Ziff Davis
- Miss Your Cat? Now Fluffy Can Send You Tweets All Day Long
- Siri Android Clones Are Laughable At Best
- Murdoch's Wife's Twitter Account, @Wendi_Deng, Was Fake
- RIM's New PlayBook Promo: All Models For $299
- RJMetrics Raises $1.2M For Hosted Business Intelligence Software Suite
- Internap Buys Hosting, Cloud Services Company Voxel For Up To $35 Million
- Sanwa Supply Rolls Out Micro Projector For iPhone 4/4S
- Report: 522 Exits Of Venture-Backed US Companies Netted $53.2 Billion In 2011
- Blippar Raises Seed Funding From Qualcomm For Mobile Augmented Reality Technology
- Daily Crunch: Smudge
- Google May Have Violated Its Own Paid Link Policy With Chrome Promo Campaign
- This Month's Apple Event To Focus On Publishing And iBooks
- What have you done
- Flurry: 1.2 Billion Mobile Apps Were Downloaded Over The Holidays
- Review: The Playstation 3D Display Lets You Bring All Of Your Friends
- The Retrode 2 Makes Your SNES And Genesis Cartridges Useful Again
- Chrome Is Edging Out Firefox
- iPhone 4S Beats Out Lumia 800 In Benchmark Testing (Video)
| Netflix To Debut Original Series "Lilyhammer" Next Month | Top |
 Netflix 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 |
 Digital 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 |
 You 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 |
 When 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 |
 Following 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 |
 Well, 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 |
 Exclusive - 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 |
 IT 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 |
 Japan-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 |
 According 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 |
 Blippar, 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 |
 Here 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. | |
| Google May Have Violated Its Own Paid Link Policy With Chrome Promo Campaign | Top |
 Google 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 |
 Apple 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 |
 This 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. | |
| Flurry: 1.2 Billion Mobile Apps Were Downloaded Over The Holidays | Top |
 With nearly 7 million new Android phones and iPhones activated on Christmas Day, an app-downloading frenzy was a foregone conclusion. App research firm Flurry estimates that a combined total of 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the holiday week between December 25-31. That compares to an average of 750,000 mobile apps downloaded per week earlier in December, or a 60 percent jump. | |
| Review: The Playstation 3D Display Lets You Bring All Of Your Friends | Top |
 Back at E3, the gaming world let out a collective groan when Sony announced they were making a special 3D TV for the PS3. However, that groan swiftly turned into a clamor of adoration once it was explained that the TV, in addition to displaying 3D content, would also allow two players to play side by side, seeing different displays through two pairs of 3D glasses. Called SimulView, it was pretty darn cool. Fast forward to December and the 24-inch TV has shipped and costs $499. The display has two HDMI ports and little else - you plug in a PS3 and start playing games and Blu-Ray disks. Is this PS3-branded widescreen 1080p monitor good? Definitely. But is it a necessary accessory for gamers and non-gamers alike? That remains to be seen. Read on. | |
| The Retrode 2 Makes Your SNES And Genesis Cartridges Useful Again | Top |
 Last year, or I suppose it is now the year before last, we saw the Retrode, a little device that let you easily create ROM files from your SNES and Genesis cartridges. Useful, but sort of a one-shot device if you're not a serious collector. The team behind it has created a new device, the Retrode 2 naturally, that is a bit more useful to the average retro-loving gamer. Instead of just forming ROMs in a one-off process, the Retrode 2 acts as a cartridge reader for your emulator, and lets you plug in the original controllers as well. Being able to play SNES on those is a great bonus — there's nothing that takes true 16-bit fans out of the game so much as having to play these old things on a newfangled controller. | |
| Chrome Is Edging Out Firefox | Top |
 Android isn't the only Google product that gobbled up market share in 2011. Its Chrome browser also had an amazing year. By one measure, StatCounter, Chrome went from 15 percent market share a year ago to 27 percent share in December, 2011. Chrome ended the year two points above Firefox's 25 percent share (which is down from 31 percent a year ago). Even as Google recently renegotiated its deal to maintain the default search spot n Firefox for the next three years (to the tune of nearly $1 billion), it keeps taking share in the market. | |
| iPhone 4S Beats Out Lumia 800 In Benchmark Testing (Video) | Top |
 Have you been wondering which mobile browser is the fastest of late? It would be an understandable thing to pontificate, seeing that Android takes the cake when it comes to LTE support, iOS has the class-leading dual-core A5 chip on its side, and Windows Phone's IE mobile browser is basically a beast. It's a worthwhile question, to say the least. Luckily MyNokiablog noticed a YouTube video uploaded by user 359gsm, in which the iPhone 4S, the Lumia 800, and an iPhone 4 (running iOS 4.3) are put through the ringer. The specific definition of ringer: Browsermark, Speed Reading, Sunspider, Acid3, and HTML5 tests. | |
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