VocalTec already has a major hit with its magicJack internet phone device, but now the company is ready to step up and offer completely free calls t... read more »
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IBM said today that it has made new breakthroughs in an industry-wide race to create laser-based chips that can send data at high speeds through compu... read more »
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Instagram, maker of a fast-growing photo-sharing service, is defending itself from critics after blocking a website which made it easier to view users... read more »
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We spent yesterday at Salesforce&'s first ever hackathon, called Cloudstock, which aimed to spur innovative uses of cloud-based APIs. Developers were ... read more »
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Vzaar, an online video platform aimed at SMEs that want to publish video, has been plugging away since 2007, but seemed to go in an odd direction &821... read more »
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Amazon.com is reportedly poised to buy household-goods retailer Quidsi, the parent of Diapers.com, on Monday for $540 million in cash and debt.In so d... read more »
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A few weeks ago we flagged a growing trend of Chinese Internet companies going public on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange and getting pretty goo... read more »
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Last week, MercuryNews.com revealed that Apple made a massive land purchase near their current headquarters in Cupertino, CA. They actually bought th... read more »
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Salesforce announced today thatit has picked up Manymoon, a company that adds additional productivity and collaboration tools to web apps like Gmail... read more »
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WikiLeaks, which publishes anonymous leaks of secret material (most recently 250,000 previously secret US embassy cables) still has a trick up its sle... read more »
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Samsung will unveil the next generation of its Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab tablet computer at Mobile World Congress, according to tech blog Eng... read more »
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When Facebook launched Places in August, it encouraged advertisers to list their businesses in the Places directory. But now an advertiser is taking... read more »
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Dell is killing off its ultraportable Adamo laptop line, which was initially meant to compete with Applea4a4s impossibly thin Macbook Air, accord... read more »
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We&'ve talked a lot about Diaspora, the open-source Facebook-alternative, in recent months. One of the reasons for that is the massive success they ha... read more »
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About a month ago, we noted that LeWeb would be getting a bit more TechCrunch flavor this year. For the seventh iteration of the popular tech conferen... read more »
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The Crunchies, the annual awards that honor the coolest startups and entrepreneurs, will be back on Jan. 21, and VentureBeat will be hosting again wit... read more »
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With iOS 4.2 finally out in the wild, the iPad has effectively been 'rejuvenated. And there&'s no question that Apple is going to sell a massive a... read more »
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Popular mobile check-in application Foursquare today announced on 'its blog 'that it has made a few updates to its main website. I couldn&'t h... read more »
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It&'s good to be Apple. This is true in many ways, but especially in the mobile applications business. According to research firm Gartner, nine out of... read more »
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Editor&'s note: Brand dollars are still the biggest unclaimed prize on the interent. Guest author Steven Carpenter handicaps the players who are mos... read more »
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