1. Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How.  permalink

Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it's open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren't ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google's recently open-sourced code and turning that ...

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OS X 10.6.2 - Hacked to support Atom - Download Releasing the Chromium OS open source project   —  In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source ...
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OS X 10.6.2 - Hacked to support Atom - Download New Google News for mobile   —  At Google, we are committed to giving you a consistent user experience across products and devices, and we really value the feedback you've given us about Google News for mobile. Today we're excited to announce a completely new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. (We already offer a mobile-optimized version of Google ...

2. Twitter COO: We’ll Have An Advertising Business Soon. And You’re Going To Love It.  permalink

Twitter COO: We’ll Have An Advertising Business Soon.  And You’re Going To Love It.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

Twitter has apparently come across the Holy Grail of advertising, and it's coming soon. Today during his interview at the RealTime CrunchUp , Twitter COO Dick Costolo told the audience a bit about the company's upcoming advertising business. Costolo was vague on the details, but he did make some promises: "It will be fascinating. Non-traditional.

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Twitter ads are coming soon – will you love them? RealTime CrunchUp: Conversation With Twitter COO Dick Costolo   —  Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo . Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation. Twitter is one of the hottest players in the realtime field right now. And it has a $1 billion valuation , which has been the source of much controversy. ...

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Twitter ads are coming soon – will you love them? CrunchUp Starts Off With A Bang Tomorrow With Twitter COO Dick Costolo   —  Tomorrow's Real Time CrunchUp in San Francisco is going to be a blast. It's an all day event absolutely filled with the thought and business leaders in the space, as well as a whole slew of newcomers launching new startups. And we're starting off with a bang. Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on stage first for thirty minutes of cold war style ...

3. Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser  permalink

Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator -funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your friends on Facebook and Twitter in real-time as you browse the web. We have 500 invites exclusively for TechCrunch users. ...

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Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos   —  A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook.

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Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser Facebook, Zynga Face Class-Action Suit Over Offer-Based Ads   —  Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games—and social network users, in general—that standard banner ads couldn’t provide. But amid ongoing accusations that the ads actually “scammed” users into paying for things they didn’t want and giving up their personal info, comes the inevitable: ...

4. Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry  permalink

Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive apps for both the ...

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Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry Live Images of the New 3G BlackBerry Pearl 9100!!   —  OoohHHH BaBy!! Any BlackBerry Pearl fans out there? I know there are. And I know so many of you have been waiting for Research in Motion to release an updated version of the candybar-styled BlackBerry Pearl 81xx Series Smartphone. Good news. The wait is getting shorter, because what you're looking at in these photos is the new BlackBerry Pearl ...

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Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans   —  BARCELONA (Reuters) - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android platform.

5. RealTime CrunchUp: Win A Signed Copy Of Benioff’s ‘Behind The Cloud’  permalink

RealTime CrunchUp: Win A Signed Copy Of Benioff’s ‘Behind The Cloud’
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

Today at the RealTime CrunchUp Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the social enterprise with Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gillmor (he also introduced us to a new real-time Salesforce Chatter platform). Benioff has also signed a pair of copies of his book Behind The Cloud , which we're going to be giving away to attendees of ...

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RealTime CrunchUp: Win A Signed Copy Of Benioff’s ‘Behind The Cloud’ RealTime CrunchUp: Salesforce’s Benioff Talks Social Enterprise Strategy, Chatter And More   —  Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff is sitting down with TechCrunch IT editor Steve Gillmor and TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld to discuss the socialization of the enterprise. Benioff recently unveiled his own social strategy for Salesforce: Chatter. Debuted at the company's Dreamforce event, Chatter allows any company to ...

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Cloud Engines updates Pogoplug media sharing device   —  On Friday, Cloud Engines introduced the second generation of its Pogoplug multimedia sharing device. The Pogoplug is designed to plug into your home or small office network and let you access and share content of USB hard drives over the Internet using a standard Web browser.

6. Infoaxe Launches Real-Time Search Engine Based On Web History Platform  permalink

Infoaxe Launches Real-Time Search Engine Based On Web History Platform
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

There are a number of real-time search engines in the space, including Collecta and OneRiot. Today, at the Real-Time CrunchUp, Infoaxe debuts its real time search engine. What makes Infoaxe unique is that it doesn't tap into streams from Twitter, Facebook, or Digg for content. Infoaxe's search engine relies completely on attention data generated ...

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Infoaxe Launches Real-Time Search Engine Based On Web History Platform Microsoft Takes Users Behind Bing   —  Microsoft has launched a new site for Bing, where users can go to find out the latest features that have been implemented into the search engine (excuse me, "decision engine"). The site's called Behind Bing . "You can see each feature in action though a screencast, see me talk about why we did it the way we did (for those who like ...

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Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle   —  AP - A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.

7. Status.Net: The WordPress For Microblogs Gets A Hosted Solution  permalink

Status.Net: The WordPress For Microblogs Gets A Hosted Solution
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca , the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, that's not the goal of parent company StatusNet. Instead, the startup is looking to become something akin to a 'WordPress for microblogs'. That is to say, they make a ...

8. Knx.To Is Your Social Graph And Address Book Rolled Into One  permalink

Knx.To Is Your Social Graph And Address Book Rolled Into One
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any of your friends, from their LinkedIn profile ...

9. Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What’s Really Happening Now  permalink

Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What’s Really Happening Now
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from "What Are You Doing?" to "What's Happening?" But the new call to action might be better suited to Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp. Hot Potato is releasing an iPhone app which lets you create a stream of conversations around events based both on your ...

10. Remains Of Streamzy Picked Up, Reborn As Web Radio Service Listen.fm  permalink

Remains Of Streamzy Picked Up, Reborn As Web Radio Service Listen.fm
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch

Frustrated with the fact that Pandora does not provide its streaming service in Canada, Vancouver-based Jeff Anderson set out to build a community-driven Internet radio service of his own along with other music fanatics, and dubbed the project Listen.fm . Currently still in private beta, Listen.fm is not going to be a 'revolutionary' service, ...

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11. European startups need to work as hard as Valley ones – or forget it  permalink

European startups need to work as hard as Valley ones – or forget it
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This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I'm allowing them to post anonymously. FYI, LondonVC is a genuine VC and TechCrunch Europe has met them face to face. One of the biggest challenges for any ...

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Merck fertility drug gets European recommendation   —  Drug developer Merck & Co. said Friday a European advisory committee recommended approval for the company's fertility drug Elonva.

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Antigenics pulls European Oncophage application   —  Biotechnology company Antigenics Inc. said Friday it will not seek approval for a potential kidney cancer treatment after a European advisory committee recommended against approving the drug candidate.

12. Fingertips, a personalised online newspaper that’s not so personal  permalink

Fingertips, a personalised online newspaper that’s not so personal
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe

[UK] London-based Fingertips.net lets users create their own personalised online newspaper "from the publications they want". Or at least that's the claim. The reality is that the RSS-driven service isn't nearly as customisable as its many competitors, such as start page Netvibes or more similar aggregators like Meehive . Instead, Fingertips ...

13. Elevator Pitch – Spectives from Amsterdam  permalink

Hermione Way / TechCrunch Europe

[Holland] This week we've got Rutger van Waveren, Founder of Spectives.com, doing an elevator pitch. Spectives.com allows people to use images to keep track of the latest news from their favorite sites. Think of Spectives as a visual RSS, Alltop, or as a kind of Netvibes for visual news. Unlike RSS where you have to scan text headlines for ...

14. Cisco Lets You Access Network Security Information On The Go Via iPhone App  permalink

Cisco Lets You Access Network Security Information On The Go Via iPhone App
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

For security nuts and enterprise clients, Cisco is launching an iPhone app, called Cisco SIO, to put Cisco Security Intelligence Operations in users’ hands. The app gives giving users real-time access to security information and also lets users create personalized alerts to show security threats that could impact their network. Powered by the ...

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Cisco Lets You Access Network Security Information On The Go Via iPhone App IPhone to seize 10% of 3G market   —  China's second largest cell phone carrier said today they expect the iPhone to attract over one tenth of China's third generation (3G) users in the next couple of years.

15. Texas Instruments targets 3D gaming with Softkinetic-Optrima gesture recognition SDK  permalink

Texas Instruments targets 3D gaming with Softkinetic-Optrima gesture recognition SDK
Basheera Khan / TechCrunch Europe

[Belgium] Earlier this week, 3D gesture recognition software developer Softkinetic and VUB university spin-off company Optrima, inventor of patented 3D sensing technology announced a joint venture offering what they say is the most complete 3D depth-sensing imaging and gesture recognition interface solution on the market. It’s available now,

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Texas Instruments targets 3D gaming with Softkinetic-Optrima gesture recognition SDK Microsoft Surface SDK now available to all   —  At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 (PDC09), the Microsoft Surface team announced the broad availability of the Microsoft Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition. It has actually been available on the Microsoft Download Center (144.2MB) since earlier this month, but only now has it been made official. ...