HTC Mondrian and Spark Window Phone 7 handset leak

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We Send a Mole to Angry Birds HQ and Find Toys, Hollywood Deals and Swagger

Journalist Monty Munford is the only other person I know who seems to just roam the planet on a whim, finding interesting things in somewhat random countries. (Appropriately, I met him at a cricket game in Mumbai. I was researching my book on entrepreneurship around the world and he was just wrapping his latest Bollywood film.)

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Report: Facebook, Skype Plan Tight Integration

New York - Facebook is in talks with Internet telephone
service Skype on a partnership that would see a tight integration of the
service on the social network, All Things D reported, citing sources. The deal
would see Skype deploy Facebook Connect, allowing Facebook users to send SMS
messages and make voice and video calls to Facebook friends via Skype. Read the rest of this entry »

Mysterious Android tablet available from Next

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Qwiki Wins TechCrunch Disrupt: Information Consumption To Be Disrupted

The votes have been tallied. The judges have weighed in. A battlefield of twenty-seven startups was whittled down to a final, elite group of seven. And now the winner has been chosen: Qwiki has taken the top prize at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco.

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MSN Music links up with Zune Marketplace

Microsoft has announced that it is to integrate its MSN Music portal with Zune Marketplace when it officially launches in the UK.

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Nintendo 3DS To Land In The US In March. All You Need To Know.

Nintendo revealed at its 3DS press conference in Tokyo today that its glass-free 3D portable game system will hit stores in Japan on February 26 (price: $300, including a 2GB SD card), followed by the US and Europe one month later (price yet unknown). But that wasn’t all, as big N also showed the final design of the hardware, listed up quite a few cool game titles and made some other interesting announcements.

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Confirmed: AOL Acquires Tech Blog Publisher TechCrunch

San Francisco - Confirming multiple reports from yesterday,
AOL (NYSE:AOL) announced on Tuesday that it has acquired technology blog publisher and
events organizer TechCrunch. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The announcement was made by AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong onstage at
TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Founded in 2005 by Michael
Arrington, TechCrunch operates sites including its flagship TechCrunch.com,
MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, GreenTech and TechCrunchTV. Read the rest of this entry »

Video: BlackBerry PlayBook tablet announced

RIM has unveiled its rival to the Apple iPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook, at its DevCon 2010 event in San Francisco this week.

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TechCrunch Disrupt: The Backstage Pass, Day One (TCTV)

While the main focus was center stage on Monday for day one of TechCrunch Disrupt, there was plenty of action backstage— or rather just a few yards to the right to the stage, where our ad-hoc TechCrunch TV studio is located.

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