Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, has stopped and recalled all shipments of the ‘Cougar Point’ chipset, affecting all laptops and desktops which use its new Sandy Bridge processor.
As part of the launch of Startup America, a national campaign to “celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in the U.S.”; Facebook has announced a new initiative called ‘Startup Days.’
This week’s episode of OMG/JK, the show I do on TechCrunch TV alongside Jason Kincaid, is all Google all the time. So just to even things out a bit, we kick things off by showing off my awesome new TikTok iPod nano wristwatch. For those who don’t remember, this is the result of the most successful Kickstarter project ever.
Earlier tonight, Mike posted a bombshell that must have made super angels shudder. Not content with the grenade he threw into the late-stage investing world with aggressive investments in Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, tonight Yuri Milner announced a new partnership with Ron Conway that offers similar you’d-be-crazy-not-to-take-this-deal terms for every Y Combinator company.
Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook has added the ability for users
to login and surf the site using a more secure encrypted connection, known as
HTTPS. The encryption is the same used on shopping and banking websites to
secure connections, and was previously used on Facebook when passwords are
checked. "Starting today we’ll provide you with the ability to experience
Facebook entirely over HTTPS. You should consider enabling this option if you
frequently use Facebook from public Internet access points found at coffee
shops, airports, libraries or schools," the company said in a blog post. Read the rest of this entry »
