Josh1983 says "It is a good cd player" about Sony – CFD-ZW755 CD-Radio Cassette-Corder
This is a pretty good cd player. It’s not too big, not too small. It has a radio Tuner and two cassette decks for playing cassettes or recording. It has a sound mode butten where you can adjust the sound settings to match rock, pop, vocal, jazz, or off. It has a display for the [...]
Silicon Valley, It’s Time to Clean Up
When I first moved to Silicon Valley there was no such thing as “geek chic.” A trip through Frye’s Electronics told you everything you needed to know about engineer culture: It was a one-stop-shop for circuits and motherboards, huge bags of candy, cases of Jolt, and porn.
Things have changed a bit. Today, the hair is [...]
NSFW: Bringing Nothing To TechCrunch, And A Brand New Reality To The Unter-Trolls
I don’t know about you, but I give this ridiculously misguided experiment three weeks.
Three weeks until – at best – Arrington comes to his senses and realises that there’s a reason why I’ve been fired from every job I’ve had, most recently as a columnist for the Guardian. Three weeks until – at worst – [...]
Arrington on Twittergate: “I wouldn’t do things any differently”
As a reporter who blogs — and who has been competing against Michael Arrington for the past couple of years — I’ve been helplessly fascinated by the Twittergate debate of the last couple of weeks. It is a perfect storm of technology news and journalism ethics in the digital age, pitting widely popular microblog service [...]
Get 25 Free Business Cards from Google Voice for a Limited Time [Dealhacker]
Remember when Google was handing out free business cards earlier this year to promote profile pages? Now Google Voice is running a similar promotion, handing out 25 free business cards to the first 50,000 users to sign up. Photo via TechCrunch Presumably you’ll need a Google Voice account, then point your browser to https://www.google.com/voice/promo/iprint. (We’ve [...]
Arrington On Charlie Rose: Talks Twittergate, CrunchPad, and Competition
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington recently visited Charlie Rose for a chat about the latest news and events in technology. Michael gave his take on the Google vs. Microsoft rivalry, saying that each tech giant is going after the other’s core businesses. Michael also touched upon the latest news around the CrunchPad and Apple’s much [...]
lifeIO: A Social Media Dashboard That Combines Email, RSS, And Just About Everything Else
For many people, the web has fallen prey to information overload — from RSS readers to Email to social networks, we’ve all got vast amounts of data coming in at any given time, oftentimes to entirely different places. Many services have sprung up to try to tackle this problem, including FriendFeed, but most of them [...]
Twitter Unveils A Live-Updating Search Widget
Twitter Search is great. Unfortunately, unlike FriendFeed’s search, it doesn’t update live in real-time. Sure, for some searches, that would be annoying. But it’d be nice to at least have the option to watch a stream of incoming tweets without having to hit the refresh button. And Twitter has just unveiled a way to do [...]
TechCrunch Europe Events And Initiatives Moving On
As you may have noticed, over the last 6 months or so TechCrunch Europe has been running a fairly intense events programme across Europe. With our own, curated panel discussion and startup pitch competitions we hit Barcelona, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin and Helsinki, among many others. Some events attracted as many as 300+ people and each [...]
Another Mainstream Media Castoff Joins TechCrunch: Welcome Paul Carr
Two weeks ago the venerable UK newspaper The Guardian, facing budget cuts, fired new media columnist and author Paul Carr. Their loss is our gain – he now works for TechCrunch.
Most recently Carr wrote a weekly column for The Guardian called Not Safe For Work. He’s known for his bitingly sarcastic enthusiasm for tech companies. [...]
