Now this is just plain cool.
Tired of waiting for Apple or Dell or Sony to put out a killer-app tablet that won’t break the bank, tech site TechCrunch.com took the initiative to make it happen on their own. The result is the CrunchPad, and despite all odds, it actually seems to be happening.

TechCrunch’s idea is simple: create a very thin, light touch screen device that has no hard drive and exists solely to surf the web. Upon investigating, TC’s Michael Arrington discovered that such a gadget could be constructed for less than $250, and sold for less than $300.
They’ve been …read more

Was it a case of bad planning, low expectations or just a complete oversight? Did anyone think about how popular Microsoft’s Photosynth application from Microsoft Live Labs was actually going to be?
When I talked about Photosynth back in May I barely gave it any thought at all.
Perhaps the most famous of them is the Photosynth application. This takes a collection of images from the same place and stitches them together into a sort of 3D virtual image of the location.

I thought the technology itself sounded like it would be interesting, but I didn’t really think it would gain much …read more

I was working on a blog post the other day about whether or not the Google Toolbar was a trojan horse for online advertising targeting. I was referencing a post on TechCrunch that talked about it and in their post they had a video of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer talking about the issue.
The video was labeled as being from the Washington Post. When I tried to paste the embed code into my post in Windows Live Writer, Internet Explorer tried to keep opening new IE windows one right after another.
I have no idea what was happening or why, …read more

What’s changed?
TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Yahoo are announcing a search partnership today at 1:30pm.
Update: everything I’m hearing says that the companies will be announcing a search partnership of some sort at 1:30. Since we’re talking about public companies here, I want to stress that this has not been confirmed by either Yahoo or Google at this point.

It wasn’t long ago that I wrote about Yahoo! managers not wanting a Google partnership. Do they now want one because Microsoft isn’t interested anymore and they think that’s all they’ve got now?
I just can’t imagine this not being considered …read more