GameStop is hurting. Same store sales fell 5%-11% and revenue was down 17% to $2 billion. Profit fell to $72.5 million. Arguably, those are still huge numbers and presumably a new console refresh should push the...GameStop To Sell SIM Cards
GameStop is hurting. Same store sales fell 5%-11% and revenue was down 17% to $2 billion. Profit fell to $72.5 million. Arguably, those are still huge numbers and presumably a new console refresh should push the...The Junkman’s Dilemma: How The Internet Has Changed How We See History
Back in in 1999, just as Ebay was coming into bloom, William Gibson wrote a piece on his experiences buying expensive watches online. He called the article My Obsession and it details his youth as a picker in the 1970s.
He...Ogmento Lets You Shoot Like Jordan Or Fire Like A Tank Commander Thanks To Augmented Reality
Ogmento is a gaming company dedicated to the creation of high-quality augmented reality games. Although AR games aren't that rare - the 3DS does a few quite well and there are a number available on mobile...Makers Wanted: Are You A Hardware Start-Up? Talk To Us
We're about to launch a new video series called Makers here at TechCrunch and we'd love to hear from any and all hardware based startups. I want to hear about robots, toys, and railguns. I want to hear about new distilling methods,...Hungry Like A Wolf: How Apple Rumors Spread
Remember last week when Foxconn president Terry Gou said that he was working hard at building the new Apple TV? The rumor was, as you might suspect, patently false. But just how false is the surprising part.
Welcome to the magical world of...Never Mind The Servers: AngelPad Start-Up ElasticBox Makes It Easy To Set Up Web Apps
If your response to virtual infrastructure installations is a derisive "Boring, Sidney, booring" then maybe AngelPad startup ElasticBox isn't for you. However, if you love cloud computing like Nancy loved heroin, I think you may be...Begun, The Retina Wars Have
As we approach the E3, the electronic gaming show in early June, I suspect that the value of "retina" high-resolution displays will soon become apparent. While the prospect of retina Macbooks is all but inevitable, we have reached a plateau when...That Which We Call An UltraBook By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sleek
Yesterday, to much fanfare and resolute sentiment, HP announced a return to what made it a great company to begin with: poorly-named and generic computing devices tarted up to take on Dell. This year it's the HP...An Interview With McGraw-Hill Higher Education President, Brian Kibby, About The Future Of Ebooks [TCTV]
When you run some of the biggest and best presses in town, it's hard to imagine them ever going silent. Brian Kibby of McGraw-Hill, well known textbook publisher, would be happy to shut them down tomorrow if the need arose. He doesn't want to pay the costs of printing, paper, and distribution. He just wants...
Job You Got Leaves You So Uninspired? Apply For The Latest New Jersey Accelerator, TechLaunch
Not many people think much good can come from New Jersey. Sure there's the Shore and Boardwalk Empire, but for the most part it's "bridge and tunnel" this and Snooki that. Well that's all supposed to change thanks to TechLaunch, a new accelerator based at Montclair State University.
Noted New Jersey angel Mario Casabona founded...
Olympus Releases Rugged TG-1 Point And Shoot Camera
The latest in what I like to call pro-point-and-shoots (I'd put the Canon G12 and the S95 in this category), the TG-1 from Olympus promises high-speed, f2.0 snapshots in a body that can take a lick and, potentially, keep on ticking.
When we...Twitpic Launches An iPhone App, But Is It Too Late?
Twitpic was once the de facto standard for photo sharing on Twitter. Before Instagram and Twitter's own photo-sharing solution, the service worked a treat, allowing us to compress our photos and share them in the twinkle of an eye.
The app resided as...