Apple Knocks Off Existing App For Patent Application

This is pretty funny. Not really funny ha ha, more funny uh oh. I’m hoping it’s just a mistake, but I also hope that Apple doesn’t file for patents so hastily that it overlooks somet

SteriPEN Sidewinder: Crank-Powered UV Water Sterilizer

There a number of ways to sterilize your water when you’re camping, traveling, or just feel like making sure. Boiling generally does the trick, but if you don’t have the time to set up the

Rdio Gaga: How Spotify’s Inferior Rival Is Playing America Like A Violin

Poor old Spotify. Less than a week after Billboard magazine reported that the music-on-demand service had “rebooted” its negotiations with US labels, rival service Rdio has just opened its

Apple Patent Diagrams Send The Wrong Message To Developers

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ralph.jpg" /> To the left, a recent diagram included in a travel app patent filed by Apple. To the right, the homescreen interface for existin

Elon Musk on the Best Way to Eat Glass [Video]

<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-204622" title="elon" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/elon.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="278" height="149" />I interviewed Elon Musk on stage

YC-Funded Whereoscope Gives Parents An Easy Way To Track Where Their Kids Are

<a href="http://www.whereoscope.com"><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/whereoscopelogo.png" alt="" /></a>Since the dawn of mankind, and probably even a while befo

Apple Applies For Bicycle Computer Patent

It looks like Apple is working on a new project. If nothing else, we know they are thinking about it due to a patent that was published today. So what’s the new project? Some type of bicycle com

Twitter's Social Graph Is About To Get Pumped Up. "Who To Follow" Is Social Steroids

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-204679" title="Rambo II ˜ Der Auftrag" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/r.jpg" />Last week, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/07/30/

Zynga Confirms Unoh Acquisition

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/5.jpg" alt="" /><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zynga">Zynga<img src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.39/t.gif" alt="" /></a> just offi

Foursquare Cleans Up Profile Pages, Hints At Key New Metrics?

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-204642" title="22" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/223.png" alt="" />In the battle of <a href="http://foursquare.com">Foursquare</a> versu

"Try Before You Buy" Section Added To App Store

Just a little FYI. You may notice a new section in the App Store next time you get on there: Try Before You Buy. This is where you’ll find pay apps that have “lite” or timed demo ver

Perhaps Not Fondly, Google's Schmidt Remembers Dodgeball "Quite Well"

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-204624" title="dd" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/dd.png" alt="" />Yesterday, Google CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/eric-

U.S. Military Bans Personnel From Visiting Wikileaks; Pentagon Asks Site To Do The 'Right Thing'

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wikileakscspan.jpg" />The controversy surrounding <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/03/u-s-congressman-calls-for-execution-of-wi

Google Books Determines That There Are 129,864,880 Books In The World (For Now)

Google Books is one of the most straightforward projects in the Google meta-project of cataloguing and indexing every piece of data in the world. The human race has, after all, only been literate for

Talent Maven Launches As A LinkedIn For Actors, Musicians, And Models

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/talentmavengoth.jpg"> Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are creating immediate, unfiltered connections between celebrities and their

Plannr, Schedule Management For Hipsters

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/benandjason.jpg" alt="" />Well here's a first, the creative folks at <a href="http://planner.com">Plannr</a> have come up with this hypothetic

Japanese Social Mobile Games Company DeNA On Track To Top $1 Billion In Revenue

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/1_ss_bandit_nation.png?w=200" alt="" title="DeNA Bandit Nation Screenshot " width="200" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-20

Lemur Driving Monitors Spy On Your Kids, Help You Drive Eco-Friendly

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Lemur-Driver.jpg" />Lemur Monitors takes advantage of your car's data port to help you drive more economically, make sure your kids are d

Twitter Is Down. Again. What The Hell Do I Do?

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-204542" title="We’re currently experiencing a high error rate on Twitter. Our infrastructure and operations engineers are responding to the incident" src="h

Indonesia Joins Blackberry Ban

The international controversy around RIM’s security measures continues to grow in size. According to the Economic Times, Indonesia is the latest country (along with the UAE and Saudi Arabia) to
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