I had pointed this out in a comment yesterday, but with so many press reports suggesting that Viacom's filing found some sort of "smoking gun" in the YouTube emails concerning founders talking about "stealing" videos, it's worth pointing out that Viacom appears to have taken these quotes totally out of context. Thankfully, TechCrunch is putting some of them right back into context and no...

Square is a very cool piece of hardware for the iPhone and other smartphones; when combined with the Square service, you can accept credit card payments right on your iPhone. TechCrunch reports that charity:water used Square at SxSW to collect donations, and other uses are already cropping up; flower carts and political fundraisers, for instance. If you haven't seen it in action, check out ou...

According to TechCrunch AT&T has been emailing its San Francisco customers, telling them that Ma Bell will be stepping up their game in the Bay Area. The email says: “We wanted you to be among the first to know! We recently enhanced the 3G network in the greater San Francisco area to provide better in-building 3G

Dynamic new speakers have joined the lineup at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference ( on March 30-April 1, 2010 at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California.

AT&T was criticized by iPhone users for the poor network coverage at South by Southwest (SXSW) last year. However, we are getting reports that AT&T’s network was extremely stable at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) technology and music festival in Austin, Texas. MG Siegler of TechCrunch reports: I’m happy...

TechCrunch links to noted developer Tim Bray whos taking a position as Developer Advocate at Google for Android but who announces it while taking a swipe at Apples iPhone and the closed nature of the App Store: The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits ...

According to TechCrunch, some of the worst scams in social gaming are moving from Facebook and MySpace to the iPhone: Users are offered virtual currency in exchange for answering a quiz or some other seemingly harmless offer. But once they click through and awswer the quiz questions they’re told they need to enter their ...

During a speech gave at the University of Washington a couple of days ago, Microsofts CEO Steve Ballmer said that the Redmond giant is planning on moving its products to the cloud. Cloud solutions are already popular with Google, so is this a response to their strategy? Also, the folks of Techcrunch managed to score an

Apples pruning of the app store has continued, beyond the previously reported sexy and Wi-Fi cull. According to TechCrunch, Apple has started to target cookie cutter apps, ones that were designed using a template from an app-building service. However, theyre not targeting all apps made this way, just ones with almost no functionality—mirroring a single

Following Apple's decision to remove a wide swath of sexy/adult-oriented applications from the App Store, the company is also apparently culling "cookie cutter" applications/applications built using templates from one of the many app-building services on the market. According to TechCrunch, the consensus according to developers interviewed appears that Apple doesn’t appear to be op...