Mozilla in 2011: Focus on Performance, Video, Identity & App Stores
Yesterday, we also had a chance to interview Mozilla's chairperson Mitchell Baker at LeWeb in Paris. During this discussion, we talked about…
Articles by Frederic Lardinois
Wed, 8 December 2010
Evernote Gets Down to Business: Launches Sponsored Accounts for Schools and Companies
Evernote just announced the launch of sponsored business accounts for organizations and businesses. These new account types will give…
Tue, 7 December 2010
Twitter: We Need to Create a Better Consumption Experience for Our Users
Jason Goldman, Twitter's vice president of product, just joined TechCrunch's MG Siegler on stage at this year's LeWeb in Paris. During…
Facebook: We Spend More Time and Resources Thinking About Privacy Than Any Other Company in the World
During his keynote interview TechCrunch's editor Michael Arrington at LeWeb10 in Paris this morning, Facebook's director for the company's…
Fri, 19 November 2010
Location-Based Cola Wars: Pepsi, Coke, Foursquare and SCVNGR
Even though many location-based social networks continue to struggle to find mainstream adoption, more and more big brands are hopping on…
Low Volume and No Retweets: Ping Is Not Going Viral on Twitter
Last week, Apple launched a partnership with Twitter that allows the users of its Ping social network to send their likes to their Twitter…
Amazon Enables E-Book Gifting for Kindle
Just ahead of the holiday shopping season, Amazon has enabled a new feature in its Kindle store: e-book gift giving. Amazon's customers will…
Thu, 18 November 2010
Google Faces More Resistance in Germany as Street View Expands to More Cities
The arrival of Google Street View in Germany has not been without controversy. Indeed, thousands of Germans decided to opt out of the…
Can Gowalla's Disney Deal Help Location Check-Ins go Mainstream?
Location-based social check-in apps were the hot topic earlier this year, but things have markedly cooled down in this segment. Facebook's…
Tue, 16 November 2010
250,000 Sensors to Fight Internet Traffic Jams
RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and some parts of Central Asia is planning to install up to 250,000…
Official Google Voice App Finally Arrives on the iPhone
In 2009, the fact that Apple didn't approve Google's official app for its Google Voice telephony service was one of the big tech stories…
Google's New Honor System for Highlighting Original Journalism on the Web
A lot of content on the Web today is syndicated across multiple sites. For Google News, that's a problem, as the service has to determine…
Mon, 15 November 2010
What Facebook Didn't Mention: Microsoft Office Web Apps Come to New Messaging Platform
Facebook's newly announced messaging platform will deeply integrate Microsoft's Office Web Apps so that Facebook users can view Word…
New Study Says Cord Cutting Remains a Myth
While there has been a lot of talk about cord cutting lately - that is, cancelling your cable subscription in favor of going Internet…
Fri, 12 November 2010
Apple Launches iTunes 10.1 in Preparation for iOS 4.2 Update
Apple just launched iTunes 10.1. This new version brings support for playing videos over AirPlay and "stability and performance…
Inboxes Rejoice: Spam Volume Down 47% Since August
The total volume of spam hitting our collective inboxes continues to decline. According to the latest data from Symantec, the global spam…
Thu, 11 November 2010
Digg Adds Editors to Break News Faster
One of the issues Digg has always struggled with is that it can take quite a while before a breaking news story hits the front page. Waiting…
Wed, 10 November 2010
Zulu and Afrikaans: Google Brings Voice Search to Underrepresented Languages
Today, voice recognition works best for English and other major European languages as virtually all of the related research focuses on these…
FarmVille is Still the Most Popular Facebook App - But #2 is a Surprise
Over 16 million people watered their FarmVille crops yesterday. While AppData's Facebook app top 10 is mostly populated by games like…
Tue, 9 November 2010
Mobile Users Want Branded Apps that Are Useful, Not Just Marketing
Branded mobile apps - that is apps from companies like Starbucks, eBay or Nike - are now a standard fixture in mobile app stores, but a…
Hasbro Plans to Bring 3D to the iPhone and iPod Touch
Remember the Nintendo's Virtual Boy? In 1995, the Japanese game company launched this 3D version of its popular Game Boy. The device…
Mon, 8 November 2010
Google Launches Its Own Windows Phone 7 Search App
By default, Windows Phone 7 uses Bing as its search engine and Microsoft doesn't currently give users the option to switch to another search…
The iPad is Getting Its First Major Software Update: Here's What's New in iOS 4.2
Since its launch in early April, the iPad has only received minor bugfix updates while the iPhone and iPad touch got a major update with iOS…
Windows Phone 7 is the Mobile Reset Microsoft So Desperately Needed
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 made its debut in the U.S. today. We got a chance to give the company's new mobile operating system a spin…
