Acer’s A100 and A500 tablets getting Ice Cream Sandwich on April 27th

With April nearly over, it’s high time Acer came clean on when exactly its promised Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for the A100 and A500 would land. Today the company did just that, revealing that US owners of either tablet can opt-in for their frozen makeovers starting on the 27th. Bad news if you’re rocking

A Sign Of The Hiring-pocalypse

Oh San Francisco, has it really come to this?

Are we now at the point where the disheveled men on street corners no longer ask for change, but rather developers? Apparently so.

I walked out of the TechCrunch offices yesterday afternoon and passed this guy. He handed me a business card, cut out of cardboard

Facebook Hackathon Could Spark The Next Great Idea

Rule number one of Facebook’s Hackathon: If you’re new, you must hack!
Facebook in Menlo Park, Calif. staged another Hackathon on T…

Zero Trace gadget bags dodge ‘digital exploitation,’ schadenfreude

Faraday bags? Oh, yeah. For the sleuthing shyster in your life, Escape the Wolf has a new range of gadget cases that are engineered with one primary purpose: to avoid technical surveillance, mobile phone tracking and remote digital exploitation. As it turns out, these guys have been lurking undercover

The Future of Connected Cars: What Audi is Driving Towards

So far in our series on car connectivity, we’ve focused on infotainment systems. It’s early in the evolution of Internet services in vehicles and up till now, it’s been all about information and entertainment. Early in-car apps have focused on music, navigation and news. The next generation of in-car

The Future of Connected Cars: What Audi is Driving Towards

So far in our series on car connectivity, we’ve focused on infotainment systems. It’s early in the evolution of Internet services in vehicles and up till now, it’s been all about information and entertainment. Early in-car apps have been focused on music, navigation and news. The next generation of

Wiipop incorporates Kinect camera and several Wiimotes into a veritable electric boogaloo

Sure, we’ve seen plenty of dancing games harness the Wii and Kinect’s unique motion capture systems, but the Wiipop prototype takes things to another level, combining the technology of both with some pro-level dance moves. The game utilizes the Kinect’s 3D camera and up to eight body-mounted Wiimotes,

12 Free Tumblr Themes to Class Up Your Blog

By the end of the year, there may be more people Googling the word “Tumblr” than “blog.” The very language of content creation…

DealAngel Helps You Find The Best Hotel Deals — Not Just The Cheapest

Not all hotels are created equal. That’s why paying $150 for a room at one hotel may be a rip-off at one hotel while it may be a great deal somewhere else — and that, in turn, is why DealAngel is launching a new way to search for hotels.

When you go into DealAngel and select your dates, the site provides

Dueling Memes: Lawyer Dog Vs. Business Cat

Lawyer Dog, a new meme that has popped up in recent days, is taking over the Internet one lawsuit at a time (see photos in the gallery above).
Althoug…