New Windows Phone store lets you wear your ‘I heart WP’ on your sleeve

So you love Windows Phone, but how can you let the world know? Until now, you’d either have to wave your object of desire around, or keep showing colleagues those "Smoked by Windows Phone" YouTube videos. Now, you can simply wear your alliance across your chest, or favorite beverage, thanks to a new

The Re-Imagination Of Everything: I’m Pissed That The Future’s Not Here Fast Enough

I’ve seen the future, and it consists of a 5 foot eleven-inch hologram of Tupac rapping onstage with an incredibly stoned Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre at Coachella. Despite all the (consumer Internet) startups I interact with, with the possible exception of TaskRabbit, Dropbox and Uber, this pretty old-school

Sprint to charge $15 for number change starting June 10, still free via Sprint.com

A new tiered system for Sprint’s Total Equipment Protection plan? Herp. Charging customers $15 to change their Sprint phone number? Derp. Sprint’s decision to start charging moolah come June 10 when changing phone numbers via a Sprint store or Care call representative likely won’t sit well with some

Ask Engadget: best four-in-one printer, scanner, copier and fax?

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Georgi, who is risking his life, his wallet and his sanity to buy the most hated of all consumer electronics: a printer. If you’re looking to send

I Update, Therefore I Am

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the book DIGITAL VERTIGO, authored by TechCrunch columnist Andrew Keen.

It occurred to me that the corpse might make more human sense after I’d expressed myself about it on Biz Stone’s Twitter where, as @ajkeen, I had a following of several thousand followers.

Mobile Miscellany: week of June 4th, 2012

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, the LG Optimus L7 and Sony Xperia U both arrived at Fido, and Verizon Wireless unleashed some wicked LTE expansion across the US. These

AiAiAi takes its TMA-1 headphones out from the DJ box, into the Studio (video)

You pretty much can’t say (or read) AiAiAi’s name without feeling happy and performing a dancey hand gesture — or maybe that’s just us? It’s fair to say we’re fans of their work. So when we heard the Danish firm had released some new TMA-1 "Studio" cans, our ears perked up. Where as the original TMA-1s

Does A Designer Shirt At Any Other Price Point Smell As Sweet?

Editor’s Note: Sales Marketing Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech products occasionally on her personal blog, Leslie Just Joined.

Two weeks ago I sat next to Warby Parker co-founder

Meebo Gets The Classic Google Acq-hire Treatment: Most Products To Shut Down Soon

Looks like a talent acquisition. Smells like a talent acquisition.

Meebo, the chat and publishers tools company that Google acquired for roughly $100 million, is going to see most of its products shut down next month. That includes Meebo Messenger, the sharing widgets and mobile apps.

The one major

LinkedIn: New security enhancements in pipeline

LinkedIn has promised new security features above and beyond a switch to salting users’ passwords, as it continues to recover from the hack which saw 6.5m encrypted credentials leak from the site. ”We continue to execute on our security roadmap, and we’ll be releasing additional enhancements