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iRiver Plans Web Tablet, E-Book Reader, Android iPod Killer?

Put this one strictly in the rumor basket, but if the apparently loose-lipped product manager at iRiver’s Australian distributor is to be believed, the Korean company has the iPod Touch, Amazon Kindle, and even Arrington’s CrunchPad firmly in its sights. https://gizmodo.com/fusion-garage-crunchpads-coming-in-november-arrington-5327108 Accordingy to Current.com.au, Danny Bejanoff of local distributor C.R. Kennedy says that iRiver hopes…

Tech News Danny Allen Aug 3

Google Voice Debacle Causes Arrington to Ditch the iPhone, and With Good Reason

Normally, I’d say that TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington’s public quitting of the iPhone was a shrill, disingenuous ploy for attention and pageviews. But you know what? It’s totally legit, and Apple should pay attention. The reason he’s quitting isn’t because of AT&Ts horrible network, which everyone with an iPhone has been begrudgingly putting up with for…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 31

Fusion Garage: Crunchpad’s Coming in November. Arrington: SHUT UP, YOU DICKS

What happens when a professional leakster gets his business leaked? He gets extremely, adorably “ripshit” mad, apparently. Singapore’s Straits Times reports Arringon’s Crunchpad web tablet is coming in November, citing the device’s hardware designers. Is it true, Mike? (UPDATED) It’s not entirely clear! Says the gentleman: re crunchpad, obviously i’m completely ripshit mad about all…

Tech News John Herrman Jul 31

CrunchPad Web Tablet Landing “As Soon As Possible” for Less Than $300

Mike Arrington’s CrunchPad web tablet, already several prototypes in, is quickly bubbling to reality reports Bits: There’s going to be an announcement in July or August, and it’ll be available “as soon as possible.” https://gizmodo.com/all-about-the-crunchpad-web-tablet-5207334 Arrington’s incorporated a separate company, called CrunchPad, and has apparently spent two-thirds of the last six months working on it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 4

New CrunchPad Prototype Photos and Video

Another prototype of the CrunchPad, Michael Arrington’s web tablet, has been revealed. https://gizmodo.com/crunchpad-photos-of-techcrunchs-delicious-web-tablet-5205929 Superfically, not much has changed from the previous prototype, except the updated CrunchPad now has an aluminum case and is 18mm thinner. The software has been updated too—as you can see in the video below—and boots directly into its Linux/Webkit-based browser. As…

Tech News Andi Wang Jun 3

All About the CrunchPad Web Tablet

His baby prematurely splayed over all the internet, Mike Arrington pulls back the rest of the curtain on the CrunchPad web tablet. It still sounds fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/crunchpad-photos-of-techcrunchs-delicious-web-tablet-5205929 It’s a truly stripped little slab, designed by Fusion Garage: The “bottom-up” Linux OS it runs boots directly into a new version of the custom WebKit-based browser, with…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 10

Crunchpad: Photos of TechCrunch’s Delicious Web Tablet

The web tablet TechCrunch is working on is apparently still alive, seeing as it just showed up in Michael Arrington’s posterous. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/michael-arringtons-minimalist-web-tablet-prototyped-fu-5134201 The photos are now down from his posterous and Arrington declined to give us any more details or specs. From the techcrunch twitterfeed: fyi on the crunchpad buzz, photos were removed. apologies,…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 9

Michael Arrington’s Minimalist Web Tablet Prototyped, Fulfills (Most) Promises

Six months ago, startup pimp Michael Arrington of TechCrunch put out a call for help on a hardware project, specifically a $200 minimalist web tablet. Lo and behold, his team has made it! Well, one. This is technically the second prototype, but the first doesn’t really bear noting—it barely started, didn’t yet resemble the planned…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 19

William Shatner, Other B-Listers Start Signing Autographs In Personalized Video Form

At a time when the $2 billion per year autograph business runs rampant with counterfeits, it’s tough to ensure your memorabilia is authentic. Thanks to LiveAutographs.com, a website that shills personalized video “autographs” from B-listers like Carmen Electra, Stone Cold Steve Austin and the cast of Lost, that problem may soon be obsolete. Trekkie and…

Tech News Benny Goldman Aug 17

Michael Arrington Wants Help Designing a $200 Open Source Internet Tablet

Michael Arrington wants a $200 touchscreen internet tablet. So do a lot of people. Unlike a lot of people, Arrington is loaded and runs TechCrunch. So he’s taking it into his own hands and putting out a call for people to help him design a cheapo open source touchscreen tablet that would launch right into…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 21

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