About Three Phase Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) Electrical systems to provide power conditioning. A three phase UPS also prevents power disturbances Three phase uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) operate in conjunction with existing electrical systems to provide power conditioning, back-up protection, and distribution for electronic [Read More]

Zynga’s Reported $7-$10 Billion Valuation Surpasses That Of EA (Source: TechCrunch) Social gaming phenomenon Zynga is raising a new $250 million round of funding that values the company at between $7 – $9 billion according to, eh hem, sources. Then Bloomberg piggybacked on the news, naming names in terms of players in the talks, including [Read More]

Millennial: For The Second Month, Android Leads iOS For Mobile Ad Impression Share (Source: TechCrunch) Millennial Media has released its monthly mobile report, and it looks like Android has continued its reign at the top of the network in terms of mobile ad impression share, after overtaking iOS for the top spot in December 2010. [Read More]

Facebook SIMs, HTC/INQ Phones — Facebook’s Phone Project Lingers, But It’s None Of Those (Source: TechCrunch) Facebook wants to be everywhere. They’ve made this very clear. They want to be on your desktop, on your laptop, on your smartphone, on your tablet, and on your dumbphone. The latter, they directly addressed  with a new SIM [Read More]

Synaptics’ New Touchscreens Can Detect The Touch Of The Head Of A Pin (Source: TechCrunch) Synaptics is the company whose products you probably interact with every day without knowing. They’re always advancing the science of haptics and touch-detection, and their latest work is the most impressive yet. What they’ve done is integrate the [Read More]

RadiumOne Unveils Social Ad Format With Likes, Shares And More (Source: TechCrunch) RadiumOne, an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads, is unveiling a new ad format today that aims to bring social elements within the actual display ad. Spawned from gWallet, RadiumOne mines social data, uses this [Read More]

With the platform burning, Nokia also talked to RIM before jumping into Redmond’s arms (Source: TechCrunch) The battle of mobile ecosystems is now a three horse race: Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Or so says Nokia CEO Stephen Elop now that the Finnish handset maker has jumped off of a burning platform [Read More]

eBay Lands First Mobile Pre-Load Deal With Telefonica’s O2 UK Phones (Source: TechCrunch) eBay’s mobile reach in Europe is about to expand exponentially. The e-commerce giant has just announced it first ever mobile pre-load deal with Telefonica, which will equip most smartphones and feature phones sold by the Telefonica via its O2 brand with [Read More]

CashStar Raises $5 Million To Send You Gift Cards On Facebook (Source: TechCrunch) Digital gifting platform CashStar has raised $5 million today in a Series B round lead by Passport Capital and Allen and Company. In the same space as BlackHawk, First Data, Gift Tango and Swag, CashStar offers SaaS and white-label solutions for big [Read More]

Android Media Player doubleTwist Hits 1 Million Active Users (Source: TechCrunch) Today, the Android media player doubleTwist reached a big milestone: 1 million active users between its mobile and desktop apps. We’ve been following the media player closely for over a year now, watching to see if it would find enough adoption to make it [Read More]

Philips Predicts LEDs Will Take 50 Percent Of Lighting Market By 2015 (Source: TechCrunch) Today, Philips announced that their Philips Ambient LED 12.5 watt light bulb — which gives off as much light as incandescent 60 watt bulbs, using less energy — attained Energy Star qualifications. It’s the first LED light bulb of this type [Read More]

What Do TMZ And The Daily Have In Common? Both Are Published On Crowd Fusion (Source: TechCrunch) A couple weeks ago at the debut of The Daily, besides the press and bloggers a few tech CEOs associated with the project were also milling about. One of them was Brian Alvey, the founder of Crowd Fusion, [Read More]

Top Prospect Connects with LinkedIn to Turn Your Talented Friends into Cash (Source: TechCrunch) The American labor market is as schizophrenic. While the bulk of the country struggles with 9% unemployment, in Silicon Valley the ease of starting a new company and huge hiring goals of companies like Google and Facebook have lead to a [Read More]

Scan Bar Codes To Search Consumer Reviews In Store With SearchReviews (Source: TechCrunch) In the same space as Buzzillions and Viewpoints, a new consumer review aggregator SearchReviews unveils itself today, allowing users to tailor searches to its over 40 million consumer reviews for over 4 million products from 1,011 retailers like ebay, [Read More]

Facebook Will Be Baked Into Dozens Of Mobile Devices This Year (Source: TechCrunch) Late last year there was a news about the upcoming Facebook Phone project, which sparked a media frenzy as the social network claimed this to be wrong, only to later admit that it did exist (the explanation being that there was no [Read More]

New Micro-VC Lool Launches in Israel. Can Better Mentoring Boost the Country’s Returns? (Source: TechCrunch) Israel has had an amazing track record of producing startups and raking in returns– better than most countries many times its size. The problem is the returns have fallen off dramatically in the last ten years as industries Israel [Read More]

Javelin Venture Partners Closes New $105 Million Fund (Source: TechCrunch) Early-stage VC Javelin Venture Partners has closed a second, $105 million fund. Javelin expects to use the money to fund around 20 companies over three years in seed and Series A rounds ranging from $500K to $3 million, and will reserve some of the funds [Read More]

TechStars Network Wants One Startup Application To Rule Them All (Source: TechCrunch) With the motto “the geeks shall inherit the earth”, TechStars is truly motivated to getting good ideas off the ground. TechStars is a seed fund similar to Y Combinator. It offers $6,000 per founder to companies that make its list for up to [Read More]

Want To Buy Into A Hollywood Movie? Now You Can (Source: TechCrunch) A company called Audience Productions has filed to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and are selling $10/share preferred stock to people who want to invest in the movie they’re creating. The movie is called “Lydia Slotnick Unplugged“: “Lydia Slotnick [Read More]

Roqbot Is A Jukebox On Your iPhone (Source: TechCrunch) Roqbot, a unique iPhone app that allows you to pick the music playing at a bar. Like a combination Pandora and traditional jukebox, Roqbot allows you to control the tunes without getting up from where you’re sitting. The inspiration for Roqbot came when one of the [Read More]

Paperless Billing Service Doxo Raises $10 Million In Series B Funding (Source: TechCrunch) Paperless billing is one of those things that is slower to take hold than it should, but it just seems inevitable that is how we all will be receiving our bills sooner or later. One startup trying to speed along the paperless [Read More]

Apple Keelhauls Music Streaming Services (Source: TechCrunch) Lots of hullabaloo about Apple’s iOS subscription product. The basics – everyone pays 30%, you can’t charge more on the iPhone for the product than you do on other platforms, and you can’t link out from the app to the browser to handle subscriptions without Apple being in [Read More]

3 Months To The First Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The Second Million For Instagram (Source: TechCrunch) Back in late December of last year,there was a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users. It took them only three months for Instagram to hit the mark. That’s crazy when you consider it took [Read More]

Deloitte: Text Messaging Still Far More Popular Than Mobile Twitter, Other Social Networks (Source: TechCrunch) Don’t tell Twitter’s Dick Costolo, but it seems everyday users are completely content with the ability to SMS their friends. So says a recent Deloitte study , which found that 90 percent of smartphone users send at least one text [Read More]

Google Crowdsources Content Farm Detection With A Chrome Extension (Source: TechCrunch) Google has launched a quick hack that allows users to block sites they don’t want showing up in their results. Aside from eliminating all search results from a given domain, the Google Chrome Personal Blocklist extension allows you to see what sites are [Read More]

With The NFC Wave About To Hit Shore, RFinity Raises Money To Make It Fast, Secure (Source: TechCrunch) Of all the interesting new tech that seems poised to garner a lot of buzz in 2011, near field communication (NFC), is probably the most exciting. If it takes off, it will transform the ways we communicate, [Read More]

HANDS ON: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Source: Mashable) Samsung just delivered another broadside against Apple in the tablet wars. After unveiling a 7-in. Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab, late last year to what became an underwhelming customer response, the Korean company upped its game, announcing a 10-in. version running a better operating system. [Read More]

HANDS ON: MiMedia Backup Now Shares With Facebook, More (Source: Mashable) Storage and backup service MiMedia has added the ability to link to backed-up photos, music and videos from 16 different social networks. At the same time, it lets you send photos directly to Facebook from their backup location in the cloud. MiMedia  is more [Read More]

Google Launches Chrome Extension to Block Websites From Search Results (Source: Mashable) Google has released an experimental Chrome extension that attempts to curb the proliferation of so-called content farms. The extension, Personal Blocklist, adds a new link underneath any Google search result that lets users remove an entire website from [Read More]

App Filters What Pages You’ve “Liked” On Facebook: Why Isn’t This A Facebook Feature? (Source: TechCrunch) The meaning of a Facebook Like has been getting more and more vague ever since Facebook changed the wording from “Become a fan” to “Like” on its Fan Pages. What’s even more frustrating than this is that there’s no [Read More]

Cooliris Gets $9.6 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Others, Releases New Version Of LiveShare Group Photo Sharing App (Source: TechCrunch) Multimedia browser plugin Cooliris, which lets you view photo and video content on the web in a more visually appealing manner (screencap above), has snagged $9.6 million in Series C financing from investors [Read More]

Maxroam teams up with Ryanair to offer free EU roaming to 78 million passengers (Source: TechCrunch) Maxroam, the mobile company out to disrupt mobile cell roaming, has signed a significant deal with Ryanair, Europe’s biggest low-cost airline which carries 78 million passengers annually. The deal is to create the world’s first free mobile [Read More]

Zendesk Brings Help Desk Software To The iPad (Source: TechCrunch) Customer support startup Zendesk is rolling out an iPad app today, which allows support agents to manage a company’s help desk on the go. Launched in 2008, Zendesk offers a web-based, SaaS-delivered help desk/support ticketing application that gives companies a simple way to [Read More]

Spanish Design Student Creates Sleek New Spotify Gadget (Source: TechCrunch) Leave it to those ambitious, young grad students to show us the objects of our desire that we didn’t even realize we desired. Thanks to Jordi Parra, an Interaction Design student at the Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden, we now have a futuristic new [Read More]

Steve Jobs On The Apple Campus Is Like A Double Rainbow (Source: TechCrunch) On Friday the WSJ published an article entitled “Apple’s Jobs Calls Shots From Home” which depicted the Apple CEO as still having a generous hand in the day to day going ons of the company despite being on medical leave. Jobs involvement [Read More]

Instagram Finally Gets A Better Website — For The Grammys. A Sign Of What’s To Come? (Source: TechCrunch) When it comes to Instagram, there are generally two complaints: 1) there’s no Android app yet. 2) the web experience is severely lacking. Today they’ve finally taken a stab at the latter. Well, sort of. The Instagram [Read More]

KindleLendingClub Forced By Amazon To Rebrand; Now BookLending.com (Source: TechCrunch) In early January, Amazon rolled out a feature that allows Kindle users to lend books to another Kindle user a for 14 day period. KindleLendingClub spawned from this feature as a way to connect people for lending their e-books. It’s easy pulling a book off [Read More]

Why Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups (Source: TechCrunch) Editor’s note: Guest author Bindu Reddy is the CEO of MyLikes, a word-of-mouth ad network funded by former Googlers. Previously at Google she managed a team of product managers in charge of various Google apps including Google Docs, Google Sites, and Blogger. Her last guest post [Read More]

Nokia’s Elop keeps pumping Meego and Symbian – but what developer will now bother creating those apps? (Source: TechCrunch) Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has been on stage tonight at a Mobile World Congress press conference talking about Nokia’s future relationship with Microsoft. Various blogs have been live blogging. But sitting back and [Read More]

Sortfix tries a different approach to improving search – suggesting better search terms (Source: TechCrunch) While few players feel able to take on the might of Google for searching, there remains a few startups out there trying to attack the problem from different angles. One of them is Israeli startup SortFix. Previously, SortFix tried [Read More]

Search Still Sucks (Source: TechCrunch) Everyone, those who tried Google for the first time a decade ago, said it was magic – the result I wanted was right there at the top. For someone who’d been using AltaVista for years before that it was a very pleasant experience. Anyone who was on the Internet before [Read More]

Lissn Strips Down To Its Skivvies: Three Anonymous People Chat While Others Listen (Source: TechCrunch) When Lissn launched on stage at TechCrunch50 in September 2009, they described it as sort of a “broader Twitter meets a simpler Google Wave“. Well, like the latter, the idea behind Lissn never really caught on. By March of last [Read More]

(Founder Stories) Fred Wilson Explains Why He Wouldn’t Invest In Groupon Or Pandora (Source: TechCrunch) Few VCs have a hotter hand right now than Fred Wilson. His firm, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare, Tumblr, Etsy, Clickable, and more . In this episode of Founder Stories, he talks to host Chris [Read More]

Intel kept in the dark over Nokia’s MeeGo plans; operators reject first device (Source: TechCrunch) Prior to the public announcement on Friday, Intel was kept in the dark with regards to Nokia’s plans to relegate MeeGo to a glorified R&D project. The U.S. chip maker, it appears, was caught off guard as were many media [Read More]

Google Explains, Apologizes For, CR-48 Spam (Source: TechCrunch) People who have received a Google CR-48 notebook, and people who’ve requested one, got hit with 100 or more emails from a newly created Google Group. Google sent out an email the evening apologizing for the emails and explaining what happened. Google was planning on launching the [Read More]

Opera Browser Heading for iPad (Source: Mashable) The Opera browser is on its way to the iPad. Opera Software says the iPad version will show up first at the Mobile World Congress being held next week in Barcelona. Although the Opera Mini browser has been available for the iPhone since last April, we haven’t seen [Read More]

Sonos Android App Controls Wireless Music Systems (Source: Mashable) This free Android control software for Sonos wireless multi-room music systems includes unique features that aren’t available on the iPhone version. If you’re not familiar with Sonos S5 wireless speakers, you can place them in any room in your house, or pair two of them [Read More]

Microsoft Unveils Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (Source: Mashable) Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (IE9 RC) to the masses, bringing the browser one step closer to a final launch. In September 2010, Microsoft released the IE9 Beta, its “reinvention of the browser,” featuring updated compatibility with [Read More]

Google Adds Extra Layer of Security to User Accounts (Source: Mashable) For those worried about the threat of being hacked — and these days, who isn’t? — Google is here to help. The company is rolling out an optional extra layer of security for all Google accounts, mostly to boost the confidence of Gmail and [Read More]