<img class="shot2" src="” alt=”” /> TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off this morning, with interviews with Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr and DST’s Yuri Milner. Next up, we’re discussing the future of music, TV, games and publishing. Michael Wolf, Founder and Managing Director, Activate is leading the discussion with Sarah Chubb, President, Conde Nast Digital; Fred Davis, Founding [...]

Pandigital’s Novel e-book reader. Photo: Pandigital A leading name in digital photo frames is putting its small-screen expertise to work on e-book readers. Pandigital, which has several models in our Ratings of photo frames (available to subscribers) today announces its first e-book reader. The Pandigital Novel 7-Inch Color Multimedia E-Reader uses an LCD screen, as [...]

Immediacy. This is the age we live in. I’ve got to have it now, especially information. Apple released its iPad yesterday. People couldn’t wait to find out what it was. People kid me about being an Apple fanboy. I don’t fret about that much. I’m a technology geek. I like and want to find out [...]

As they do with any major new iPhone OS release, people have been tearing apart the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK from the very second it was available. Almost immediately, someone noticed that bits and pieces of iChat had found their way into the new software. By itself, it didn’t really make sense. The iPhone has [...]

Remember Google’s Hell-froze-over, critically acclaimed Super Bowl ad Parisian Love? The one that managed to use a series of basic search queries to tell a touching love story? Now you’ve got a chance to tell a story of your own. Some time in the last few days Google launched a new feature called the “Search [...]

Atlanta-based digital music company WaTunes has come to a licensing agreement with Warner Music Group, the third major record label to sign a deal with the startup after Universal and EMI. Warner has licensed its full catalog of music for use in WaTunes’ brand new Facebook application, which essentially lets people purchase digital music through [...]

For all the credit Facebook has received for its privacy controls and user safety, the site still falls prey to an unsettling number of security issues and potential data breaches. Last month a botched code push accidentally revealed private user email addresses, and before that Facebook accidentally sent private messages to the wrong recipients. Today, [...]

c Talk about a tough choice: If you had to live without either the Internet or TV, which would it be? According to a report released Friday, it’s almost a dead heat. That’s a huge switch from the last such poll nine years ago, when TV was the handsdown favorite. Of the 1,753 Americans surveyed [...]