Author: Adam Clark Estes

Amazon Is Reportedly Building a 3D Smartphone You Can Control with Your Eyeballs

Reuters

The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

HuffPost Is Now Recruiting Teenagers to Blog for Free

The National Union of Journalists is going to hate this

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

NBC News's Twitter Account Pulled After 9/11 Hack

The perpetratprs, called The Script Kiddies, sound a lot like LulzSec

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

Everybody Thinks the AOL-Yahoo Merger Rumor Is Ridiculous

This is the third time this has happened, and the reactions just get crazier every time

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

The AOL Email Address Debate: Stigma or Status Symbol?

Despite a few power users, there's still a stigma around using aol.com addresses

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

The Unintended Consequences of E-Books' Crazy Popularity

IKEA is redesigning their bookshelves to accommodate tchotchkes instead of hardbacks

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

Capitol Hill Finally Responds to the Anonymous Attacks

A new online security bill will punish companies that get hacked

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

AOL's TechCrunch Dilemma: Either Pay Up or Fight

What's stopping Arrington from just starting a new blog?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

The iPhone Wins Again

For the sixth consecutive year, J.D. Power ranked Apple #1 in customer satisfaction for smartphones

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

Obama Will Offer America 450 Billion Reasons to Have Hope

The Associated Press says that Obama will offer a $450 billion stimulus plan

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

Only One of Yahoo's Board Members Works for an Internet Company

A major Yahoo investor is now calling for a brand new board of directors

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

Not All That Surprising: Malware Victims More Likely to Get Mugged

If you get lots of computer viruses, you might want to watch your wallet

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

Aaron Sorkin Provides Another Reason to Get HBO

The tentatively titled "More As the Story Develops" pilot just got the greenlight to be a new series

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

Twitter Now Has 100 Million Users, Still Lacks Revenue

CEO says revenue is like breathing: "necessary" but "not the purpose of life"

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

Google Buying Zagat Makes Instant Sense

With a renewed focus on locals, Google is getting into the content business

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

Rick Perry's Galileo Metaphor Is Totally Backwards

Climate-deniers should actually be enraged about the comparison

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 8, 2011

It's Time to Break Up Bank of America

Spinning off Merrill Lynch makes some sense to some investors and none to others

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Google's Already Using Their Motorola Patents to Sue Apple

But they're being sneaky about it by transferring rights to their partners

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

The Week Before September Is Like Looking at a Different World

Alan Taylor's look back at the week before September 11

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Andrea Mitchell Announces Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Making the statement on her MSNBC show, she says she has "a terrific prognosis"

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Al Gore Is Very Disappointed with Obama's EPA Decision

What did the president expect?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Journalists Aren't So Sure About This Phone Hacking Investigation

A former News of the World reporter is refusing to answer questions from Parliament

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Get Excited About 'America's Most Wanted' on Lifetime TV

The classic crime show meets the classic women's network

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Now Would Be (Another) Great Time to Buy Yahoo

That is, if Yahoo would be willing to sell

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Yahoo Fires CEO Carol Bartz, Silicon Valley Rejoices

With a dismal 33 percent approval rating from employees, Bartz was not very popular

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

The Walmart Guide to Winning by Losing Lawsuits

A settlement for a backroom deal with Netflix turns into a marketing win

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Watch a Wildfire Devour a Field in Texas in Less Than a Minute

Almost all 6,000 acres of the Bastrop State Park burned in a matter of hours

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Michael Arrington Wants to Buy TechCrunch Back from AOL

If not that, he wants a clean break from The Huffington Post

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Reuters Snags Slate's Jack Shafer

According to New York, Shafer will join Reuters stable of opinion columnists

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Sprint Lawsuit Against AT&T's T-Mobile Takeover Could Be Useless

The underdog mobile carrier says the merger would lead to "higher prices and less innovation"

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Finger-Pointing and Confusion Dominate News Corp. Hearings

James Murdoch may be called in to testify as soon as next week

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Gunman Kills Himself and Three Others in Carson City IHOP Shooting

A gunman opened fire at a strip mall in Nevada. Police don't yet know why

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

It Wasn't Just Neanderthals: Ancient Humans Had Sex with Other Hominids

New research shows the extent to which our ancestors interbred

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Making Sense of TechCrunch's Disastrous Holiday Weekend

Journalists are angry, employees don't know what's up

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 2, 2011

The End of WikiLeaks As We Know It

What's left for Julian Assange and his organization?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 2, 2011

Iran's Nuclear Program Is Making the UN Very Nervous

The United Nations' nuclear agency is "increasingly concerned" that Iran is building nukes

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 2, 2011

EU Leaders Outlaw Syrian Oil Imports, Citing Assad's 'Massacres'

The United Nations says over 2,200 people have been killed in the past six months of unrest in Syria

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 2, 2011

News Corp.'s One 'Truly Independent Director' Departs Board

Tom Perkins has criticized the Murdochs and News Corp. during the phone hacking scandal

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 2, 2011

Almost a Million People Still Don't Have Power in New England

"It's like 'Little House on the Prairie' times," said one resident. "Except I'm not enjoying it at all"

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 2, 2011

WikiLeaks Releases All 250,000 Diplomatic Cables, Unredacted

Despite warnings of dangers, Assange's group is publishing names and all

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 2, 2011

British Police Nab Two More LulzSec Hackers

Kayla claimed to be a 16-year-old girl. In fact, she's two twenty-something dudes

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

TechCrunch's New Venture Fund Is One Big Conflict of Interest

AOL is helping to finance the company it covers

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

Lenovo's New MacBook Killer Looks Just Like a MacBook

We smell a patent infringement lawsuit!

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

So Much for Watching Sony and Disney Movies on Netflix

Starz will not renew its contract with the booming movie rental service

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

South Carolina Independents Would Vote for Colbert Over Obama

Don't get too excited, nation. Colbert is trailing in almost every other category

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

The Washington Post Is Closing Almost All of Its Local Bureaus

Insiders say that only the Annapolis and Richmond bureaus will stay open

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

Fed Orders Goldman Sachs to Investigate Themselves

In order to sell off their mortgage unit, Goldman had to make a deal with the government

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

Three Attempts at Making Sense of WikiLeaks' Erratic Behavior

Following the leaking of the entirety of the group's U.S. cables, the story keeps changing

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

What Were Russian Special Forces Doing in BP's Offices?

Putin seems like he wants to send a message to Exxon

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 31, 2011

A Peek Inside the Church of Scientology's Fake New Yorker

The cultish religious organization is giving narrative nonfiction a try

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 31, 2011

Obama's Big Bet on Solar Power Is Backfiring

Three solar panel manufacturers have declared bankruptcy in the past month

Comments | 2,145 Views

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