Google has ruled the roost when it comes to free web-based productivity applications. But it was just a matter of time before Microsoft too would join the game. And it looks like that day is near. Free trials of Office Web Apps have begun as part of a technical preview...

You might just want to hold on to that Best Buy gift card a few weeks longer if you're in the market for a netbook (or regular laptop too). Windows 7, which promises to be everything Vista should have been (and the early reports are very positive), launches October 22nd. The...

The news just came in, via Twitter of course: the TechCrunch50 2009 winner, from a field of 50 start-ups, is RedBeacon. Who? Well, chances are you haven't heard of them, or just about any TechCrunch50 participant for that matter. And that's the whole point. These are potentially the (really...

TechCrunch has rapidly established itself as the go-to Blog related to technology, start-ups, venture capital and Silicon Valley. Unlike testosterone-fueled sites like Engadget and Gizmodo—entertaining enough in their own right—founder Michael Arrington's TechCrunch is more concerned with the business side of tech. Although not so much that they can't...

With Bing, Microsoft continues to go all out in a middling and perhaps doomed effort to to slow Google. The latest feature added to the new, heavily hyped (but awfully familiar, ahem...Microsoft Live interface anyone?) search engine is "visual search." Yes, what's old is new again, at least when...

Every day it seems Facebook wants to be more like Twitter. But Twitter is content to be just itself... for now. Yesterday, Facebook made two announcements, both strikes across the bow of the 140-character phenom. And both made in the typical Facebook way: laid back, casual, innocent looking blog...

Call me spoiled, but these days it takes more than a digital camera to get me excited when it comes to the latest in cool gadgets. So, on that score at least, today's product announcements from Apple had me looking elsewhere for thrills...anywhere. Solitaire. Old Kinks records. Staring at...

Sony must have Steinway envy. The original PS3 video game system was finished in a glossy black that oozed high end appeal. Maybe it even helped some buyers overlook the market leading, premium price tag. Or not. Because now Sony has slashed their video game system in a bid...

Did you hear? The new svelte PS3 is now only $299. Well, maybe you didn't know. But if Sony has its way—with radio, TV and print—you and your entire neighborhood will be all-to-familiar with the $100 price drop, and with a bland new spokesperson called Kevin Butler. Dressed business casual, with...

Apple Mac fans, rejoice! Tomorrow's Mac OS X upgrade, aka 'Snow Leopard' at only $29, is Apple's lowest priced upgrade ever. Us faithful deserve it, don't you think? Despite the discount price, there is plenty of new goodies, glossiness and features to get excited about. With all the improvements, low...