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| Sep 4, 2012 | Saturday Night, No Cover | We understand, you missed the last week in sports because you hate every sport that isn’t football, and also you were smelting a pig all week in preparation of your annual 'This is How I’m Spending My Life' Labor Day barbeque. As usual, VIC... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Video: This Is The Fallout: New Vegas TV Commercial | My Saturday went something like this: watched soccer and played Fallout. My Sunday went something like this: watched Formula One and played Fallout. So clearly the new TV spot for Fallout: New Vegas is important to me.
If what I’ve read abo... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Enjoying the World Cup Without Vuvuzelas, and How It May Change TV | For South African soccer fans the vuvuzela, a plastic horn, has become a symbol of the nation's passion for the game. But for the millions of viewers around the world watching the World Cup on TV, the vuvuzelas sound more like a swarm of gi... |
| Jun 11, 2010 | 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: The Ultimate Guide To Digital Delight | Today’s the big day. TechCrunch turns five years old. And oh, there’s a huge football – no, not ‘soccer’ – event kicking off in South Africa too.
Many of you will be missing the opening match(es) while you’re out celebrating our birthday an... |
| Jun 10, 2010 | How to make the most of the World Cup: Apps, Web sites, podcasts and more! | Let’s get down to business. The World Cup begins tomorrow, June 11, 2010. The tournament kicks off with hosts South Africa against Mexico at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT on ESPN in the U.S. (International readers: you’ll have to consult your local l... |
| Jun 10, 2010 | England Vs USA – It's the TechCrunch World Cup | This Saturday England will play the USA in the South Africa World Cup 2010. Personally, I’m hoping England won’t be as complacent as it was in 1950.
Back then, the first World Cup saw after the Second World War saw the two teams face each o... |
| Oct 26, 2009 | Any Given Sunday: 7 Sports Tools You Can’t Live Without | Touchdown dances, chest painters and rally caps – if you’re not a sports fan, it’s hard to understand why a perfectly upstanding citizen would wear a gigantic foam hand or engage in the politically incorrect Tomahawk chop. But if you are a ... |
| Oct 11, 2009 | Around 500,000 people watch England-Ukraine online (because that was the only way to watch it) | England lost to Ukraine yesterday, thus sullying Fabio Capello’s 100 percent World Cup qualifying campaign record. While I understand that CrunchGear is quite popular in England—we get so much fan mail from Stoke!—I also understand that man... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Hottest Girls iPhone app features topless women (causing America to freak out) | Wait, what? There’s pornography on the Internet? When did this happen? It must be, like, a new thing, otherwise I cannot understand the curiosity over a newly updated iPhone app called “Hottest Girls” [iTunes link]. It’s $1.99, and includes... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | Buy a Mac on or after June 8, get Snow Leopard for $10 | Seeing as though Snow Leopard is only $29, this just-announced $9.95 update program doesn’t have quite the same impact that it might otherwise have. Still! The deal is that if you buy a Mac on or after June 8, Apple will send you a Snow Leo... |
| May 27, 2009 | The Champions League final will be in HD on ESPNHD today | Good news, sports fans in the U.S.! It looks like ESPN will broadcast today’s Champions League final in HD on ESPNHD. Well, at least according to the schedule on its Web site. Why the network didn’t bother showing the whole tournament in HD... |
| May 19, 2009 | Footbo Raises $1 Million For Social Network Focused On The World's Most Popular Sport | As the world’s most popular sport, soccer (or football as it is called in most of the world) has no shortage of devout fans, and with the World Cup coming up in just over a year, that popularity is set to skyrocket once again. So it’s no su... |
| Apr 28, 2009 | PathQuest: The handheld GPS (concept) that looks like a compass | This will never come out, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth looking at. It’s called PathQuest, and it’s a portable GPS device that’s shaped, yes, like a compass. How this isn’t a more popular concept—GPS devices shaped like a compass—I h... |
| Apr 5, 2009 | Tomb Raider Anniversary only $5 today; New Crysis Wars free trial week soon?; ridiculous Bundesliga goal | Here’s two PC game deals you might enjoy. One is Tomb Raider Anniversary, the re-make of the original 1996 game, available on Steam for the rest of the day (sorry, caught the news late) for 75 percent off its regular price. That puts it at ... |
| Apr 4, 2009 | AT&T upgrading its network in anticipation of new iPhone | Looks like AT&T is working hard to upgrade its network in anticipation of the new iPhone. (Apparently it’s conventional wisdom that Apple will release a new iPhone this summer.) The primary benefit to you, the paying customer, is faster... |
| Mar 2, 2009 | Manchester United goalkeeper used iPod to help his team win Carling Cup | Manchester United won the Carling Cup, which is primarily a little-valued “bonus” trophy handed out in England, yesterday. Great, good for them; go for the quadruple for all I care. More important for us here, however, is the revelation tha... |
| Jan 30, 2009 | Wherein Penny-Arcade illustrates just how bad MacBook Pro overheating really is | So how hot does your MacBook Pro get? Like, hot hot or just hot? (I have an old MacBook that’s not too bad about that kind of thing.) There’s a delightful message today on Penny-Arcade about how their MacBook Pro, when left to its own devic... |
| Nov 22, 2008 | Turn your old iPod into a cigarette holder | Kiss your alveoli goodbye with this iPod+cigarette holder hack. There’s no instructions per se—merely open up your (previous generation) iPod, remove the insides, then stick your death sticks in there. It’s not so much a project as it is a ... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | Code name Shanghai: AMD's 45nm quad-core Opterons are here | AMD, Intel’s arch nemesis, is rolling out its first 45nm quad-core Opteron processors today. The move to 45nm brings lower power consumption (a decrease by about 35 percent) and increased (by 35 percent, too) “performance,” a term so nebulo... |
| Jun 16, 2008 | Footbo.com: (Real) Football Social Network Kicks-Off | For the benefit of TechCrunch’s American readers, let’s first set a basic ground rule for this post: Football = Soccer. You know, the game played 90 minutes that can end in a 0-0 draw but can still be regarded as an excellent match. With th... |