Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s D8 conference interview with Steve Jobs has been posted in its entirety on iTunes for your higher quality, uninterrupted viewing and/or listening pleasure. It’s quite a good interview and we get to see Jobs excited, pensive, and — to quote him — pi$$ed off. A few of the points I found most interesting, after the break.
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Complete Steve Jobs D8 interview now on iTunes
This ia a guest post by Justin Davies, founder of NinetyTen , a UK-based consultancy providing mobile community and location aware solutions to companies. Davies also founded the now defunct BuddyPing , an early mobile social networking community based on the realtime location of users
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Guest post: Location-Based Services – it’s game on!
There has been lots of requests coming in for what the next Truphone Local Anywhere country should be. And we are happy to announce today that the next two countries, after Australia (which will be launching soon), are… The Netherlands and Spain We have formed relationships with Vodafone in the Netherlands, and with Orange in Spain, and will be launching in both countries towards the end of the year
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Next two Truphone Local Anywhere countries announced
It’s good to see two European startups cozy up together. AdTaily , the self service advertising platform, has signed up BlurtIt as a customer, giving potential advertisers access to the Q&A community’s 12 million monthly visitors. Of course, BlurtIt’s content is of the user-generated kind (UGC), which brands can sometimes be shy of, although AdTaily claims that its self-service system – where visitors can, with one click, become advertisers – helps to overcome this challenge
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AdTaily signs up Q&A community BlurtIt for its self-serve ad widget
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten this morning announced that it is buying France’s e-commerce website operator PriceMinister for about €200 million, reports the Wall Street Journal . The news comes less than a month after word got out that Rakuten moved to acquire US-based Buy.com for approx. the same price ($250M)
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Rakuten to acquire France’s PriceMinister for approximately €200 million
BaseKit , which lets designers build websites from a Photoshop concept without the need to write code, has secured a $2.6m Series A round from Eden Ventures and NESTA (the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). Today also sees the startup, which was a Seedcamp winner in 2008, launch in the UK and US
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BaseKit raises $2.6m for its ‘Photoshop-to-website’ service, launches in UK and US
Mendeley , “the Last.fm of research”, has rolled out new premium packages after customers requested features such as more storage and expressed a willingness to pay. If only to see the longevity of the London-based startup. Mendeley offers a secure online database for scientists, academics and researchers to store their research papers in the ‘cloud’, making it easier to share those documents with peers.
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Mendeley, the-Last.fm-of-research, rolls out premium packages to steady customer nerves
Ok, so what’s this? Porn on the iPad?! Well, not quite. The Sun newspaper is well known for retaining this throw-back tradition from the 1970s, but somehow, somehow , they’ve managed to get their infamous “Page 3 Girl” into the new iPad edition of the newspaper, despite Steve’s war on porn.
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Somehow, The Sun’s iPad app got past Apple’s ‘no porn’ rules
We’re all well aware of Twitter spam accounts but these are gradually turning nastier and nastier. They started out with – usually – pictures of nubile young women whose profile link might lead you to some nefarious site. But now they are starting to embed payloads in these links while @’ing random Twitter users to catch their attention
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Twitter spammers start sending malware via Tweets
Hoping to conquer America, touch-friendly mobile search engine Taptu is opening a US office in Denver, Colorado. But, perhaps more interesting, it’s to be headed up by former Yahoo Mobile European MD, Mitch Lazar, who joined the Taptu Board as recently as March .
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Taptu appoints ex-Yahoo mobile exec as COO to head up new US office
Today is the day that most of the UK mobile carriers are taking iPhone 4 pre-orders. But, if like me, you’re afraid of commitment – well the 2 year mobile contract kind, anyway – then you might want to hold off for now. Apple today has announced the availability and pricing of its latest smartphone SIM-free (sans contract) for British iPhone-touting wannabes shy of signing on the dotted line.
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Hate commitment? iPhone 4 goes SIM-free and unlocked in the UK
We’re changing our events policy at TechCrunch Europe. Over the last two years we’ve developed and run our own events across Europe, thanks to the unwavering and ever professional support of Petra and Rassami of 2pears . But now that the European startup scene is gradually getting its act together, we’d like to sort of “open source” our events and are looking to partner with existing events and organisations.
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Changing TechCrunch Europe events – how to work with us
Skobbler , the free iPhone Sat-Nav solution based on the ‘Wikipedia of maps’ OpenStreetMap project, is now available for the UK and Ireland. It’s already reached number 1 in the US App store’s navigation chart – not all that surprising since free beats the hefty prices of competitor TomTom and others – and its been a best selling app in Germany for more than six months, says the Berlin-based company. The app’s data (and free-ness) is powered by the community of volunteers at OpenStreetMap (OSM), whose 250,000 members report and plug holes in the maps that OSM support.
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Skobbler’s ‘do-it-yourself’ free Sat-Nav for iPhone finds its way to the UK
OnePage , founded by Warwick University alumni Oo Nwoye and Joel Gascoigne, wants to make physical business cards a thing of the past by aggregating all of your contact details online. These can include anything from your homepage address, Skype and IM handles, to your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn profile, along with a range of other social networking accounts.
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OnePage wants to make business cards a thing of the past
Last night saw the closing of a 3-day-event called STARTEurope , in Vienna. Comparable to the recent Launch48 in the UK, it gathered entrepreneurial minds, developers, investors and a bunch of Wanna-bes to build and extend startups. Over the course of the weekend startups were able to exchange with business people, other startups and ultimately had to present what they were able to achieve and accomplish within those 72 hours
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STARTEurope initiative brings out talent and products
We’ve seen how Unvarnished is setting out to create a kind of “Yelp for people” where you get reviewed as a person whether you like it or not. Now a new startup has appeared hoping to do something similar, but this time within a network that will give it significant traction from the word go: LinkedIn . Here’s how it works: A user of Duedil will be able to submit comments or “reviews,” whilst other users will be able to “reply” to them by deeming them “fair” or “unfair.” In other words it’s a kind of ‘karma reputation’
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Duedil is a new reputation system linked to LinkedIn
On June 11 (today), it will be exactly five years since Michael Arrington hit the ‘Publish’ button and started TechCrunch with his very first post . So we’re celebrating this fifth anniversary with a world-wide series of meetups today
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TechCrunch 5th year anniversary meetup in London tonight
Microsoft Europe’s communication team has used its Twitter account to make fun of Google’s latest search page feature: the ability to add background images to said page, a feature that has characterized Microsoft’s Bing search service since its debut. Google yesterday temporarily added a default background image to make more people aware of the new feature, which apparently prompted Microsoft Europe to tweet: “We’ve lost a background image, if found please return to bing.com ”.
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Microsoft Europe tweet mocks Google’s copy-cat background image feature
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 other for the first time.
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England Vs USA – It’s the TechCrunch World Cup
Apple’s iPhone app store approval process is famed for its inconsistencies , but today the developer of a popular iPhone app has had enough. Appsfire , an app for discovering popular iPhone apps, was approved in its version 1.0 form last August, but after two months its version 2.0 has not been approved, despite repeated calls by the startup to Apple, they claim
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Appsfire dumps iPhone App store after 2 month wait for update
Tweetminster , the UK politics tracker with a particular emphasis on Twitter, launches version 2.0 today. The latest features – Channels, Lists, and support for Twitter’s recently announced @anywhere functionality – brings the service closer to its goal of making it “easier for people to follow and interact with UK politics”, says the startup. Channels are described as “algorithmically curated pages that dynamically aggregate relevant content around topics”.
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Tweetminster, the UK politics tracker, gets a revamp and new features
At a press event I attended earlier this year , Three UK’s CEO Kevin Russell was repeatedly asked about why the network didn’t sell Apple’s iPhone and if it had plans to do so (along with the iPad too). Russel’s answer was that it was something that they were considering but hinted that Cupertino would need to offer a better deal first – although, ultimately, Three likes to ’swim in the opposite direction’ to the rest of the industry
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Three UK swims with the tide – iPhone 4 announced
Vodafone Essar has come out with a glittering announcement that its iPhone 4 will come off soon in India. The industry sources indicate that Vodafone may please the Indian mobile field with its iPhone in September. It is to be known whether India would be one among the 88 countries shortlisted for the launch of ….Click here to read complete post
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iPhone from Vodafone in India soon
Is Facebook just becoming the hottest new place to spread viruses and malware? This morning thousands of Facebook users are reporting that they have been hit by a malware attack in the form of a video of young bikini-clad women on a beach. The link to the video is appearing on the walls of Facebook users, apparently posted by their friends, with a thumbnail which appears to be an image of a young woman’s bottom in a bikini
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Beach Babes video hits 1000s of Facebook walls, but it’s malware
Longtime iPhone app Bump will now not only let you knock contacts between iPhones, but share with Android friends as well. Our good buddy Phil Nickinson, General Grievous of the Android Central army, got some video at Google I/O , so check it out after the jump and let us know — blissful cross-compatible future or cats and dogs living together? YouTube link Bump shares contacts between iPhone, Android is a story by TiPb .
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Bump shares contacts between iPhone, Android
FullForce for iPad is jailbreak app that will automatically format iPhone apps to the resolution of the iPad without the distortion of the 2x zoom. Anyone who owns an iPad knows that all the apps you had for your iPhone will run on the iPad, and you can zoom them in, but they get pretty grainy. It makes me sad to see grainy apps when the iPad screen is so beautiful. FullForce tries to solve that sadness
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FullForce for iPad – Jailbreak app review
In order to make standard of phone users high, domain of communication is blessed with numerous smart mobile phone deals. With the help of these deals, one can get hold of favorite handset without any hassle. Main service providers of UK are Vodafone, Three, Virgin, T-mobile, Orange and O2.
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Mobile Phone Deals – Elegant Deals!
According to numbers released by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), close to 11.2 Million new (GSM Only) mobile subscribers were added, excluding Reliance as their numbers were not published. The pace of growth has slowed after 3-4 months of record subscriber additions. In the month of March close to 14 million GSM subscribers were added whereas the figure has fallen to 11.2 Million this month
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Airtel tops mobile subscriber addition in April – Adds 3 Million .
Sure, new and notable iPhone games isn’t a theme, but with so many new and such a large swathe of notable, who needs a theme? Join us after the break to see what’s going on in the iTunes App Store this week! Genesis – Elements of Design Control forcefields and bend light to ignite suns and breath life into the universe in this puzzle game. Each level adds additional layers to the musical backing, completing the composition when you win
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New and notable iPhone games for May 21, 2010
Just like the on-iPad App Store, Apple has begun turning on the on-iPad iBookstore for international iTunes accounts just ahead of the May 28 international iPad launch. Unlike the App Store, however, which includes almost all major titles paid and free, the international iBookstore only seems to include free public domain titles.
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iBookstore goes international, public domain titles only