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Honeywell vs Nest: When The Establishment Sues Silicon Valley

Posted 54 minutes ago (at TechCrunch)

Honeywell filed a multi-patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs and Best Buy yesterday. The suit alleges that Nest Labs is infringing on seven Honeywell patents. Honeywell is not seeking licensing fees. The consumer electronic conglomerate wants Nest Labs to cease using the technology and is actually looking to collect damages caused by the infringement. Damages? Bullshit. This is about killing the competition. This lawsuit hit Silicon Valley and the tech world hard when it broke Monday morning. Nest Labs is the Valley's star child right now. The company, founded by the godfather of the iPod, started in a Palo Alto garage just over two years ago and successfully disrupted a stale industry so hard that it seems to have resulted in a .. more >>

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BREAKING: SV’s Sagest Soothsayers Sport Sassy Socks (Plus A Contest)

Posted 54 minutes ago (at TechCrunch)

If you're just waking up out of your post Super Bowl stupor, a crumble of Doritos dusting your chest and beer cans littering the coffee table, floor, and dog, you'll be excused for not knowing that all the greatest entrepreneurs in the world (and Om Malik) are wearing colorful socks. See, apparently dudes in the Valley wear sassy socks. It's something that's done. But why? Well, apparently wearing colorful socks helps you stand out in the dressed-down, always-on, loosey-goosey, fancy-dancing world of Silicon Valley. In a land where no one can see your bespoke suit with working cuff buttons, how are you supposed to show your power? With socks, people. With socks. In fact, fancy socks are like a gang .. more >>

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Wind tunnel office concept pitched at tropical climes

Posted 1 hour ago (at Gizmag)

By embracing wind "as an architectural element", architectural practice Betillon/Dorval-Bory believes its anabatic office concept is ideally suited to hot and humid climes. But rather than relying on natural air movement, the anabatic office seeks to create its own wind, so that energy-efficient cooling can occur where little natural wind occurs. Anabatic is a word that describes an uphill wind generated by a localized heat source... Continue Reading Wind tunnel office concept pitched at tropical climesSection:Good ThinkingTags:Architecture,Concept,Office,WindRelated Articles:AeroVironment awarded patents for wind-power systemOne of the world's greenest skyscrapers approaches completionGreen design gets a second skinOutdoor solar .. more >>

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NASA aircraft inspires what could be the world's first zero-gravity roller coaster

Posted 1 hour ago (at Gizmag)

It appears that BRC Imagination Arts, a Southern California design firm, have a zero gravity roller coaster proposal that’s waiting for a US$50 million investment. According to PopSci, BRC’s proposed theme-park ride is inspired by NASA’s astronaut training aircraft the KC-135 (aka “Vomit Comet”) and would give riders the sensation of floating within a stable chamber. .. Continue Reading NASA aircraft inspires what could be the world's first zero-gravity roller coasterSection:Aero GizmoTags:Flight,NASA,Roller Coaster,Simulator,SpaceRelated Articles:New Boardwalk Bullet roller coaster opens in TexasFerrari rollercoaster to allow 'overtaking'First visitors enter Ferrari WorldXcelerator Rollercoaster brings .. more >>

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Acer Comes After Former CEO Gianfranco Lanci For Breach Of Non-Compete

Posted 3 hours ago (at TechCrunch)

Good morning, and welcome to our Tuesday edition of People Suing Each Other. In the far corner, we have the number four PC maker in the world, Acer, based out of Taiwan; and in the other corner we have Acer former CEO Gianfranco Lanci, based out of Italy, who resigned in February of 2011 after being with the company since 2007. The beef? Well, according to the Financial Times, Mr. Lanci signed a non-compete contract with Acer that was meant to last a full year after his resignation. However, Lanci instead hopped on the Lenovo train in September (about seven months after leaving Acer) as a consultant, at which point he was made the head of Lenovo's Europe, Middle East and Africa businesses last month. .. more >>

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MeetingBurner Debuts Sleek, Webinar Platform To Rival WebEx

Posted 3 hours ago (at TechCrunch)

Because I live in Chicago, I tend to conduct a lot of demos and meetings with startups and companies over webinar products like GoToMeeting or WebEx. While they get the job done for the most part, the UI is clunky and slow. Today, MeetingBurner is releasing its sleek, fast, and easy-to-use remote meeting product to the public. And the first 200 signups here will receive a free MeetingBurner Pro account. MeetingBurner, which is exiting beta today, offers a download-free interface lets participants join a meeting via a link sent to their email. Not only is it the load time fast, but the interface is simple and easy to use. Meeting attendees have the option of joining via phone or Skype. Administrators can record meetings, and share on .. more >>

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Facebook may release more user data - students

Posted 4 hours ago (at Reuters)

VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on .. more >>

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Want To Get Poached? Try JobPoacher

Posted 5 hours ago (at TechCrunch)

Judging from every single TechCruncher's inbox word on the street, there are job poachers amongst us. That's cool, all's fair in love and war and technology recruiting, right? Except when it's not which, in a world filled with people who just want to win at any cost, is pretty damn often. But let's pretend for a second that you're not as fantastic and amazing and desired as a TechCrunch writer. What happens if you want to be poached!? Well, If you're actively looking to be recruited like the rare species of programming fauna that you are, look no further than Job Poacher, which allows people who are in the market for a new employer to advertise as such, .. more >>

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While 3D printers build, iModela carves

Posted 6 hours ago (at Gizmag)

3D printers are certainly hot technology these days, with machines like the Printrbot, MakerBot and Cubify launching on a regular basis. But while most of these devices focus on building something from the ground up, Roland DG has unveiled a new machine that does the exact opposite. Rather than slowly building a model by adding layers of material, the iModela iM-01 3D Modeling Machine carves its creations down from a larger block of material, like a small, automated sculptor... Continue Reading While 3D printers build, iModela carvesSection:ElectronicsTags:3D Printer,RolandRelated Articles:Printrbot has designs on making 3D printing simpleNew printer produces 3D objects on demandNo assembly required for Cubify 3D printerSony Ericsson .. more >>

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Hackers sought $50,000 from Symantec for anti-virus blueprint

Posted 7 hours ago (at Reuters)

(Reuters) - Hackers sought $50,000 from U.S. anti-virus firm Symantec Corp in return for the stolen blueprints to its flagship products under what the company says was a sting operation run by an undisclosed law enforcement agency via .. more >>

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Daily Crunch: Myopic

Posted 8 hours ago (at TechCrunch)

Here’s a selection of recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Brinno Peephole Viewer Is A Viewer For Peepholes LL Cool G: Ladies Love Cool Gadgets Too, Says Study Real Augmented Reality Google Goggles In Prototype Stage? Report: Samsung Planning A Full Line Of Galaxy S3 Phones, First Model To Hit This .. more >>

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Ferrari launches 2012 Formula One tilt with F2012

Posted 8 hours ago (at Gizmag)

With the northern Italian town of Maranello draped in snow, Ferrari Scuderia's launch of its 2012 F1 contender - the F2012 - had to rely on the internet. It may not have had the same pizzaz, but the show did go on. Along with repositioned radiators, the most obvious change is to the rear, where exhaust flows, both engine, radiator as well as aerodynamic air flows have been impacted by the new regulations that stipulate the exhausts must now exit within a very tight space at the rear of the car in order to minimize their aerodynamic influence... Continue Reading Ferrari launches 2012 Formula One tilt with F2012Section:AutomotiveTags:F1,F2012,Ferrari,Pirelli,RacingRelated Articles:McLaren the first of the big F1 launchesFerrari 599XX .. more >>

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Online gaming firm 888's full-year rev up 26 pct

Posted 9 hours ago (at Reuters)

REUTERS - British online gaming company 888 Holdings saw its full-year revenue grow 26 percent as the number of customers gambling on its websites grew, and the company said strong current trading continues into the first .. more >>

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Those Millions On Facebook? They Actually Visit, And It’s Not A Huge Deal Anyway.

Posted 10 hours ago (at TechCrunch)

Traffic numbers provided by companies should always be questioned -- I mean, of course each company is going to try to present the data in a way that makes them look as good as possible. Which is what New York Times finance writer Andrew Ross Sorkin has understandably done, going to town on Facebook for how it counts its active users, in an article out tonight called "Those Millions On Facebook? Some May Not Actually .. more >>