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Image via Wikipedia We all saw it coming and today Apple confirmed it. Dr. Eric Schmidt (Google CEO), has resigned his 3 year position on the Apple board of directors. Apple PR statement: “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately, as Google enters [...]

Justin.tv revealed today that they’ll be inviting people to a Private Beta of CamTweet, but they may be too late. Moments ago TwitCam was launched, which covers all the same functionality promised by CamTweet. After seeing a demo version of CamTweet running at TechCrunch‘s Real Time Stream CrunchUp, it took the Livestream team 10 days to develop TwitCam. Pretty amazing I think you’ll [...]

We all know about the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian. Starting in October, Symbian will provide one of the world’s largest mobile applications (or apps) database. The project is called Horizon and comes in response to Apple’s statement on Tuesday that it’s App Store hit 1.5 billion downloads in just a year. Although many manufacturers, mobile network operators, [...]

Only last week did Twitter post a message on their blog apologising for accidentaly suspending accounts and now it seems it’s happening all over again. I opened TweetDeck to see blank fields. After re-starting the app a couple of times I launched the Twitter.com webpage to see my horror, that I had been suspended. After sending a polite support message, and venting my frustration out on Facebook, [...]

You may have seen James Proud pitching at the Europas last Thursday. James Proud and Miles Noble area two man army! These guys are responsible for designing, implementing, coding and marketing the website and quite frankly, we think they’ve done a marvellous job. The idea is that the site pulls together a list of all the music you’re into, and in return provides you with a list of gigs [...]

The big announcement from @o2 this afternoon is that from 1st August all o2 customers will be able to receive Twitter messages via SMS. o2 joins Vodafone, who were the first to enable Twitter updates back in March. This comes after Twitter disabled the feature last year, as an attempt to arrange deals with Networks. Updates will be sent to your phone via text message for free, but o2 does request you [...]

We’re just on our way to The Europas. TechCrunch Europe’s First Annual Web Awards. Catch the live stream here from 6pm GMT: The actual awards start at around 8:30pm GMT. We’ll keep you updated with the winners and all the news from the event.

ScreenJelly is one of the most innovative web apps we’ve had the opportunity of playing with lately.  The idea behind it is simple, to provide a quick and easy platform for Tweeting screencapture sessions, just as you would with images (TwitPic, YFrog etc.) – and it does this very well. Without need to sign-up to the website, you can record up to a 3minute clip of your desktop activity. [...]

Image by rustybrick via Flickr The iPhone dev-team have reportedly hacked the iPhone 3GS, but they’re yet to release it – claiming worries that Apple may fix their exploit before enough people have had a chance to purchase an iPhone 3GS. But not to worry, George Hots (aka Geohot), the boy who first unlocked the original iPhone in return for 3 iPhones and a Nissan 35OZ has gone and [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife We’ve been hunting deals high and low, trying to get our hands on the iPhone 3GS at the cheapest possible price. Some of us may have been on the fence, but let’s face it, it’s not a question of “will I get the 3GS”, more “when will I get the 3GS”. So we’ve found that if you order your iPhone 3GS through Mobiles.co.uk [...]