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Provided by: techcrunch.com12012-02-07 21:43:57web and programming / techcrunch.com /: 26 models of Trendnet webcams have been identified as vulnerable to a bug that lets anyone tap into the video stream with just an IP address. The flaw was noted a month ago and the company has been working to alert people and patch the devices. Unfortunately, the company has no way of contacting non-registered webcam owners, and so the devices may remain accessible if the users never suspect anything. It's a bit scary, but certainly not unprecedented. Although it's not quite the same thing, two years ago a school was accused of spying on its students via the webcams in school-owned laptops (the district later settled). This time, it's hackers who found their way in, and randoms on the internet who spent long hours watching the feeds.

Provided by: techcrunch.com22012-02-07 21:52:00web and programming / techcrunch.com /: If you want to slay orcs and elves, there's plenty of options, but the millions of car racing gamers out there have few places to chase the checkered flag. That's going to change because today, Ignite Game Technologies closed a $5 million Series C round from private investors bringing it to $17.5 million in funding. It will use the cash to speed up development of its recently launched Simraceway freemium game, as well as its skill matching technology. Ignite plans to hook users with high-profile licensed content, accurate physics, and addictive gameplay to get users paying to race or buy cars.

Provided by: techcrunch.com32012-02-07 21:17:09web and programming / techcrunch.com /: What started as a bit of aimless tinkering for developer Arun Thampi ultimately unearthed something very surprising about life-sharing service Path. As a fan of the app, Thampi took it upon himself to look at the API calls that the app made to Path's service and found that his "entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path.”

Provided by: techcrunch.com42012-02-07 21:33:35web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Enterprise software company Jive has just reported fourth quarter results, which represent the company's first earnings report as a public company. Q4 total revenue came in at $22.5 million, up 53% year-over-year. The company continued to take losses in terms of profit, posting a net loss of $12.7 million for the quarter (GAAP), compared to a net loss of $6.8 million for the same period last year. Non-GAAP net loss for the fourth quarter was $9.1 million, compared to a net loss of $5.7 million for the same period last year. Analysts expected a loss of $0.39 per share and revenue of $21.01 million. Within total revenue, product revenue was $19.2 million for the fourth quarter, an increase of 61% on a year-over-year basis. Professional Services revenue for the fourth quarter was $3.3 million, an increase of 21% on a year-over-year basis.

Provided by: techcrunch.com52012-02-07 21:33:42web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Yahoo has its new CEO, Scott Thompson, and founder Jerry Yang stepped down from the company and the board a few weeks ago. But all along, people have been asking when is the rest of the Yahoo board going to resign? Well, that day is today for four more directors, including chairman Roy Bostock. He was sticking around to try to oversee the disposition of Yahoo's Asian assets. It doesn't look like that is going so well. Today, in his letter to shareholders, Bostock disclosed that he would not be standing for re-election to the board, and neither would 3 other directors. Meanwhile, Yahoo elected two new board members: Maynard Webb and Alfred Amoroso.

Provided by: techcrunch.com62012-02-07 21:06:02web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Gillmor Gang Enterprise - Steve Gillmor, John Taschek, and Ben Kepes, Analyst for Diversity Ltd. Recording at 1pm PT.

Provided by: techcrunch.com72012-02-07 21:17:09web and programming / techcrunch.com /: What started as a bit of aimless tinkering for developer Arun Thampi ultimately unearthed something very surprising about life-sharing service Path. As a fan of the app, Thampi took it upon himself to look at the API calls that the app made to Path's service and found that his "entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path.”

Provided by: techcrunch.com82012-02-07 20:42:08web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Today, mobile promotion and discovery service AppsFire is launching a new toolkit for developers called App Booster. Meant to boost user engagement and retention, two of the toughest challenges developers face today, the App Booster SDK (software development kit) introduces a suite of tools for things like in-app notifications, user feedback, analytics and mobile app cross-promotion.

Provided by: techcrunch.com92012-02-07 20:43:05web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Do you remember the seventh grade? The first time your new girlfriend hated on your best friend? What about your first kiss? I don't remember any of that, but the memories came flying back to me after I saw this video. If I had to sum it up in one word I'd call it amazing, mostly because it combines three of my favorite things: confrontations settled over social networks, dramatic reenactments, and tweens' tendency to talk about matters of the heart as though they understand them. Oh, I should probably tell you what you're about to look at. This is a dramatization of a real conversation had by seventh graders on Facebook.

Provided by: techcrunch.com102012-02-07 20:02:22web and programming / techcrunch.com /: An interesting thing is happening in hardware marketing these days and I think Devin noticed it yesterday when he pointed out that Samsung, in their marketing of the Samsung Galaxy Note, is changing the script when it comes to gadget advertising, a tendency that is becoming more and more apparent in newer ads from many big players. First, let's look at the history of CE advertising. For most of the 1980s, computer marketing didn't really exist. Take a look at this gem from a 1984 issue of Analog:

Provided by: techcrunch.com112012-02-07 19:18:52web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Popular restaurant app Urbanspoon is releasing new data today related to its growth over the course of 2011. The company says its traffic is up by 80%, with mobile growth outpacing the web. The site is now seeing 28 million visits per month, with traffic now split roughly half and half between mobile and web. On the mobile side, Urbanspoon has seen 112% year-over-year growth, while on the web side, it's at 70% growth over last year. Overall, the company saw 255 million visits in 2011, up from 141 million in 2010.

Provided by: techcrunch.com121970-01-01 00:00:00web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Amy Adams has signed on to headline a feature film adaptation of Steve Martin's novel An Object of Beauty , says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . Best known as an actor and comedian, Martin has written several novels. An earlier one, Shopgirl , was brought to the screen in 2005 with Martin himself starring opposite Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman. Published in 2010, Beauty is officially described as follows: A captivating presence who naturally draws in everyone around her, Lacey Yeager appears on the New York art scene as a clever and funny young intern at SothebyAn error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: The server did not return XML. The content type returned was text/html TechCrunch is a group-edited blog that profiles the companies, products and events defining and transforming the new web. Popular restaurant app Urbanspoon is releasing new data today related to its growth over the course of 2011. The company says its traffic is up by 80%, with mobile growth outpacing the web. The site is now seeing 28 million visits per month, with traffic now split roughly half and half between mobile and web. On the mobile side, Urbanspoon has seen 112% year-over-year growth, while on the web side, it's at 70% growth over last year. Overall, the company saw 255 million visits in 2011, up from 141 million in 2010.

Provided by: techcrunch.com132012-02-07 18:41:05web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Sometimes it's the quiet ones who end up doing the most damage. I always thought of Larry Downes, the co-author of the mega-selling Unleashing the Killer App, as an unusually gentle and wise soul. But this was before Downes unleashed his all-too-critical powers on Best Buy, transforming himself from a cerebral author into a bomb throwing critic of America's leading consumer electronics retailer. In Why Best Buy is Going out of Business...Gradually, a brilliant article he published at Forbes last month, Downes finally told the truth about the terrible customer service at Best Buy. And the article went viral, of course, amassing close to 3 million page views and even forcing Best Buy CEO, Brian Dunn, to issue a response.

Provided by: techcrunch.com142012-02-07 18:37:30web and programming / techcrunch.com /: Exclusive: WibiData, the big data management startup co-founded by Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball, is announcing $5 million in new funding from NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Past investors in the company include Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and SV Angel. As we've written in the past, WibiData wants to help companies manage and analyze complex business data about users so you can predict how they are going to interact with the product in the future. Data such as email records, web histories and other interactions cannot be easily analyzed together, but WibiData aims to solve this problem. Specifically, the technology can be used for personalization for a number of web companies, including consumer web, e-commerce and gaming companies.

Provided by: techcrunch.com152012-02-07 17:44:14web and programming / techcrunch.com /: One of the more annoying aspects of starting a new jobs recently was switching email accounts — I tried figure out an easy way to transfer messages and contacts, but after a few minutes of fumbling around with my email client, I gave up, forwarded a few key messages, and then set to work rebuilding my contact list (mostly) from scratch. In other words, I could really have used something like YippieMove, a product from startup WireLoad that promises to make the email migration process as easy as possible. You just enter your account details (the company supports more than 100 email providers — co-founder and CEO Viktor Petersson says it should work with pretty much any email service that uses IMAP) and YippieMove handles the rest of the process, no software installation or constant babysitting required.

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