Apple's iPhone Issue All About Duct Tape
Apple tells reporters it will make an announcement Friday morning, but has not said what the content of that announcement will be.  The obvious speculation is that the Cupertino -based company will address growing criticism its iPhone 4 drops calls when the user holds the phone in a certain way. While the signal loss problem is not new -- an Apple engineer reportedly warned Jobs that the antenna placement could drop calls early in the design process of the iPhone 4 -- it came to a head...

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz Tells Michael Arrington to "F*ck Off"
Michael Arrington is almost as famous for founding TechCrunch as he is for irritating people. The attorney-turned-high-power blogger has a tendency to say what's on his mind, without putting careful thought into the phrasing of his opinions. During an interview at today's TechCrunch Disrupt event, he set off Yahoo! CEO, Carol Bartz (also notoriously combative) by insinuating she was leading the company astray by not focusing on search. Bartz's reply was to point out that Arrington (who...

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JooJoo Misses Promised Delivery Date, Company Delivers A "No Comment"
If I had to score the entire Michael Arrington, Chandra Rathakrishnan battle over the CrunchPad/JooJoo at this point it would go as follows: 1 point Michael, zero points Chandra. It turns out the promise to deliver the JooJoo in 8-10 weeks was a big no go from Fusion Garage and the problem doesn’t simply end there. According to Engadget , when placing a call to JooJoo and asking if the units shipped to any customers or if there were production delays they got a big “no...

Soluto Wins TechCrunch Disrupt 2010!
Soluto is looking to disrupt the software and hardware industry with its “anti-frustration” software that can “map the PC Genome.” Soluto’s Chief Product Officer, Roee Adler, hopes its terrific technology will “make the world a happier place.” Unlike almost every other startup at TechCrunch Disrupt, Soluto presented a program that runs on a machine and isn’t related to Twitter, Facebook or your iPhone. In fact, it was the only non-cloud ...