- Fri Nov 20 4:00 AM PST 2009 Will consumers plug into home energy displays?
Dozens of companies are developing tools to ratchet down home energy use as part of utility smart grid programs, but nobody is sure which approach will stick with consumers.
- Tue Nov 17 7:15 AM PST 2009 Nintendo's Dunaway: What, Wii worry?
q&a Despite a rough several months for Nintendo, sales and marketing exec Cammie Dunaway maintains an upbeat attitude about her company.
- Thu Nov 12 4:31 PM PST 2009 Video game sales fall off a ledge in October
With total industry sales down 19 percent from a year earlier, things are looking bleak as the holiday season gets under way.
- Thu Nov 5 2:10 PM PST 2009 Lego Rock Band: When franchises breed
Rock Band's cross-breeding with the Lego universe creates a highly marketable, predictable, and yet still fun game.
- Wed Oct 28 2:00 PM PDT 2009 How the venerable PS2 made it to 9 years old
With the power of computers doubling about every 18 months, according to Moore's Law, the fact that the PS2 is still selling is pretty impressive. Can its successors follow suit?
- Mon Oct 26 2:14 PM PDT 2009 Make a run for the Borderlands
With the near ubiquitous nature of broadband-enables video game consoles, we've seen an increase in games that are intended primarily for online cooperative play. Games such as Left 4 Dead and the new Borderlands have basic single-player functionality, bu
- Thu Oct 22 10:00 AM PDT 2009 PS3: No longer the next-gen console punching bag
Although it's not a certified trend, the PS3's sales victory in September is seen as a harbinger of good things for the perennial video game console also-ran.
- Mon Oct 19 4:22 PM PDT 2009 PS3 finally wins a month
After nearly three years, Sony's video game console came out on top last month, largely thanks to the August release of the PS3 Slim and its $299 price tag.
- Tue Sep 29 5:51 PM PDT 2009 Banking Trojan steals money from under your nose
Trojan hijacks your browser, calculates how much money it can steal from your bank account without detection, transfers the money and displays fake balance information to hide its activity.
- Wed Sep 16 1:45 PM PDT 2009 Best of show: Our top five from TechCrunch50
This year's TechCrunch50 show is over, and 50 new start-ups later, we narrow it down to five of our favorites.




