It seems the only way you can get Arrington to talk about the CrunchPad is if some of his dear old friends ask him.
In a recent episode of the Gilmore Gang, which is a weekly podcast about technology with Arrington and other tech geeks, he stated that we will hear something shortly and that costs [...]
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Arrington: CrunchPad Great, Costs Keep Coming Down, $300 – 400 Price, Good News Shortly
November 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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Michael Arrington and CrunchPad Team Absent from Popular Mechanics Awards Ceremony
October 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Last night the ceremony for the 2009 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards was held. The day before, CrunchPad was one of the 10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009. Except the CrunchPad doesn’t exist yet and there were no representatives at the awards ceremony.
In the first post by Michael Arrington that talks about the CrunchPad since announcing [...]
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CrunchPad Named One Of The 10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009 By Popular Mechanics
October 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Popular Mechanics has listed the CrunchPad as one of the 10 most brilliant products of 2009. I guess they assumed it will be unveiled before the year end, which is very likely. This announcement will be also be in the print version of the magazine which has a circulation of 1.2 million. Surely Big M [...]
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More Satirical CrunchPads
October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The delay of the CrunchPad along with Arrington’s infamous status has attracted a number of comical tablets based on the status.
This time the story goes that a team from eSarcasm couldn’t wait till they laid their hands on a CrunchPad. So they dressed up as cleaning ladies and broke into the TechCrunch office to find [...]
Confirmed: Bugs Delay CrunchPad Release. Biggs Contradicts Arrington On Goals
September 26th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Update: See the comment below by Arrington himself.
Editor-in-Chief John Biggs of CrunchGear confirmed that the delay of the CrunchPad is attributed to bugs on the device. That’s not too surprising, we’ve pretty much figured that out by now.
The most surprising element of the post, titled “The coming tablet wars”, is the following from Biggs:
Expect the [...]
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Could The CrunchPad Be The “Next Best Thing” Tonight At Gizmodo Gallery?
September 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Rumor has it that a CrunchPad announcement tonight maybe be brewing. Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media which owns Gizmodo, said in a tweet that tonight at the Gizmodo Gallery there should be “Big gadget news. Not sneak peek of Apple Tablet. But next best thing.” Gizmodo Gallery is a NYC event started in [...]
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Arrington Shatters CrunchPad Announcement Hopes at TechCrunch50 Conference
September 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Today was the TechCrunch50 conference, an annual event that allows 50 technology start-ups to showcase their new products to 1500 attendees that included venture capitalists, corporate buyers, and credentialed press.
A few fans thought this would definitely be an ideal venue for a CrunchPad announcement from Michael Arrington. There’s been a significant amount of frustration [...]
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CrunchPad.com Redirects For The Third Time
August 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Whatever you make of this, it doesn’t hint towards much of anything. Crunchpad.com, as of today, is pointing towards a BusinessInsider article titled “Arrington’s CrunchPad Will Be ‘A Real Hit’, Says Best Buy Marketing Boss.”
For more than a month, the domain name was redirected to an Engadget piece, “CrunchPad coming in November with built-in 3G [...]
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Deadpooled Omnidrive CEO Nik Cubrilovic Now Working With FusionGarage
August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Nik Cubrilovic, the current CTO of TechCrunch and founder of TechCrunchIT and a series of technology start-ups, is working alongside FusionGarage on the CrunchPad, Asian technology community e27 reports.
Cubrilovic was the CEO of Omnidrive, an online storage service founded in 2005 that competes with the likes of Box.net. In 2008, it entered the deadpool, probably [...]
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Trooper P Takes Huge Hiatus, No Sign of Arrington Yet
August 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
As a one man news site and a full-time student, I was overwhelmed with my final exams and couldn’t write as much. Nevertheless, hopefully you have received your news from other places. I will continue writing from now.
Initially envisioned to be a “dead simple” tablet for $200, the price had seesawed between $200 and $300 [...]
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Rumor Mill: Apple Tablet To be Released In October Of This Year
July 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
China Times reports that an Apple “netbook (or a “tablet” as many call it)” is due in October of this year, which is earlier than the recent report from Piper Jaffray that said Apple will be releasing a tablet in the first half of 2010. As early as 2008, both TechCrunch and ZDNet independently said [...]
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Keith Teare Denies Rumors of Being Recruited as CEO of CrunchPad Inc. Here we go again?
July 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Successful internet entrepreneur Keith Teare has denied reports published by Silicon Alley Insider that he is being wooed by Michael Arrington to become CEO of CrunchPad Inc.
Gabe Rivera of the technology news aggregator Techmeme, tweeted that he asked Keith in person about the rumor and that he denied being recruited as CEO (Teare has also [...]
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Google Chrome OS "Leaks" Don't Even Have The Right Google Logo
July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
A person who claims to work for a company that supplies parts to Acer says they have been shown a demo of the new Google Chrome OS.
The entire blogosphere went bonanza, but here is the kicker: they didn’t even get the Google logo colors right.
Update: A fake as expected.
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The Register Reveals Hilarious CrunchPad Clone Named RegPad
July 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
It looks like the clones didn’t come out from China this time, but from the UK – and from a publication. The Register, an often satirical British technology news site, has released the phony RegPad. Designed for Reg readers, it runs on a Vulturium processor (sounds faster than Intel’s Core i7) and has a “wireless [...]
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Google "steals" Michael Arrington Concept By Announcing New Google Chrome OS
July 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Google has just announced the making of Google Chrome OS, its latest onslaught against Microsoft. Sundar Pichai, VP of Product Management, explains that users are fed up with current operating systems since they want to check email and browse the web without having to wait for a computer to boot.
FusionGarage, the Singapore start-up which was [...]
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