Interesting new site launch over at GigaOM’s popular video news blog, NewTeeVee - NewTeeVee station. The site contains videos from various video sites like YouTube, Blip, etc. that have been selected by editor Liz Shannon Miller, who was previously at Variety and the Daily Reel.NTV Station is leveraging some of the tools created for Ostatic, [...]

  Google and Salesforce can’t seem to get enough of each other: over a series of announcements the companies have aligned their product strategies more and more closely over time. Now the companies are planning something new together, to be announced by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Google VP Engineering Vic Gundotra at Salesforce’s upcoming Tour [...]

  OurPlanet, a new travel site that describes itself as “trip advisor, but so much better!!!”, is launching a promotional travel tour that promises a few lucky travelers the trip of a lifetime.The site is looking for “30 lucky people that get to travel the world for one year” to rate products and services in the [...]

  MobileMe won’t be available until July, but you can at least get a feel for some of the service’s features by heading over to SproutCore and trying out their photo app. SproutCore is an open source JavaScript framework that Apple used to build some portions of MobileMe, so it isn’t surprising that the photo [...]

  250 people. 27 sponsoring startups. Countlessothers coming as guests. There’s just one word for the TechCrunch / CrunchGear Meetup in Berlin this Wednesday, June 11: Awesome. Organised with the excellent assistance of our local partner twidox, the event has been made possible by our generous sponsors, listed after the jump.Imedo.de has kindly offered to [...]

  Microsoft Live Expo, their experiment with classified listings that launched in early 2006, will be shut down on July 31, says a notice posted on the site. New listings have already been suspended.This comes as Craigslist solidifies its position as the top free listings service. Other services like Kijiji (owned by eBay) and Oodle (which [...]

  As Apple gears up for the launch of its 3G iPhone, outside developers and startups are finally going to get to sell or give away their own applications that run natively on the phone (as opposed to being optimized for the Safari browser, as are most legal, third-party apps today). These apps, which are [...]

  Check out Matt Hickey’s interview with Glenn Lurie, President of National Distribution for AT&T at CrunchGear. Here’s a snippet. Steve and his friends had a great presentation where we saw new apps for a bevy of developers, most of them pretty good looking.But the star of the show was the new iPhone 3G, a slimmer, [...]

  For the sake of time, I’ll just paste the release. Pricing for the iPhone 3G is based on a 2-year contract. Woohoo. Unlimited data plans for iPhone 3G customers will be $30/month while business users will have to pony up $45/month. Also, revenue sharing has ceased going forward between Apple and AT&T.Update: Scoot on over [...]

  Apple announced its new 3G iPhone today. It is much thinner, much faster, and much cheaper than its predecessor. Starting at $199(with a two-year contract), you get an 8 gigabyte device with GPS that works on AT&T’s high-speed 3G network (as opposed to the slower EDGE network all previous iPhones are bound to). [...]

  As was widely speculated before Steve Jobs’ keynote address today, Apple is relaunching its .Mac service as MobileMe. The service syncs emails, photos, contacts, calendars, and other information between your iPhone and different computers. It works not only on Macs, but also on Windows. It will cost $99 a year, with 20 [...]

  Update: See Our In Depth Coverage As Well:CrunchGear Interviews Glenn Lurie, President of National Distrubition for AT&THere Come The New iPhone AppsThe 3G(PS) iPhone Arrives (See The Video From the Stevenote)Apple Relaunches .Mac as MobileMe: Sync EverythingIt’s now around 8 am PDT. We’re (Mike and Mark) arriving at Moscone West a couple of hours before [...]

  What if you could look at your cell phone and see a heat map of where everybody in the city was at that very moment? The more people at any given location, the redder it would appear on the map. That’s what Citysense does. It is a mobile application that is supposed to [...]

  Back in January Slide pulled off a whopper of a financing for an effectively pre-revenue startup: $50 million, valuing the company at a cool half billion dollars. Not bad.No one was surprised to hear that arch-rival RockYou would soon close a big round of their own. And we have not been dissapointed. Today RockYou is [...]