By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Being cool has always had a price associated with it.

Whether it is money or time, something must be spent getting up to speed or adding something new to the wardrobe.

In our case, we’re concerned with the digital wardrobe and the…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

That’s right. She picked it up over the weekend from QVC!

Vizio got a soft launch of their new WiFi Internet App TV’s out the door and with QVC. Of all the retailers that I would have expected them to court, it…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The rumors were true - Verizon has put many of their smartphones on sale during a promotion to get you signed on for two years.

Verizon’s Android and Palm powered phones are buy one get one with…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

From a random tweet came the best link of the day and maybe this lifetime.

Yesterday, someone that I follow had a link to “the greatest video ever about Liberia.” How could I not click it?

The best part is that they…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

MobileGamesBlog has a recent post that Apple has begun to block users that have jailbroken their iPhones from the App store.

I guess Apple now figures if you’re gangster enough to go rogue with your iPhone…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

When I logged into my reader this morning there was one meme that was loud and clear – Android.

With Mobile World Congress going on right now in Barcelona the…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

First Google does a Super Bowl commercial and now Microsoft is doing a phone. As Eric Schmidt from Google noted about their commercial, “Hell has indeed frozen over.”

With this new cold comes the official announcement…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Who are they?

They are the ones that are lurking, listening in that don’t have a vested interest in being a publisher. They have no concern over writing the missives that get re-tweeted and linked to.

The most important Twitter users are…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The world’s oldest cellular zygote has begun to divide. Scientific, no. Business related, yes.

Motorola is splitting off into two companies by 2011. They’ve got one year to get their mobile and cable box divisions separated from the company. The new entity…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Zemanta is a company that will help you to blog faster, and as they say, “Smarter.”

Here at Tech Startups we use it and find it indispensable. After using Zemanta with WordPress for a few weeks it becomes…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Startup Bubble Motion announced a new product called Bubbly for those that want to create tweets with their voice and have them sent back to them as SMS and audio.

The product is aimed at those…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

It is possible to spend a little over 4 years and $70 million dollars and have absolutely nothing to show for it except lawsuits and debt. Veoh just did it.

I have friends that used to do…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

For the netbook loving, penny pinching nerds out there that love to support OpenSource software there is an update for OpenOffice to bring it up to version 3.2.

I’ve been using OpenOffice for over five years and refuse…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Over at WebUrbanist they have a great post up this morning that focuses on wild shoes designs. Wild as in crazy, not what the Yettis wear.

After getting half of the way through the piece and realizing that all of these…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Yep, you read that title correctly, ‘Serial’. Oh, boy.

Like you my first thought was, “Really? My grandpop’s got an old printer he needs to connect to?”

My second thought being that is a great idea given the amount the products…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If the iPad is going to cause any sort of revolution in computing it is going to be the massive choices that people will have to buy non-Apple slates.

The number of announced slates for Android, MS and Linux is gaining everyday.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The time has come for me to give up my Virgin Mobile burner after 3 months of trusty use. It just isn’t cutting it any longer.

I’m tire of having to re-up minutes and pilfering my…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

When it comes to surface computing there hasn’t been anything that has gotten much attention since Microsoft ventured in with their ill-fated industry event show pony.

You could, um, put you hands on it and move pre-chosen images or get real…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Mashable has a great post this morning that lays out Facebook’s history in one infographic.

You can see a snippet of the graphic on the left here. I’m not going to try to steal their page views on this one,…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

For the last two weeks Diesel has been running banners all over the internet with the tagline “BE STUPID”.

I’m not sure they could have chosen a worse way to represent their brand. Even offline this is a…