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Title: Tech Crunch

Description: A weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies.

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listed on: June 16, 2008 08:24:45 AM

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Coming Soon From Sling Media: Watch Cable TV From Your iPhone - Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:45:01 +0000

Sling Media, the company behind the popular (and very cool) settop boxes that allow you to stream cable from your house to your computer, looks like it has outdone itself. At this week's Macworld the company will be showing off its upcoming iPhone application, which effectively gives iPhone owners instant access to their Cable TVs and Tivos from anywhere they have a network connection. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait a little longer (the company says that the app will be submitted to Apple some time in Q1), but it looks like it will be well worth the wait.

Following The Twitter Hack Trail To DigitalGangster - Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:16:50 +0000

One thing that didn't make a lot of sense about the 33 celebrity Twitter accounts hacked this morning - the messages left on the various accounts weren't consistent and were clearly written by different people with different agendas.Fox News got “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay," and Rick Sanchez from CNN got "I am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today." But other Twitter accounts had links to sites to generate affiliate revenue. Facebook's Twitter account had a message pointing to getlaid.info (now shut down), which redirected to a porn site. President Elect Barack Obama's account had a link to a site that offered a $500 gas card for taking a survey. Both had affiliate links associated with them.Why were some sites simply defaced while others used to generate affiliate fees? It all seems to point back to one person that goes by "Gmz" on a hacker site called Digital Gangster (this site was also where Miley Cyrus photos were posted after they were taken from her hacked Gmail account). Gmz, says a source, obtained the account credentials for the Twitter accounts and then posted them on DigitalGanster. It was removed shortly afterward, but not before others grabbed the information and started to post on the various sites.

Full Stream Ahead: RipCode Raises $12.5 Million For Video Transcoding - Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:00:35 +0000

RipCode, a company that offers online video streaming and transcoding services, has closed a $12.5 million funding round led by Granite Ventures with participation from existing investors Hunt Ventures, El Dorado Ventures, Vesbridge Partners, and ATA Ventures. The company, which was founded in 2005, had previously raised $19.5 million in funding. As part of the deal, Granite's Eric Zimits will join RipCode's board.One of the major issues with streaming video lies in offering content compatible with the wide array of devices that can access the web. Sites are oftentimes forced to store the same video multiple times in different file formats and sizes to accommodate as many devices as possible, but this can lead to unnecessary storage and processing costs.