Tech Weekly podcast: A digital election, the JooJoo and Joseph Menn on cybercrime
On this week's programme, we look back on the past 14 days of politics, and the uncomfortable love triangle that unfolded between the three main party leaders. Their allegiances flipped faster than the MP housing market, and we've been watching it all on the web
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Tech Weekly podcast: A digital election, the JooJoo and Joseph Menn on cybercrime
JooJoo aka CrunchPad launched today, and Arrington sues
Fusion Garage is launching what would have been the CrunchPad as the JooJoo, but TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has already filed a lawsuit Fusion Garage is launching the JooJoo web tablet today, but the device -- formerly known as TechCrunch's CrunchPad -- has already prompted a lawsuit. TechCrunch boss Michael Arrington says in a blog post : "Thursday afternoon we filed a lawsuit in against Fusion Garage in the Northern District of California Federal court. The causes of action include Fraud and Deceit, Misappropriation of Business Ideas, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Unfair Competitition and Violatioins of the Lanham Act" (sic). TechCrunch had been writing about the development of its CrunchPad webpad for 18 months and then, on 30 November, just before launch, announced it was cancelled . Arrington said "the entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication". But then it turned out that a small company called Fusion Garage was launching its own touch-screen tablet instead
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JooJoo aka CrunchPad launched today, and Arrington sues