The Lumia 930 will be Nokia’s new Windows Phone flagship smartphone outside the U.S. this summer — by which time its mobile making division will be owned by Microsoft. TechCrunch got hands on with the forthcoming flagship at a briefing in London this morning. Read on for our first impressions. Read More
Turns out the ‘G’ in Moto G stands for ‘Go!’. Motorola’s well-reviewed sub-$200 Android handset has given Motorola an unexpected boost in the U.K. — a market where the brand had gone into near-total stasis. Read More
French startup Sigfox raised a Series B round of $20.6 million (€15 million) from IDInvest and BPIFrance. Existing investors (Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures, Ixo and Intel Capital) also participated. As a reminder, Sigfox wants to create an alternative cellular network specifically dedicated to connected objects. Compared to traditional cellular networks, this network can cover a larger area… Read More
Google’s USB dongle, the Chromecast, which plugs into your TV so you can stream Google’s browser/OS over your Wi-Fi network to the big screen to watch terrible quality YouTube clips on your HDTV, has launched in 11 more markets. Read More
1248 is a Cambridge, U.K. based b2b startup, founded last year, to sell Internet of Things related consultancy, software and services to other companies wanting help to scale up connected devices platforms. It’s just closed a £250,000 ($415,000) seed round, its first external funding, with the investment coming from serial telco entrepreneur Rob Dobson. Dobson also takes up the position of… Read More
Zotrax, a Polish 3D-printer company based in Olsztyn, is raising funds through public bond issues. They will begin selling 10,000 unsecured bonds worth 1000PLN ($329) each through Invista Brokerage House to raise a total of $3.5 million. The company plans to be the only publicly traded printer manufacturer in the country when it goes public later this year. Read More
Android developers wanting a quicker and easier way to hack around with hardware should point their eyes at this Kickstarter project — called USB2Go — which is aiming to repurpose the micro USB port of your smartphone as a portal for plugging in an ARM Cortex-M3 development board. Read More
Cosy is a smart heating system being developed in Cambridge, U.K. — and aiming to ship product next month — that’s hoping to stand out from the Nest-shaped competition by offering a more fully-featured and holistic home automation system that can remotely switch on appliances as well as fire the boiler up. Read More
A powerful image, but one that does not represent today’s phone world
The European parliament is pushing to have phone manufacturers use a single type of charger for all mobile phones. According to some institutions, this would reduce the Euro electronic waste by 51000 tons and it would basically put an end to a rather stupid situation where consumers have to buy proprietary chargers each time they get a new handset (this doesn’t happen much these days…). It would also make it convenient to charge phones in many places including friends homes, office and possibly public spaces. (more…)
European Standard Phone Charger Law: Pro and Cons original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Say hey to Roboticky: a robot designed to be programmed by kids using a simplified drag-and-drop software interface on their computer. It’s getting hard to keep track of all the startups looking for cute ways to crack a hard problem: teaching kids how to code without boring them to death. Read More
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