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JooJoo arrives, is unboxed, is really real!

, Apr 2nd 2010 Discuss [1]

Conspiracy theorists start your engines: either the JooJoo really is shipping, or Fusion Garage have crafted a special unit just for Engadget to unbox and are sitting, sniggering behind their hands at our ongoing gullibility.  Mere days before the iPad is set to hit shelves, the contentious JooJoo has finally arrived and - going by the demo video which you can see after the cut - it even works, too. Read The Full Story

JooJoo on track to meet March 25th ship date?

, Mar 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

From one shipping tablet to another, and to be fair this second beast is one we had our doubts would ever reach preorder customers.  Fusion Garage's JooJoo site has been quietly updated, ditching the previous "preorder" terminology and instead taking proper orders for the tablet formerly known as the CrunchPad. Read The Full Story

Fusion Garage on Arrington suit: “sad rants of a person championing a losing cause”

, Dec 18th 2009 Discuss [2]

The TechCrunch/Fusion Garage saga continues, and as predicted the lawsuit Michael Arrington brought against his former partners over the CrunchPad/JooJoo tablet is only the start of the mud-slinging.  Fusion Garage have released a public rebuttal to Arrington's comments, suggesting that they do, in fact, own the IP involved, that they have already received $3m in funding with another round imminent, and that the TechCrunch founder's complaints are naught but "the sad rants of a person championing a losing cause". Read The Full Story

TechCrunch file lawsuit over JooJoo

, Dec 11th 2009 Discuss [2]

As expected, Michael Arrington and TechCrunch have filed a federal lawsuit against Fusion Garage, over the hotly contested CrunchPad/JooJoo web-tablet project.  The lawsuit - which you can see here - accuses Fusion Garage of "violation of the Lanham Act, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of business ideas, fraud and deceit, and unfair competition" and cites not only correspondence between the two organizations but content from Fusion Garage's now-deleted blog.  Arrington also runs through eight other points, including a passing spank to other blogs that "link to the [JooJoo] pre-sale site without disclosing [Fusion Garage's financial situation] to readers". Read The Full Story

JooJoo gets hands-on video

, Dec 8th 2009 Discuss [1]

Fusion Garage's Chandra Rathakrishnan did say he wanted to show off the new JooJoo webslate (formerly known as the CrunchPad and already mired in controversy) to as many people as possible in their webcast yesterday, and it seems CNET were first in the queue.  They're impressed by the hardware, certainly - the 1,366 x 768 12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen is described as "gorgeous", the form-factor "slim and pleasing to hold" - but they reckon the $499 price tag will end up strangling any chance of sales success. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Fusion Garage announce JooJoo (aka CrunchPad): $499 on sale Friday

, Dec 7th 2009 Discuss [8]

TechCrunch's erstwhile partners Fusion Garage are showing off what they say is their own hardware and software design, and rather than CrunchPad they're naming it JooJoo.  JooJoo has a 12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen - the first of its type in the world, Chandra Rathakrishnan claims - and a web-centric OS. Read The Full Story

CrunchPad demo on Monday as Fusion Garage CEO tells “his side of the story”

, Dec 4th 2009 Discuss [0]

A week after Michael Arrington consigned the CrunchPad webslate to the deadpool, his now-estranged partner in the venture - Fusion Garage's Chandrasekar "Chandra" Rathakrishnan - will hold a video webcast in which he promises "to share his side of the story" according to the company's PR agency, as well as briefly demonstrate the device itself.  Rathakrishnan will then go on to show the CrunchPad in various closed-door demo sessions, despite Arrington's assertions that the tablet will now not see the light of day. Read The Full Story

CrunchPad axed amid legal wrangling

, Nov 30th 2009 Discuss [1]

The CrunchPad has gone from steamrolling to just getting run-over, with project founder Michael Arrington reporting that not only has the 12-inch touchscreen web-slate been axed but a storm of legal arguments created.  In a long post on TechCrunch, Arrington details the sudden discovery that their manufacturing partner, Fusion Garage, was looking to cut them out of the business and threatening to push ahead without full ownership of the CrunchPad IP. Read The Full Story

CrunchPad “steamrolling” toward launch, may include “sponsorship” says Arrington

, Nov 16th 2009 Discuss [0]

Following speculation earlier this month that the CrunchPad web-surfing tablet had been held up - or potentially canned - after mounting production costs, project head Mike Arrington has reconfirmed that the slate is on course for release.  Speaking as part of the Gillmor Gang videocast (which you can see after the cut), Arrington said that "CrunchPad is steamrolling" and that "costs keep coming down"; however, he also said that the "something between three and four hundred dollars" price tag would be supported by "soft revenue" from "sponsorships". Read The Full Story

CrunchPad hamstrung by unexpectedly high production costs?

, Nov 5th 2009 Discuss [0]

Last we heard, the CrunchPad budget tablet was set to leap to the market this month with a roughly $399 price tag.  Now the rumor circulating California is that unexpected manufacturing expenses have delayed - perhaps even killed - the project; the Silicon Alley Insider claims that project founder Michael Arrington has been surprised by higher-than-expected quotes from suppliers. Read The Full Story

CrunchPad to arrive November, priced around $399

, Jul 31st 2009 Discuss [0]

Details of the CrunchPad tablet's shipping timetable have emerged, courtesy of developers Fusion Garage.  According to Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times, the Techcrunch-led project intends to have the CrunchPad on the market by November, in time for the Christmas holidays, with the 12-inch touchscreen device having a 1.6GHz Intel Atom, 1GB of RAM, integrated WiFi and 3G and pricing expected to be in the range of $399. Read The Full Story

Crunchpad “prototype” up for sale? We say fake

, Jul 9th 2009 Discuss [0]

We're not entirely sure what's going on here, but it looks as though a Chinese firm is attempting to sell what are claimed to be prototypes of the Crunchpad internet tablet.  Reminiscent of the "Prototype B" design, rather than the newer renders TechCrunch have been displaying, the confusing product page and Windows OS leads us to suspect that this is more about borrowing Crunchpad hype than it is selling off prototype designs. Read The Full Story
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