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Editor's Note: This is Redpoint VC's Tomasz Tunguz' second article in a series examining trends in the public and private technology markets. Last week, we discussed four trends in the public technology markets. Today we compare the current state of the US venture capital to historical norms. First, we will examine the inflows into the venture capital market: dollars raised by venture capitalists. Then we will explore the outflows, VCs' investment pace, contrasting the dollars deployed over time. Last, we will investigate market sentiment and consequent price fluctuations.

The Samsung Galaxy S III continues to be one of the hottest Android phones we've ever seen. When I reviewed the phone, I said flat out that this is the phone you've been waiting for. And after John and I got another good look during an episode of Fly Or Die, we both gave the Galaxy S III a Fly. But one thing we haven't really addressed is durability, which is why we thought you might want to take a look at this drop test by Gizmo Slip. Spoiler Alert: I'll now be talking about the results of the video, so jump past the break if you want to watch before reading.

In the dead of summer, what's the easiest way to stay super-cool whilst keeping up with the hottest news in portable communications technology? Why, it's sticking a 120-minute cassette of the Engadget Mobile Podcast in your Walkman Sport, getting air...

Hope you got your 16GB Nexus 7 already. Google is no longer taking orders for the $249 model. It's sold out. The product page on Google Play now sports a "coming soon" message and an input field for buyers to leave their email to be notified when the 16GB model is available again. The $199 8GB is still available with a shipping estimate of 3-5 days. Citing sources close to Google, the Guardian reports that "the search giant seriously underestimated the demand for the 16GB version of its 7in Nexus 7 tablet." Orders placed through last week will be fulfilled, but due to insufficient stock, Google is no longer taking orders for the model. There's no word when the model be available again.

Startups seeking desk space in San Francisco will soon have another option to consider — the first floor of the offices of gift-giving startup Wantful, an area that it's calling the Sutter Street Workspace. It's a pretty common practice for startups, in anticipation of future growth, to move into offices that are too big for their current workforce, then rent out the excess desks to other companies. But this effort, in particular, seems worth pointing out because it's not just a few random desks, and it seems like there's some attempt to build a real community, with Wantful promising advice, introductions to investors, and invitations to brown-bag lunch talks upstairs.

While we're watching our favorite shows in HD, it's easy to forget that they live and die by ratings, and those ratings aren't always collected with the latest technology. In an effort to improve the sample size and accuracy of ratings for local TV c...

Motorola made plenty of waves when it introduced the Droid RAZR for Verizon last year, and somehow I doubt AT&T was very pleased with that move. With that one launch, Motorola instantly made AT&T's high-end line of Android-powered Atrix smartphones look chunky and downright un-sexy in comparison Now with the Atrix HD AT&T has its own vaguely RAZR-esque device to push to the masses, but how does it stack up against its forebears? Or, better yet, how does it compare to the devices that occupy the top tiers of AT&T's smartphone portfolio? As it turns out, the answer is "pretty damned well."

Huawei has its sights set on the US market. The Chinese manufacturer aims to be within the US' top 5 mobile phone companies within the three years. In order to reach that goal the company needs some impressive hardware -- and marketing. The Huawei Ascend D Quad is a fine entry into the smartphone race and now, with the MediaPad 10 FHD, Huawei has a legitimate tablet as well.

Astronomy fans rejoice! Now that you've seen the Orion Nebula, Tarantula Nebula, and breathtaking images captured by Hubble, here's yet another incredible video that looks to be a scene straight from a Star Wars film. All of these images were tak...

The day my app (AutoCAD WS) crossed one million downloads on the App Store, the first question that crossed my mind was how did I ever end up doing marketing? I was a techy product manager and never imagined myself in marketing, until my app was in a life or death situation. The startup I co-founded (which was later acquired by Autodesk) developed a CAD B2B app for engineers. After launching our product, we started marketing it by the book - crafting our positioning and working with a PR agency to approach bloggers. This didn’t work. We went at it a second and third time - tweaking our positioning and web site once again, adding more product features and writing to more bloggers. Didn’t work - again.