Last week, Michael Arrington announced that the Crunchpad is DOA, no more, and has ceased to be.

John wrote about it on the editorial backchannel shortly thereafter:

I think that Mike made a good run at it, but in life partnerships go south all time. Translation: people screw each other all the time and it’s a sad part of the “underbelly of startups”.

What really happened? At the end of the day we really don’t know what happened. Maybe Mike’s partner figured it would cost them to much money with no real upside, maybe their was conflict over IP rights, maybe they think that the product has no chance in succeeding, or maybe they just don’t like Mike.

Something just doesn’t add up. I find it hard to believe that with so much interest from Ron Conway and a “venture capitalist” that this couldn’t get resolved. I’m sure the entire story will come out soon.

Shortly thereafter, Techcrunch’s partner on the Crunchpad, Fusion Garage, announced that they’d be holding court today at 11:30 AM CST (that is, 9:30 AM PST / 12:30 PM EST) to give their side of the story.

Sean P. Aune and I will be liveblogging it here at SiliconANGLE, and writing it up afterward.  If you weren’t lucky enough to score an invite, head on over to the liveblog and pose your questions there (and we’ll attempt to relay them should we be offered the opportunity).

UPDATE: The show is over.  Here’s the bottom line…

Fusion Garage claims that this device was under development prior to the “wish post” by Mike Arrington for something called a Crunchpad.  They’ll be releasing this thing under the name “Joojoo,” and say that other than bringing unwanted attention to an unfinished product, Techcrunch contributed nothing to the project.

I’m writing up my thoughts and impressions right now based on what I’ve watched, but right now I’m a bit ambivalent as to who’s side is right.  It’s all going to come down to documentation of the timeline.