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New York Isn't Silicon Valley. Thats Why They Like It.
One sign of a dot-com revival is the North Brooklyn Breakfast Club, for local tech types. Three of its organizers are Justin Shaffer, Dorothy McGivney and Chrysanthe Tenentes. THE two dozen or so people arranged around wooden tables, warming their hands and bellies with steaming mugs of coffee and plates of homemade biscuits, looked like just ...
The Key to Apple's iPad? Uh-Oh, It's Magic
Wizard of Cupertino Steve Jobs announced Friday morning that the Apple iPad will go on sale April 3, and with that news revealed One More Thing that even iFixit won't find: It's magic. The “iPad is something completely new," said Jobs. “We're excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product. ...
Domain Name Czar Seeks .OnlineUnity
For the last few years, policy makers and netizens have been battling over net neutrality The idea that the net is and should remain an open, fair platform where packets flow freely and web services just work, everywhere and without favoritism. And they're trying to find the best way to guarantee that. The problem is hardly ...
British Online Copyright Laws Draw Debates
An article published on Thursday in, The Guardian, discusses a debate taking place in the British Parliament around a new digital economy bill. One amendment in particular is stirring a lot of discussion about its impact on content online. The Guardian writes: The new proposal which was passed in the House of Lords by 165 votes ...
Afropop's Hip Deep Site Launched: Music Tells Story of World
Afropop Worldwide has released the Beta version of its media-rich new website to the public, a bold step towards expanding the non-profit organization's mission of connecting Americans and the global on-line community to Africa and the world through new digital and social media. The website is dedicated to the humanities-themed series Hip Deep that is part ...
iPad Goes on Sale April 3: Pre Orders Begin in a Week
Apple announced Friday that the first iPads will be available on April 3 and that the long-awaited device will be available for pre-order on March 12. The launch is for the WiFi-only version, with the 3G-enabled device on sale later in the month. The release of the 3G version will also coincide with rollout of both ...
Touchy Touchscreens
You're not crazy, and neither are we: The touchscreen on the Apple iPhone really is more responsive than the screens on the BlackBerry Storm, the Motorola Droid, the Nexus One and many other phones, even though all of these devices use essentially the same touch-sensing hardware. Though handset makers buy their touchscreens as components from the ...
White House Cyber Czar: There Is No Cyberwar
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing. There is no cyberwar, Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. I think that ...
Apple Finally Notices Amazon MP3 and Declares War
iTunes has always done things its own way. What its competitors did was not Apple's concern. After all, ITunes controls the vast majority of the download market. But that's starting to change and Amazon MP3's Daily Deal is the target. The Daily Deal usually prices a current release for $1.99 - $3.99 for a single day. ...
Guess What? Google Fears the Next Google
There are millions of entrepreneurs who want to come up with the next Google. Maybe you are one of them. You almost certainly know one. Guess what? Google is afraid of you haunted that the same disruptive forces which transformed the company from a garage project by two kids maxing out their credit cards into a ...
