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I was in NYC on Wednesday, attending part of DevCon5, a two-day conference devoted to the magical HTML5 browser standard. As I was staring at a Pac-Man app during ‘The Power of Canvas” session— actually the  largest Pac-Man mazes in … Continue reading →

I’m happy for Twilio. This week they announced a JavaScript library that supports VoIP calls from within a browser. Or in their marketing words, “audio pipes for voice communications in web and mobile apps”. With a few lines of code, … Continue reading →

Summer is here and the time is right for another Technoverse list of our favorite business apps. Our files are stuffed with notes from the last few months of attending trade shows and meetups, quizzing CEOs, and testing software in … Continue reading →

The FCC’s cableCARD initiative was supposed to crack open the proprietary set-top box provided by the cable operators and give consumers more box choices. The idea was that you would purchase a PCMIA card for decrypting the cable signal and … Continue reading →

While AT&T may be boasting about the wireless side of the business in its 2Q results, Ma Bell 2.0 is still very dependent on its copper cables. True, wireless revenue has been doing the growing, rising to $14.1 billion over … Continue reading →

In 2008, Google Transit pulled up into the New York and New Jersey areas and took in a few passengers. They launched partnerships with New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the people who run the subways and buses, and New … Continue reading →

Over at “The Platform”, Cisco’s Dave Evans has posted a great infographic showing that communicating things—essentially embedded sensors —have already outstripped the number of communicating homo sapiens. That happened in 2010. By 2050 there will be 50 billion such devices—think … Continue reading →

One eyebrow-raising moment at last night’s Hoboken Tech Meetup was when former Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau said that in his new gig at Lerer Ventures, he funds one company per week. It is a good time to be a … Continue reading →

A few months ago I found myself completely captivated by a Google Street View journey I took through Rome: the Forum, Baths of Diocletian, and the Appian Way. I had missed the last two on a recent trip to the … Continue reading →

CNET has a nice, easy-to-drink article on telecom terminology perfect for this lazy July day. One of the terms they try to define is 4G. In their jargon glossary, CNET includes WiMax and LTE under the “4G” umbrella, and specifically … Continue reading →