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Could be. Our local technology press has lit up with a few announcements made at a conference held yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens President Nariman Farvardin is “committed” to setting up a technology incubator associated with the university … Continue reading →

Can consumers keep straight another Groupon-clone in their short-term shopping memory? NJ-based PromoVerse has plans to enter the small business deal market with a geo-aware mobile app. This Gardens State startup is purely focused on small biz. The model is … Continue reading →

In Manhattan last Thursday night,I stopped by the NY Future Mobility Meetup at BMW’s iVentures HQ on Morton street. With Bavarian Motor Works the sponsor of this meetup, you’d think the discussion would be car-centric. Kein! Instead there was an … Continue reading →

While the rest of us were having our usual Saturday nights, hackers from the New York City metro area and from far away places, like New Haven, Philadelphia, and something called Boston, coded away the night at NYU’s Courant Institute … Continue reading →

Software startups, unlike their industrial-age grandparents, don’t have to do a messy retooling of their factory to change product lines. They revamp their look-and-feel and business model after a spell of all-night coding sessions. That ain’t easy either. In the … Continue reading →

Friday morning I received a product tour of a very usable and useful SEO web service called InboundWriter. The name says it all. This San Francisco-based startup has a WordPress plug-in that gently guides non-technical creative types in boosting the … Continue reading →

One of the apps that got my attention at General Assembly’s Demo Night yesterday falls under the small business productivity tool category. It’s a genre we focus on here, so when Knack was introduced as “like Microsoft Access but on … Continue reading →

When a little free time opened up last week, I scanned my long-term task list to find “VoIP softphone for my iPad” was still unfinished business. By VoIP, I really mean SIP or Session Initiation Protocol, which is the open-source … Continue reading →

Who knew? NYU has a has an academic department devoted to the study of games. The NYU Game Center is connected with–not surprisingly–The Tisch School of the Arts, and has a quest to study game playing as a “cultural form … Continue reading →