More Advertisements for Myself: Authentication Ebook Explains it All
As tech editorial writers have informed us, this has been the year of the breach. I’m shocked! My go to source for breach stats is …
Unfinished App Business From 2014: LogoGarden, MommyMeds, and More
Going through old emails as part of my end of year clean-up activities, I came across a few companies that I didn’t have a chance …
TextMe: Free Commodities and Privacy
Once upon a time, I used to write about about something called Voice over IP or VoIP. They were magical initials at least in the …
Hacking the Universe with the Astronerds
I was glad I had some time in my schedule last weekend to stop by Hack the Universe at the American Museum of Natural History. …
Open Garden’s FireChat: Mesh Solution Finds a Problem
It seemed only yesterday –actually two years ago–that I shared a coffee with Open Garden’s dynamic co-founder Micha Benoliel. He had come close to getting …
Kazoup: UK-based File Analytics Startup
The last few weeks I’ve been focused on my other channel writing about the credit card industry’s gift to insomniacs, the Data Security Standard 3.0. …
bpmonline’s Cloud-Based CRM
Another gathering of Ukraine startups happened while I was on holiday in September. Like the last few times, these events are out in San Francisco–hey, …
Meanwhile Back at NYU: Cyber Security Contest and New Entreprenurial Center
I’m finally returning to my suburban hovel after an extended holiday earlier this month. September of course means back to school so it’s a good …
Foxconn Invests $2M in AirSig
We’re back! I’m still going through emails after our French jaunt– I will miss fresh Parisian baguettes, sigh–and will probably open up shop officially next …
Brief note on StarSnap: You Oughta Be in Pictures
A little summer fun comes by way of an iPhone app that finds close enough matches of your selfie amongst celebrity photos. By the way, …
TvB’s Favorite Summer Travel Apps: Paris Edition
Right about now the blog takes a break from its usual duties– scouring the sprawling TvB contact network to find the next “yo”–to focus on …
Waiting on Lima: Ups and Downs of Watching a Kickstarter Project
Almost a year ago I wrote about a Kickstarter project formerly known as Plug. They debuted just as the Snowden revelations about Prism were making …
CE Week 2014 Snapshot
I swooped into CE Week on Wednesday, and it was satisfying to see the show continue to evolve away from its A/V box roots. This …
CE Week NYC 2014
Blogging has been a light this month because I was slogging through some other assignments. We’ll be back at it again with CE Week returning …
The New Photojournalism: Brief Chat with Fresco’s John Meyer
Lord knows journalism needs help. Sure there’re promising green shoots: data-oriented journalism, the open data movement, and crowd-sourced reporting and analysis to name a few. …
Still More Tales from Startup Alley: Chat with Kloudless’s Elliot Sun
I wrote briefly about Kloudless’s service to rationalize the cloud for the biz world. I was still a little unclear about what they were doing …
Still More Tales From Startup Alley: Mailjet
In the last year, I’ve been seeing really high-quality work done by French and Belgium startups. Here’s another to add to that list. They’re called …
Tales From Startup Alley: Klappo and Big Food Data
My Startup Alley blogging is a little delayed this year. My apologies to those who are still interested in the TechCrunch Disrupt event from two …
Tales from Startup Alley: Enigmedia
Enigmedia got my attention while I was wandering the aisle of Startup Alley. I spoke briefly wiht this Spanish company’s founder, Gerard Vidal. It’s his …
Tales from Startup Alley: Kloudless and Cloud Security
I was in email correspondence with Kloudless CEO Elliot Sun yesterday after he announced the official launch of their APIs from the Battlefield stage. What …