Open Garden and Google Glass
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to stop by and chat with Open Garden at TechCrunch Disrupt two weeks ago. They had interesting news about an enterprise …
And Still More from Startup Alley: make.tv’s Studio in the Cloud
Sure legacy network television may soon be wheeled off to an independent living facility. But internet TV is barely out of its crib as TV …
Still More Tales from Startup Alley: TouchToPay and Fingerprint Matching Technology
Over on another channel, I’ve occasionally written about biometric identification as it relates to privacy issues. Facial recognition matching software is an example of Minority …
More Tales from Startup Alley: phriz.be & occupy.here advocate ultra-local privacy
One of the micro themes in this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt was the emergence of privacy as a central part of an app’s value proposition. Sgrouples …
Tales from Startup Alley: Privacy Reboot from Sgrouples
Some have said that privacy is dead in the era of social media. But privacy has not been completely tossed away. In recent years, the …
Tales from Startup Alley: Mention Shakes Up Content Monitoring
Mention answers the most important question of the moment: “what’s a good alternative to Google Alerts?” There are a bunch of possibilities here, but I’d …
Tales from Startup Alley: AppsBuilder, Bellissimo
There was a small, but significant Italian presence at TechCrunch Disrupt NY this year. I had a chance to meet with Luigi Giglio, CTO and …
Tales from Startup Alley: WebKite
I would have almost passed by WebKite had it not been for Eric Silver’s advanced tech-event floor skills: WebKite’s founder cleverly got my attention by …
Tales from Startup Alley: Glide
Will Glide bring casual mobile video messaging to the masses? This Jerusalem based– I know, I did a double-take when I heard that as well—startup …
Startup Mania at New York Tech Day
Faced with 400+ startups squeezed into a narrow pier on the Hudson and guided by the official NYTD floor map conveniently organized around Family Guy …
Right to be Forgotten on Twitter
The EU’s proposed “Right to be Forgotten” has become a major point of contention for US companies doing business across the Atlantic–more precisely it’s a …
BlackBerry Z10: The Great Communicator?
After getting a hold of a review version of the BlackBerry Z10 last week, I’ve been rapidly warming up to its charms. Once you get …
Brick City Blerds Can Hack It
This morning I stopped by Rutgers B-School in downtown Newark for final presentations at Blerdology’s hackthon. For those who haven’t been following along, Blerdology is …
Revenge of BlackBerry? Brief Visit with the Z10
A few months back, I would not have been inclined to review another new smartphone for a good long time. It hasn’t escaped our notice …
Open Garden 2.0 Arrives
It was good to hear again from Open Garden. Last week they announced version 2.0 of their multi-hop, crowdsourced networking software. Those of us who …
NYC Media Lab’s Future Interfaces
I’m regretting missing NYC Media Labs sponsored get-together at Razorfish’s–holy Craig Kanarick!–HQ in midtown Manhattan. Spawned from a partnering of NYC Economic Development Corp, NYU-Poly, …
Piktochart: Infographics Made Really Easy
I’m not a designer and my web programming skills are minimal but I was able to make a somewhat informative infographic in just a few …
EU vs Facebook: Will Internet Content Have an Expiration Date?
Over on another channel, I’ve been writing about some of the grumblings towards the EU’s proposed changes to their landmark Data Protection Directive. The grumbles …
Spotted by New Yorkers: Euro Travel Site Lands in US
Spotted by Locals is one of the many tips-for-travellers sites that have popped up in the last few years. As readers of this blog already …
Coders and Journalists Combine Forces at Hack Jersey
I had always thought there was something more than a little menacing about a stretch of the Garden State Parkway near where I live. Driving …