More Tales from Startup Alley: Qmerce’s Social Game App
There was a significant Israeli presence at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt NY. I met with a few companies at their pavilion, and most of the …
More Tales from Startup Alley: KipCall’s number-free VoIP App
KipCall is a modest VoIP app that I came across at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Similar to a few other well-known consumer models wherein you don’t …
Tales from Startup Alley: Snooozy’s Live Polling for TV Stations
Snooozy is another one of those disruptive apps that brings formerly expensive technology to an underserved market. In this case, it’s live polling technology now …
Tales from Startup Alley: Uberconference Disrupts Voice Conferencing
Hard to believe, but there are two great conferencing apps at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. I just wrote about Oovoo and what they’ve done with video. …
Tales from Startup Alley: Embedle’s Twitter Conversation App
As I was weaving around the Startup Alley streets, I came across Embedle. The name intrigued me. So I made a full stop and turned …
Tales from Startup Alley: Oovoo Makesover Videoconferencing
Life has tasked me with writing about telecom topics–someone has to do it. But for TechCrunch Disrupt, I usually don’t have to take on this …
Tales from Startup Alley: rent2buy
One of the first startups I came across is part of the vibrant Israeli contingent that shows up at TC Disrupt. They’ve done pretty well …
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012: Day 1
The rain may have a kept a few people away yesterday, probably a few less booths than last year, the quirkiness factor was a little …
FCC to Approve Spectrum for Medical Devices
At their May board meeting, the FCC is set to allocate frequencies in the 2360 to 2400 MHz spectrum for short-range, low power medical use. …
TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012
I remember the unseasonal heat-wave that baked NYC last year at this time, and turned the Pier 94 hangar, the home to TechCrunch Disrupt, into …
NJIT Pitch Event Attracts Startups on the Verge
I was at New Jersey Institute of Technology last Thursday for another round of Startupalooza. At this NJ-centric pitchathon, startups of a mostly medical or …
BetterCloud Gets Better with FlashPanel (and $2 million in seed money)
Earlier in the week, I chatted with BetterCloud‘s CEO, David Politis, to learn about their latest app. Called FlashPanel, it extends BetterCloud’s Google Apps portfolio–see …
Bloomberg TV Can Move into Comcast’s Nonexistent News Neigborhoods
Last summer, I wrote about the mind-numbingly tedious battle between Comcast and Bloomberg over whether Bloomberg’s news channel was being exiled to television Siberia in …
DevCamp Mobile NYC: Sphero Ball of Fun
One of the vendors who sponsored yesterday’s Mobile DevCamp NYC hackathon just happened to be Orbotix. They make a robotized plastic ball, known as Sphero, …
Yapp: Mobile App for Managing Events
Yapp was a mobile app I came across during one of my circumnavigations of the NY Tech Day show floor last week. This blog has …
FoundIt: Altruistic Entrepreneurs
Last week, I was lucky enough to stop by FoundIt’s table at NY Tech Day. FoundIt solves the problem of returning misplaced stuff–hats, scarves, mp3 …
Springtime for NY Tech Day
I was told by the organizers that NY Tech Day was initially expecting about 3000 visitors. But this “science fair” for (mostly) New York City-based …
Mobile DevCamp NYC 2012 Accepting Campers
Our friends over at CodeFab run the annual Mobile DevCamp NYC hackathon. This year DevCamp Developers will gather during the weekend of April 28th to …
Back at the FCC: Maps and Meetups
I haven’t visited the FCC’s website in recent months. At least since the FCC’s Heimlich maneuver that forced AT&T to cough-up T-Mobile. While some in …
Hoboken As Startup Hub?
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 …