Mobixa is a Smartphone Reselling Adviser
Mobixa will price your out-dated and possibly damaged iPhone and then remind you when to sell it to take maximum advantage of your contract options. …
Uberconference Drives A Stake Through Legacy Audio Conferencing
Uberconference, the TechCrunch Disrupt winner, opened the doors to their visual audio conferencing service early last month. After a quick trial of it yesterday in …
Best Decision: Not Another Social Shopping Service!
Best Decision is a shopping recommendation service to help consumers find products based on more than just price and price and price. Its algorithms take …
NYC Map of Coworking Spaces, Charging Stations
The New York Tech Meetup community has put together a map of shared office spaces and other support spots for the NYC area. With transformers …
And the Election Goes to NYC-based Vizzuality
Vizzuality is the NYC-startup behind the impressive interactive election results map on the Wall Street Journal’s site. To be more precise, their product CartoDB is …
FCC on the Job During Sandy: DIRS and Emergency Reporting
As someone residing near Sandy’s Shermanesqe march through NJ, I am glad that TvB’s offices were spared the worst. One lesson many of us learned …
CallApp’s Social Trawling: Too Much Information?
CallApp was the “social dialtone” smartphone enhancement that got many of us excited at TechCrunch NYC a few months back. In covering telecom, I should …
Pride & Prejudice and Cucumbers: Ken Perlin Has Ideas for Education
At some point during Ken Perlin’s talk at the NYU Game Center last week, I was gazing at a screen containing a virtual scroll of …
Visual.ly Opens Infographic Marketplace
In August, we interviewed Visual.ly CEO Stew Langille to learn about his plans for an infographics marketplace. The idea was that you need an infographic …
Observing the Appverse with Hubbl
Hubbl refers to itself as a “smart telescope for spotting apps.” I like the whole astronomy concept. But I think a candy metaphor would work …
Ad Week Experience: Measuring Social Media’s Basic Particles
This past week I took a brief tour of the Advertising Week Experience held at The Times Center. That was place to be to learn …
UberConference Unleashed
UberConference is finally out of private beta and ready to stomp on some legacy audio conferencing ant hills. Remember UberConference? They won TechCrunch Disrupt NYC …
Knack: Practical Web App Builder for Small Biz
First hatched at General Assembly’s Demo Night in March, NYC-based Knack recently launched a beta version of its “Microsoft Access on steroids” concept. After trying …
Travel Apps: Who Needs ‘Em!
Oui, you can still have an amazing vacation without constantly conferring with the digital equivalent of Passepartout on your Droid or iPhone. If the city …
Open Garden: $2 Million Seed Round
Our friends at Open Garden, the SF-based multi-hop networking startup, had some good news last week. In a seed round of funding, investors have showered …
Out of the Office
Blogging has been a little light lately due to an unforeseen event involving my MacBook and a cup of coffee. I now know how incredibly …
Back to School Biz Apps: Our Favorite SMB Tools
We had a year’s worth of apps to look at for our semi-regular posting on useful small-medium biz tools. And after lots of espressos and …
Your Party Hub Gets it Started
After just returning from a few days of vacationing, I can attest to the powerful health benefits of a good party. It relieves stress, lowers …
Back at the Intertoobz: Vint Cerf on the ITU and the Internet
There’s been much scare-mongering about the upcoming ITU conference in which our Internet regulations will be up for debate. That’s not to say there is …
Ivy Entrepreneurship: Princeton’s eLab Demo Day
They do have ambitious plans at Princeton. Yesterday I attended presentations made by the first graduates of the Keller Center‘s eLab, which is a student …