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 Hardware Alley: Extreme Fliers Launches Micro Drone 2.0
Unfortunately, TvB wasn’t able to visit TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday to witness teeny drones buzzing around Extreme Fliers‘ booth. This London-based company is completely focused …
And the results from the Concrete Canoe Competition are in!
Last weekend student chapters from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) met in the NY-NJ area to test their engineering prowess. At the downtown …
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 …
NY Tech Day 2013
The “science fair” for startups is back again. Last year NYTD corralled over 200 startups and other advanced hacks into the cozy Lexington Avenue Armory. …
Tabula is great at scraping tables from PDFs
If my hunt for numeric datasets leads me to a PDF file, I raise the white flag of surrender and close up shop for the …
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 …
Blerdology Comes to Rutgers Newark
What is blerdology? It’s a couple of things. It’s a social enterprise founded to promote the Black tech community. It was also formerly called #BlackGirlsHack. …
NYU ITP Summer Camp
It’s not too early to start thinking about summer activities–canoeing, lake swimming, hikes up to Bald Mountain, and building a gel electrophoresis box. The last …
New York State Unleashes open.ny.gov
New York State has been experimenting with Gov 2.0 initiatives for several years. In fact, our editor knocked out a few apps once-upon-a-time using Open …