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Head of Time Warner Cable Is Unfamiliar With... →

Surprising? May be a little bit… TWC should know about AirPlay and have a few reason on their script why they are better than what Apple and AirPlay can do. Without that, they are just acting “dumb” about the “dumb pipe.”

May 16th

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How Verizon tried to unsell me an iPhone |... →

Come on Verizon… You should be a better partner to Apple. You’ve only been selling iPhones for a year and you are already trashing them? This reminds me of how lousy retailers were in the 90s selling Macs. And so Apple created its own stores and revolutionized the retail experience. No wonder so many people prefer the Apple Store retail experience to the wireless companies’...

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May 1st

Article: Amazon Low Prices Disguise a High Cost -... →

Competition in the ebook market is a complex thing to sort out. True - collusion is not a good thing. But did collusion, strictly defined, happen between Apple and the book publishers? If Apple proposed an agency model and each book publisher accepted (making its own independent decision), all with the hope that there would be a viable competitor in the ebook market to Amazon, is that...

Apr 16th

Beer makes men smarter: study - NY Daily News →

Mark Zuckerberg was on to something that night he developed Facemash…

Apr 15th

The ugly truth: why beautiful wins in 2012 | Tech... →

Nice assessment of three successful online services that clearly focused on untapped opportunities that made a difference to Internet users, are simple to use, and appealed to them emotionally.

Apr 10th

Apple HQ →

It’s amazing to me how Apple HQ looks the exact same 20 years after the first day One Infinite Loop opened (my first day at Apple) - the foosball table is new.

Apr 9th

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AdAge: What If the Real 'Winner' of SXSW Was …...

Impressive innovation in mobile/social product and marketing by American Express with Sync for Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare at SXSW, kicked off with a musical event promotion (secret Jay-Z concert.) Have you heard about the hottest startup to announce a new product at South by Southwest Interactive? It had the most ubiquitous new product, it threw the biggest party with one of the...

Apr 3rd

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Mar 14th

“Nick Bilton: I prefer my iPhone over my television because it allows me to...”

– Disruptions: TV Makers Ignore Apps at Their Own Peril - NYTimes.com

Mar 13th

Dr. Tina Strobos, Who Harbored Jews From the... →

Quite an honorable life lived… Dr. Tina Strobos, Who Harbored Jews From the Nazis, Dies at 91 Dr. Tina Strobos, a fearless woman who hid more than 100 Jews in a gabled attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam just a few blocks from the hideout where Anne Frank was captured, died on Monday at her home in Rye, N.Y. She was 91. The cause was cancer, said her son Jur Strobos. The ethos of rescuing...

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http://mashable.com/2012/03/07/american-express-twi... →

Nice way to make AmEx and its merchants visible in the Twittersphere…

Mar 8th

Mar 5th

News.me | Instagram Tops 25M Users [REPORT] →

Wow - almost 26 million users on Instagram now… Impressive growth is an understatement…. Instagram Tops 25M Users [REPORT] Instagram has topped 25 million users, becoming the largest exclusively mobile social network in the world, according to a report. Dirk Singer, the head of U.K. social media agency Rabbit, claims on his Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics blog that the maker of...

Mar 3rd

Feb 28th

The Mounting Minuses at Google+ →

wsj.com Google has registered 90 million users for its new social network, but it is a virtual ghost town compared with rival Facebook. Users are spending on average just minutes at Google+ each month even as they log hours on Facebook. “Visitors using personal computers spent an average of about three minutes a month on Google+ between last September and January, versus six...

Feb 28th

Wake Up (Arcade Fire cover) by John Legend &...

Feb 28th

Feb 26th

Tech start-ups opting for NYC over Silicon Valley →

usatoday.com Budding Internet entrepreneurs are trying to strike it big a coast away from California. Happy to see NYC is becoming more of a tech hub… 2005-2010 up 28% vs 3.4% for overall employment. Way to go #nyctech! #stats #articles #techbiz @tednyc

Feb 26th

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Feb 25th

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Owen: (Bam!) Mom: Owen, are you OK? Owen: Mom… I’m as OK as OK can be!

Feb 25th

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Feb 24th

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A Look at “10 NY Startups to Watch this Year” →

A Look at “10 NY Startups to Watch this Year” February 22, 2012 at 3:39 pm Business Insider recently composed a list detailing the 10 NY-based startups deemed to be the most exciting, innovative and transformative in 2012. Some of the companies that made the list include: Flow – An emerging “big data” firm founded in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Eric Alterman. The platform offers...

Feb 24th

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