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Digital Experience! NYC 2008: ZDNet editor Andrew Nusca attends Pepcom's 2008 Digital Experience! event in New York City. by Andrew Nusca; Tags: New York City, Editor, Andrew Nusca, tech action, product photos, toybox; Image galleries 2008-06-26
Photos: Rethinking New York City's taxis: Taxi 07 Exhibit showed off a wide variety of possible features for the city's massive fleet of cabs.; Tags: taxi, fleet, New York City, photograph; Image galleries 2007-04-05
Adobe CS3 Launch Event: A photo gallery from Adobe's Creative Suite 3 launch event in New York City.; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Creative Suite, New York City, photograph; Image galleries 2007-03-27
TMNT demo (exe): Based on the forthcoming animated movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gives you a chance to take control of the ass-kicking green heroes in their latest adventure. The new TMNT video game uses the same dark and dangerous environments and adventurous themes featured in the CGI film. In a New York...; Tags: New York City, UbiSoft Entertainment, Video Game, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-02-28
Photos: A peek inside the automated home: Z-Wave Alliance sets up wireless control devices in a New York City apartment.; Tags: peek, apartment, New York City, wireless; Image galleries 2006-10-19

Photos: Google takes Manhattan: Search giant opens new office in New York City, seeing its presence there as crucial to the company's success.; Tags: Manhattan, New York City, Google Inc.; Image galleries 2006-10-02
Photos: Playing PacManhattan: A live-action version of the classic arcade game with New York City's Washington Square Park as a grid.; Tags: photograph, grid, game, New York City; Image galleries 2006-09-22
QUALCOMM Case Study: Urban Display Network: The Las Vegas-based Urban Display Network UDN operates a network of LED video boards that display advertising and commercials in 79 locations throughout New York City. UDN needed a reliable, high-speed connection to upload real-time advertising content. When 1xEV-DO wireless broadband became available in New York City, the ideal solution...; Tags: New York City, Qualcomm Inc., Corporate Governance, Broadband Internet, Wireless, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Telecommunications; Case studies
New York City Housing Authority Teams With Cisco to Develop Information Technology Governance Model: The New York City Housing Authority NYCHA provides housing to nearly 420,000 of New York City's low income and elderly residents throughout 2,698 buildings with more than 181,000 apartments. Seeking an enterprise-wide process to help align its business and technology strategy, NYCHA reached out to Cisco Systems, Inc., to help...; Tags: New York City, Team, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Strategy, Management; Case studies

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Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi: Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...; Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0: San Francisco's summer starts when the rest of the country's summer ends: Labor Day. The weather here in The City finally becomes pleasant, and techy companies like to have lunches outdoors. Today, Powerset was in charge of Lunch 2.0, a "social phenomenon referring to a migration of...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Web 2.0, Food & Beverage, Internet, Manufacturing, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?: This week I've been putting together slides and preparing for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo New York City. I'm doing one titled "Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications" so it's more of a general talk covering everything from Adobe's stuff, to Microsoft Silverlight, to the mobile world, and now...; Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Wireless Access: What Price Speed: Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area – and possibly nationwide? One...; Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-09-04
IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox: The plug-ins, the add-ons, the "download and use with" programs. So many people have been on about the "porn mode" InPrivate feature, the coloured tabs and the accelerator features, but what seems to be missing from the blogosphere is the entire gallery of additional software for the product. ...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates: It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...; Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Deep packet spy's CEO resigns: Is this the beginning of the end for NebuAd, the Redwood City-based company that uses deep packet inspection technology to monitor Web surfing habits of individuals and use the information to insert advertising? CEO Bob Dykes has resigned to become Chief Financial Officer for Verifone. The company's...; Tags: Packet Inspection, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Internet, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-09-03
Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?: Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?TiVo & DirecTVTiVo are not competing with DirecTV by selling their own boxes since the TiVo HD box does not work with satellite, only cable. By partnering with DirecTV they would then have the cable market AND the satellite market available to them....; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, TiVo Inc., DirecTV; Discussion threads 2008-09-03
Where WiFi succeeds: Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...; Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi; Discussion threads 2008-09-03
A virus in our genes, think about that....: Really fascinating news: Virus is passed from parent to child in the DNA. Researchers found that roseola, an infection that everyone apparently gets but only 20 percent of children develop the characteristic rash that gives it its name, is actually in our DNA. It co-evolved into us, which raises some...; Tags: DNA, Chromosome, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-09-03
iPhone's remote deletions may help crooks cover tracks: Certain features of increasingly widespread enterprise smartphones may aid criminals in hiding incriminating evidence, says the UK's Serious Fraud Office. Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on the Apple iPhone, a leading digital-forensics expert has warned. The head of the UK's Serious...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Team, Mobile, Unit, Encryption, Keith Foggon, PC Architecture, Team Management, Smart Phones, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Nick Heath silicon.com, fraud, iPhone, security, Apple; News items 2008-09-03