New York City’s Getting a Tech Upgrade

More About: broadband, government, internet access, new york city, open data, open government, technology, US

How would you change the GoPro Hero HD 2?

You can strap the GoPro HD Hero 2 to any number of things to document your extreme adventures in high definition. However, for all of the improvements in the second version, we found it to be distractingly heavy, difficult to mount and with audio that left plenty to the imagination. Still, a few days

Country Star Kenny Chesney Focuses on Online Viewers During Live Concert

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Google Celebrates Gay Pride With Easter Egg

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Bears Wrestle in the Backyard [VIDEO]

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The Anatomy Of A Pass, A Quantitative Analysis On Why A VC Passes

It is an exciting time for early stage technology company building and venture capital.  Despite some early bumps in Facebook’s recent IPO (my thoughts here), we are seeing something of a return in the IPO market, as Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga, Jive and others have gone out.  On the company formation

YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: One Direction’s ‘What Makes You Beautiful’

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Refresh Roundup: week of June 18th, 2012

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure

Young Entrepreneur Council Building Network of Youth Startup Founders

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Sky City One, remote-controlled light bulbs and the Zero-G Olympic Games

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. It took five years to build the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building — but this week Inhabitat reported that Chinese company BSB plans to build the next