Category: Technology
On getting video right — 5 questions for Sugar Media’s Brian Sugar
IBM P-Series 570 IBM P570 On getting video right — 5 questions for Sugar Media’s Brian Sugar Brian Sugar and his wife, Lisa, have built a women’s media and e-commerce empire that grew out of the company’s flagship celebrity site, Pop Sugar. We caught up with Brian to learn more about how he made it [...]
It’s official: LightSquared goes bankrupt. What’s next?
It’s official: LightSquared goes bankrupt. What’s next? Hours away from defaulting on its debt, LightSquared filed for bankruptcy protection Monday afternoon. What’s next? The company has said it would use the shelter of the voluntary Chapter 11 filing to buy time in its fight to build its nationwide LTE network, but given how slim its [...]
LightSquared’s bankruptcy is Washington’s failure too
Institut du Monde Arabe From the inside. LightSquared’s bankruptcy is Washington’s failure too Wireless networks are for the bold, the lucky and the impossibly rich. And as LightSquared, the company that hoped to build a wholesale LTE network using airwaves once reserved for satellite signals, files for bankruptcy, I feel an I-told-you-so coming on. I [...]
As prices drop, when’s the best time to buy a new phone?
Autumn on Campus Tokodai. As prices drop, when’s the best time to buy a new phone? As the pace of advances in mobile technology accelerates, waves of new smartphones are appearing every few months. Here in the U.S., we’re addicted to handset subsidies and the two-year contracts that come with the lower priced phones. That’s [...]
AmEx builds a mobile home for its social offers
iPhone 4 – Retina Display – Home Screen A close up of the iPhone 4′s retina display, showing the home screen. Zoom in to the original view to see the detail. Note, however, that Facebook, Geocaching, 1Password, Reeder, TV Forecast, and PingChat! 2 are all slightly blurry because they’ve not yet been updated with high [...]