JooJoo: the next iPad?

I have been hearing about this thing for a while and now it’s here…however it began shipping the same day the iPad hit stores…how ironic. by Ryan Kim SFGate/The Technology Chronicles I’ve got my hands on a new JooJoo tablet and I’m hoping to put together a more thoughtful rundown of the device later. But [...]

Wanna check out Steve’s new Pad?

Excellent article in the April 12, 2010 issue of TIME magazine by Steven Fry It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where Apple has been headquartered since 1993. The campus, for such they call it, is enormous yet not big enough [...]

…and it files nails too!

from Engadget.com This isn’t the first USB drive / Swiss army knife we’ve seen from Victorinox, but the company’s new Secure Pro drive is the first that is supposedly “un-hackable.” To put that claim to the test, Victorinox actually offered a £100,000 prize to a team of “professional hackers” if they could crack the drive [...]

The Comcast Nightly News with Brian Williams?

Interesting article from today’s NY Times Business section December 7, 2009 NBC-Comcast Deal Puts Broadcast TV in Doubt By BRIAN STELTER From Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Center, NBC brought Milton Berle, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson into the nation’s living rooms, then broadcast local news to New York City for decades. Last Thursday, it [...]

Dorthy.com: A (Semantic) Search Engine for Dreams

As many of you know, I have been a fan and an advisor to the folks at SaberSeven, the folks who developed Dorthy.com for almost a year. Congratulations to Jordan English Gross and his team on some exciting news including the announcement of a $4MM round of funding. Saber Seven Secures $4 Million for Dorthy.com, [...]

B2BVid: Video Social Network Strictly for Business

I want to send a special shout-out to Marvin Bzura, a “digital entrepreneur” who runs a unique company called “B2BVid” and was kind enough to tape and stream the LIEG event last week. For your information, www.B2BVid.com is the first online video social network that’s strictly for business. We will shoot & produce your video [...]

My Info Center for the Economic Crisis

In case you are interested, I just spent the past few days in Albany…doing my “once a semester” teaching thing in Prof. Martin Fogelman’s class “ Behavioral Foundations of Management” among other things. Since I drive up and down I find the radio becomes my  best friend and while I usually listen to NPR (WAMC [...]

Job Opportunity at Channel M

I recently met with my friend, one of the newest members of the FOBS family, Kylie Sachs, a partner in the investment firm Ascend Ventures Group here in NYC, with a strong understanding of the media industry. As you will read below Ascend recently invested in Channel M, one of the biggest players in the [...]

The World’s Most Innovative Companies

The Worlds Most Innovative Companies according to BusinessWeek Do you agree? -Bill Rank Company 1 Apple 2 Google 3 Toyota Motors 4 General Electric 5 Microsoft

Great News From BlogTalkRadio

As many of you know, one of the turning points of our NY:MIEG breakfasts was our event in January 2007 when John Havens produced and moderated an event entitled ” Understanding the New Media: How podcasting and online/mobile media and new distribution platforms can transform your business” It was a breakthrough event for us as [...]

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