SetJam, a NY based video startup, has been acquired by Motorola. The company, which originally started as a website for finding videos, had moved into a more personalized, recommendation based sector. With Motorola's TV set-top boxes, the technology may make it easier to for users "to search for [Full Story…]
Motorola Announces New Razr at NY Event
October 18, 2011 at 2:31 pm
In a press conference this afternoon in NY, Motorola announced its bringing back its once popular Razr cell phone in Android 4G form available on Verizon Wireless in November. With a two-year voice and data contract, the phone will cost $299.99 and will also come preloaded Quickoffice. While [Full Story…]
IBM Sells 1,000+ Patents to Google
August 1, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Google has bought almost 1,000 pending and issued patents from IBM in order to protect against suits by other technology companies, though the patents that company bought have little to do with Internet searching or advertising business. Kent Walker, Google's general counsel, wrote in a blog post in [Full Story…]
Streaming Media East Announces Broadband Device Pavilion
May 6, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Streaming Media East has announced a new hands-on demo area for their May show in NY next Tuesday, May 10 called the Broadband Device Pavilion. The area will give attendees access to more than three dozen hardware devices and content platforms along with access to a number of tablets including the [Full Story…]
Popular Science Launches 2nd Interactive Cover
February 17, 2011 at 9:23 am
Popular Science magazine launched its second 3-D interactive cover for its March issue, featuring the Motorola Xoom tablet running on Google's Honeycomb 3.0 operating system. To preview the Xoom and its features, users need to hold the cover up to a web camera, iPhone or smartphone. They can [Full Story…]
Media Kitchen, Popular Science Open Tech “Test Kitchen”
July 13, 2010 at 9:27 am
New York ad agency Media Kitchen, part of Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners, and Popular Science, owned by Sweden's Bonnier Group, teamed up to open a gadget "Test Kitchen" at Kirshenbaum Bond's Varick Street offices. The purpose is to educate the agency and clients about the [Full Story…]
Not at CES? What Are 2010′s ‘Must-Have Gadgets’?
January 8, 2010 at 11:16 am
Westchester Magazine recently sat down with Consumer Reports' Paul Eng to discuss the "must-have" gadgets for 2010 and given that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has begun, we thought we'd share his thoughts, which you'll find below. They include: Motorola's [Full Story…]
Speaking of Droids, ‘NYConvergence’ Looks at Verizon’s
December 23, 2009 at 12:13 pm
NYConvergence ORIGINALSince Verizon is in the process of improving its 3G network in the NYC area, we thought that we would provide our readers with a summary of our experiences using the Motorola Droid, which we have been using for the past month.First, there's the design. For users [Full Story…]
Verizon Fans Gather to Purchase Droid Early
November 9, 2009 at 9:15 am
By midnight on Friday, more than 100 people were gathered at the Verizon Wireless store located at 134 West 34 Street in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood to purchase the new Motorola Droid, according to c | net. Inside the store, 500 of the phones were in stock for them, many already [Full Story…]
Verizon To Use Times Square Ads to Promote Droid
November 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Beginning this Friday, Verizon Wireless will take over both the NASDAQ and Reuters billboards in New York City's Times Square to promote the carrier's new Droid phone from Motorola. Visitors to the area can call a free number, 888/376-4336, that will let them search for nearby [Full Story…]
Motorola Debuts Droid, Cliq at Morimoto Bash
October 29, 2009 at 9:43 am
NYConvergence ORIGINAL (DJ booth at Motorola's cocktail reception, Morimoto, Meatpacking District, New York City) Motorola hosted a cocktail reception last night at Morimoto in Manhattan's Meatpacking District last night to unveil its latest phones to members of New York City's [Full Story…]
NYC Plan to Modernize 911 Running Behind Schedule
October 21, 2009 at 4:48 pm
The New York Daily News has listed the various issues which have delayed the Bloomberg Adminstration's plans to modernize New York City's 911 system, including: "Skyrocketing" costs of renovating a floor in Brooklyn's Metrotech Center for the 911 operation Construction and [Full Story…]
Comcast debuts AnyRoom On Demand in N.J.
April 18, 2008 at 11:39 am
CED Comcast subscribers in New Jersey with Motorola set-top boxes (STBs) are now able to start video-on-demand (VOD) content or movies in one room and then view them throughout the household in other rooms that are equipped with digital STBs. [Full Story…]
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