Spotify/DCTF
Licensing agreements are what’s keeping Spotify from becoming available sooner in the U.S. and other major markets. The company, which employs about 90, expects to launch in the U.S. by the end of the year or early 2010.
Sat, September 12 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
Vice/Texting/Wikipedia
Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes talked with me about his
new video series for Teva (and then blogged about the stuff we discussed that didn’t make it into the story, as well as Gawker’s reaction).
Then I wrote a story, blog post and follow-up blog post about texting while driving — the emerging category of services that prevent [...]
Wed, September 2 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
Cyber/Genius/Ghost-Twittering/20%
AT&T has experimented with Second Life-like virtual environments to test its response to attacks. Its researchers, who are scattered around the country, create avatars that “visit” labs and run experiments. “We invented it because we were trying to cut down on travel,” he says. “We weren’t doing it to be cute. We were doing it [...]
Mon, March 30 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
Firefox interview
Yesterday I chatted with Mozilla’s chairman, Mitchell Baker, about what the EC is up to with Microsoft and whether her ‘do inspired the Firefox icons.
Thu, March 5 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
Viddyhos, Pirates, Whopper Sacrifices
Why is it so hard for me to keep this site updated, when I blog and Twitter at work all day long? A brief sampling, more of which can be found on my clips page: ViddyHo, Yelp, Facebook, Pirate Bay, Apple, Twittering advertisers during the Super Bowl, Caribou’s jab at Starbucks, Yahoo and Google earnings, [...]
Wed, February 25 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
The part that stuck in my head while reporting this cellphone-jamming-in-prisons story
was this (emphasis added):
In recent years, South Carolina installed X-ray machines and metal detectors at all of its medium- and maximum-security prisons. While that stopped visitors and staffers from smuggling in phones, Mr. Gelinas said, handsets are now being thrown over the fence in packages, attached to footballs and even shot onto prison grounds from [...]
Wed, November 26 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
More WSJ blogging
Crazy widget. iPhone factoids. Obama’s tech-czar search. Ad agency spats.
Thu, November 13 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
The role of #votereport, iReport and other sites on Election Day
Ira Socol noticed election workers at his polling place in Holland, Mich., Tuesday telling voters the address on their ID card had to match the one on their voter registration. Otherwise, they couldn’t use the voting machines.
The 52-year-old doctoral student believed this discouraged some from his low-income district from voting.
In Birmingham, Ala., Joy Heard, a [...]
Wed, November 5 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
