Technology Sector

'Coding 101' Could Be Coming To A NYC Public School Near You

Mayor Bloomberg has repeated time and time again that he believes New York City will be the next Silicon Valley. And, in some senses, his dream is coming true: SoHo has become a start-up assembly machine, Long Island City is attracting tech-hybrid manufacturers with its large, abandoned warehouses a ... More >>

The Costliest Battle in the High-Tech World

On the front lines of the new Cold War

Google is Giving Space to Cornell in Manhattan; NYC Still Isn't Silicon Valley -- But It's Getting There!

Move aside, Silicon Valley! Or, you know, watch your back. New York City is trying to compete with the tech-y town to be the tech center of the universe -- and Google is helping. (FYI: New York City is still second to Silicon Valley, but it's trying!) Today, Mayor Mike Bloomberg joined Google CE ... More >>

New York's Broadband Sucks. Is Anything Being Done To Fix It?

A study came out yesterday claiming that New York has the "fastest-growing" tech industry in the U.S. That research, conducted by the Center for an Urban Future, sure made a lot of people happy . (Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has long said that the Big Apple needs to become less economically depen ... More >>

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on PIPA and SOPA: Time to Take a Step Back and Start Over

Listen up, Wikipedia, Google, and all you other folks who shut down websites and changed your Facebook profile pic in solidarity! Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand heard you loud and clear and said this morning that it's time to take a step back and reevaluate PIPA and SOPA. This times well with reports tha ... More >>

Even More Wi-Fi Coming To City Parks

​Didn't we hear in June that AT&T was bringing Wi-Fi to parks this summer? Yes! And now we've learned there are even more hotspots on the way. According to a press release announcing the city's renewed deal with Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems, 32 parks will be provided with Wi-Fi ... More >>

Taiwanese iPhone Manufacturer Replacing Chinese Laborers with Robots After They Keep Committing Suicide

​Foxconn, makers of the iPhone as well as products for Sony, Nokia, Dell and Hewlett Packard, plans to automate much of its manufacturing load. Last year they doubled wages after more than a dozen workers at its plant in southern China committed suicide. It was so bad, the factory had to insta ... More >>

New York City Is Now the Second Most Techy in the Nation

​Yeah, we're not Silicon Valley, no matter what you want to think. (Personally, we have no interest in being Silicon Valley.) Crain's reports, however, that New York City has replaced Boston as the Number 2 tech hub in the nation, with $642.2 million in venture capital funding coming into the ... More >>

Royal Wedding Looks Pretty Groovy

Look at how the Archbishop of Canterbury gets down. Would that this were real, but alas, it's a T-Mobile ad. [rgray@villagevoice.com] [@_rosiegray]

AT&T Buying T-Mobile For $39 Billion

Strange bedfellows.​And lo, one crappy service provider acquires another. AT&T announced today that it's buying T-Mobile USA for $39 billion from Deutsche Telekom. If the two companies fully merge, the deal will give AT&T another 46.5 million customers in America, pushing it way past Veriz ... More >>

Kevin Sorbo: Versace Had His Hand Up My Thigh

​ Kevin Sorbo, the model who gained fame as TV's "Hercules," served up his misty memories of almost wearing Versace (meaning the man himself), as told on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's "The Frank DeCaro Show". Sorbo said that after he got a job modeling for Versace in Milan, he get a phone call ... More >>

TV With Dirty Words: NY's Public Access Debuts

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 8, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 27 The electric soapbox: 'This is your channel' By Robin Reisig "We spent 10 hours last night taking out all the dirty words -- there must have been 100 fucks and cocksuckers -- and now they want us to put t ... More >>

Groupon Brushes Off Google's $6 Billion Offer

​Six billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Groupon, the Chicago-based mega-start-up of online group coupons (get it?), turning down a six billion dollar offer from SkyNet Google. The tech giant has more money than God and often uses it to snap up smaller companies. But often, they ... More >>

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HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns After Sex Harassment Probe

​Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has reportedly resigned after an investigation of sexual harassment claims made by a former contractor. He'll be replaced by CFO Cathie Lesjak on an interim basis. While the company says that the investigation found no violations of sexual harassment policy, HP s ... More >>

City Has $$ for Computer Consultants, Not for Firehouses: Daily News

Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez has a new chapter in his ongoing series on the kind of waste in government that somehow flies below the radar when Team Bloomberg goes looking to cut the budget. Today's episode reveals that the city is paying $3.5 million a year to outside computer consultants who ... More >>

Carly Fiorina Presents Demon Sheep II: Bring Me the Giant Floating Head of Barbara Boxer

​And now there are 8 ads weirder than Carly Fiorina's "Demon Sheep." "No-one knows from whence it came," according to the voice over for Fred Davis' latest shot at viral glory (video after the jump), but the giant floating head of Barbara Boxer (who is referred to here as "it" by the narrato ... More >>

Fox-Time Warner War Heads to Inevitable, Customer-Gouging Conclusion

​You may have seen ads in the papers and on TV -- one in the form of a ransom note -- warning you that Fox TV may go off the air, and that it's either Fox's fault or carrier Time Warner's, depending on who is paying for the advertising. Fox wants the cable company to pay a "retransmission co ... More >>

Here Is A Mix Compiled by Mary Pearson, of High Places and Transformation Surprise

​Courtesy of the always excellent No Conclusion blog. The theme is "music that inspires my solo music by process and intent. This is the kind of stuff I listen to when my inspiration well is running a little dry," meaning this is more of a

I'm On The Cover of Paper!

​Well, a mock cover made up at the party Paper had for their 25th anniversary the other night (along with HP and their fabulous ink cartridges). First of all, let me say what an amazing job the mag's Kim Hastreiter, David Hershkovits, Mickey Boardman, and Drew Elliott did in pulling together ... More >>

Sirius Debt May Bankrupt Satellite Radio Company

Many citizens facing a worsening recession are looking at their car dashboards and thinking, "why am I paying for radio?" So Sirius XM, home to Howard Stern and a bunch of other v/o celebs, is facing bankruptcy. The Times says it has $175 million in debt payments due at the end of the month and is ... More >>

Press Explores Health of Osama, Steve Jobs

The press is demanding more heath information on Steve Jobs, who yesterday announced he was taking a leave of absence from his Apple CEO duties due to health issues. Jobs characterized these issues as nutritional, but some doctors speculate that the pancreatic cancer survivor may have chronic pancr ... More >>

Jobs Says He's Only Sorta Sick, Apple Stock Rises

Concerns about the health of alarmingly thin pancreatic cancer survivor Steve Jobs have been so widespread and volatile that when some guy on the internet floated a rumor in October that the Apple CEO was in the hospital, the company's stock dropped five points. Now Jobs has admitted to the Times t ... More >>

Arab Government Bites Off a Big Chunk of G.E.

The FISA Bill: Why Did Four of NY's House Democrats Fold?

Hold That 'Sweetheart' Verizon Cable Franchise, Advocates Warn

Top 10 Reasons Why NSA Wiretapping is Bad For America

Telecom Immunity: Just Say No

Google: The New Port Authority

A juggernaut gets ready to inject a big glob of silicon into New York City

Blue Chipping

In 23 million years, Google will fall to the rebellion. And no, we don't mean 'Ask Jeeves'

Film

Cowhide Logic

Not asking for much? Gateway's cheap laptops are (finally) worth a look.

TXTmobs take on the GOP

Protesters spend real bucks, save real headaches with text messaging

Dirty Harry

The wizard of id: Orgasmic spells and naughty wand usage in a hormonal third installment

Chip Shot

Get real cash from Pentium suit? Get real.

Scan Artists

Peripherals: how to get your old-school scanner working with OS X

Mob Bell

How Tele-Savvy Wiseguys Bought a Midwest Phone Company

Battle Chips

How to Choose the Right PC Microchip

Showdown for the Phone Union

With a Nod From Washington, Verizon Prepares for Battle

The Broom of the System

Give 'Em Hell, Harry!

VoIP a Dope

The Current Quality of Low-Cost Calls Over the Net

Broadbandits

The Incredible Shrinking Internet

When Cable Monopolies Rule the Web, Everyone Loses

Efficient or Deficient?

Tenant Cases Snagged on Court's Calendar

Broadband for the Masses

Vermont Puts New York to Shame

Click Back

Privacy Hounds Bring DoubleClick to Heel—for Now

Fortune Teller

An Interview With Silicon Valley Voyeur Po Bronson

Europe Unplugged

The Global Village Protests Its Connection Fees

Cable-Ready or Not

Giuliani and the City Council Fight for Control Over Franchises

Criminal Information