[NYC Pic via Flikr]
The city of NY is upgrading its 311 (municipal info) and 911 (emergency services) to allow new yorkers to submit pictures. In the words of Major Bloomberg:

New Yorkers can also now upload photos and videos to help us improve
the delivery of non-emergency services such as filling potholes,
cleaning up graffiti in City parks [...]

Why do remote controls still ask you for the number of a TV channel?
It would seem that remote controls as interfaces are falling behind in usability with the deluge of 1000s of cable channels, VOD and DVR options….
I want:- a small wireless keyboard or touchscreen- and/or speech recognition- semantic search by actors, genre, recently [...]

After a full work day in front of the computer, the last thing I wantto do when I get home is use the laptop. Bet you often feel the same.
In our intense digital world we need to be able to disconnect, atleast a little bit, at least sometimes and computers can beused for fun and [...]

 
As many of you know, I have been a huge fan of the Rhapsody subscription service for quite so time now.
When I need my music “to go” I have so far relied on my sansa m250. Still, the software glitches have made the thing unusable lately with far too many “synchronize to continue” and disk [...]

If you are curious about how Apple kept the iPhone plans secret for so long, you should check out this Fortune article:
Apple, legendary for the ferocity with which it safeguards new product announcements, had extraordinary challenges in keeping the iPhone under wraps for 30 months. Besides involving Cingular, Google and Yahoo, not to mention the [...]

This weekend, I went through the tedious process of consolidating my list of contacts into Outlook from my multiple email addresses.
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Mini IPod - Image uploaded to Flickr by somefool
Like many iPod owners already know, batteries don’t last forever and after 2 years of fairly intensive use I could only get about 30min playtime out of a full charge.
So, what to do?… Considering how much I enjoy using Rhapsody, the music subscription service, I was close [...]

Vpod.tv, a very promising online video publishing platform, has finally launched. This is exciting news for a very hot European company that raised $5.1M Series A financing in May this year.
I know you are all thinking… why is it exciting to have yet another video startup entering the crowded online video market?
Well, there are many [...]

ING NYC Marathon Medals - Image uploaded to Flickr by PerRockSide

37,954 people ran 26.2 miles (42.2 km). Congratulations to each and [...]

The NY Times has announced a new software-based reader in partnership with Microsoft.
As newspapers struggle to adapt to the online environment, this announcement should be seen as a first step towards new ways of making newspapers relevant.
Still, at this stage both the Windows reader and the portable gadgets that will carry this software feel like [...]