For the first half-hour of the meeting, it was hardly surprising to see a potential client fiddling with his iPhone, said Rowland Hobbs, the chief executive of a marketing firm in Manhattan.
Drippy Manhattan evenings aren’t usually a draw for an outdoor cocktail party but the FoundersClub NYC Internet Week soiree had something that overcomes a little rain: power.
And the award for the Most Bitterly Ironic Media Award goes to…the Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award, to be bestowed upon Arianna Huffington by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at the upcoming Mirror Awards luncheon in Manhattan.
Artist Jorge Colombo may have drawn the dreamy, nocturnal cityscape of Manhattan on the June 1 cover, using his iPhone, but a software engineer named Steve Sprang built Brushes, the iPhone application that transformed Mr. Columbo’s swipes into digital strokes.
Boxee, a free software package that pulls together multiple sources of Internet video in an easy-to-use interface, has quietly been building an army of ardent fans.
But what is it about Boxee that is driving the technorati wild?
Turns out, more than a handful of the 600 or so people who filed into Webster Hall in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday evening for a free Boxee-focused event couldn’t quite put their finger on it either.
A few hours before the global launch of Nokia’s latest high-end phone, the company gave a sneak peek at the gadget to a dozen bloggers and journalists gathered at its swank Midtown Manhattan concept store. With an elegant touchscreen that slid open to reveal a full keyboard, the device evoked lust in even the iPhone disciples present. So when can we get it in the U.S.?
Verizon’s debut of the Storm, the first touchscreen BlackBerry, caused quite a ruckus in some places–in Manhattan, hundreds of people waited outside Verizon Wireless stores. When one store ran out of phones an hour after opening, police were called to restore order among rowdy customers.
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