by Elva Ramirez, Associate Editor, The Wall Street Journal
New York fashion week officially kicks off this Friday and Twittering fashionistas have already started sending out updates with #NYFW tags.
Among the fashionable set, scoring a runway invitation imparts cachet because shows are invite-only and often, the invitations are nontransferable.
On Monday, the New York Times’s blog The Moment told its 9,753 Twitter followers that it was offering up tickets to “Project Runway” winner Christian Siriano’s Feb. 19 show.
by Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
MetroPCS’s upcoming expansion to New York and Boston will change the prepaid wireless provider from a regional carrier to one that can compete more with heavyweights like Verizon Wireless and AT&T.
In an interview with the Journal’s Amol Sharma, MetroPCS CEO Roger Linquist said the company will be building its New York City network–including the five boroughs as well as parts of New Jersey and upstate New York–throughout 2009.
Reporting from New York–The nervous woman in a gray suit clicked on a photo lineup on an overhead screen labeled “Jihadi Martyrs.” It flashed to mug shots of men with names like Abu Issa, an Al Qaeda recruiter, and Abu Jabber, a trainer.
by Stephen Fry, Author and Blogger, StephenFry.com
So here I am. In a hotel room in New York. The writing desk and its view of xth Avenue are all but obscured by: 7 x Mini USB cables. Two of them are the new Micro type that Blackberry has switched to for the Storm only, the rest are standard. 1 x Ethernet cable. Into wall-socket of hotel room. 8 bucks a day.
by Oliver Marks, Blogger, ZDnet, Collaboration 2.0
Tokyo is currently the largest city of origin of Twitter messages in the world, more than twice that of second place San Francisco and New York in the U.S. as of this summer. (Incidentally, while the Japanese Kanji language Twitter service, which only launched in April of this year, contains advertising, the rest of the planet’s Twitter service currently does not).
by Sarah McBride, Staff Writer, The Wall Street Journal
With sports fans still getting used to their high-definition television sets, the National Football League is already thinking ahead to the next potential upgrade: 3-D.
It costs $482.79 to get a decent pizza in San Francisco–$17 for the pie, $85 for cab fare and $378.80 for the flight to New York. Throw in $1.99 for tinfoil. I wrap each slice individually to protect the toppings and maximize what I can fit inside a regulation-size carry-on: six pies’ worth of triangular packets, arranged in an alternating pattern to create rectangular layers. The bag attracts some attention at airport security. Apparently, 48 interlocking aluminum-wrapped triangles are easy to mistake for an IED.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system–the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network–played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer’s downfall is a New York tabloid’s dream. Headlines like “Ho No!” scream on the New York Post. Wall Street is downright gleeful about Spitzer’s downfall. But what really snared Spitzer was a money-laundering investigation that was flagged by SARs (suspicious activity reports) that banks have to file with the Treasury to surface everything from money laundering to terrorist activity.
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