BaltTech's top five list of gadgets for the holidays
I was on WYPR's Maryland Morning yesterday to talk about tech, and I covered what I think are some cool gadgets to give as gifts this holiday season. ...
View ArticleThings are a-brewing in Baltimore's tech scene
I know there's been a lot of introspection in Baltimore's tech circles regarding where the community is heading, especially the Greater Baltimore Tech ...
View ArticleThe year in search, according to Google
I don't know if I should be mortified or amused. Google today released its 11th annual Zeitgeist report, which looked at global and regional search t ...
View ArticleThe Baltimore news ecosystem: report
I stumbled across this interesting article that looked at digital/mobile efforts in Baltimore news operations, including The Baltimore Sun and the loc ...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Fire's impressions growing 19 percent a day on Millennial...
Millennial Media, a top mobile advertising firm based in Baltimore, put out its latest monthly "Mobile Mix" report that updates trends in the industry ...
View ArticleMaryland maker of Kindle cases sues Amazon
It wasn't too long ago -- in May, actually -- when I was getting pitched by a PR representative hired by M-Edge Accessories to write about its growing ...
View ArticleNew York Times accidentally pleads with 8 million people not to cancel...
Well, this is a headache for the most esteemed newspaper in the land.... Today, at 1:25 pm, I got an email from the New York Times pleading me to ret ...
View ArticleBaltTech in 2012
This is the year of BaltTech. No, not necessarily my blog. But Baltimore Tech. I'm going into my fourth (calendar) year of blogging about Baltimore's ...
View ArticleFun facts from Millennial Media's IPO filing
Did you hear? Baltimore's Millennial Media filed to go public yesterday, letting everyone know they hope to raise $75 million from Wall Street to fuel ...
View ArticleNFL using court orders to shut down Chinese knockoff-selling sites
In my story today, I looked at how the NFL and its teams, including the Baltimore Ravens, are now closely monitoring the proliferation of China-based ...
View ArticleUpdated: Seven of Maryland's 10 Congresspeople have not taken a stand on...
{Note: This post was updated below to indicate that Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, who had been listed on ProPublica's website as not having a view on SOPA ...
View ArticleRIM gets rid of its Noah's Ark problem
Finally, RIM's two co-CEOs are stepping down. Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have been running the company for years, and while at the helm they'v ...
View ArticleAbell Foundation: Waiting for a sustainable online journalism site to fund?
When you run in fast local media-gossip circles like I do (ha!), you can't resist the opportunity to ask a local power player whether his foundation i ...
View ArticleO'Malley's digital download tax on ringtones, music, ebooks and more
Maybe you haven't heard: One of Gov. O'Malley's tax proposals this year is to extend the sales tax to digital products. That means digital media you ...
View ArticleSpotAgent: Baltimore speed cams account for 27 percent of ticket revenue
Hey, remember when I wrote about these two rascals last year who were using Baltimore city data to help you avoid getting a parking ticket? Shea Fr ...
View ArticleBaltimore's Lookingglass raises $5 million round of financing
Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, a Baltimore firm which makes some cool cyber security software that gives organizations global insight into cyber threat ...
View ArticleLook at how easy it is to organize a tech event in Baltimore
There's been a flowering in Baltimore in the area of event planning and organizing, among the tech/entrepreneurial crowd. Social media has really conn ...
View ArticleFacebook files for IPO, seeks to raise $5 billion
At 4:47 p.m. today, Facebook Inc. filed its S-1 registration statement as it seeks to go public and raise $5 billion. Some key facts: from the filin ...
View ArticleWhat the Facebook IPO filing misses: age demographics
I keep hearing in my travels that the young folk (teens and tweens) are using Tumblr alot. Tumblr, indeed, is on a roll. In the context of Facebook's ...
View ArticleYoutube blocks Chrysler's "Halftime in America" commercial for NFL copyright...
I missed the Clint Eastwood/Chrysler ad spot last night during the Super Bowl halftime, but many raved about it. So I just tried to pull it up on Yo ...
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