8 posts and columns on Long Island

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Early Adopter: Think That Restaurant Looks Shady? Donteat.at Lets You Know for Sure

in News on February 25, 2011 at 10:01 am PT

It’s happened to everyone—the terrible fallout from eating at that unfamiliar restaurant with the spoons that were a little too greasy, or the chicken that was served a little too rare. New York University junior Max Stoller feels your pain, and built donteat.at to keep his fellow New Yorkers out of unclean restaurants and the gastric turmoil that inevitably follows.

News Byte

Starbucks' Pay-By-App Test Grinds Away

in News on October 25, 2010 at 11:13 am PT

Starbucks said today it was expanding its mobile-payment testing grounds to include 300 company-owned stores in the NYC-Long Island area. The system uses an app version of the Starbucks Card. The app displays a barcode that is read by the scanner at check-out. Testing of the app (available for the iPhone, the iPod touch and certain BlackBerrys) began late last year in Starbucks locations inside Target stores and a few outlets in Seattle and Northern California.

Cablevision Promises to Introduce Your PC to Your TV

in Media on February 23, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT

An ugly name–“PC to TV Media Relay”–for a simple idea: Moving the contents of your laptop to your plasma. You can already do this on your own, but Cablevision promises to make it even easier. (Shh! Don’t tell Hulu!)

How Badly Do You Really Want Your MTV–Or Your ABC or Fox or Your Food Network? Cablevision Wants to Know.

in Media on February 19, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

Would you pay a dollar a month to watch “24″ on Fox? What about “Lost” on ABC? What about whatever it is they show on HGTV? Cablevision asks its customers, and I bet the data would be fascinating for the rest of us.

Maybe Newsday Made Its Pay Wall a Little Too Strong

in Media on January 26, 2010 at 5:16 pm PT

That pay wall that Newsday put around its Web site last year? Crazily effective–at keeping people from buying an online subscription. Since the wall went up three months ago, only 35 people–as in not quite three dozen–have paid the $5-a-week fee for Web access. What does this tell us about the New York Times plan? Not much.

Here’s a First: Man Arrested for Not Using Twitter

in Media on November 22, 2009 at 5:46 am PT

Police charge a record company executive who didn’t use the messaging service to break up a near-riot of teenage girls at a Long Island mall.
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Jeff Bezos, Spark Capital, Bet on Aviary, a Web-Based Would-Be Adobe

in Media on October 25, 2009 at 9:00 pm PT

Last week, Jeff Bezos made $2 billion in one day, courtesy of a massive spike in Amazon shares. That gives him more money to plow into the likes of Aviary, a Long Island-based company that makes design software. The Amazon CEO has made a second investment in the company as part of a $7 million round led by Spark Capital.
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How Much Would You Pay to Read Newsday.com?

in Media on February 27, 2009 at 4:56 am PT

Zilch. That’s the snap consensus from the Web pundits, who are baffled by Cablevision’s plan to start charging for access to the online version of Newsday, the Long Island daily it overpaid for last year. Will someone please explain what the cable guys are up to?
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