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The Start-Up Whisperer: Michael Dearing Is the Hottest Angel Investor You've Never Heard Of

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

While you might have heard of the acquisitions of Aardvark and AdMob by Google, Xoopit by Yahoo and Mixer Labs by Twitter, you might not have heard about the quiet angel investor they all have in common. And even in the loud echo chamber of Silicon Valley, Harrison Metal’s Michael Dearing likes it that way.

Mapping Your Digital Photo World

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 19, 2008 at 6:02 pm PT

The Eye-Fi Explore Card, a wireless memory card with a geotagging feature that geographically prelabels photos, was unreliable in one scenario, but we found it to be a great way to automatically organize and label photos.

Phoning Home Without a Phone

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on January 30, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

The SPOT Satellite Messenger gives outdoor thrill seekers a little extra insurance: It lets the folks back home track their progress, and learn when they’re OK or when they’re in trouble. However, the device isn’t perfect.