New Jersey Gives Its E-Voters — and Voting Officials — More Time

Now e-voting won’t officially end in New Jersey until Friday. Can someone say polling place?
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You Won’t Believe These Before-and-After Images of Sandy’s Damage

And more are coming this week.
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AT&T’s Wireless Network Is 97 Percent Fixed From Sandy Damage

Work continues to bring wireless networks back to full capacity after the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. AT&T said today that its network has returned to 97 percent of its pre-storm capacity. That includes 90 percent of its cell sites in New York City. Operations in other states affected by the storm have returned to or are near normal levels. The company said it had placed 25 temporary cell sites in the region, including cells on trucks and on light-rail cars to fill in gaps in its network, and deployed 3,000 generators and 70 trucks to keep them topped up on fuel.

After Sandy, Manual Labor Keeps Cloud Services Running

One New York cloud services provider stays online thanks to the back-breaking work of a bucket brigade.
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AT&T and T-Mobile Team Up for Free Roaming in Sandy-Affected Region

For a few days they get to imagine what might have been.
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Some Tips for Staying in Touch During Hurricane Sandy

That old landline phone you refused to get rid of may come in handy right about now.
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How Obama or Romney Should Have Answered the iPad Question

When CNN’s Candy Crowley asked why iPad and iPhones can’t be made in America, here is what one of the candidates — either one — should have said in response.
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Columbia University Names Sree Sreenivasan Its First Chief Digital Officer

But everyone will still know him as just plain Sree.
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The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey’s Apple Attack and the Media

Now we have to start the conversation about Apple and Foxconn and workers’ rights all over again, this time with real, verifiable facts at our command. Is that so much to ask?
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The End Is Here Before the Beginning for Beyond Oblivion

Beyond Oblivion, a New York-based music start-up is shutting down before even launching a product, having burned through some $87 million worth of funding, according to a report in the Financial Times (link goes to a story behind a paywall). Backed by investments from News Corp. (which also owns this Web site), it had sought to bundle the service with hardware and charge a flat fee, but had trouble selling recording labels on the idea.

2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin’ and Security Gets Spendy

Marc Benioff Brings His Social Cloud Message to New York

Cloudera Lands $40 Million From Ignition, Accel Launches $100 Million Big Data Fund

Box.net CEO Aaron Levie Takes His Show to New York

Palantir’s $2.5 Billion Mystery, Solved

Autonomy: When All Else Fails, Blame the Bankers

Hurricane Irene Is Over; Power Still Out for Many

Bloomberg to SAIC: New York City Would Like Its $600 Million Back, Please

Your Phone Knows Where You Are, and Always Will. Get Used to It.

Salesforce.com Invades Manhattan, Makes Service Cloud More Social

How to Liven Up an EMC Product Launch? Stuff a Mini Cooper, Naturally. (Video)