Technically Philly

Comcast Roundup: NBC deal awaits Vivendi approval, Cohen called most powerful Philadelphian and More

Christopher Wink — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:30:16 +0000

Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates. The Wall Street Journal reports that Comcast and General Electric have agreed to value NBC Universal in the neighborhood of $30 billion, one [...]

Google to Philadelphia airport, others: Contact us about free Wi-Fi

Christopher Wink — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:30:53 +0000

Google is offering free Wi-Fi at 47 U.S. airports this holiday season, as we tweeted earlier today. The gift, which runs until Jan. 15 and is in partnership with Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and others, includes dozens of well-known airports, but there’s a noticeable lapse. Of the country’s ten busiest airports, only the [...]

Schuylkill River Trail looking for votes in Google Street View competition

Brian James Kirk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:28:56 +0000

The Schuylkill River Trail could get Google Street View treatment. The popular recreational trail has been nominated as a finalist for Google’s Street View Trike competition, according to the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. The Schuylkill is among 24 finalists that were voted on from a pool of 25,000. If it beats four others in the parks [...]

Salvation Army opens Target Media Center in West Philadelphia

Christopher Wink — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:30:31 +0000

Somewhere someone once said that technology makes the world smaller. Yesterday, inside its West Philadelphia Corps Community Center, the Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia opened a Target Media Center, a renovated 20- by 30-foot multi-purpose room crafted into a library and youth theater. One of its most dynamic features is the incorporation of a teleconferencing system designed [...]

TNT: TheDigitalLifestyle.TV wants to be Philly’s TECH TV, create a podcasting IndyHall

Sean Blanda — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:48:01 +0000

The normal population may have let May 28, 2004 slip by without notice, but many tech-heads could tell you a tragedy occurred that day in late May. It was then when TechTV, a cable station dedicated to tech news, was folded into G4 television. The station had a passionate cult following and Wired magazine even dedicated [...]

Event Highlights for November 9 – 15, 2009

Sean Blanda — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:30:34 +0000

Good morning Philadelphia, I have excellent news for you: SEPTA has returned to work. And just in time, as this week contains lots of events worth spending your hard earned tokens for. First, meet up with The Innovator’s Club in the burbs to chat social media. The group promises the presentation will be mixed with some humor. [...]

Friday Q&A: Pete Borowsky of Zatista

Sean Blanda — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:12:04 +0000

Pete Borowsky and his wife were moving in to what he describes as his first “big boy” home when he realized he wanted to spruce up his new walls with something more permanent than a poster. “We started looking for original art and the options were just not that great for us,” the Half.com (founded in [...]

Links: Innovation Philadelphia reflects on GCECS, Hugh Douglas speaks science and More

Christopher Wink — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:30:19 +0000

Updated 11/9/09 @ 10:22 a.m.: Added Innovation Philadelphia link DEFINITE READS Venture Beat reports that New Hope-based teen social network myYearbook is pushing its virtual currency hard toward growth in its fresh profitability. Innovation Philadelphia gives its own review of their Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit held early last month. See our interview with Innovation’s chief Kelly Lee [...]

Snipi closes second angel round, brings total raised to $1.4 million

Brian James Kirk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:15:00 +0000

Center City-based startup Snipi, a Web-based shopping and aggregation tool, has closed a second round of angel funding bringing its total raised to just over $1.4 million. CEO and Founder Andre Golsorkhi would not disclose the amount raised in the second round, but said in a telephone interview that it is funded by original investors and [...]

Comcast Roundup: NBC deal could be announced next week, Bob Brady fights net neutrality and More

Christopher Wink — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:30:30 +0000

Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates. The New York Times reports that Comcast could announce a deal to purchase NBC sometime next week. Still, Reuters had reported that Comcast [...]