As seen in the New York Daily News. Jobs picture bright The job market may be looking up for the rest of the year, a new survey found. The study by employment consulting firm Challenger Gray and Christmas showed that 69% of companies are having … Read More →
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Coming soon: Shelling out by cell phone
As seen in the New York Daily News. Next time you’re getting ready to go shopping, you might be able to leave your wallet at home. Verizon Wireless customers will soon have the ability to make purchases directly from their mobile phone using Obopay, the … Read More →
Bucking foreclosure trend: City defaults drop amid nat’l surge
As seen in the New York Daily News. Foreclosures on homes nationwide surged 90% in May from a year earlier, but the city bucked the alarming trend. More than 175,000 people nationwide were late enough on their mortgage payments last month to face default, auction … Read More →
Surface Computing A Break With The Past
As seen in the “Business” section of The Huffington Post. My friends over at Popular Mechanics magazine were lucky enough to score a first look at a new device created by Microsoft: A coffee table-sized touchscreen computer that loses the mouse, the keyboard and the … Read More →
A Convenient Failure
As seen in the “Living” section of The Huffington Post. Never say a failed science experiment is a true failure. It might just come back and, well, recycle itself. How’s that for energy conservation? Using repurposed data from an old Apollo 15 experiment, a recent … Read More →
New Guest Editors Invent Internet, Puppies
IvyGate has gone 27 seconds without new guest editors, but the children's parade will now march on. It's like a whole new Internet. Everyone loves the Internet.