http://newyork.corante.com/ en-us basulto@gmail.com 2005-11-21T06:46:57-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/21/understanding_new_yorks_fetishization_of_blogs_and_ipods.php In her biweekly "Dispatches from NYC" column, Pauline Millard of The Simon takes an anthropological look at how and why New Yorkers seem to fetishize new technology offerings like blogs and iPods: "Even the most straight-edged New Yorker will always... 51328@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-11-21T06:46:57-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/01/musthaves_for_the_hightech_marathoner.php The New York Post has all the details on the high-tech gadgets and gizmos that you'll be seeing this weekend at the ING NYC Marathon: "Gearing up for a marathon means more than making sure your shoes are tied these... 51287@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-11-01T12:39:07-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/31/new_yorkers_and_their_holiday_shopping_lists.php Well, if it's November, it's almost time for newspapers, magazines and Websites to start publishing their holiday shopping lists, which will no doubt feature prominently items like the iPod Nano and the video iPod. On Friday, the Direct Marketing Association... 51284@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-10-31T12:32:37-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/13/the_new_video_ipod_makes_the_front_cover_of_the_new_york_post.php Smack dab on the front cover of the New York Post: the new video iPod. The paper calls it Apple's "most jaw-dropping iPod yet... a super-sleek gadget that plays music, videos and some of the hottest shows on TV... 51241@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-10-13T07:26:19-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/12/apple_store_to_open_this_week_in_staten_island.php Curbed points out that Staten Island's first-ever Apple store is opening this weekend. There may not be the same type of hoopla surrounding the new Staten Island store opening as there would be for an Apple store opening in... 51236@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-10-12T06:47:03-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/03/testing_headphones_in_the_new_york_subway.php In the Globe and Mail, Peter Svensson test-drives new in-ear headphones in the New York subway system. The idea being, of course, that if the sound quality is OK in the roaring, snarling, screeching New York subway, it'll be OK... 51203@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-10-03T10:03:45-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/29/david_pogue_reviews_the_new_thinkpad.php In today's New York Times, personal tech guru David Pogue reviews the new ThinkPad from IBM. Oops, make that the new ThinkPad from Lenovo. (The first four paragraphs of the product review deal with the "identity crisis" faced by... 51192@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-09-29T07:34:23-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/28/tiger_woods_in_central_park_for_videogame_launch.php In Central Park, Adam Balkin of NY1 caught up with Tiger Woods, who was in New York for the launch of his new videogame, Tiger Woods 2006. Tiger explains the newest features in the latest version of the game:... 51185@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-09-28T11:22:15-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/26/wireless_headsets_the_third_earlobes_of_techies.php The Wall Street Journal recently looked at the "etiquette quandaries" caused by Bluetooth-enabled wireless headsets. Not only do people wearing the headsets sometimes look ridiculous ("you look like a half-assimilated Borg"), social mix-ups are now commonplace, especially in busy... 51167@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-09-26T09:05:57-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/19/softcore_porn_coming_to_a_cellphone_near_you.php This was only a matter of time: a market for cellphone pornography within the US. In Europe, after all, consumers spend tens of millions of dollars on cellphone porn. The New York Times provides details: "With the advent of... 51144@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-09-19T09:45:13-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/06/hightech_golf_swing_analysis.php Greenwich, Connecticut already boasts more hedge fund managers and CEOs per capita than just about any other city in the U.S. Now, the mean streets of Greenwich are home of the metropolitan area's most sophisticated golf swing analysis tool:... 51100@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-09-06T07:36:17-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/29/bridging_the_digital_divide_with_free_apple_and_dell_laptops_for_manhattan_school_kids.php Ubiquitous laptop computing is coming to the Upper West Side -- at least for a select group of approximately 420 Manhattan school kids who will be receiving free Apple and Dell laptop computers as part of an innovative new program... 51066@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-08-29T16:38:59-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/29/ipod_sermons_and_pastor_podcasts.php The New York Times has another story about "cool things to do with an iPod" -- this time, it's downloading sermons to an iPod for future listening in the car, at the gym or anywhere else. It's all part of... 51064@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-08-29T11:02:46-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/29/the_subway_cellphone_pervert.php This made the front cover of the New York Daily News on Saturday: a cellphone snapshot of the subway pervert. It all started when a "smirking sicko" exposed himself to a 22-year-old girl on an uptown R train. The... 51061@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-08-29T07:12:42-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/26/postit_notes_for_netflix.php We're big Netflix fans around here, and so it was interesting to find out that Netflix subscribers from around the country have been attaching yellow Post-It notes to the Netflix DVD return envelope. According to these images from Hacking... 51055@http://newyork.corante.com/ personal tech 2005-08-26T09:52:24-05:00