Entries Categorized as 'News'

ANNOUNCE: City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community (in SF)

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on February 8, 2010 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments

Our good friend Kari Gray is helping to create a technology arts festival in San Francisco this year called “City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community“. Kari originally contacted us about Spectropolis, our Wireless Arts festival from a few years ago, wanting to create something similar out on the west coast. What her [...]


CBSMobileZone Shut Down?

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on January 11, 2010 under News   Tags Tags: , , , ,    Comments Comments

Our roving Wi-Fi reporter, Klaus Ernst, has checked out the Times Square area again looking for CBSMobileZone hotspots that were online (though barely functional) a few months ago. Here’s his report:
when trying to connect at a CBSMobileZone lately I keep getting redirected to:

no aptilo terms of service page coming up. Also the “cbsmobilezone.com” Website is gone. [...]


Why No One Should Talk To or Read Anything from the Heartland Institute

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 26, 2009 under News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments

I had a very interesting email exchange today with Thomas Cheplick, a reporter at the Heartland Institute. For those of you paying attention over the past few years to the Telecom sector, you’ll remember The Heartland Institute as a Sock Puppet Organization that “that call themselves independent but have ties among each other and to [...]


NYCwireless on Advertising Age: Chasing Mobile Audiences Beyond Phones

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 22, 2009 under News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments

I was asked to sit on a panel last Thursday about “THE FOUR SCREENS: Everything you had no idea you needed to know but were afraid to ask!” by my friend Bill Sobel at SobelMedia. My fellow panelists represented a great variety of old and new media expertise, and I brought some mobile knowledge to [...]


Update on Times Square Wi-Fi Network

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 7, 2009 under News   Tags Tags: , ,    Comments Comments

Our own Klaus Ernst had a chance to check out the new Times Square Wi-Fi network, and snapped some pictures of the network’s home page (on his iPod Touch) and some of the advertisements in the area:
I finally got connected at 43 and b’way. I tried saturday – no luck. No good at the steps either. Could this [...]


Community Broadband Hearing at Columbia University on Dec. 11

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 4, 2009 under Events, News, Policy   Tags Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,    Comments Comments

UPDATE: This is a Community Broadband Hearing by Columbia University, not an FCC Field Hearing. Sorry for the confusion!
Friend Bruce Lincoln, Entrepreneur in Residence at Columbia Engineering’s Center for Technology, Innovation & Community Engagement, sent us an invite for a Community Broadband Hearing taking place next Friday, December 11 at Columbia. I’m planning to attend, and [...]


Free Wi-Fi Now Available in Times Square

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on November 10, 2009 under News   Tags    Comments Comments

Our friends over at the Times Square Alliance just sent us word that their new Wi-Fi network is up and running, and will be launched today. This is a great new amenity for New Yorkers and visitors alike, offering Free Wi-Fi to everyone. So grab a coffee and have a seat in one of the [...]


The Invisible Politics of the Public Airwaves

Date Published by laura4lano on October 18, 2009 under News   Tags    Comments Comments

Last month, as part of Breakout! – a collaborative team project that is part of the Architecture League’s ongoing Toward the Sentient City exhibit – a small group including NYCwireless co-founder Anthony Townsend gathered at The Triangle – a slice of pavement equipped with tables, chairs and umbrellas parked in between The Diner and the [...]