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Local governments inspire app developers with contests

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 13th, 2011)

Cities like New York, Washington D.C. and San Francisco want developers to write mobile apps that use city data. These cities have made their data public and, sometimes, hosted contests to encourage the process. The New York State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has jumped on ...

Apple faces trademark infringement lawsuit over the use of iBooks

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 16th, 2011)

Apple is facing yet another trademark infringement lawsuit. This time the company must defend its use of the term iBooks. Apple is being sued by New York publisher John T. Colby who bought Byron Preiss Visual Productions and Ibooks, Inc during a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy proceeding back in 2006. ...

New York's Tekserve gets major facelift

by Michael Rose (Jun 2nd, 2011)

It's one of New York's great indie Mac retailers, made famous by Sex and the City and made successful by thousands of loyal customers... but, if we're going to be frank about it, it was a little bit cluttered and cramped. That's why the team at Tekserve spent most of the Memorial Day weekend ...

Heatmap shows Fifth Avenue Apple Store is hot place for photos

by Mike Schramm (May 31st, 2011)

The image above is a heatmap of photo locations on popular pic sharing site Flickr, put together by developer Eric Fischer. Each dot on the map indicates where a photo was taken in New York's Manhattan borough, with each circled area representing a hot spot of location photography. As ...

WSJ: Apple still eyeing Grand Central terminal for new retail store

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2011)

Last week, The New York Observer claimed an anonymous source within the Metropolitan Transit Authority confirmed that Apple has killed plans to lease space within New York's Grand Central terminal. Today, the Wall Street Journal refutes that report with its own sources that suggest Apple is ...

Car-service app Uber heads for NYC market

by Mike Schramm (May 5th, 2011)

Uber is a service that connects an iOS app to a car booking network, so essentially you can use your iPhone to signal that you need a car, and then one shows up, complete with a driver ready to take you to your destination. We've seen taxis do this with Taxi Magic, but Uber is designed to not ...

Apple's rumored store plans for Grand Central not happening?

by Dana Franklin (Mar 21st, 2011)

The New York dream of shopping for an iPad 2 on the commute to work appears to have come to an end, according to a report by The New York Observer. An anonymous source within New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) says Apple ended plans to open a 16,000 square foot high-profile store ...

New York, New Jersey transit pilot iPhone payment system

by Dave Caolo (Sep 23rd, 2010)

MTA New York City Transit, New Jersey Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have collaborated with Visa to create a payment system that uses Visa's PayWave technology and several popular smartphones, including the iPhone. Travelers trying out the service can pay for passage ...

Navigate NYCs Internet Week with your iPhone

by Dave Caolo (Jun 10th, 2010)

Don't let WWDC fool you into thinking all of the fun is in San Francisco this week. New Yorkers are enjoying Internet Week. There are fun and interesting events and exhibits throughout the city from June 7th - 14th. Highlights include panel discussion, demos and interviews. With so much going on, ...

File under "ick": NYC iPad demo units sporting bacteria

by Michael Rose (Jun 7th, 2010)

Maybe it's not surprising that a flat surface touched by thousands of fingers would end up harboring some nasty critters, but the Daily News has a word to the wise for iPad shoppers in the Big Apple: BYO hand sanitizer. The paper surreptitiously swabbed and cultured samples from iPads at the 5th ...

Dateline NYC: Desperately seeking iPad

by Michael Rose (May 18th, 2010)

What's harder to find than a cheap apartment in Manhattan or a table at Per Se? According to Silicon Alley Insider, it's the iPad. The great slate will make you wait; it may be magical and/or revolutionary but it isn't to be found anywhere in the tri-state area (that's New York, New Jersey and ...

Found footage: the first guy in the iPad line at 5th Avenue Apple Store

by Steven Sande (Apr 1st, 2010)

It's not surprising at all that someone has already been sitting in front of the iconic 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York City. This video was posted this morning (April 1, 2010) and from the discussion with the person who is sitting there, he was in line yesterday. He kind of looks lonely, ...

Fifth Ave Apple Store is NYC's fifth most-photographed location

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 23rd, 2010)

Philip DeWitt at Apple 2.0 is reporting that Apple's Fifth Avenue retail store is now New York City's fifth most-photographed location. The ranking is according to a year-old analysis of 35 million Flickr images by Cornell University students on a university supercomputer. So which four landmarks ...

Steve Jobs featured in Icons art exhibit, wins award at MWC

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2010)

His Steveness was honored twice recently. First, he showed up in a piece of art featured in a New York exhibit. "Icons" is a set of portraits that shows off Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and of course our own iCEO. The art itself isn't ...

Apple Store opening this Saturday in Manhasset, NY

by Steven Sande (Oct 14th, 2009)

The population of Apple Stores in the state of New York will grow by one this Saturday, October 17th. Apple is opening the new Manhasset location on Long Island, about 15 miles east of LaGuardia International Airport. This will be Apple's 14th store in the Empire State, and will have all of the ...