Published: Feb 22, 2012
STAMFORD, Conn. — The old Town Hall here, a Beaux-Arts building on the National Registry of Historic Places, has sat unused for 25 years, a victim of Stamford’s rapid growth in the 20th century. But the Town Hall will join the 21st-century economy, with the announcement this month that it would become an incubator for business start-ups
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
Just as New Yorkers have grown used to blaring televisions in the back of taxis, the Taxi and Limousine Commission is considering another electronic option: embedded tablet computers. The commission is weighing a proposal by Square, a mobile payment company based in San Francisco, to replace Taxi TVs in 50 cabs with similarly shaped iPads or other
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
PRINCETON, N.J. — As a serial snack-food entrepreneur, Warren Wilson is no stranger to the challenges of running a business. In the early days of his first enterprise, selling funnel cakes at fairs, there was the time when, tired of losing money on inclement days, he bought weather insurance — and proceeded to lose even more money than
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Published: Feb 17, 2012
WASHINGTON — The need for revenue to partly cover the extension of the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits has pushed Congress to embrace a generational shift in the country’s media landscape: the auction of public airwaves now used for television broadcasts to create more wireless Internet systems. If a compromise bill
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Published: Feb 17, 2012
SILEMA, MALTA — As residents of a Mediterranean island known throughout Europe for its resilience in adversity, many Maltese tend to see the current troubles of the euro zone as relatively small potatoes. After all, the island has faced great peril and triumphed, like in the terrible sieges by the medieval Ottoman Turks and the Axis forces in
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Published: Feb 16, 2012
CORDES JUNCTION, Ariz. THE pilgrimage began with a black-and-white handbill on a campus bulletin board. At the top was a sketch of an ultramodern compound rising above a desert canyon: a city upon a hill. Next came the manifesto. “If you are truly concerned about the problems of pollution, waste, energy depletion, land, water, air and
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON — A proposed wireless broadband network that would provide voice and Internet service using airwaves once reserved for satellite-telephone transmissions should be shelved because it interferes with GPS technology, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. The F.C.C. statement revokes the conditional approval for the
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON -- A proposed wireless broadband network that would provide voice and Internet service using airwaves once reserved for satellite-telephone transmissions should be shelved because it interferes with GPS technology, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. The F.C.C. statement revokes the conditional approval for the network
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
The New York Telephone Company building at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge is not among the city’s most loved, to put it charitably. It was built in 1975 as a switching control center for the phone company but has been largely vacant for years, despite the large “Verizon” sign that adorns its forbidding facade. Come this fall,
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
11:40 a.m. | Updated Barry Diller, who created the Fox television network almost 30 years ago, now wants to free it and other networks from the chains of what he calls the ''closed cable-broadcast-satellite circle.'' On Tuesday, at the Manhattan headquarters of his company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, he introduced Aereo, an Internet television service
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