Verizon is laying down 400 tiny cells in SF to boost LTE capacity
Small cell, big punch
In the coming months, workers and visitors along San Francisco’s major tech corridors may notice some very big improvement in Verizon’s 4G…
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In the coming months, workers and visitors along San Francisco’s major tech corridors may notice some very big improvement in Verizon’s 4G…
The Indian woman whose alleged rape by an Uber driver led to the service being shut down in New Delhi has now…
It’s been four months since Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar officially launched their carpool features. And although all three rideshare companies have marketed their new carpool…
Well this is unusual. Buildzoom, an application for finding home contractors, is turning to the crowds to ID a woman who has robbed…
Uber’s week from hell continued Tuesday, as the offices of the Los Angeles and San Francisco district attorneys filed lawsuits suing the company…
Once again, Uber has made news following an alleged driver assault of a passenger. This time, the injuries were serious.
Despite some initial execution bumps, Uber is expanding its carpooling feature to the public.
Good riddance. A parking app that promised to make its owners money, while making everyone else miserable, has heeded a cease-and-desist letter.
iPhones — and eventually Android devices — will be able to automatically login to public Wi-Fi networks in both cities using secure connections.
San Francisco has just banned apps that let you sell your parking spot. This is not a question of regulators versus the sharing economy.
Once a startup establishes itself in San Francisco, you don’t see many of them moving into Silicon Valley, but Square is bucking…
If Silicon Valley is too far away, and San Francisco is too expensive, there’s only one alternative. Oakland, which is both attractive in its own right and in need of financial help, should be home to more companies in the tech industry.
Sprint’s LTE rollout continues on its painfully slow pace. While the carrier now boasts 4G coverage in 340 markets, there are still many glaring holes in its metropolitan city footprint.
Months of tension around the use of San Francisco’s public bus stops by Silicon Valley companies to transport workers finally led to action…
In a move designed to ease the growing tensions between deep-pocketed Silicon Valley workers and activists on behalf of lower-income communities forced…
The new Ruckus and Layer42 built network extends from the Castro to the Embarcadero. It’s still short of San Francisco’s planned muni-Wi-Fi network from a decade ago, but it covers the city’s primary thoroughfare.
Sprint now has 300 cities and towns in its LTE footprint, but it still has some big holes to fill, like San Francisco.
It might have seemed like just a whimsical Friday afternoon time-waster, but the “flash mob” that developed around San Francisco’s Batkid was another example of just how powerful the weak ties of social media can become
The Bay Area has big city problems and a surplus of startups. The mayor’s office wants to put them together to solve its greatest problems.
New products like Stand and Market are not only broadening Square’s scope, but they’re necessitating a lot of new hires. It’s found a bigger HQ, increased its presence in NYC and plans to expand into Canada.
You can’t swing a cat in San Francisco without bouncing it off a dozen open Wi-Fi signals. A Devicescape study found that twice as many businesses in SF offered Wi-Fi to their customers than in NYC.
Apart from Los Angeles, this week’s expansion mainly targets smaller cities and towns, but Sprint is going urban once again this summer with a big 120-city push.
San Francisco cab drivers are bringing a class action suit against Uber, claiming that the car service should be regulated like other taxis. The suit is part of a nationwide dispute pitting upstarts against the incumbent taxi industry.
San Francisco residents will be able to vote on Tuesday for or against Prop E, a measure that would change how companies in the city are taxed. The measure is widely supported by fast-growing tech companies in the city, who opposed the city’s unique payroll tax.
When it comes to tech, San Francisco is the company town, but that isn’t necessarily a good thing. Martin Amis things writing should be about longevity, something no one can accuse Malcolm Gadwell of writing. And an American made car! These are this week’s recommended reading.
Comcast’s Wi-Fi network has pulled up stakes and is heading west to make its fortune in San Francisco and other California cities. The cable operators said it has deployed a “few thousand” hotspots around the state though the greatest concentration is in the Bay Area.
Music video platform Vevo will give itself a visual refresh Thursday, decluttering its video watch pages and adding a whole new artist page. Those changes were driven by the company’s new product team, which traded New York’s glitz for a low-key startup experience in San Francisco.
The service expands from Washington, D.C. and Baltimore to let individuals and private garages rent out empty spaces. In San Francisco (and across the bay in neighboring Oakland), Parking Panda will have 5,000 to 10,000 parking spaces available for reservation via its new iPhone app.
Just days after news hit that Apple no longer wants its computers and monitors evaluated for EPEAT certification, the first public agency has said it will no longer be allowed to buy Macs as a result. The City of San Francisco is (unsurprisingly) first up.
The country’s largest mobile operator and largest cable provider bringing their “quadruple play” service to San Francisco and the Bay Area, jointly marketing Comcast residential TV and broadband and Verizon mobile service. In the process, they’re poking a needle in the eye of mutual enemy AT&T.
AT&T has turned on its 4G LTE service in 11 new markets, but that expansion may not be quite so big as it appears. AT&T is only covering large cities like San Francisco and New York partially, explaining why it’s only reached 74 million in coverage.
Every day, it seems like there’s another bland press release about startup seed funding. So when Buffer closed on $400,000, it wanted to announce it differently — by explaining exactly how the process happened. It’s a fun read, and a good lesson for other startup founders.
What do Redmond, Royal Oaks and Lima, Peru have in common? It’s all cities where we had meetups for Cord Cutters Day yesterday, thanks in large part to a community that even braves tornado warnings. Check out some photos from a few of the gatherings.
The Bay Citizen is going public with a new round of funding a little sooner than planned after a column in the rival San Francisco Chronicle…
The time for Macworld Expo 2010 is upon us and the handiest tool you’ll bring to San Francisco with you is, of…
Though there’s no lack of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, you can count one more. Maveron this week announced it is opening…
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is particularly proud of one circulation statistic: 73 percent of its home-delivery subscribers have been on…
There’s a lot of free video on the Internet these days, and you don’t need to go spelunking on BitTorrent to find…
Team Apart, a free collaboration tool that enables real-time video conferencing, whiteboarding and file-sharing, launches into closed beta today, and we have…
While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (now candidate for California Governor) let slip that San Francisco was working on an environment-focused map…
Layoffs and closings have become commonplace at newspapers, but newspapers are also trying some other survival tactics. The San Francisco Ch…
As lawmakers in Washington, D.C., gear up for a battle over climate legislation, the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose…
Wave energy seems a natural fit for coastal, cleantech-loving San Francisco. But while the technology has a big fan in Mayor Gavin…
Yesterday, the big news out of Hearst Corporation was one hiring — that of Yahoo’s Neeraj Khemlani as digital advisor to CEO Frank Bennack,…
During the hectic holiday season and its multitude of inconveniences, like delayed flights, icy roads and traffic jams, it’s easy for travelers…
San Francisco — home of an ambitious solar incentive program, a Tesla-driving mayor who blogs against “drill baby drill,” and soon, electric…
Quantenna Communications is due to announce three chipsets on Tuesday that boost Wi-Fi signals with a small footprint.
San Jose City Council Approves Tesla Plant: The San Jose City Council unanimously voted to approve Tesla Motors’ new electric car manufacturing…
The office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said today that it has received 19 responses to its request for information to electrify the city’s fleet. The responders include electric car players, like Better Place and ZAP, huge consultancies, like Booz Allen Hamilton, and a number of unknowns.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed have been battling it out to make their neighboring cities greener…
Today an employee of the San Francisco Department of Technology awaits his arraignment while information technology workers try valiantly to gain access…
Today‘s the first day that San Francisco residents can start applying for those thousands of dollars in rebates for their rooftop solar…
When talking mobile platforms, we tend to consider Symbian a separate platform along the lines of Palm, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and iPhone.…
San Francisco is poised to greatly boost its number of solar rooftops pending one final full meeting of the Board of Supervisors…
Leave it to San Francisco to decide that the city is not only going to recycle grease from its restaurants to be…
SMS text messages are the unsung heroes of messaging; this low-fi 140-character medium has for years kept us connected to each other…
This blog has covered alternative word processors before, and both writers and readers tend to agree that Google Docs and Zoho Writer…
Daniel Robin’s short film my olympic summer, about how the 1972 Munich Olympics kidnappings had the unlikely side effect of saving his…
It is still not clear what is going to happen to Xohm, Sprint’s planned WiMAX service. Will it be put on ice,…
You might have noticed that James was absent from our little on-line community yesterday. Per his request, I wanted to share a…
Another take on the VIA Nanobook reference design appears to be coming from Stone Computers in the U.K. PC Advisor has a…
People the world over are anxiously awaiting every update on Marc Orchant’s condition and this is the latest posted by Michael Sampson…
Three of the UK’s biggest broadcasters, BBC, C4 and ITV, are banding together to create an online on demand entertainment service. The…
Watch Gabe & Max’s Internet Thing right now. You will laugh. Out loud. Repeatedly. Usually spoofy infomercials are hacky and barely bring…
For a movie being billed as the first user-generated feature film, “users” have little to do with the production of Faintheart. The…
There might have been a good reason, at some point, for Apple to try selling QuickTime Pro. Not that I can remember…
It’s been covered here on TAB before, but not enough praise can be given to my text editor of choice, TextMate, which…
If you sat through the too-long, too-boring narcissist display of Hollywood’s utter lack of creative imagination this past Sunday, aka the Oscars…
Nero announced the availability of their new mobile device media player, Nero ShowTime Mobile, and it looks to be a promising cross-platform…
Russell, cuts to the chase and carves up the recent conversation between Charlie Rose Bill Joy, John Doerr and a bunch of…
My former boss at Forbes.com David Churbuck as joined the blog world, with his new offering, D.C. Churbuck Reports. As a former…
Andy writes: I could spend all day at VoN and get nothing done while at the same time get so much accomplished.…