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Apple to open its Biggest Retail Store in Grand Central
With Steve Jobs in the middle of a health crisis again and several tabloids counting the number of weeks he has, both Apple fans and investors are definitely having an uneasy time. In the middle of all this chaos, the folks at CultOfMac scored on a confirmation from the company that it will soon be…
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5th Avenue jeweler adds QR codes to the rocks
New York jeweler, Michael C. Fina, is taking window shopping to new levels with his scan-able jewelry displays. The fifth avenue retailer has partnered with bridal jewelry manufacturers A. Jaffe, Platinum Guild International USA (PGI-USA) and web developers Tappinn to be the first to embed their window displays with customized QR codes – matrix barcodes…
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Worried about charging your electric car in big cities? Free ChargePoints will soon be available
It’s great having an electric vehicle I’m sure. That mean you’re environment conscious and saving the planet in your own small way. But the biggest problem with owning an electric car is finding outlets to juice it up. A group called The Car Charging Group is working on a way to make provisions for charging…
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New York Times Bans References to “Tweeting”
Not wanting to alienate their technologically-ignorant readership, the New York Times has banned all usage of the word “tweet” from its articles, from now on. Phil Corbett, the Times’ standards editor, has asked all Times’ writers to avoid using any mutation of the word “Twitter” in their work, unless it is for “special effect”. The…
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New York invaded by 8 bit characters
First it was the dreadful Chucky and now it is the turn of popular 8-bit characters like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Tetris etc to take on the big apple. [HardOCP]
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Guy dressed as Boba Fett asking for change in NY Subway
With no more Jedi’s to hunt for Boba Fett make a living by playing the Zelda theme and asking for change in NY subway. We knew he’d fallen on hard times after the unpleasantness on Tatooine. There are even reports he’d been eaten by a sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon, where he supposedly…
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New York tourists will soon recieve Tweets from restrooms
There will be Tweets flowing in from Time Square soon enough. As a result of a contest held among some pretty illustrious participants about five lucky people have won the position of being new ‘restroom ambassadors’. They have managed to get this cool job with a pay of $10,000 assured to them for six weeks…
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New York aims at future emergency systems that connect with game consoles
What greater need can a game console be of as compared to a life saver? New York’s Deputy CIO, Rico Singleton is aiming for a greater connectivity to game consoles, in times of crisis, so as to use it as a medium to alert and reach out to youngsters who spend most of their time…
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Its real folks! iPhone now has a credit card reader
There was an idea of an accessory for the iPhone to read credit cards and now a store in New York is actually testing such a credit card reader for the iPhone. The Self Edge Store in New York is using a small credit card reader that plugs into the iPhone jack where you would…
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A woman who finds Twittering the best thing to do through a bank robbery
Keeping aside her fear and the real pain of being pinned down by armed robbers at an HSBC bank branch in Manhattan, ‘@TravellingAnna’ decided to Tweet the time away till the cops finally arrived. She used the broken-trackball-of-my-BlackBerry excuse to get away with the absolutely outrageous social networking site. One of her Tweet’s reads, “my…
