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A big regulatory victory for Airbnb happened this past Friday: the company has managed to win an appeal in New York City over a fine against a host called Nigel Warren, whose landlord was fined $2,400 in June after Warren rented out a room in his apartment. If the fine had stuck, it would have Continue Reading →

Facebook is laying down a new gauntlet in its battle with Twitter to dominate online conversation around television: more data for broadcasters. This week, Facebook says it will begin sending weekly reports to America’s four largest television networks, offering a glimpse of how much chatter their shows are generating on the social network. The reports Continue Reading →

New York City is increasingly playing host to a number of successful startups, and Mayor Bloomberg wants to keep it that way. The city announced on Monday a plan to bring free Wi-Fi connectivity to neighborhoods across the five boroughs. These networks, set to launch in December, will be open to the public and have strategically Continue Reading →

Apple iPhone 5S comes with a 4-inch Retina display with fingerprint-resistant olephobic coating and Corning Gorilla Glass as protection. However, the screen on the iPhone 5S isn’t crack-resistant. Fortunately, it’s not difficult to replace the iPhone 5S screen. Follow our repair steps and you’ll have a new screen on your iPhone 5S. Tools needed: Pentalobe Continue Reading →

A shift in leadership is now upon the tablet mobile computing market. At the year’s mid-point, market intelligence firm ABI Research identified a trio of events signaling Apple’s iPad family of products has passed the baton to the Android ecosystem. During the second quarter of 2013, the number of Android-powered tablets surpassed iOS-based slates for Continue Reading →

Last year, Google acquired Waterloo-based startup BufferBox, which provides shipping locker service to make it easy to get things delivered reliably even when you’re not sure where you’ll be when they’re arriving. The startup built its service on the idea that people never want to see another missed delivery door tag ever again, and began Continue Reading →

While Facebook has worked very hard to perfect real-time news for friends in the Newsfeed and big-picture past events in the Timeline, granular details of past activity on the social media site are very difficult to pick out. Trying to find a specific status message or wall post can involve endless scrolling chronologically through the Continue Reading →

Cloud-based TV service Aereo has delayed its rollout in Chicago, which would have been its next biggest market after its hometown of New York, the company announced Friday. Aereo was testing its service in the Chicago area when it “encountered issues” with its testing site earlier this month, according to a blog post from the Continue Reading →

Major League Baseball is launching a major initiative to make attending games at stadiums a completely interactive experience for fans. Taking advantage of Apple’s iBeacon indoor mapping, a new feature in iOS 7, the MLB plans to customize its At the Ballpark app for everyone that walks into any of its stadiums nationwide. “We’ve been Continue Reading →

More U.S. shoppers prefer Sony Corp’s upcoming PlayStation 4 than Microsoft Corp’s Xbox One, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, as the industry’s two leading videogame console makers prepare to do battle this holiday season. Asked about their interest in dedicated game devices, 26 percent of 1,297 people surveyed online last week say they are likely Continue Reading →