Internet Gambling Vetoed in New Jersey
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill Thursday that would have made his state the first in the U.S. to reintroduce online gambling since it was effectively prohibited by a 2006 federal law. The...
View ArticleNation's Capital Bets Online Poker Is Lawful
Washington, D.C., is poised to become the first place in the U.S. to allow online poker, challenging the federal government’s effective ban on the practice in its own backyard. The city council...
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CafeMom Launches Daily Deals and Plans Hispanic Moms Site
CafeMom, a social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, is expanding its offerings to daily deals, as well as announcing an anticipated launch of a site aimed at Hispanic moms. The deals...
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Hurricane Irene Is Over; Power Still Out for Many
What’s left of Hurricane Irene — which technically no longer qualifies as a named storm — has now moved on to Eastern Canada. Residents of the eastern United States are waking up this morning to messes...
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Anonymous Fails, Once Again, to Make Its Point
AllThingsD.com The world seemed awfully impressed yesterday with the size and oomph of the revenge attacks carried out online in reaction to the arrests of four people associated with the file-sharing...
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Super Bowl Predictions: How EA Uses Madden to Guess the Final Score
Electronic Arts is predicting that the New York Giants will defeat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, by a single field goal. For the past several years, the videogame publisher has been...
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Some Tips for Staying in Touch During Hurricane Sandy
As Hurricane Sandy has started to wallop New York, New Jersey, Delaware and much of the East Coast, we’ve reached that moment when people start reporting difficulties in communication. Power is...
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Investor Reaction to CEO Tim Cook's Dramatic Management Upheaval at Apple...
Some news cannot wait, of course, and sources at Apple said the company had planned to release news of the sudden exit of Scott Forstall, one of its major execs, this afternoon. Maybe so, but it’s...
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After Sandy, Wi-Fi Becomes Precious Commodity
During an emergency, one of the most precious commodities is information and the ability to communicate it without impediments. When the old reliable phone networks are creaky and central offices are...
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AT&T and T-Mobile Team Up for Free Roaming in Sandy-Affected Region
Denied the right by federal regulators to merge last year in what would have been a $39 billion blockbuster of a combination, wireless service providers AT&T and T-Mobile at least get to pretend...
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Hurricane Sandy Broke Only 10 Percent of New York Area's Internet
A natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy is one of those situations in which the people who keep track of the mysterious and complicated underpinnings of the Internet have some surprisingly interesting...
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As Power and Subways Return to New York, Normalcy Is Still a Long Way Off
The big news just breaking in New York City is that the 4, 5 and 6 subways, collectively known as the Lexington Avenue Line, are running end to end from the Bronx through Mahattan, all the way to...
View ArticleAT&T's Wireless Network Is 97 Percent Fixed From Sandy Damage
Work continues to bring wireless networks back to full capacity after the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. AT&T said today that its network has returned to 97 percent of its pre-storm capacity....
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You Won't Believe These Before-and-After Images of Sandy's Damage
The image you see at the right is a screen grab of an interactive composite of satellite and aerial images of Belmar, N.J., showing the borough before and after it had been damaged by Hurricane Sandy....
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As the Power Returns, E-Commerce Sites Turn Their Attention to the Holidays
Technology companies are largely considered resilient in natural disasters. When one server goes down, a redundant one across the country lights up to pick up the slack. And when employees can’t make...
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After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting
Holding an election is complicated. Holding an election eight days after a historically significant disaster? Probably exponentially so. This is the circumstance in which the state of New Jersey will...
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Yep, There Have Been Problems With Email Voting in New Jersey
As might have been expected, that idea to let displaced voters in New Jersey cast their ballots by email isn’t working out so well. First there are the technical issues. People requesting voting...
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New Jersey Gives Its E-Voters -- and Voting Officials -- More Time
Voters in New Jersey who have been displaced by Hurricane Sandy now have until 8 pm Friday to return their email and fax ballots under a directive issued by the state’s lieutenant governor. The order...
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Despite Lawsuit and Numerous Glitches, New Jersey Voted, but It Wasn't Pretty
Email in-boxes filled up and sent back bounces. There was at least one lawsuit. And the whole thing still hasn’t finished because election officials in several counties were overwhelmed. But New Jersey...
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Hurricane Sandy Proved How Hard It Is to Break the Internet
All the damage to the communications infrastructure brought on by Hurricane Sandy is sure giving the people who keep track of the technical underpinnings of the Internet a lot of fodder to see how well...
View ArticleChristie Conditionally Backs New Jersey Internet Gambling
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Thursday gave his conditional support to Internet gambling, laying the ground for the state to become one of the first in the country to allow online wagering....
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Zynga Shares Soar 11 Percent as New Jersey Moves Closer to Online Gambling
Zynga’s stock is seeing its first big leap in more than six months, fueled by a decent fourth-quarter report and evidence that online gambling is starting to make progress in the U.S. On Tuesday, Zynga...
View ArticleN.J. Gov. Christie Signs Online Gambling Bill
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday signed a bill making the state the first sizable one to allow online gambling in its borders. “This was a critical decision, and one that I did not make...
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Why Is Amazon Hiring for a Secret New Jersey Warehouse?
Has Amazon taken a big step toward bringing its AmazonFresh grocery delivery business to the New York City area? Last week, a Wall Street analyst published a report saying that he believed Amazon was...
View ArticleNew Jersey's Online Gambling Planned to Start in Late November
Online gambling in New Jersey will soft-launch on Nov. 21 and then launch in earnest on Nov. 26, the Associated Press reports. The state’s Gaming Enforcement Division will use the soft launch to make...
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