David Vivero

Perhaps I'm late to the party, but I just found a fascinating company called Clear, which is essentially a club that expedites security clearance waits at airports for its paying members. For about a hundred bucks a year, the program scans your iris and fingerprints, takes your photo, and gives you a membership card. Then you take that membership card to the airports they've signed up, including San ...

I found the recent speculation regarding Google's expected social networking initiative to be incredibly exciting for users and industry observers. The basic proposition, which may not end up coming to fruition, is described and compared to Facebook by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington: Facebook has a platform to allow third parties to build applications on Facebook itself. But what Google may be planning is significantly more open - allowing third parties ...

I was eating lunch with my good friends Alex and Lisa last week, and had a Seinfeldian observation. That observation was: why does cellular voicemail offer a 'paging' option? If you don't know what I'm talking about, try calling a Sprint customer who you know will screen your calls. Cell phones may not be good at certain things. They've historically been a terrible platform for reading long-form content, and ...