Technology

VoterBuzz political application has the potential to go “viral” and transform the way smartphones are used by politicians and their followers.

Last summer was such a success, Google is doing it again. The company is searching for applicants for its BOLD Diversity internship program. BOLD stands for Building Opportunities for Leadership & Development. The program aims to reach students who identify with a group that is historically under-represented in the technology industry.

At a recent screening of the fourth installment of CNN’s Black in America series, The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley, host Soledad O’Brien led a panel discussion about the absence of Black startups in Silicon Valley.

A quarter-century into its career as a publicly traded company, Microsoft finds itself a prisoner of its own past success.

New Jersey residents who use public transportation to get to employment, educational and recreational destinations can now use state-of-the-art technology via smart phones to pay their way. The credit goes to New Jersey Transit, the state’s public transportation corporation, which partnered with Google’s payment system, Google Wallet, to offer riders a downloadable application for smart phones.

In a new video game television commercial, NBA star Dwight Howard is seen running through city streets, wildly firing an assault rifle. He is playing the role of a “noob,” a character in “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,” the latest installment of Activision Blizzard Inc.’s “Call of Duty” video game series. Over the next few weeks, millions of Americans, including other inactive NBA players, will be spending a significant amount of time in the same way, thanks to Tuesday’s worldwide release of Modern Warfare 3. 

Since 2009, the City’s Taxi & Limousine Commission has envisioned putting on the streets a vehicle that would accommodate travel of the future and at the same time improve on its outside environment. The sum of all ideas — from taxi owners, drivers, passengers and residents — produced the NV200, which is built on Nissan LEAF™ technology.

Augmented reality, or AR, is a new technology that businesses are racing to incorporate in as many consumer applications as they can.

The recent death of Steve Jobs, the tycoon behind Apple computers, has people wondering what the future of the company will look like. Today, Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple and on Oct. 4 the company released its latest addition to Apple’s catalog: the iPhone 4S. Critics who were expecting the iPhone 5 to be released instead gave the product mixed reviews.      

Tech gear that is rendered obsolete might be considered outdated, but you may be able to sell it for nearly the price you paid.