Wade Roush
Wade is Chief Correspondent for Xconomy. He is a veteran science and technology writer focused on digital media and Internet culture, with a special interest in mobile, social, and location-aware computing and the creative applications of Web and mobile tools.
As a staff member at MIT’s
Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, Wade served as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com, and helped lead the magazine to a nomination as National Magazine Award finalist in 2006. Before joining
TR, he was the Boston bureau reporter for
Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
Wade graduated Magna cum Laude in the history of science from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT in 1994. His work has appeared in
Science,
Technology Review,
IEEE Spectrum,
Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
Technology and Culture,
Alaska Airlines Magazine, and
World Business, and he has been a guest of CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and NPR.
Wade is the author of
Pixel Nation: 80 Weeks of World Wide Wade, an e-book compilation of essays from his weekly Xconomy column,
World Wide Wade; you can download the e-book as a
free PDF or a
$4.99 Kindle edition. You can also read Wade's personal blog at
Travels with Rhody, or follow his Twitter stream at
http://twitter.com/wroush. You can reach him by e-mail at wroush@xconomy.com or by phone at (617) 252-7323.
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It’s not every day you get to see three great East Coast rock bands on the same stage with two amazing West Coast bands—so we made a point of documenting our... Read more »
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If you change your tech startup’s name, you might get a one-line notice from the business press. If you get a prominent firm to invest in your technology, particularly if it’s... Read more »
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Boston-based Sand 9, which is developing microelectromechanical resonators that could replace quartz crystal frequency sources in 3G phones, GPS devices, and other applications, said today that Vince Graziani, a board... Read more »
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TripAdvisor, which was founded 10 years ago this month, is a study in paradoxes:
• The Newton, MA-based company’s family of travel-related websites attracts 35 million unique visitors each... Read more »
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I stopped by the Cambridge Innovation Center this afternoon to welcome a special newcomer to the neighborhood (Xconomy’s headquarters is just three blocks away). It was Jason Schupbach, the creative economy... Read more »
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This is the 80th edition of World Wide Wade since this weekly column on technology trends began in April 2008. Since we have so much material piling up in the archive,... Read more »
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Powerhouse Dynamics, a home energy usage monitoring startup in Newton, MA, raised $225,000 last spring and let slip to journalists in November that it was raising more. Now there’s confirmation... Read more »
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Somerville, MA-based XL Hybrids, formerly known as Entergem Ventures, has collected $850,000 out of a planned $1.2 million in capital in a sale of warrants and convertible promissory notes, according... Read more »
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Despite official data showing that the U.S. economy is out of recession, leading economics bloggers remain cautious about the nation’s economic prospects, with almost half saying that conditions are worse than... Read more »
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Vivox, the Natick, MA, startup best known for voice software that allows inhabitants of virtual worlds such as Second Life, EVE Online, and EverQuest to talk with each other over... Read more »
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Ira Glass groupies, rejoice. The Public Radio Exchange (PRX), the Cambridge, MA-based clearinghouse for public radio programming, said today that it has created an iPhone app for This American Life,... Read more »
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Pushing to get past a raft of pending patent infringement lawsuits, Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) said today that it will pay Johnson & Johnson $1.725 billion to settle three suits... Read more »
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Just in time for fans facing the prospect of pigskin withdrawal after this weekend’s Saints vs. Colts Superbowl matchup, Foxborough, MA-based Quick Hit has added an intriguing, and potentially lucrative, new... Read more »
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Framingham, MA-based IT consulting company Glasshouse Technologies, which registered for a $100 million initial public offering in October 2007 and then nixed the plan in March 2009, citing unfavorable market... Read more »
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The Apple iPad is one of the most eagerly anticipated computing devices in history. With all the heat and hype that preceded Wednesday’s public debut of the device, it was inevitable... Read more »
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For Boston-area startups that have already spent years staking out their corners of the mobile marketplace, getting on board with the Apple iPad—and the new set of business opportunities it creates—is... Read more »
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The first thing you should know about Carbonite, the Boston-based online backup company, is that it is indeed named after the ice-like substance in which Darth Vader encased Han Solo... Read more »
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Homes and businesses in North America generate about 55 million tons of organic waste every year, and that’s without even counting sewage. Roughly half of this solid waste comes from grass... Read more »
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Before the week gets away from me, I wanted to make brief note of an interesting piece of news yesterday out of Brightcove, the Cambridge-based provider of online distribution platforms... Read more »
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[Corrected and clarified, 1:30 p.m. 1/25/10, see page 2] Come Wednesday, we’ll learn a lot more about Apple’s presumed slate device. What we know right now, first hand,... Read more »
