Wade Roush
Wade is Chief Correspondent for Xconomy. He is a veteran science and technology writer whose recent work has focused on consumer Internet technology, including search, social computing, geocomputing, Web services, online virtual worlds, and the visual Web.
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.
You are invited to catch up on Wade's weekly column,
World Wide Wade, read his 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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Woburn, MA-based remote control software company LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM), which went public in July, said today that early investors plan to sell 2.9 million of their shares in a... Read more »
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Bitwave Semiconductor of Chelmsford, MA, has raised $1.33 million out of a planned $6 million Series C equity funding round, according to regulatory documents. The company makes radio-frequency integrated circuits... Read more »
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You know how listening to music on a friend’s pricey Bose headphones makes it harder to tolerate your tinny little speakers at home, or watching your favorite show on a high-definition... Read more »
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Zeemote, a Chelmsford, MA-based startup that developed a handheld game controller for use with games on mobile handsets, has closed its doors and is putting its assets up for sale, according... Read more »
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There must be some new force pulling West Coast tech CEOs to visit Boston. Last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in town; yesterday it was Google CEO Eric Schmidt.... Read more »
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Don Dodge, admired by many technology entrepreneurs as Microsoft’s enthusiastic ambassador to the startup world, is one of those swept up in today’s big round of layoffs at the software giant.... Read more »
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The Fifth Conference on Clean Energy, one of the biggest events of the year for New England energy and cleantech entrepreneurs, is coming up November 12 and 13 at the Hynes... Read more »
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Somebody forgot to tell John Chuang that it’s impossible to create a new kind of home computer these days.
Either that, or he didn’t listen. Because Chuang, a serial entrepreneur who... Read more »
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GenArts, the Cambridge, MA-based visual special effects startup, has added sparkles to its glints.
Which is to say, it has acquired a small St. Louis, MO-based company called Wondertouch that... Read more »
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The leaders of two of the biggest associations representing the information technology industry in Massachusetts—the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, better known as MassTLC, and the Massachusetts Network Communications Council,... Read more »
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10gen, a New York-based startup developing the open-source database MongoDB, has raised $3.4 million in Series B venture backing from Boston’s Flybridge Capital Partners and returning investor Union Square Ventures,... Read more »
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Andover, MA-based envIO Networks has spent several years developing a recommendation technology called “Social Genome” that helps mobile phone owners find applications they’ll like based on the preferences of their friends... Read more »
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Boston, MA-based First Wind said today that Harvard University has contracted to purchase half of the power generated by its Stetson II wind project in Maine. First Wind is expected to... Read more »
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If you thought the e-reader market was already confusing—with Sony, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble all offering their own unique versions of e-book devices based on the same underlying electronic paper... Read more »
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[Updated 11/2/09 with additional details about 3rd-generation laptop design, see page 2] After the October 24 announcement that the Internet Archive is about to make 1.6 million e-books available... Read more »
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RunMyErrand, the Boston-based online clearinghouse where busy people can recruit temporary helpers to complete tasks around town, doesn’t have a branch in the San Francisco Bay Area (yet). But if... Read more »
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In a presentation at the Boston Book Festival last weekend, Jon Orwant, a Google engineer involved in the company’s Book Search project, made a memorable and, I thought, quite perceptive remark... Read more »
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Last Wednesday, October 21, it was our privilege at Xconomy to provide a stage for a conversation between two legends of the investing world. The guest of honor was Peter Brooke,... Read more »
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[Corrected and updated, 10/28/09, 12:40 p.m.; see page 4.] Back in 2002, it must have sounded like a good idea for Orange, a fast-growing European wireless provider known... Read more »
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GSI Commerce (NASDAQ: GSIC), an e-commerce company that powers the online stores for dozens of prominent consumer brands, announced yesterday that it will purchase Boston-based Retail Convergence Incorporated (RCI) for... Read more »
