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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Google Voice, a phone line unification and voice mail transcription service created by Grand Central and being revamped by Google, is gradually being opened up to people on its extensive waiting... Read more »
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If you read Xconomy, chances are that digital information is a big part of your day. You spend quite a bit of time absorbing, manipulating, and repackaging it. So here are... Read more »
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Maybe somebody at LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM) has a remote control for the NASDAQ exchange? Shares of the Woburn, MA-based remote access software company are flying high today, selling for more... Read more »
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ActiFio, a stealth-mode startup based in Weston, MA, has collected $4 million of a planned $8 million equity financing round, according to regulatory documents published online today. The documents do... Read more »
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Thanks to ongoing advances in liquid crystal display and plasma screen technology, flat-panel TVs keep getting flatter. Sharp’s new 46-inch Aquos X model is only 1.35 inches deep—thinner than three iPhones... Read more »
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In the year’s first initial public offering by a venture-backed company from New England, Woburn, MA-based remote access software maker LogMeIn has raised $80 million, according to a report late Tuesday... Read more »
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Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) announced today that starting next week, customers will be able to order versions of its Mini 10 netbook computer equipped with GPS hardware as well as hybrid... Read more »
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[Update, 7/1/09: The IPO went forward last night as planned---see our full coverage.] The underwriters of LogMeIn’s planned initial public offering are expected to price the stock this... Read more »
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Within a few years, says John McEleney, sheer economics will force most companies to stop buying their own computer hardware and offload some or all of their processing and storage to... Read more »
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Ah, the beauties and the pitfalls of the new mobile-software ecosystem. With ready-made distribution platforms like Apple’s iTunes App Store, it’s possible for a couple of entrepreneurs to launch a company... Read more »
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[Update 12:30 a.m. 6/30/09: We've revised this story after speaking with a Yahoo official.]
A report Monday in TechCrunch asserting that Yahoo is killing off its Cambridge, MA-based video... Read more »
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IntelligentMDx, a Cambridge, MA, startup developing DNA- and RNA-based tests for a range of human diseases, announced last week that it has raised an additional $3 million from a group of... Read more »
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According to report today by PE Hub’s Dan Primack, Highland Capital Partners of Lexington, MA, has postponed the close of its eighth venture fund until mid-July to allow more time for... Read more »
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Oneforty, a company creating an online clearinghouse of applications related to Twitter, is the first participant in the TechStars Boston summer startup incubator program to receive funding, according to a... Read more »
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Michael Kolowich—the founder of ZDNet, former president of AT&T New Media, and former chief marketing officer at Lotus—is among the founders of Channel One Marketing, a social media marketing firm... Read more »
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It’s no surprise that the president of RSA, the security division of Hopkinton, MA-based information management giant EMC (NYSE: EMC), has strong views about the need for better security... Read more »
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The organizers of DEMO, the semiannual conference where tech startups do six-minute onstage demonstrations of their newest products, are coming to Boston next week to scout for stealth-mode innovators interested... Read more »
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Boston-based ClickFuel, which offers Web-based services that help small and medium-sized businesses manage Internet marketing campaigns, said today that it has raised $2.5 million in a Series A round led... Read more »
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SugarLabs, the Boston-based organization leading the development of Sugar, the open-source operating environment originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation’s XO Laptop, said today that it is now... Read more »
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Clear, a five-year-old biometric passenger identification service intended to speed air travelers’ passage through security checkpoints, shut down last night. According to the service’s website, parent company Verified Identity Pass... Read more »
