Tag archive: Houston

Kicked off in the pilot program during the first half of the year to start collecting photographs, Google has officially launched an interior version of Street View for buildings. The program sends a Google photographer to a business to take 360-degree photos and allow a potential customer to walk through the store. For instance, a user could navigate through a retail department store to find the exact location of the housewares department and… Read More

Series sponsored by Sony Whether you’ve lived in Houston for years and just started to get the photo itch, or happen to be swinging through on the weekend and want to capture the Space City at its finest, here’s your guide to framing up Houston. From the historic Heights neighborhood to the Glowarama art car parade and Williams Water Wall, we’ve rounded up some of the most photogenic spots and events in the city, along with our… Read More

Series sponsored by Sony Get a little dust on your sensor at the rodeo? Need a lens filter before hitting the water wall? Want to grab a tripod to take the blur out of the Lights in the Heights? Our favorite Houston-area photo shops offer all of the above (and cleaning for your speckled sensor), plus print supplies, used lenses and even grip equipment. Camera Co-Op 801 Durham Drive Houston, TX 77007 The Camera Co-Op one of Houston’s… Read More

Series sponsored by Sony Houston never sits still. So capture it in motion. While you could find an event every weekend to fill the frame, these five stand out as among our favorite photo-friendly Houston events. Lights in the Heights Lights in the Heights is a Christmas festival in the Heights, a historic neighborhood just northwest of downtown. We love shooting the event because most of the residents make an effort to decorate… Read More

Series sponsored by Sony The backyard and living room work fine for testing out new lenses and techniques, but when you really want to capture everything Houston has to offer, it’s time to lace up some shoes and hit the streets. From the city’s most popular fire-spinning hangout to a literal wall of water, here are some of our favorite Houston locales to break out the DSLR and go crazy. Buffalo Bayou Buffalo Bayou flows all the way… Read More

So far, Clearwire has only launched WiMax 4G mobile services in Baltimore, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Portland Oregon, but the company keeps saying it plans to activate additional markets in the near future. Today, the company announced ten more locations that are in line for WiMax services, with two online today and eight more coming September 1. But they aren't exactly major metropolitan areas: Bellingham, Washington and Boise Idaho… Read More

Clearwire has officially launched its Clear-branded 4G WiMax mobile broadband service in Las Vegas, Nevada, marking the company's fourth major WiMax service area following Baltimore, Portland Oregon, and Atlanta. Clearwire says the Las Vegas service area covers about 1.7 million people over 638 square miles. “Wile it's true that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, now, thanks to Clear, that doesn't mean it has to stay… Read More

In space, perhaps, no one can hear you Twitter. But on earth, a Tweet from space can have plenty of followers. NASA astronaut Mike Massimino certainly does – 273,676 of them, in fact – and they follow all his Tweets from space under the name Astro Mike. He’s been sending them since April, transmitted through a radio link from his current home in the space shuttle Atlantis to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, according… Read More

A new market research study from MultiMedia Intelligence ranks U.S. cities on the basis of how wide their residents have adopted in-home networking during 2007. Perhaps not surprisingly, San Francisco topped the survey results, with some 28 percent of households having adopted home networking technologies. San Francisco was closely followed by Miami at 27 percent, and Los Angeles at 24 percent. If you're wondering why other… Read More

Although it still hasn't been officially announced, U.S. mobile operator T-Mobile is widely expected to introduce the first mobile phone build on Google's Android platform next month, in the form of the HTC Dream. The potential problem with this scenario is that, while the Dream supports 3G data connectivity, T-Mobile is the number four mobile operator and only has 3G service up in a handful of markets. T-Mobile introduced 3G… Read More

Struggling ISP and broadband provider EarthLink has announced that it is pulling the plug on Philadelphia's Wi-Fi network as of June 12, 2008. The move marks the latest chapter in EarthLink's rapid exit from the never-really-materialized municipal Wi-Fi arena, in which metropolitan areas attempted to set up various forms of Wi-Fi Internet access for residents: late last year, EarthLink announced it was cutting funding for… Read More

AT&T has announced it will be replacing some 17,000 batteries used as backup power in cabinets housing equipment for its U-verse television service, following two fires—and two explosions—with the equipment in the last year. Although some damage occurred to nearby property, no one was hurt in the incidents. The problematic battery units are not located in U-verse equipment in consumers' homes; rather, they're… Read More

Cell phones may be a no-no on flights once a plane gets into the air, but on the ground, they may soon help save paper and improve security in the process of boarding. According to the Houston Chronicle, Continental Airlines has become the first airline to adopt paperless boarding passes for a trial run at George Bush International Airport in Houston, substituting cell phones for cellulose. The system works using 2D barcodes, the mess of… Read More

Nationwide ISP Earthlink is struggling to contain costs, recently announcing it is cutting 900 jobs and closing offices—but wht's more, the company is giving up on plans to run municipal Wi-Fi networks in Houston and San Francisco, and may pull out of other municipal Wi-Fi deals in short order. Although Earthlink has not yet commented publicly, comments to the Associated Press from the office of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom… Read More

AT&T Wireless, err we mean Cingular, err, we mean AT&T, has unveiled what your neighborhood AT&T cellular products store will look like after they rip out all of the Cingular logos and dress their employees in new AT&T garb. The first AT&T Experience Store is open in Houston and coming soon to a strip mall near you. The new AT&T Experience Store, which AT&T said will be larger than a typical Cingular store was,… Read More