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Jon Christian

Jon Christian is a Boston-based reporter and blogger, particularly interested in the intersection of technology, civil rights and culture. At Tech.li, his beat encompasses Google, cloud and ultra-portable computing, haptic/cyberpunk/brain-in-a-tank news, and other cool stuff in the tech world. Tip him off at: [email protected].

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Radiojar Co-founder: Streaming Radio Is Not Dying

By Jon Christian June 21, 2012

Is social radio platform Radiojar wasting its time on a dying medium? Absolutely not, says...

Bright Aims To Be The OkCupid Of Job Hunting

By Jon Christian June 20, 2012

Bright launched with a splash Tuesday, riding the wave of news that the job-hunting venture has...

Grocereé Shopping: Startup Wants Supermarket Transparency

By Jon Christian June 20, 2012

Two developers from Prescott, Arizona have a vision. They want you to be able to punch your grocery...

Pearl: Probably Not A Quora-Killer

By Jon Christian June 20, 2012

Expert query service JustAnswer, which rebranded as Pearl (as in, apparently, a pearl of wisdom)...

Could This Fuel Cell Keep Your Phone Charged For Weeks?

By Jon Christian June 20, 2012

A Massachusetts-based developer says it's prepping to release a device, about the size of a pack of...

Google: Beware Rising Censorship, At Home And Abroad

By Jon Christian June 20, 2012

Google said this week that the fifth data set to be released as part of the company's Transparency...

Sebastian Thrun: Online University Udacity “Is An Experiment”

By Jon Christian June 19, 2012

Sebastian Thrun keeps busy running Google's secretive Google X laboratory and with an academic post...

Spy Games: WhatRunsWhere Might Be Crawling Your Ads Right Now

By Jon Christian June 17, 2012

WhatRunsWhere is a spy tool that crawls the web to gather data on advertising campaigns, both text...

Google, Facebook Are Uneasy Allies On New Taskforce

By Jon Christian June 16, 2012

As in Marvel's The Avengers, there are some uneasy relationships between the members of a new task...

Etsy Scholarship Boosts Female Hacker School Attendance 23-Fold

By Jon Christian June 16, 2012

Hacker School is a three-month, full-time school for coders who want to improve their programming...

Twitter Gives Salesforce Access To 400 Million Tweets For Data Analysis

By Jon Christian June 16, 2012

For a venture with its visibility, Twitter tends to be something of a quiet giant – periodically...

Obama: Improve Broadband To Spur Innovation

By Jon Christian June 15, 2012

President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday designed to make broadband infrastructure...

Google Blows Up ICANN Applications

By Jon Christian June 15, 2012

This week, the organization that regulates domain names released a list of entities that have...

The End Is Pie? Pizza Vending Machines Coming To U.S.

By Jon Christian June 15, 2012

A monolithic red machine stands in Europe. For a modest fee, it will awaken, briefly, to bake a...

CellScope Develops Digital First Aid Kit

By Jon Christian June 14, 2012

The next time your kid has a fever you might be able to skip the doctor's office. CellScope has...