Adriana is the resident writer-slash-culture vulture who has written about everything from smartphones, tablets, apps, accessories, and small biz technology to cooking, fashion, pop culture, newsmakers and the arts. She has appeared on Fox Business News, and her work has been published in Time Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. All of this gives her a unique view on her passions, technology and modern lifestyle. You can find her where the two intersect, at TechnoBuffalo, or follow her on Twitter at @Adra_La
Position Senior Editor at TechnoBuffalo
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By Adriana Lee |
One of the perks of shopping online is the ability to get your goods tax-free at times. But that may be coming to an end soon. The U.S. Senate has agreed to move forward with a bill that would empower states to impose sales taxes…
By Adriana Lee |
Somewhere in Los Gatos, CA, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings must be doing a happy dance. According to Netflix’s first quarter results, the company not only beat Wall Street estimates, but in terms of subscribership, it has breached the 29 million mark in the U.S. Do…
By Adriana Lee |
Is Apple secretly CEO shopping? That’s what anonymous “Wall Street” sources tell Forbes writer Gene Marcial. Of course, a healthy dose of skepticism is always warranted whenever unnamed sources are involved, and concrete evidence of a Tim Cook–overthrow is hard to come by. Even so,…
By Adriana Lee |
Google extended its charitable branch, Google.org, to mobile last Friday with the new One Today Android app. From the looks of it, the core, social-driven mechanisms could prove to be a rather effective fundraising tool. Users choose a charity and agree to match any $1…
By Adriana Lee |
What’s the cheapest phone you’ve ever seen? I’m not talking about those zero-down, subsidized phones offered on contract — believe me, those “free” phones do wind up costing you. No, I’m talking about a functional phone with the tiniest overall monetary footprint. Give up? Well Andrew…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s Earth Day, which means we’re supposed to take this time to consider how we treat this spinning orb we call home. And while some mark the occasion by doing exactly that, others just can’t help but throw down a little planetary supremacism. its earth…
By Adriana Lee |
There were rumblings that Google Glass would be ready for a late 2013 release, and that was certainly the presumption that most of us in the tech biz had. But now new remarks from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt are pegging a later timeframe in 2014.…
By Adriana Lee |
Does it get more ironic than this? Apparently the Great Place to Work conference in Los Angeles last week had a really fascinating choice of guest speaker: Marissa Mayer. If you recall, the Yahoo chief drew fire for killing the company’s telecommuting privileges a couple…
By Adriana Lee |
Last week, the rumors over Twitter #Music panned out, as the company finally had its coming out party for the Web and iOS. Twitter called it a tangible grid of trending artists, so naturally, we wanted to see what kind of trends it would yield.…
By Adriana Lee |
Smartphone saturation has reached an all-time high. These days everyone, rich or poor, teens to grandparents, are rocking these advanced handsets. But are they so attached to these devices that they’d actually forego sex for a week before giving them up? If they’re young women,…
By Adriana Lee |
Why this wasn’t called Google Crashers is beyond me, but even so, the new Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn flick still looks like fun. Take two aging salesmen, stick them on the Mountain View campus among young, hotshot tech wizards, and watch the wackiness ensue. The premise…
By Adriana Lee |
Is there anything about social media that researchers haven’t yet zoomed in on? This time, the study (.pdf) comes from a Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student and a Facebook staffer, who reveal that most Facebook users tend to self-censor their comments at the last minute before posting.…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’re in a LTE coverage area, you’re probably living the good life. Likely, it’s a metropolitan area with multiple sources of high-speed connectivity — whether home cable/broadband, fiber or 4G cellular service. Many rural users, however, have long suffered through a black hole of…
By Adriana Lee |
Twitter’s busting out all over. The company just announced its music discovery app this week, a new advertising approach based on tweet content, and now this — a new partnership with BBC America.…
By Adriana Lee |
Oh joy, oh rapture. Amazon’s Zombieland is finally here! If you’ve been itching to lay your eyes on the brand-new pilot, you’ll be glad to know that the wait is over. It’s now available for streaming in Instant Video for Amazon Prime subscribers. No membership? You…
By Adriana Lee |
Welcome to the brave new world of Twitter advertising, in which companies will be able to target you based on the content of your tweets. Seems that zeroing in on users based on who they follow just isn’t good enough, so the micro-blogging service is…
By Adriana Lee |
A week ago, Redditor “ncav” posted a Google Earth photo that took the Web by storm. The image (above), posted on April 12, depicts what looks like a couple of people dragging a body along a blood-soaked pier. The caption read, “A murder near my…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s time for the Time 100 once again. Every year, the magazine puts out its list of the “most influential people in the world,” and like in years prior, the list is jam-packed full of tech titans and luminaries. Here’s just some of the notable…
By Adriana Lee |
When you purchase a technology, do you actually own it? If your answer is “yes,” you might be sad to know that the issue isn’t so black and white. Software packages are well known for EULAs (end user license agreements) that forbid resales, and the…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’re one of those iOS haters who complain about Apple selling yesterday’s specs for top dollar, then I need to brace you for this one: The world’s most expensive iPhone 5 has been produced, and the value of this gold and diamond handset is…
By Adriana Lee |
Last month, a Canadian home owner did something that gobsmacked his real estate agent, and made potential buyers scratch their heads. When 22-year-old Taylor More put his mid-sized Crowsnest Pass, Alberta bungalow on the market for $405,000 CDN, he stated he’d sell the property for…
By Adriana Lee |
I remember the first time I tried virtual reality goggles. I was a kid at Dave & Buster’s, and the experience left me feeling physically shaky and more than a little woozy. I refuse to confirm it, but I may or may not have reached…
By Adriana Lee |
With the nation’s attention transfixed on the Boston Marathon bombing Monday, things like device specs and press releases suddenly seemed insignificant. More than a hundred people were injured in the blast, three were killed, and panic spread all over the country, as folks either worried…
By Adriana Lee |
Robotic surgeons. The two words may sound like something out of a futuristic sci-fi flick, but they’re real and actually in fairly common use. The leading name in surgical robots is da Vinci, a pricey piece of tech worth $1.5 million that was used in…
