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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: Jon.Christian@Tech.li.

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Smarter Handsets Aren’t Necessarily Better Phones: Report

By Jon Christian August 7, 2012

Widespread smartphone adoption has created novel social and commercial content channels for many...

Google’s Vic Gundotra: Don’t “Screw Over” Developers

By Jon Christian August 6, 2012

A Google executive joined a pile-on this week on social social giant Facebook, which has been...

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What A 3D Printed Assault Rifle Means For Safety, Copyright

By Jon Christian August 2, 2012

A firearm enthusiast believes he may have been the first to test a 3D-printed gun assembly, which...

Kinesis Brings Gesture Control To App Developers

By Jon Christian August 1, 2012

Gesture based control systems could be in the early stage of an explosion in usability and...

Out Of The Way, Banayan: Meet The (Likely) New Youngest VC

By Jon Christian July 31, 2012

We wrote previously about Alex Banayan, who we believed at the time to be the youngest active...

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StartupStay Lets Entrepreneurs Crash On Each Others’ Couches

By Jon Christian July 30, 2012

A new project aims to find places for traveling entrepreneurs to stay, in exchanges that, it says,...

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Meteor Secures $11.2 Million Led By Andreessen Horowitz

By Jon Christian July 29, 2012

To hear Peter Levine tell it, the first meeting between Andreessen Horowitz and Meteor was middling...

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Ubooly: iPhone Sock Puppet Plays Games With Kids

By Jon Christian July 28, 2012

A Boulder-based startup will soon ship a cuddly stuffed animal built to hold an iPhone or iPod,...

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Google Springs Into ISP Realm With The (Sorta Free) Fiber

By Jon Christian July 27, 2012

Google Fiber might sound like a healthy snack, but it's actually the search giant's first foray...

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HealPay: Making Debt Collection A Little Less Miserable

By Jon Christian July 26, 2012

Debt collection is an ugly subject. Detroit-based startup HealPay hopes to make it a little less so...

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Marxent Labs Wants To See Augmented Reality Everywhere

By Jon Christian July 24, 2012

Developing an app that interacts visually with the real world — by inserting informational...

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Flikdate Offers Speed Mobile Dating With “Perv-Alert Functionality”

By Jon Christian July 24, 2012

A new video dating service is making waves with a casual, real-time interface and a powerful...

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YouTube Aims To Protect Activists With Face Blurring Option

By Jon Christian July 23, 2012

This past week, YouTube likely became the first video sharing site to offer automatic face...

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UpTo: The Future Is Unwritten (But Let’s Plan Ahead, Okay?)

By Jon Christian July 23, 2012

Social sharing is dominated by the past and present: tools for sharing what we are currently doing,...

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Users Prefer Google+, But Aren’t Leaving Facebook: Report

By Jon Christian July 22, 2012

In a rare, muted moment of good news for Google's company-wide focus on social networking, a new...