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Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent

Kevin is a journalism geek who hails from Chicago, Illinois. He spent more than three years working in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” building the content enrichment firm Inform Technologies. He is now a second-year master’s candidate at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School in Los Angeles. He is executive editor of Neon Tommy, a Web-only news organization devoted to innovating in the Web media space and serving its community. Kevin is drawn to opportunities where budding technologies intersect with reporting and information sharing. He makes many of his decisions based on the relative proximity of good coffee shops.

Recent Posts

• Apple debuts iPad 2, gets favourable response from web world

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Wednesday as Apple debuted the iPad 2. "We've been working on this product for awhile, and I didn't want to miss it," Jobs said before launching into the presentation. The iPad 2 features a new, faster OS (iOS 4.3) with dual-core processor, two cameras (front and back), offered in two colours (black and white) and 1/3 thinner (making it thinner than the iPhone 4).  It ...
  
  

• ‘Fifth screen’ emerges for cars, but not yet ready for prime time

  By now, the illustrious “fourth screen” is a common term--that of the mobile device, still the holy grail for media companies and advertisers. At the North American International Auto show(NAIAS) in Detroit, it became clear that the era of the “fifth screen” is upon us: The one inside people’s vehicles.  Unfortunately for consumers, these "mobile" systems tend to have substantial usability problems. Ford, once known for classics like the Mustang, Cobra and GT then emerging with the family-friendly (and dull) Taurus in ...