Hi. I’m a journalist in New York City. I specialize in business reporting, primarily about technology.

From 2005 to 2007 I worked at BusinessWeek, writing about anti-shoplifting technology, highly leveraged companies and architectural innovation, among other topics.
Between 2007 and 2012, I covered technology for Forbes, with a focus on the telecom/mobile industry. Of the hundreds of stories I wrote there, favorites include: an inside look at Palm’s reinvention, how South Korea is battling Internet addiction, the saga of a politically incorrect iPhone developer, the process of creating a font just for a cellphone, colleges that are giving away iPhones or teaching iPhone development or both, behind-the-scenes of Verizon’s quality testing lab, a profile of the payments start-up processingĀ Occupy Wall Street’s online donations and an introduction to the video-chat service that is a mega-hit with teenagers. In 2011, while at Forbes, I was votedĀ one of the mobile industry’s top 20 “smart mobile device pundits”.
Driven by a keen interest in Asia, I have lived in Seoul, where I studied Korean, and Hong Kong, where I interned at Time Asia. I have also reported from Taiwan, courtesy of a National Press Foundation fellowship.
I have a B.A. from Yale and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia, where I was the recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
I know my last name is difficult to pronounce; please don’t worry about saying it wrong.
How long can the dessert pattern continue for Android’s nickname? For ‘K’, these came up from search:
Kahula mousse brownies
Kraft cheesecake
These are brand names, so would Google have to get permission to use one of these?
Thanks, those are some interesting suggestions. Google’s Android names are informal, sort of akin to nicknames, so I don’t think it would need permission. My guess is that Google would only choose generic names for its Android versions anyway.