In this special episode of SBN Newsmakers and CompuSchmooze TV, SBN news director and Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey “CompuSchmooze” columnist Steve Lubetkin chats with Gatsby Frimpong, creator of Gatsby.TV, a free search app for Android and Apple iOS devices. Gatsby.TV consolidates search results for TV programs on broadcast, cable, and streaming services, and lets users share recommendations for shows, while keeping track of which streaming services are running the shows they are watching. You can watch the complete interview with Gatsby Frimpong ..read more

Editor’s Note: This column first appeared in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey on January 6, 2016.  From the same folks who gave us Twitter, now may we present Periscope, aimed at smart phone users who aren’t satisfied telling their friends in words what they are doing. Forget about that Eyewitness News van, my friends, you now have a live TV broadcast van right in your pocket. Watch a short video about Periscope. Periscope (periscope.tv) launched a little over a year ago, and while it is still trying to gain visibility among consumers, in early December Apple named Peris ..read more

It may be hard to believe but this year marks the golden anniversary of a ubiquitous piece of technology that doesn’t have to boot up, doesn’t need a battery recharge, never needs a new style of USB cable, and has baffled an American president. It’s the bar code, those vertical lines of varying thicknesses that you see with a bunch of numbers on just about every package of goods you buy in a grocery or retail store. And despite the endless praise in the media for modern tech gurus like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or even the controversial Elon Musk, the bar code was the end product of a team of IB ..read more

In the wake of the horrific October 7 terrorist attack, the one thing that Israelis need most is to hear from friends and family elsewhere in the world, according to one technology industry executive. The executive, Kendall Breitman, a community manager with Tel Aviv-based video recording company Riverside.fm, spoke with LMC’s managing partner, Steve Lubetkin, for his monthly “Compuschmooze” column, which has appeared in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey since 1996. This month, the publication asked its columnists to focus on the impact of the October 7 terrorist massacres in I ..read more

The path from Internet entrepreneur to Internet millionaire is not a straight one. Just ask Nooruddin “Rudy” Karsan. He just successfully sold his biggest Internet company, Kenexa, which makes human resources software, to IBM for $1.3-billion. Karsan’s personal share of that deal was reported by the Financial Times to be about $56-million. Karsan was a keynoter at the Founder Factory Conference in Philadelphia last month. Read more about his internet entrepreneur’s journey in this month’s “CompuSchmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. Go here to watch the videos w ..read more

Editor’s Note: This video interview accompanies Steve Lubetkin’s November 2021 CompuSchmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. Most of us are familiar with spellbinding aerial videos sweeping across a beautiful landscape as part of most TV shows, news stories, and even TikTok videos as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — usually called “drones” — have gone mainstream as a tool for professional photographers, videographers, and even amateurs willing to get a drone pilot’s license. But there are other, far more commercial ..read more

Editor’s Note: This podcast is the basis for Steve’s 9/26/2018 Compuschmooze column, which appeared in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. As the population ages, assisted living communities and nursing homes around the country are having a more difficult time recruiting workers to provide care for the residents. The employee shortage is fast becoming a crisis, too. In Texas, certified nurses aides have a turnover rate approaching 97 percent, and an average turnover rate of 90 percent for registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses. In New Jer ..read more

Editor’s note: This column is crossposted from the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. You can see the original column there. It seems like web developers are convinced that the world’s attention span for any kind of information is getting shorter and shorter. A few years ago, when YouTube debuted, video producers were advised to keep their programs under three minutes in length, because online audiences wouldn’t have the patience to watch anything longer. Based on some of the newer services and their duration limits, three minute videos could be epic-length films, like “Gone with t ..read more

You can read online copies of our tech column, “Compuschmooze” at the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey website. Steve Lubetkin has been writing the column since 1996. Articles are archived and available through this search link ..read more

The State Broadcast News division of Cherry Hill-based The Lubetkin Media Companies has been recognized again with three awards for its news reporting in radio, print, and video categories in the 2017 Memorial Journalism Awards sponsored by the Garden State Journalists Association. It’s the company’s second, third, and fourth awards in the competition. In 2015, SBN was honored with a second-place award in the TV Feature Category in 2015 for a video feature about the sale of property at Fort Monmouth, NJ. SBN News Director Steve Lubetkin won a first-place award in the Broadcast Radio General Ne ..read more