Miami’s 25 Most-Followed Instagrams

Last year, we answered a pressing social media question in South Florida: Namely, who was behind the 50 most followed Miami Twitter accounts. The result was a surprising list full of celebrities, athletes, politicians, media outlets, a few social media superstars, and even a good showing of people over 40. When…

Miami Needs Its Own Emojis, So We Made a Set

For decades of Cold War deep freeze, communications between Miami’s exilios and their relatives back in Cuba were beyond primitive. Family updates came only from newly arrived relatives who survived the raft trip to America. Back in Havana, radio signals that bounced past censors or the odd smuggled foreign newspaper…

Miami Residents Sue Apple Over iOS8’s File Size

Apple’s iPhone has come in standard memory sizes for a while now, starting at 16 GB of storage. The problem, according to two Miami residents at least, is that the operating system itself keeps getting bigger and bigger, thus taking up more space and leaving customers with less room to…

AT&T Bringing Super Fast “GigaPower” Internet to Miami

Miamians will soon be able to get super high-speed Internet. AT&T announced today that it’s bringing its ultra-fast “GigaPower” network to the City of Miami. The broadband Internet service features speeds of up to one gigabit per second, which is the same speed as Google Fiber. To put that in…

Download Our Brand-Spankin’-New and Improved City App!

You know, we here at New Times are always looking for ways to spit, polish, and shine up our sites to provide you with a better news-seeking experience. We know, that makes us really awesome, but beyond that, it makes you awesome for keeping up with us. Where can you…

Fidel Castro Tricked Twitter (Again) Into Thinking He Died Last Night

Living in Miami actually makes it much easier to quickly judge whether reports of Fidel Castro’s demise are true. Just open your window: Are horns honking? Are fireworks exploding? Is anyone running down your street yelling El hijo de puta está muerto?!If not, then Fidel is probably not dead. Such…

Voxxi.com, News Site Targeting Hispanics, Launches in Miami

​Is there a market for a Hispanic focused news, opinion and aggregation website? A veteran journalist for the EFE News Agency, the leading Spanish language news service in the world, seems to think so. Emilio Sanchez, EFE’s former bureau chief in Washington D.C. and Miami, is now at the helm…