A lot of people nowadays are mindlessly downloading apps they find to be interesting online. Most of them download for games, camera features, calendar reminders, fitness apps, and sometimes even for financial planning. A lot of apps allure users to use them and take advantage of users’ naivete to their advantage. Rumors spread out before […]
Internet: Firefox – "The Network link was interrupted"
Well, just recently, I have came across this difficulty in connecting into some of the websites. No matter how many times I tried accessing a particular website, this message will appear: "The Network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Try again". Then, I figured that it could be the website server problem, although I […]
Toyota’s ‘Just-in-Time’ System and the Akihabara Killings
Posted by Chris Salzburg to Global Voices Online (Note: the translation in this post was a collaborative effort by blogger and translator nofrills, blogger and GV author Taku Nakajima, user Saifis, and GV editor Chris Salzberg) When Tomohiro Kato killed 7 people and injured many more in Tokyo’s Akihabara district last month, the details of […]
Bulgaria: Rethinking History – A National Holiday in Days of Tragedy
by Yavor Mihaylov On March 3, Bulgaria celebrates its biggest national holiday. On this date the Treaty of San Stefano between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was signed, concluding the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 that put an end to the Ottoman presence in Bulgaria. However, like a number of historical events, this date has been […]
GroundReport’s Ten Commandments
Dobbs Ferry, New York — People will look back at 2006 as a watershed. They will divide the media business into two epochs: Before and After GroundReport. Thousands of doctoral theses will be written about the early days of the platform and the characters that animated it. Historians will ponder how just ten commandments were able to bring […]