Harnessing the ability of youths to self-organize online via platforms like Facebook and text messaging, a group of Obama supporters have launched a website that urges children to rock the vote–through their parents. Called YrMomma4Obama, using the text message jargon of teens, the effort cites the story of former Clinton superdelegate Christine "Roz" Samuels, who […]
Watch TV, surf Internet in trains!
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announced that Indian Railways will offer hi-tech services on board. Lalu has promised television, Internet and LCD display boards in trains and at major stations. LCD display screens will give real time information about the journey. Online control of trains will be introduced by 2009. All overnight mail and express […]
Google Cries Foul Over Microsoft’s Yahoo Bid
Allowing Microsoft to buy Yahoo would create a business with an unacceptably dominant position in the vital online communications services of email and instant messaging, Google warned last night. If a deal is struck, following Microsoft’s audacious $44.6bn offer on Friday, Google also fears that the development of the internet, which has relied on open […]
Where Citizen Journalism Will Go in 2008
If 2007 was the year citizen journalism proved its staying power, 2008 will be the year it evolves. The landscape now is promising, but homogeneous. From Newsvine and NowPublic to Orato and Digital Journal, one finds much of the same: proprietary content submission tools, community ratings, and some revenue share here and there. How these […]
Putting Lipstick on a Pig – Pittsburgh and the Trojan Condom Advertising Controversy
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the estimated number of new AIDS diagnoses in the U.S. from 2000 through 2005 increased by 17% among women and 16% among men. The CDC further estimates 19 million new sexually transmitted infections per year nationally – and direct medical costs associated with STDs in the […]
OpenVZ Open Source Software Virtualization Project Has Great 2006
OpenVZ Open Source Software Virtualization Project Has Great 2006 Made available on all leading platforms, added tools, great awareness leads to banner year HERNDON, Va., February 16, 2007 — The open source project, OpenVZ (www.openvz.org) delivered some 50 software updates and in total more than 2 terabytes of its virtualization software were downloaded in 2006 […]