An article claiming that someone found Atlantis using Google Earth has been published by The Sun. The possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated. According to a Google spokesperson,the criss-crossing lines were sonar data collected as boats mapped the ocean floor. But google……
Facebook has settled last summer a dispute with a rival social network, ConnectU. The ConnectU founders — the Winklevoss brothers and colleague Divya Narendra had accused Zuckerberg of ripping off their idea for a college-based social network. The case was settled for $65 million.The Associated Press has obtained a court filing………
A new US study conducted found that out of the 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular US website people often do the easy thing. 16 percent took a first name as a password. 14 percent relied on combination’s such as “1234″ or “12345678.”Five percent were names of television shows or stars.Four percent accounted for [...]
The protest campaign is encouraging New Zealand users of social media to black out their images this week in protest at section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act. The campaign has been launched by the Creative Freedom Foundation NZ. The Guilt Upon Accusation law ‘Section 92A’ that calls for internet disconnection based on [...]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $12.5 million to support 20 projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The goal is to Supply 20 million unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012. The Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) will work with mobile operators, banks, finance institutions, government to encourage affordable mobile [...]
Mike Butcher from techCrunch UK had a video interview with Travis Katz, international head of MySpace at Mobile World Congress to get his views about MySpace mobile traffic. Check out the Video
Kerpoof, that launched at 2007′s TechCrunch 40, has been acquired by Disney. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.The company’s technology is primarily image-based with little instruction needed thus making it simpler for Kids Source DMW Daily
A visual web-based application editor that allowed users to develop enterprise applications, has closed its doors. The company attributes its closing to the dire economic situation, and says that users will be able to access and download their data through April 30, 2009.
Bearingpoint one of the world’s leading IT and management consultancies has filed for protective bankruptcy in the US. Formed from KPMG Consulting in 2001, management say their work will continue as normal while the restructuring takes place. Source Computerworld
The channel, YouTube.com/Vatican, will broadcast short video news clips of upto 2 minutes duration produced daily on the Pope’s activities and what’s happening at the Vatican. The Channel aims to help establish relationships with Catholics, from around the world.
When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]
In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]
Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]
I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]
Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]
