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Teenaged girls sold for P1,500

I have a feeling that this is a growing trend part of the sex tourism scene in the Philippines where young pimps visit the Malls and ply their services to tourist and foriegn residents. I am glad to say its...

Distracted Drivers Kill Thousands Each Year

Drivers who were distracted by electronic devices killed around 5,800 people in the United States during 2008, says U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The numbers were presented at a two-day Transportation...

Nagging by Text

Nagging by text. Txt nagging? Nggng? Wow. We all know that kids are given mobile phones as a Trojan-Horse gift: cool new toy that parents will then use to spy on you. However, that was bearable to all the tweens...

Obama School Speech Text Available Before Broadcast

The speech which U.S. President Barack Obama's is to deliver to school children on Tuesday is available to read on the White House website today. The speech caused controversy long before the details of it were...

Dabbawallahs Use Web and Text to Make Lunch on Time

In London, UK, a concept born in India - the lunchtime delivery service of Dabbawallahs - has  become a highly successful Indian food business. Tiffinbites (www.tiffinbites.com), started by Jamal Hirani,...

Web 2.0 to the Rescue! Beating Shortages in Africa

The beep-beep of a received text on a mobile phone is now becoming a much-needed lifeline to Africans. Zimbabweans, who continue to struggle every day with inflation that has shot to 3,731 percent (Zimbabwe Central Statistical Office), have used African ingenuity and 21st...

Text A Message to Outer Space

Hello From Earth, a website set up in celebration of National Science Week in Australia is enabling Internet users to send a text-like message into the outer space. "They log into the website www.HelloFromEarth.net and type a Twitter-like message 160 characters long, which...

The famous British Library mislays 9,000 books

The world famous British Library, which holds some of the most famous books in the world, many of them first editions and originals that are irreplaceable, now claim that they have lost over 9,000 books, including an...

SMS a Success in Disease Warnings

Revealed today in Australia, was the success of using SMS (simple message service,) more commonly known as texting, to warn people that they had been exposed to an inexorably deadly disease. Speed is the key to...

Can your Read the Final Draft of the Stimulus Bill? NO

By Albert N. Milliron, Editor Politisite.com, Iron Mill Interactive Media, Inc. Many Americans heard that a bipartition compromise on the stimulus bill had been reached today.  Well the word Bipartition is a...

SMS causing rise in domestic problems, divorce in Mizoram, India

Mobile text has replaced many old customs among them greeting on the special occasion is most important. Now today's lovers have started using to express their love via sms. But for married couple exchanging amorous sms are bringing problems in their family life. " Rev...

Full text of President Obama's Inauguration Speech 2009

President Barack Obama is giving one of the most important speeches of his life today. Here is the text for Obama's Inauguration Speech 2009. " My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us,...

Florida, Oklahoma move to top of polls

"Florida moved to No. 1 in Sunday's Associated Press poll, Oklahoma is the new No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll and USC's victory over cross-town rival UCLA did little to promote the Trojans' far-fetched hopes...

Surgeon saves boy's life by text

The best possible example of positive use of technology.The world is already facing the shortage of medical professionals, particularlt in underdeveloped world. The use of internet and mobile tech can solve this...

Robovox in Ljubljana

Robovox arrived to Ljubljana to give people a voice. I heard that it will come to Ljubljana but still seeing a 8m high robot is quite impressive." RoboVox is a large (8m high) interactive public sound...

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