Newsday demands payment for online content

" New York newspaper Newsday plans to begin charging online readers for access to its content, according to a Reuters report. The announcement, which comes as the newspaper industry is mired in financial crisis, was made Thursday during a conference call with...

Online networking 'harms health' ?

Has the rise in the use of social networking had a negative or positive effect on our lives? " Dr Aric Sigman says websites such as Facebook set out to enrich social lives, but end up keeping people apart. Dr...

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

" The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act The primary goal of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule is to give parents control over what information is collected from their children online and how such information may be used. "

Darwin’s Birthday Celebration on Facebook; he has 210,000 fans

A group on Facebook was started to celebrate Darwin's 200th anniversary, and they are well over the 200,000 fans they wanted to acquire before February 12th. They have also organized a free phone seminar with 10 of what they consider to be the world's leading biologists and...

India launches Agricultural Wikipedia

Scientists in India have launched an Agricultural Wikipedia, which will act as an online database of agricultural information in the country. It goes by the name of Agropedia. It provides crop and region...

New Jersey Man Stops Sacramento Webcam Suicide

SACRAMENTO, CA - A young man is recovering, following an attempted suicide which was broadcast via webcam from his home.  He'd been chatting online with another young man from Camden, New Jersey and using a...

India vs Sri Lanka - 1st ODI Video Highlights 2009

" India took the lead by 1-0 by defeating Sri Lanka in the 1st ODI by 6 Wicket at here Dambulla. "

NFB makes films free online

This is really exciting news. The archive at the National Film Board of Canada (the NFB) is pure gold and has up until now been fairly inaccessible. "The National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project to allow Canadians to see its films through online streaming....

Leonard Brody on what news consumers want

Another piece on Rafat Ali's conference in LA where NowPublic CEO Leonard Brody is talking about the impact of 'voter-generated content'."Other media executives said what's different about this campaign is that...

Facebook Game Scrabulous: It's Back as Lexulous!

Good news for all Scrabulous fans - it's back on Facebook!  It's pretty much the same, except it's now named Lexulous, and for those of us playing it when it went off last summer, our unfinished games,...

Hey, Facebook, What have you got Against Breastfeeding?

A mass online protest movement is gathering after Facebook banned some breastfeeding photos from their social network site.  Many people are upset that Facebook is classifying these photos "obscene," and are...

Intel Launches Fresh Mobile Quad-Core Chip

This sounds good. "Intel (NSDQ: INTC) over the weekend introduced a new mobile quad-core chip, which Acer started offering Monday in its latest Aspire laptop for multimedia and gaming enthusiasts. In addition,...

Holiday Retail Sales Fall 4%, But Some Online Retailers Flourish

Retailers have reported a stark decrease in sales this holiday season, citing the economy and bad weather as two major reasons for the decline - a drop of between 4 and 8% in total sales. Normally around this time...

Brooklyn man wants you to burst bubble ... but one day at time

Like popping bubbles in bubble wrap?  Don't we all?  A Brooklyn man has designed a calendar that will drive fanatics bubble-popping mad." Stephen Turbek, 36, who works nine-to-five in the financial...

Shoppers flock online as retailers offers heavy discounts

In the deepening economic recession there is some good news for business, Millions of shoppers are logging on the internet Christmas Day to grab hevy discounts offered by desperate retailers. The retailers are...
 

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