Social Networking services create online communities with which people can contact each other and share interests and activities through e-mail and instant messaging services and friends lists. A meteoric rise in the popularity of these services reflects a growing social interest for interpersonal communication. MySpace and Facebook are most widely used in North America; Nexopia …
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Amazon’s Kindle Grows in Popularity as an e-Book Reader
Amazon Kindle is a wireless e-book reader for reading electronic books that was launched by Amazon.com in November, 2007. Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device used electronic pager for content downloaded from the Amazon Whispernet. Amazon debuted in November, 2007, with the release of 88,000 digital titles and the first available batch of Kindles sold out in …
Herbal Tea Ingredient Helps Beetle Plagued Trees
The U.S. Forest Service discovered that a sprinkle of flakes that contain the pheromone verbenone over lodgepole pine forests will diminish the number of trees that are attacked by bark beetles by two thirds. Verbone is and ingredient of rosemary and walnut husks and is approved as for use in herbal teas. It is also …
NASA’s MESSENGER Sends Amazing Images of Mercury
NASA’s Probe, “Messenger,” flew close to Mercury and successfuly sent spectacular images of the planet back to Earth today, October, 7, 2008. The probe flew past Mercury for this second time this year and in 2011 it will become the first probe to orbit the planet. The Messenger spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air …
Colleges cope with over-booked freshman classes
Colleges have higher than expected freshman enrollments and are face with overcrowding. Winston-Salem State University, for instance, closed freshman admission in July and put faculty on extra courses while projected that freshman enrollment would greatly exceed their 2005 record. Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, expects to exceed its enrollment target and are offered laptops or …