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 …
Singularity University to Open as a New Kind of School
Singularity University is a departure from traditional education that will host its first class of 30 graduate students this summer. The nine a nine week course it offers will explore ways in which technology can improve the life and welfare of humankind, rather than harm it. Plans for Singularity will be announced today in Long …
Anti-Goverment Protests in Russia Over Economic Strife
Anti-government demonstrations took place in Moscow and throughout Russia on January 30, 2009, by demonstrators who expressed their frustration the country slips deeper into depression. A drop in oil prices, global economic downturn, government spending of billions to bail out failing banks and companies, rising unemployment and a rapidly devaluing ruble were all part of …