Tag Archive: text messaging

Feb
10

Sex, Sex, Sex: Spammed, Dumped and Censored

Operation-Titstorm

Spammed Remember how the Australian Government green lighted an Internet filter not too long ago? In retaliation to the proposed filter, a group of hackers, who call themselves Anonymous, took down two government sites: the main website and the Parliament site. Ars Technica tells us “the plan was DDoS government servers first, and then followup …

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Jan
20

iPhone Helps Man Survive the Haiti Earthquake

LA Times Photo of Dan-Woolley-Being-Pulled-Out

It’s difficult to imagine what we would do without cell phones and Internet nowadays. I remember not too long ago when my friend didn’t have a cell phone — the frustrations of meeting up, not being able to call to find his ETA or telling him I was running late. Soon thereafter, he signed up …

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Jan
14

Text Messaging Accrues Over $4M for Haiti Earthquake Relief

In spite of constant layoffs and a (seemingly) still drowning economy, Americans set a record for mobile giving yesterday. Tens of thousands of cell phone users texted donations that totaled $3 million. This record-setting amount of donations to the Red Cross will benefit the recent Haiti earthquake. According to Daily Finance, yesterday’s record blew away …

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Apr
23

Grown Up Digital – Interesting Commentary on Youth and Technology

In his new book titled “Grown up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World”, author Don Tapscott investigates how today’s youth are fundamentally unique and may be the first example of a true generational leap forward. Mr. Tapscott explains that youth of the Net Generation (people between the ages of 12 and 30) …

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Mar
13

Twitter is the New Black

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Twitter, for those of you that aren’t into the new era of social networking, is a micro-blogging system that asks its users, “What are you doing?” Twitter users constantly post updates of their daily lives in the form of Tweets, which are text updates shorter than 140 characters. You can subscribe to twitter feeds from …

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