YouTomb, a project of the MIT Free Culture group that studies takedown notices by the video-sharing website YouTube, has identified a mechanism used by Google to restrict video content in specific…
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Translation for non Arabic Speaking Viewers of our first Cell Phone Movie Campaign: Cell Phone Movies Present “Love : so what ?” The punch line says: “Love before marriage isn’t a shame”. The very…
On December 12, 1991, the chief economist for the World Bank, Lawrence Summers, wrote an internal memo that was leaked to the environmental community, and we, in turn, publicized it. This memo remains relevant.
Mr. Summers, is now the President of Harvard University after serving as Secretary of the United States Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton.
Having several mobile phones is not grounds for suspicion of terrorism. Since mobile phones are relatively cheap fashion items, literally millions of people have more than one of them ! Are all the charities and companies involved in re-cycling old mobile phone handsets now to be considered as terrorist suspects ?
OpenSpimes: Turn your cell phone into a monitoring tool of your own local climate Question: how much do you know about the quality of your own, personal, local climate? Do you know the concentration…
Lunch over IP: OpenSpimes: Turn your cell phone into a monitoring tool of your own local climate
We first released our ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’ in August 2006. The guide ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TV’s and games consoles according to their policies…
The most popular mobile data segment of all, SMS, is set to continue its growth in 2008 with estimates that over 2 trillion messages will be sent worldwide.
A Chinese politician, Zhao Linzhong has called for SMS voting to be banned as it “breeds corruption”. He said that such activities are serious in nature and affect the morality of the people.
Becky Faith 