Archive for December, 2011
Solutions From Your Average Americans
As is the case with most glaring economic issues, the general public tends to turn a blind eye to the increasingly dubious trade deficit. Can you blame them? Average Americans have enough trouble balancing their own checkbooks, let alone finding a solution to an abstract debt that eclipses their own mortgage by trillions. It may [...]
2011 Was Exciting Year for Games
It’s a good time to be a gamer, as studios continue to release thrilling adventures with clever stories, tight gameplay and spectacular production values. So many fine games have been released in 2011 – particularly in the last few months – that you’d need to use up a lot of sick days to catch up [...]
ITC Takes Side With Apple And Imposes Ban On HTC Android Devices
The International Trade Commission has banned some HTC Android phones from importing because these devices infringe with the patents of Apple’s technology. The ban will be acting on HTC from the beginning g of April, 2012. This injunction was based on the fact that those devices use Apple’s patented invention Data Detectors. This technology lets [...]
Type ‘Let it snow’ On Google And See The Magic
The Google has unveiled a new coded search result to celebrate this festive week. In addition to the regular searching features Google has launched this new search outlook to entertain you. Just Type “Let it Snow” on Google, you will see snowflakes dropping gently from the top of your computer screen amazing isn’t it… Google [...]
Robert Downey Jr.’s Sequel “Sherlock Holmes” Tops Box Office, Movie Attendance at New Low
Sherlock Holmes is facing his worst enemy: declining crowds at theaters as this year’s domestic movie attendance dips to the lowest in 16 years.Robert Downey Jr.’s sequel “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” debuted on top with a $40 million weekend, off 36 percent from the first installment’s $62.3 million opening two years ago, according [...]
U.S. Signs Agreement on Government Procurement
World Trade Organization (WTO) trade ministers have been convening in Geneva this week for their biennial meeting on the DOHA trade rounds. A major portion of the meeting has been focused on welcoming Russia into the WTO, but this may mask the portion of the talks that could have a bigger impact on the United [...]
Carrier IQ Disabled In Sprint Devices
The largest user of carrier IQ software Sprint has disabled this software on this Friday as some of the customer raised their voice against it. In an email statement the company has declared that they are no longer using this tool to collect data and they are evaluating their options. They believe that this action [...]
Sony PlayStation Vita Released In Japan
The long-awaited portable game machine PlayStation Vita from the manufacturer Sony has come to the stores in Japan. Millions of game geeks have lined up in front of the stores. Sony is expecting huge sale on the very first day of its release although they might miss some holiday shoppers. Sony expects that this huge [...]
Ice Cream Sandwich Makes Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus Smartphone Pretty Sweet
As fans of Google’s Android mobile software well know, each new version is named after a sugary treat, such as Gingerbread or Honeycomb. Android is about to get even sweeter with Ice Cream Sandwich – a smooth, feature-rich operating system that will run first on the delectable Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone.The combination of Google’s software [...]
November Market Update… Affordability Index Reaches New High
As median prices continue to hang low along with interest rates, the housing affordability index reached a new record high of 245… which means that a family earning a median income has 245% of the income needed to qualify to purchase a median priced home.It appears that buyers are figuring out this is a good thing [...]
Clinton Hosts Summit On Religious Intolerance
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up a summit of international leaders this week to explore specific steps to combat intolerance, discrimination and violence on the basis of religion or belief.The closed-door meeting on Wednesday (Dec. 14) was the first of an ongoing series called “The Istanbul Process.” Representatives came from 30 countries and international [...]
How to Set Up a Facebook Email Address
Facebook is a well-known social network with over 800 million users. People use Facebook to connect and share with their friends, family and followers from any part of the world. Most probably now you may familiar with Facebook and it’s most of unique functionalities. Facebook is giving out and adding more and more user friendly [...]
Project Nim (James Marsh, 2011)
James Marsh, director of 2008′s spellbinding, playful documentary Man on Wire, initially presents Project Nim, the story of a mid’-’70s language acquisition experiment on a chimpanzee, with a similar sense of wonder and magic. The baby chimp, though harshly removed from his mother, finds warmth and love from the people who handle him, and photographs and archival [...]
Occupy Wall Street – The Issue is Valid but the Actions are Alienating and Counterproductive
The OWS tents in the park are creating an unsanitary environment. The occupiers are carrying signs with no meaningful messages. Here are the basic reasons for Occupy Wall Street’s justifiable unhappiness: • There are no jobs • The middle class is evaporating • There is no light at the end of the tunnel for the [...]
Exploring the Role of Political Discussion for Online Political Participation
Informal political discussions that encourage participants to learn more about topics through active informational exchanges with others are considered staples of healthy democratic societies. The body of research relating to the dynamics of these online exchanges, including on politicalblogs, has continued to grow as the public’s usage has increased. One key question relates to the [...]
Longitudinal Study of the Association Between Violent Video Game Play and Aggression Among Adolescents
Most teens today play video games, though often to the distress of parents, educators and policymakers. While most adults have no problem with non-violent video games, the extent to which the more violent ones are harmless fun, a way to reduce stress, rewarding interactive puzzles or a precursor to aggressive behavior is not clear. A [...]
Amazon Gets Kindle Fire Complaints, Software Update Planned
Predictions for the Kindle Fire have ranged from it being the iPad killer to its less expensive equal, but one thing the New York Times’ David Streitfeld writes almost everyone can agree on — it has some kinks to work out.Consumer complaints, such as the lack of external volume control and a slow touch screen, [...]
Winterlights at the Purcell Cutts House, Masterpiece of Prairie School Architecture
On a narrow lot on a short, quiet street near Lake of the Isles sits one of the most significant examples of Prairie School architecture in the country… the Purcell-Cutts House, designed and built by William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie in 1913. Now decorated for the holidays, this gem is open for tours on Saturdays and Sundays [...]
Mitt Romney Tells Gay Veteran He Believes Marriage Is Between a Man and a Woman
When Mitt Romney sat down next to a patron wearing a Vietnam veteran’s cap, Romney wanted to ask him about his military service.But 63-year-old Bob Garon wanted to talk about gays in the military – because he is a gay veteran. Garon was sitting in a booth across from his husband, Bob Lemire, at Chez [...]
New EyeTrack Study: Learning How News Apps Tablet Users’ Eyes and Fingers Move
TAKEAWAY: It is time for a new Poynter EyeTrack study, which will be devoted to how users behave when reading news on their tablets. We enter into it with anticipation and a list of questions for which we know the industry wants answers. The eyes of our industry are likely to be on the new EyeTrack study—-this time all [...]
