Archive for January, 2012
Disability agency gets more money, plans more programs
After a rocky six months for the Developmental Disabilities Administration, Gov. Martin O’Malley’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal increases funding by about $31 million and creates a new fund so unspent money will stay in the agency. Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein and Developmental Disabilities Administration Director Thomas Kirkland sent a letter detailing the agency’s budget [...]
NASA’s Open Source Software Initiative Lifts Off
The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand and explore the agency’s open source software development. Open source development is all about giving the public access to view and improve software source code. NASA uses open source code for it’s projects and missions. In 2009, the White House issued the Open [...]
Alienware X51- A Tiny Gaming Machine With Huge Potency
Alienware unveiled its latest desktop gaming PC, named the Alienware X51, though different from the company’s usual showy monster-machines it gathers its potency into a miniature footprint. The size of this tiny X51 is just 14.5 x 12.52 x 3.74 inches, but can still be equipped with a choice of Intel Core i3 dualcore, or [...]
Wikipedia Plans To Go Offline As A Protest To Anti-Piracy Legislation
Websites like Wikipedia have planned a blackout of a single day over SOPA & PIPA, which has been anticipated by them to result in a censorship. The advocates of the bills have revealed misinformation about the inflaming passions lacking piracy solution. Most of the people haven’t potentially focused much on the massive corporations waging war [...]
Egyptians strike, Chinese workers protest at Sanyo, Russians rally against vote fraud
Cairo and Alexandria witnessed a fresh wave of strikes and protests on Sunday, blocking roads and causing disruption to the work of the Ministry of Transport. On Monday, a week-long nationwide strike in Nigeria ended, after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced in a televised address that fuel will be reduced in price. Kuwaiti riot police on Saturday used tear gas [...]
ASUS Delivers Extreme Network Speeds and Audio for Gamers at CES 2012
ASUS, a global leader in the new digital era, brings a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance the gaming experience at CES 2012. These include the RT-N66U dual-band wireless gigabit router, EA-N66 dual-band wireless Ethernet wireless adapter, ROG Rampage IV Formula/ThunderFX motherboard and ROG Xonar Phoebus gaming soundcard set. ASUS RT-N66U dual-band wireless gigabit router The [...]
Google Maps Based Game To Be Launched For Google Plus
Google has announced that it will be soon launching a game for Google Plus by February based on the Google Maps. Powered by WebGL, the game is being developed for the Google’s gaming platform by the Maps team. “Play your world like never before”, says Google. Google launched this game with a demo video showing a cube on a [...]
Reddit’s Nuclear Attack On SOPA, The Anti-American Bill
Reddit, one of the most popular social news site, has decided to go Nuclear to protest the dangerous SOPA, the anti-American bill. The site has threatened to blackout reddit on January 18th from 8am–8pm EST (1300–0100 UTC). Which means there will be no reddit for 12 hours. Wikipedia is also planning to block access to [...]
How Real Estate Experts Can Help You !
Well it is a common trend and fashion in the world that people buy different types of Real estate in order to have a comfortable and pleasure full life. In fact the real estate buying and selling is very much important with respect to profit point of view for some people who do Business of buying and selling of real estate. Real estate experts can help a lot in this [...]
April 3 lineup for congressional primary includes Del. Rick Impallaria; Ivey bows out
The lineup is complete for the April 3 primary to choose party nominees for Congress. Several candidates filed before the Wednesday 9 p.m. deadline, among them Harford County Del. Rick Impallaria. He will compete with Harford County Republican Sen. Nancy Jacobs for the chance to unseat Democratic Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, who faces no primary opponent. [...]
What is Online Marketing?
Also known as internet marketing, online marketing serves the purpose of using internet advertising to gain some sort of response from the general audience. It is widely used by companies that wish to sell either services or goods directly to the customer, or from one business to the other. There are many ways that online [...]
Three Places Not to Miss on a Holiday to Ecuador
If you enjoy culture, scenery and history, mixed with wildlife and opportunities to stretch your legs, thenEcuador’s compact size makes an ideal holiday. You can see a huge amount in a week or so, but Ecuador has more than enough to keep you enthralled for three weeks and more if you have the time. Visitors on [...]
En route to Social Media 2.0?
On 2007 I wrote an article co-authored by my Master student Stefan Fountain* (published in 2008 in the Journal of Direct, Data and Digital Marketing Practice) arguing that businesses could use efficiently the Social Media (the term Web 2.0 was more popular at that time) as Marketing tools. As you might remember at that time businesses were [...]
Investing in America What You Need to Know
Social Infrastructure Needs: The U.S. ranks 27th—nearly last—among developed countries when it comes to investments in education, health care and other vital social needs. Most developed nations have recognized that affordable childcare is a necessity for working parents and a key investment in the cognitive and social development of children. In 2005, the U.S. spent only 0.4 percent of [...]
Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand thoughts and commentary
Battlefield 3 recently released their Back to Karkand expansion pack which brought four new Battlefield 2-inspired maps and a bug-fixing patch. I’ve had some time to play a couple dozen games and here are my thoughts on how the game has progressed. Anyone that has followed my blog or Twitter knows that I haven’t exactly had the best [...]
FXI Demonstrated Ubuntu, Android Powered USB PC At CES 2012
FXI showcased its Ubuntu/Linux and Android Ice Cream Sandwich powered USB PC for the first time at the Showstoppers Media Event at CES 2012. Codenamed ‘Cotton Candy’, this device will serve as a technology bridge between any display, the Cloud, and any input peripheral. “One of the major benefits of the Cotton Candy device is its versatility,” said Borgar Ljosland, [...]
Strike paralyzes Nigeria, French protest police brutality, Yemenis demonstrate for release of political prisoners
A national strike paralyzed much of Nigeria on Monday, with more than 10,000 demonstrators swarming its commercial capital to protest soaring fuel prices and decades of government corruption in the oil-rich country. Tensions flared at the American Licorice factory Monday as protesters associated with the Occupy Oakland movement joined the month-old factory workers’ strike, blocking entrances [...]
Sony Announces 55 inches Crystal LED HDTV
Of late, Sony has come up with a display technology which is known as Crystal LED. Sony officials has confirmed that with the implementation of this technology, the viewers will be able to get a picture with a very high contrast, excellent quality colors and a much improved response time. The viewer angle is also [...]
Real Estate Market in Mumbai is adding a spectacular touch and design to the city
Mumbai, which was previously known as Bombay is a major metropolitan city of India. The city has the largest and the busiest port handling India’s foreign trade and a major International airport. Being India’s financial capital, Mumbai is famous for its name and fame, and is considered as one of the most well planned cities [...]
Some Good Resolutions to Take for 2012 Regarding Your Finances
If you want to make some changes to the way you manage your money then now would be the time to start planning. Here are some tips to help you out. If one of your new year’s resolutions for 2012 would be to better manage your finances, then there are some ways that you can [...]
