Posts filed under 'In the News'

By Rania Eldekki, Posted in In the News on March 9, 2010
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Vice President of Google Global Ad Operations, John Herlihy, believes that in three years, desktop computers will be completely irrelevant.Although it sounds weird to hear, I'd have to say that I kind of agree. I have a brand new Mac desktop computer...(more)

By Rania Eldekki, Posted in In the News on February 5, 2010
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We all know that social media sites have been changing the way the world works, but Pepsi is proving that by choosing not to advertise during this year's highly acclaimed Super Bowl. Pepsi has advertised during this popular sporting event for the past...(more)

By Rania Eldekki, Posted in In the News on January 14, 2010
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The recent disaster in Haiti has started something that I'm sure will quickly become a new trend- social media and text messaging campaigns.Officials at the U.S. Department of State have been using Twitter to send out information regarding the Haitian...(more)

By Kristi Skowronski, Posted in In the News on January 6, 2010
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Baidu, the Chinese search engine mogul, announced in a press release this morning that it plans to arrange a new independent provider of licensed online video content to its users in China, which will be supported by advertising.Similar to Hulu, there...(more)

By Rania Eldekki, Posted in In the News on December 22, 2009
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Ten days ago, Brandon Jennings of the Milwaukee Bucks, posted a message on his Twitter account just minutes after winning a game about how happy he was that his team won. Sounds nice, right? Except for the fact that when officials heard news about this,...(more)

By Rania Eldekki, Posted in In the News on December 11, 2009
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AT&T wants you to stop using your iPhones!              (You read that correctly.) Iphone customers are using their phones so much that it's actually causing problems for...(more)

By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in In the News on October 26, 2009
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Greetings from Los Angeles!I'm in California this week to attend the 140 Character Conference, and I couldn't be more excited. Not sure what the 140 Character Conference is? (Or #140conf as it's known on Twitter.) Check out my Meetup reviews from last...(more)

By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in In the News on September 1, 2009
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By the desperation in their characters and the frequency of their tweets, you would have thought a natural disaster on par with the apocalypse had just unfolded.In fact, that's precisely what a Twitter pal of mine referred to it as: "the...(more)

By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in In the News on August 13, 2009
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On Thursday, Chris Crum reported with WebProNews.com that the biggest security hole on the web be a service run regularly by a startling majority of Internet users.According to online security firm Trusteer, 80% of computers that have Adobe Flash...(more)

By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in In the News on July 31, 2009
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We've all heard the stories about people missing out on job opportunities because some mortifying ghost of social networking past came back to haunt them. You know what I mean... controversial comments, profanity on public profiles, *ehem* racy photos...(more)