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Demise of Coral, Salamander Shows Impact of Internet
The Internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats to rare species, fueling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists and law enforcement officers said Sunday. The Web's impact was made clear at the meeting of the 175-nation Convention ...
Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem
The French and Italians have nicknamed it the snail. The Norwegians have plumped for pigs tail, the Germans monkeys tail, and the Chinese little mouse. The Russians think of it as a dog, and the Finns as a slumbering cat. It's the @ symbol on the computer keyboard, which is an essential component of every e-mail ...
Playing It Cool with a Jawbone in Your Ear
The word apps, of course, is short for applications, which means programs. But until 2007, nobody used the term apps except the people who wrote them programmers. It wasnt until the iPhone came along that apps became shorthand used by normal people. And now theyre everywhere (apps, that is, not normal people). Apps on our phones. ...
Listen to Jazz Radio Now on iPhone Apps
Get iPhone Apps and listen to JAZZ.FM91 on your iPhone or iPod Touch with our FREE app! Live and web radio streams, music news, podcasts and much more. Download the app now from the iTunes Store. Absolutely awesome! Thank you JAZZ.FM91. I am so proud to be a member, and I cant believe the quality and ...
Essential: Text Initiated Email List Sign Up
We've been asking industry types in Austin, “What are some of the creative uses of social media and/or technology that you have seen recently that made you think, ' Wow that was a good idea?' “ Morgan Stewart of ExactTarget answered: “There is a lot of promise in text initiated email list sign up. It ...
A Peek at an Interactive Magazine for the Apple iPad
VIVmag, an all-digital lifestyle magazine that is available online, plans to introduce an interactive iPad version of its content when the device, from Apple, is released next month. Jeanniey Mullen, VIVmag's chief marketing officer, said that the magazine planned to make every iPad and desktop issue interactive with video and full- motion advertising, including a Fandango ...
If You Tell Them on Facebook, They Will Come...Again and Again
In continuing to look at the way that Facebook has become a driving force behind online news consumption, Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has dove into the numbers again, this time examining how Facebook users compare with others in return visits. According to her article, Facebook not only drives a high amount of traffic, higher than Google ...
iPad May Beat iPhone's First Three-Month Sales
Apple's iPad so far reportedly has chalked up hundreds of thousands of pre-orders. The tablet, due out April 3 in a Wi-Fi only version, starts at $499. Another version, that has Wi-Fi and can also run on a 3G cellular network, is expected in late April. Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months ...
Mobile App Sales Will Surpass CD Sales by 2012
Just how big is the market for mobile apps? Global mobile apps will be worth $17.5 billion by 2012, according to an independent report commissioned by app store GetJar. Mobile app downloads across all types of handset are also expected to increase from over 7 billion downloads in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012 - ...
