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Sixth Time's a Charm! Endeavour Finally Takes Flight

Today Endeavour Flight STS-127 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Florida.

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You’re a Muslim? There’s an app for that

If you want to read a verse from the Koran, there’s an app for that. If you want to be reminded of the five daily pr...(Read)

Teaching Journalism in a Developing Country

Below is a story by students Matthew Mpahlwa and Camelita Naicker who visited an informal settlement:(Read)

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University of Indonesia builds world's biggest library

The world's biggest library is now under construction on 2.5 hectare of land at the University of Indonesia (UI), Dep...(Read)

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War of the Web browsers

With the launch of Google Chrome, the war to be the best browser has intensified.(Read)

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ADM Days: Seminar, Exhibition, and the Bazaar

Students' Administrative Sciences Department of University of Indonesia has conducted excellent program, ADM Days.


UPLB opens its doors to biotech companies

UP Los Baños opens its 155-hectare Science and Technology Park (S&T Park) to the business sector in the second Laguna Business and Investment Exposition (LBIX). LBIX 2010 will be held from March 4 to 5 at Enchanted Kingdom in Sta. Rosa City.


AJAX Introduction Tutorial

What is Ajax? The answer is very simple.


I Tweet, Therefore I Am

New research sheds light on the "cognitive dangers" of Tweeting. What do the Twitizens think?


New Technology and Great Changes

Online companies that establish think tanks to help other companies and individuals with their online content. How to use the internet is critical now for the crumbling media industry. Also, social networks can now be used to donate and be socially responsible (by creating an account on Socialvibe.com).


Recovering Journalist Shares Insights

Online journalism is the future of newsgathering and reporting.


Cyber crime threatens online security

As crime moves online, botnets become prime perpetrators. Their endgame includes identity theft, general data theft and spamming. Their weapons of choice include computer viruses, e-mail deception and commandeering computers. They are stealthy and sophisticated, inconspicuous and powerful. Their effects for infected computer users are devastating. Crime in the virtual sphere isn't virtual. It's real.


British surveillance (topical news feature image assignment)

Images of closed circuit television at work throughout Canary Wharf and Central London, taken on August 11, 2009.


Hit Sites Among Youngsters


Car-crazy

2009's New York International Auto Show at Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.


DCist: what it takes to be a blogger in the capital

Blogging for a living is a relatively new concept and despite journalists' dismay, it turns out getting paid to work from your laptop is a successful business model. And in D.C., there's always material.


Twitter babble

It’s been only three years since Twitter was founded, whether it stands the taste of the time or not, it is to be seen. But certainly, babble or serious, it’s been a sweeping phenomenon.


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Twitter finds its niche in Indonesia

How users are responding to a study which states that almost half of total tweets are considered babble.


US federal cyber security put to the test

Important government offices in the United States appear to have weathered cyber attacks this week that have reportedly been attributed to North Korean hackers.


Goodbye Newspapers


Will anybody really miss the Sunday paper?

In the next five years, the newspaper industry will be dead. Don’t believe that? Just ask Mark Potts of RecoveringJournalist.com. As a former reporter for newspapers such as The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, Potts knows a thing or two about how technology is shaping the future of the news media. “We are going to see newspapers start to die in the next few months,” said Potts, “and by 2012 there will be a radical change in how we get our media.”


Research traces migration through genetics

A genetic study of native North Americans offers insight into a smaller group's migration from the subarctic to the Southwest United States, researchers said.


Cosmonauts prep outpost for new lab module

Russian cosmonauts worked Tuesday outside the International Space Station, prepping the outpost's Russian portion for next year's arrival of a lab module.


Ag funds available for conservation moves

More than $200 million for two voluntary conservation programs will be available to farmers and ranchers, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said.


Gulf's 'dead zone' could be biggest yet

The Gulf of Mexico's so-called dead zone off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas could be the largest ever, Louisiana scientists said Tuesday.


Uncensored Chinese television network shut down

Just weeks before the kickoff of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China's only non-state network, New Tang Dynasty, was banned from future broadcasts. The European satellite company Eutelsat says a technical problem with its satellite forced it to cut ties with the NTD network. But supporters of NTD say the company's decision was a political move to appease the Chinese government and continue its satellite business in the country.


DESKTOP APPS ARE NOT REDEFINING SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTION

This article discusses social media interactions and critiques modern theories of social media.


Google Chrome needs 'Browsing'!!

The new entrant in the 'War of Web browsers' has definitely made other contenders looking for updates!! But, it still has a long way to go.


Changing facade of World Wide Web

Search engines surrendering to the growing reputation of social networking sites is a clear indication of the change in the way internet is looked at.


Cyber - hacking requires only time and patience to learn

This story will give one insight on how easy it is to learn how to cyber - hack.


Access to the Grahamstown landfill site gets restricted


News papers are here to stay

Is online Journalism an alternative to traditional press?


Forums, LISTSERVS & the Amazing World of Fan Fiction

Do you remember the time you read the first Harry Potter novels and only seven were written to read? Well fret not, its all still alive and well waiting for you!


EPA proposes CO2 containment rule

A proposed rule that has promise for mitigating industrial carbon dioxide emissions was offered for comment Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.


Trial studies cancer vaccine-response link

The stronger the immune system's response the better the outcome in fighting brain cancer, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles said Tuesday.


Climate expert named goodwill ambassador

Climate change expert Rajendra K. Pachauri has been named a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Industrial Development Organization in Vienna.


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Genetic contribution to autism examined

A joint study by two U.S. universities found further evidence of a genetic contribution to autism, researchers said Tuesday.


Teens and Texting

Today's teens text like crazy -- a look at technology's influence on their lives.


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