Google goes social with Facebook rival
Google, the king of Internet search but a bust on the social front, launched its rival to Facebook on Tuesday, a social networking service called Google+.
Google, the king of Internet search but a bust on the social front, launched its rival to Facebook on Tuesday, a social networking service called Google+.
The handheld revolution is coming to a school near you. Seeing the improved scores and attendance in target schools in the last eight years, the Department of Education (DepEd), telecommunications giant Globe, the Ayala Foundation and handset maker Nokia on Tuesday announced the expansion of the “Text2Teach” program to 850 schools across the country. Now [...]
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced Tuesday he was scaling back his involvement in the micro-blogging company to concentrate on a new venture.
The International Olympic Committee has encouraged athletes to use social media at the 2012 London Games, although misusing Twitter and Facebook could result in them being excluded from competing.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let California clamp down on the sale or rental of violent video games to children, saying governments lack authority to “restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed” despite complaints that the popular and fast-changing technology allows the young to simulate acts of brutality.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt on Monday warned that the on-going Arab uprisings could lead to an upsurge in internet censorship and an increased risk of arrest for colleagues working in restive nations.
Scientists in Hong Kong said Monday they had made a “breakthrough” discovery in how animals see and react to changing light conditions, which could ultimately help fight a range of human diseases.
France will invest one billion euros ($1.4 billion) in future nuclear power development while boosting research into security, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Monday unveiled an “underground missile silo” which the elite force said will allow them to launch the country’s long-range ballistic missiles, state television reported.
An Egyptian Christian telecom mogul has angered Islamic hard-liners by posting an online cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil.
A German chemicals company said on Monday its managers have begun keeping their mobile phones in biscuit tins during meetings in order to guard against industrial espionage.
An experimental vaccine to prevent progression of Type 1 diabetes failed at the second step of the three-phase trial process, doctors said on Monday in a study reported online by The Lancet.
HONG KONG – Scientists in Hong Kong said Monday they had made a “breakthrough” discovery in how animals see and react to changing light conditions, which could ultimately help fight a range of human diseases. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology team studied fruit flies’ vision and discovered that a protein known as [...]
