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WASHINGTON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Google, Microsoft, NASA, the World Bank and Yahoo! are unlikely partners in a progressive initiative called Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) with the mission to mobilize a global community of technologists to solve real-world problems through technology. RHoK collaborates with subject matter experts to define problems and then sets loose the best and brightest hackers to solve them over the course of a single weekend. RHoK's second Hackathon will be...
LAS VEGAS, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile App developers from around the world will hit the Las Vegas strip this summer to learn, network and strut their stuff when APPCON(TM) 2010, the world's only App-centric event for independent and enterprise mobile App developers, kicks off Tuesday, August 24 at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. Bringing together best-in-breed mobile industry leaders, APPCON(TM) is the primary forum where developers, device and accessory manufacturers and carriers share...
The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research.Carol L....
Parents, get ready to say OMG and watch your teens roflol.This will prolly comes as a bit of a shock to UR system, but findings from a group of University of Alberta researchers show that language commonly used in instant messaging has no effect on your child's spelling abilities. If anything, says study author Connie Varnhagen, using language variations commonly used in instant messaging and texting is actually a good sign.Varnhagen's findings come from a class-based study that was recently...
Studies show texting is the worst driving distraction but a survey in Washington indicates more people in the state say they text while driving. A survey by Pemco Insurance in Seattle, conduct in June, reveals 18 percent of drivers in Washington state who use electronic devices admit to reading or sending text messages while driving. We're concerned about this trend, especially since many young drivers are part of a generation that uses texting so heavily, Pemco spokesman Jon Osterberg says...
Indiana researchers say when men and women text message each other, women who use non-standard language techniques like emoticons. Indiana University researchers Susan Herring and Asta Zelenkauskaite said when the exchanges occur via text messaging in a public venue -- in this case, Italy's real-time interactive music television channel Allmusic -- it is the women who push their messages closest to the character-count limit, use more abbreviations and insertions and use more emoticons --...
A local businessman says that a series of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages, known as an emoticon, have been trademarked in Russia.Oleg Teterin, an entrepreneur, said the trademark for the ;-) emoticon was granted to him by Russia's federal patent agency.However, critics doubt the trademark's legal basis because the emoticon has been in the public domain for years.Teterin said he would chase firms using the symbol without permission."I want to highlight that this...
A small Australian study has shown that mobile phone text message abbreviations and simplifications are not ruining our spelling, but they do take longer to read.Nenagh Kemp, a University of Tasmania lecturer, asked 55 undergraduate students to compose, then read aloud, text received in English and in "textese".This study was conducted by the telecommunications arm of the Post Office, and searched for terms that are not yet in wide use.Students were significantly faster using...
The French Senate has approved a three strikes law for Internet users who download copyrighted entertainment without paying for it. The legislation must also be approved by the lower house of parliament, the EU Observer reported. The goal is to force people now engaged in electronic piracy of movies, music and video games to use legal sources like iTunes. The "graduated response" would start with an e-mail warning. Those who persist would get a letter by snail mail. Internet service...
By Mattathias Schwartz One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minnesota, took a .22-caliber rifle down from a shelf in his parents' bedroom closet and shot himself in the head. The next morning, Mitchell's school assembled in the gym to begin mourning. His classmates created a virtual memorial on MySpace and garlanded it with remembrances. One wrote that Mitchell was a "hero to take that shot, to...
