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Marques Houston is set to release his 6th solo studio album "Famous," with a Marvin Gaye meets D'Angelo feel. LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- "I wanted to do an album for my fans." I took some time away from my music to focus on my acting and producing films, but because of my Twitter and Instagram blowing up with all my fans requesting new music, it gave me the motivation to get back in the studio," says Marques Houston. (Photo:...
Native advertising company, VIRURL, launches ability to automate sponsored posts after signing up over 100,000 influencers and publishers. SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VIRURL, a Santa Monica start-up, launches In Stream Ads technology to publish relevant sponsored content directly into blogs. Content publishers using VIRURL's technology receive an email once a relevant sponsored post matches their blog's audience. The publisher controls what is pushed through...
DALLAS, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of movies and TV shows available to watch is growing rapidly. To help you find what you're looking for AT&T* is launching a new, media-rich U-verse(®) On Demand storefront, designed to provide a more intuitive and convenient way to discover your favorite movies and TV shows. The new U-verse On Demand storefront features: A sleek new user interface with intuitive navigation. Colorful poster art to find what you want faster....
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 6 million Americans are victims of stalking every year. One of those victims wants LinkedIn to do more to help stop cyberstalkers. After being sexually assaulted at work, Anna Rihtar quit the job she loved to avoid her attacker. And, like many unemployed people, she turned to LinkedIn to find work. But Rihtar's attacker followed her online. In addition to phoning, emailing, and pursuing Rihtar on Facebook and Twitter, he began...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CallSource, the industry leader in call tracking and lead management solutions, today announced the release of CallShield, a proprietary, cloud-based service that automatically blocks telephone hacking attempts and computer-generated spam calls. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130516/LA15259LOGO) CallSource invented CallShield in response to a surge in telephone hacking that is plaguing businesses, worldwide....
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- America first learned of the 9/11 hijackings from Solicitor-General Ted Olson, who reported two calls from his wife, well-known CNN commentator Barbara Olson. From American Airlines Flight 77, Barbara Olson fleshed out the drama of diminutive Muslim hijackers using knives and box-cutters to herd dozens of passengers to the rear of the plane. These and other reported calls have now been examined by the 9/11 Consensus Panel of scientists,...
Mobile Beacon & Digital Wish Launch 4G Mobile Broadband Donation Program NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mobile Beacon (www.mobilebeacon.org), a leading provider of affordable mobile Internet service exclusively to educational and nonprofit organizations, is launching its 4G mobile broadband donation program for educators on DigitalWish.org. The program helps schools provide 24/7 mobile connectivity for teachers and staff, and offers a method to...
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time, NetChoice has placed a state's entire Internet agenda - rather than a single piece of legislation - atop its iAWFUL list of bad Internet legislation. California's clutch of overreaching, innovation-stifling regulatory efforts earns the number one spot on the May 2013 iAWFUL with the Federal Internet sales tax effort trailing a close second. Over the past six months, California legislators aggressively pushed a...
ORLANDO, Fla., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Orlando-based company, AGERpoint, Inc., has developed a series of technologies designed to deliver unprecedented data management to growers of tree and vine-based crops. These solutions redefine data acquisition, analysis, and translation for growers, giving them the real-time data they need to make the most effective business decisions for their holdings. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130516/PH15480-a )(Photo:...
PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The WebKite network, comprised of 976 sites, has seen over four million unique visits since it soft-launched in July 2012. From helping Victory Media publish a list of military friendly employers to powering AppCertain's apps directory, WebKite continues to help experts create decision and search sites. Today, WebKite is making it easier than ever for anyone to create a directory with its new features and pricing. WebKite has been described...
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Channel Islands National park is located in off the coast of California in the United States. The park holds 249,561 acres and is comprised of five of the eight Channel Islands. The area was designated as a national monument in 1938 and as a National Biosphere Reserve in 1976, but was not designated as a national park until 1980. The park extends from San Pedro to Point Conception, located near Santa Barbara. Half of the entire park consists of ocean water and seventy-six percent of the...
Image Caption: Phone connector with female socket, used for dial-up Internet access. Credit: Shaddack/Wikipedia Dial-up access is a connection to the Internet using telephone company lines to connect to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The user connects to an internal or external modem that decodes the data and displays it onto the computer, laptop, or similar device. Often this choice of connection is used where other forms of connections are not available, such as in remote or...
Image Caption: Illustrates the FTP connection between a Client and a Server, using the PASV command. Credit: Michael Lorer/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) File transfer protocol (FTP) is the protocol of transferring files from one host to another host usually over the Internet. This protocol is normally done by authentication by the user entering a username and password. However, some servers (hosts) allow anonymous connection, which in most cases allows limited access to the site. The first...
Image Credit: Photos.com In computer terms, Post Office Protocol (POP) is a protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a server by a TCP/IP connection. Another e-mail retrieving protocol is Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). Basically all modem e-mail clients and servers use and support both protocols. The POP protocol has several versions with POP3 as the current version. POP (POP1) was enacted in 1984, where users have an option to leave e-mail on a server after...
Image Credit: Photos.com A blog is a written discussion or information posted on a website over the Internet. The blog is posted with the most recent one first, dealing with any subject or topic within the constraints of the website administrator. Before 2009 most blogs were written by an individual or small group of people. Today, most websites use multi-author blogs (MABs) where a large number of authors write and submit content which is edited professionally. Information gathered for...
