News tagged with nonprofit web

Wikipedia launches iPhone application

Wikipedia said it has released an iPhone application as part of a drive to open the pages of its revered online encyclopedia to the booming ranks of smart phone users.

Technology / Software

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New site promotes journalists as individual brands

(AP) -- First came bylines for once-anonymous journalists. Then came their photos, particularly as news shifted online, and blogs began to carry mug shots of their writers.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Internet address expansion set despite ".worries." (Update)

Bidding will begin this week for words and brand names such as ".sport," ".NYC" and ".bank" to join ".com" as online monikers.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Google remains default search engine at Firefox

Mozilla on Tuesday said that it has renewed a deal making Google the default search engine in the nonprofit organization's open-source Firefox Web browsing software.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet pioneers oppose US online piracy bills

The founders of Craigslist, eBay, Google, Twitter, Yahoo! and other Internet giants expressed concern to the US Congress on Wednesday over legislation intended to crack down on online piracy.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 10

Global health funding slows as deadline for Millennium Development Goals nears

Developed countries and funding agencies are putting the brakes on growth in development assistance for health, raising the possibility that developing countries will have an even harder time meeting the Millennium Development ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook makes privacy pledge in FTC settlement

Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For refugees from Burma, hope of better life in US turns into extreme poverty, isolation

Refugees who have fled Burma to live in Oakland, Calif., are at risk of becoming a permanent, poverty-stricken underclass warns a new report released today by researchers at San Francisco State University and the Burma Refugee ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

College.xxx? Schools snap up porn domains to keep them clean

The world is getting closer to the launching of a new Internet address system for pornography providers, and there are some eye-opening names being registered. Among them: washu.xxx and mizzou.xxx.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Cosmic voyager has a layover in St. Louis

Last January two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev's office at Washington University in St. Louis to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 near Conception ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Facebook co-founder unveils Asana productivity software

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz unveiled his highly anticipated new company, a developer of software that aims to help people work more efficiently.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The genographic project confirms humans migrated out of Africa through Arabia

Evolutionary history shows that human populations likely originated in Africa, and the Genographic Project, the most extensive survey of human population genetic data to date, suggests where they went next. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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