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TheGrio’s 100: Mary Spio, reaching beyond the stars

Sherri L. Smith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:16:17 +0000

“Deep Space Engineer” is no movie role for Mary Spio; it’s the title the Syracuse and Georgia Tech alumna held at Ultra Corp before moving on to PanAmSat Corporation as a Senior Satellite Applications Engineer. A bona fide rocket scientist, Spio began gaining notoriety in her field when she joined Boeing in 2001 as the [...]

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Cisco Unveils Next-Generation Internet Speeds

rahsheen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:56:29 +0000

In response to the growing need for faster and more wide-spread Internet connectivity, Cisco is releasing a new technology that will provide super fast data speeds. It’s called “CRS-3” and Cisco says it will provide download speeds of up to 322 Terabits per second. This is 3x the speed of it’s predecessor CRS-1. CRS stands [...]

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StatusNet Cloud Service Opens To The Public

rahsheen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:47 +0000

StatusNet Cloud Service (SCS) is launching it’s public beta today, so anyone can start their own status update site. This essentially means that any individual or company can quickly and easily start their own Twitter-type site using the SCS. It might seem like a waste of time to start your own status update site, but [...]

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The Atlanta Post to Target High Income African-Americans Online

Angela — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:41:00 +0000

Last week was a busy week for Moguldom Media Group, parent company to Bossip.com. Not only did they launch BossipTwitter.com they also launched a new site that goes right when you thought they were going to go left. The Atlanta Post is the company’s newest venture and it aims to target high-income African-Americans. While the [...]

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An optimistic view on diversity in IT, all the way from Brazil

Black Digerati — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:24:39 +0000

On December 10, 2009 myself and Abi from Noire Digerati and nine of our DePaul University computer science classmates were at the Chamber of Commerce Brazil to meet the chamber president as well as hear presentations from members of their tech community/incubator ACATE. The first presenter was Rodrigo Lossio, a Technology Journalist who is also [...]

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How To Create Flix In A Flash With Flixtime

rahsheen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:30:00 +0000

Flixtime is a service in direct competition with Animoto for helping you easily create awesome videos from your photos. Animoto has definitely dominated in this niche, also branching out into creating greeting cards and full-length videos. There have been a few other services that have tried to take some of Animoto’s shine, but have been [...]

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March Madness is Approaching and CBS Steps Up!!

Amani — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:45:06 +0000

CBS has added Live Streaming over 3G to their iPhone app and for double last year's price, $9.99, you can watch the game from wherever you are. Many hoops fans will be stuck at work with the CBS Sportsline service blocked from their network. Network administrators read it and weep as this app has the potential for people to sit right at their desk and watch as much basketball as they want to....

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Ovi Store Gets Skype or Does It?

Sherri L. Smith — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:00:27 +0000

Nokia got left holding the bag. On March 3, the company released a press release detailing the recent deal struck between itself and the folks over at Skype. According to the release, Skype was supposed to be available in Nokia’s Ovi Store free of charge. The popular app that allows users to make phone and [...]

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Sony Shuffles Gaming Organizations

Clark Kent — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:00:18 +0000

The 22nd century is here as video games, movies, and television have all received a nice injection of 1080i goodness. One of the leading companies, Sony Computer Entertainment realizes this, and looks to change up to reflect the changing times.

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New iPad Ad Reveals Flaws?

rahsheen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:00:12 +0000

As millions of people watched the Academy Awards this past Sunday, Apple unveiled a surprised teaser ad for their upcoming iPad gadget. I’m sure jaws dropped across the tech world as actors manipulated the shiny new device, demonstrating a few of it’s features and applications. Some of the nifty features demonstrated: Web browser (no Flash, obviously) eBook [...]

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