Posts Tagged with ‘reuters’

Free ethnic programming for Joost – Phase 3 for dominating Web TV! Well, here is some happy news from Joost! Besides clearing up a communication problem between Profy and Joost over my inbox full of requests for invitations, Joost has snagged yet another chunk of free broadcasting for you guys. It looks like Joost had sealed a deal with [...]

As reported by The Guardian, Reuters plans to launch an online community later this year for the purpose of exchanging financial information. Touted as a version of MySpace for those in the financial industries, the site will be limited to Reuters' subscribers. As Reuters CEO Tom Glocer says, "People don't want to have 100 friend requests from [...]

Why didn't we think of this? High School students in the Mexican state of Chihuahua are being forced to care for screaming, hiccuping baby dolls that run on computer chips! This is an effort to bring down the state's soaring teenage pregnancy rate. According to this press release, pairs of boys and girls ages 13 [...]

Consumer spending on Internet downloads of movies and TV shows will top $4 billion in 2011 compared to the $111 million spent last year according to a study released by Adams Media Research. According to the study the new surge in growth is being fueled by the introduction of hardware devices like Apple TV, a [...]

News of one of my favorite Web 2.0 programs, One Laptop Per Child, and its upcoming roll-out of 2500 computers for some of the world's poorest kids. The press release announced that the project is about to distribute the first installment of the neat little PC's to eight nations this month. This installment is an [...]

I bet you never suspected that this January 27th was Thomas Crapper Day! I mean here we have been so focused on the CES, DEMO 07 and other events that we nearly missed "Crapper" Day! According to a press release by Roto-Rooter via Yahoo! News, the average person spends 11,862 hours in the bathroom, or 1 [...]

Web 2.0 is an action platform and should direct technology towards our most pressing needs! There's serious, and then there is SERIOUS! My job here at Profy is to report on significant (and sometimes insignificant) Web 2.0 technology. Our goal – my goal, is to be honest, fair and impartial about the subjects we write [...]

I Predict News Junkies And Plenty Of Them!  U.S. teachers are utilizing Internet news more than any other source in presenting news to their students. Fifty seven percent of teachers use Internet based news. A study based on news use in the classroom surveyed 1,262 teachers in grades 5-12 in the fall of 2006. The study was [...]

Reuters (Switzerland) – January 27, 2007 – The Internet is set to revolutionize television within the next five years, according to Bill Gates – Chairman of Microsoft. The explosion of online video content and merging of TV and PC sets signals a new era for television.  ”I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, [...]