Burger King has pulled its Whopper Sacrifice campaign from Facebook after the social network blocked a feature of its application on the site notifying members when they had been “sacrified” for a Whopper. The popular promotion launched last week allowed people to delete 10 friends on Facebook in exchange for a coupon for a free [...]
Web 2.0 technologies in particular have found a receptive audience among educators. Many use blogs to share ideas on teaching and technology, some of which might surprise students. One idea in the teacher blogosphere: In the age of podcasts, kill off the classroom lecture, or at least rely on it less. Why fill classroom time [...]
Jazz sharpshooter Kyle Korver has experienced nights when his jump shots seem to drop automatically … when the ball softly settles into the bottom of the basket nearly every time it’s launched. It happened Monday at EnergySolutions Arena, when Memo Okur made 13 of 19 field-goal attempts and finished with a career-high 43 points during [...]
Israeli forces shelled areas deep inside Gaza City on Thursday, hitting the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and injuring at least three people in the compound, according to witnesses and United Nations officials. A spokesman for the agency, Christopher Gunness, said that hundreds of Palestinians were sheltering in the compound at [...]
We live in a great big world that is driven by a lot of business in it, and there are a lot of ways that enable the integration of technology into the operational asset of a company so that work can be done more efficiently. Farhan Masood is the CEO of a company called Solo [...]
The iPhone has been hacked in the past to use modified external keyboards, but new mods promise much more general interaction. Now, iPhone expert Ralf Ackermann has succeeded in supporting a standard Bluetooth keyboard using an external Bluetooth approach and is working on supporting an internal one. For the external approach, Ackermann modified a Robotech [...]
