February 23rd, 2012
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Learning Ally, a national nonprofit organization serving 250,000 individuals with learning differences, visual impairment and reading disabilities, will honor six remarkable students on February 27 at its 52nd annual National Achievement Awards celebration in the nation’s capital.
Three of these high achievers are blind or visually impaired; three have learning disabilities like dyslexia; all are recognized for scholastic excellence, exemplary leadership, and service to others; and all have thrived in education with the help of accessible educational content and assistive technology that Learning Ally provides. Read more…
February 22nd, 2012
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From playing games with friends to planning tonight?s dinner, smartphones have become an integral part of life ? and now, a vital component of home and business security. Smartphone compatible DVRs, like Digital Watchdog?s WMAX DVRs, have increased in popularity, reports iPhone.
February 21st, 2012
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One Stop Green releases a mobile app tutorial for it’s iPhone and iPod touch mobile application. The purpose of the tutorial is to demonstrate the functionalities of the mobile app and show users how easy it is to conduct home energy audits from their mobile phone. Host Robert Colangelo of the syndicated radio show Green $ ense also conducted an interview with One Stop Green’s Founder and CEO Sohail Hassan about the app and its many uses and will be available on pod cast.
Before investing any resources towards going green, it is essential to conduct an energy audit in order to identify the problem areas of your home. With One Stop Green’s mobile app, an audit costing up to $ 200 can be conducted by the homeowner themselves directly from their mobile phone! The main functionality of the mobile app is the ?Conduct an Energy Audit section that walks the user through a real energy audit and provides them with helpful tips and answers to frequently asked questions. Read more…
February 20th, 2012
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Sony Music, the American subsidiary of Japanese technology giant Sony Corp., appears to have settled the furor surrounding the pricing of two Whitney Houston albums available on Apple iTunes.
Sony, who are the world’s second largest record company, have apologised in a statement issued to BBC news, saying that the albums were immediately corrected after the company discovered that they had been mistakenly priced and both have returned to their original price.
February 16th, 2012
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Globalcast internationally and broadcast locally on WNDB 1150 in Daytona, Bobby Likis Car Clinic will capture all the pre-Daytona 500 excitement at Daytona International Speedway, live from the Motor Racing Network (MRN) studios. Co-hosting with Likis will be Preston Root, veteran racing and news reporter and community philanthropist. Guests sharing the mic include NASCAR racing legends, Cale Yarborough, Dale Inman and Glen Wood.
The SpeedWeeks Car Clinic globalcast will be a NASCAR vortex, where conversations leapfrog from iconic drivers in NASCAR history to today’s racecars with their electronic fuel injection, E-15-driven engines, says Likis. Likis rolls into Daytona late Thursday night after having attended the National Ethanol Conference in Orlando. Adds Likis, I can’t think of a more credible testing ground for the effect of E-15 on engine performance than the Daytona 500. Read more…
February 15th, 2012
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OnlineSchools, a digital resource for online education from kindergarten to graduate school, recently launched Generation Text, an in-depth look at mobile phone usage among teens. Analysis of Neilsen’s study, ?New Mobile Obsession: U.S. Teens Triple Data Usage, shows that teens exchange an average of 3,417 text messages per month, more than any other age group tracked. Comparing data from 2010 and 2011, the infographic also discusses the average monthly data usage between males and females.
One of the standout data points from this study was the quantity of mobile messages being exchanged. On average, teens surveyed are sending around seven text messages per hour, shared Seth Restaino, OnlineSchools.com spokesperson. Sadly, what this study does not show is that teen texting has been linked to other unhealthy behaviors, such as texting while driving. Read more…
February 14th, 2012
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Digiarty Software, Inc upgraded its backbone ripping software ? WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for the first time in 2012 to make it faster. The dominant position of this DVD backup tool in speed is further confirmed thereby to make provision for ripping all DVDs going to come out on February, including The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, Puss in Boots, Hugo, etc. with more desirable efficiency.
Supporting Multi-core CPU, Hyper-Threading Technology and Super Encode Engine, WinX DVD Ripper Platinum had been 2 times faster than any other like product in the market. And it was made even faster through the upgrade today. More specifically, this DVD ripper has been innovated to rip DVD to MP4 in a new way to further standardize the output MP4 file so as to be played on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android phones, Tablets, etc. Besides, MP4, H.264, DiVX and Xvid encoding speeds were also increased to a great extent. Read more…
The truth is often stranger than fiction. No publication captures that better than the satirical newspaper The Onion, which serves up ridiculous articles that many people confuse with reality. Today, the online publication GelfMagazine with licensing from The Onion – announces the launch of the Real Or Onion iPhone app. The mobile app is available in the app store for $ 0.99. A free ‘lite’ version of the app is available as well.
To get a sense of the Real Or Onion experience, consider the following headlines, three of which are real, and one of which is from the satirical newspaper The Onion:
Grandma Shuts Down Entire Country’s Internet
27% of Communication by Members of Congress is Taunting, Professor Concludes
Lindsay Lohan Went Out Last Night
Apple Hard At Work Making iPhone Obsolete Read more…
BlueVolt set another record for the number of new learners added to its Learning Management System (LMS) in a single quarter with 23,357 new users. This is a 25% increase over new users added in the third quarter and a 132% increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. In addition, 1,338 new online courses were added to the BlueVolt LMS, bringing the total number of courses available to 20,940.
BlueVolt also launched online Universities for two new customers in the fourth quarter: Nation Wide Local Contractors and Home Provider Network. BlueVolt’s online Universities provide a central hub for a company’s online training efforts and make it easy to train, track and reward participants. Read more…
Big Ben Parliament Creations is working with authors Hollie Moor and Paige Silsbee, on their latest iBook, iPhone and iPad app, Once Upon A Time…There was Snow White due to be released later this Spring.
BBP Creations is working with both authors on their adaptation of the Brother’s Grimm fairytale Snow White. Moor and Silsbee currently reside in Reno, Nevada, with Moor splitting her time between the States and the UK. While Moor has worked independently as a writer for years this is her first of two, soon to be, published children’s book with BBP Creations. A second children’s book will be released later this fall. This is Silsbee’s first children’s book as well, but is currently writing a novel. I’m excited to be working with Hollie on this children’s book and reaching out to so many through this new medium of story telling. The iBook is revolutionizing the way children will learn for years to come. It is allowing for us to think more 3 dimensionally when we write knowing that the writing will affect the illustrations and the illustrations will allow for us to create an interactive world that regular books cannot achieve, stated Silsbee. Read more…