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Google: The new cure for swine flu?

Earlier this week, Google Mexico and the Mexican government signed an agreenment to promote archaeological and historical sites in a bid to revive tourism following the swine flu epidemic, according to the Press Association.
Considering Google’s many, many… many talents, will the revival of tourism in Mexico be feasable? yeah.
The plan is for Mexico’s National Institute [...]

Posted in Media News on June 17th, 2009

Digital Britain Unconference: Example of Social Media in Action

Broadband will save us from depression and generate an incredible number of jobs. As weird as it may sound, this is what we have been hearing mostly in the western world over the past year. Several governments have included in their stimulus package a plan to increase the access to broadband internet with the hope [...]

Posted in Media News on June 3rd, 2009

Facebook now worth $10 billion thanks to Russian firm

Facebook just received a cool $200 million investment from the Russian internet firm, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), which now values the social networking giant at $10 billion.
Despite the rough economic times, Facebook continues to demonstrate ongoing success growing its revenue at 70% year over year. Up to now it has raised approximately $600 million since [...]

Posted in Media News on May 27th, 2009

77’s message to earthquake victims

77Agency would like to express its deepest sorrow and condolences to all the victims of the earthquake which hit the city and province of L’Aquila (near Rome) in central Italy.
The government has estimated that nearly 17,000 people were left homeless due to the quake which registered a magnitude of 5.8 and 6.3 on the Richter [...]

Posted in Media News on April 7th, 2009

Gmail Blackout and the Aftermath

The blogosphere calls it ‘GFail’ others ‘Blackout’, Google’s  3-hour outage really scared Gmail users after a software glitch crashed the service this past Tuesday.
A universe of 113 million Gmail users was left without any access whatsoever to their email accounts, which was thought to be a temporary thing, however, it lasted more than expected.
Consequently, Google [...]

Posted in Media News on February 26th, 2009

NASA and Google: “Prepare humanity for accelerating technological change”

(image credit: NASA)
The formation of the new Singularity University brings together the world’s brightest, most forward-thinking students and professors in a collective effort to solve “humanity’s grand challenges” by looking at them in a new light and confronting them with the powers of the future of technology.
The project is headed up by Dr. Ray Kurzweil, [...]

Posted in Media News on February 4th, 2009

Google Earth, 3D mapping of the Ocean Floor

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Google has finally unveiled its new mapping tool, Google Ocean.
We had already become acquainted with it in one of my previous posts, when we discussed that a group of experts were undergoing 3D mapping tests of what has now been developed into Google Earth’s latest version which plots the entire underwater world for [...]

Posted in Media News on February 3rd, 2009

New horizons for Yahoo and MySpace

MySpace, Yahoo and Intel have joined forces to offer users a way to exchange messages with friends through their television sets while at the same time watching their favorite show.
What’s this all about? BusinessWeek disclosed it’s a social-networking application launched jointly by MySpace, Intel and Yahoo that apparently merges TV with the Web.
The TV widget [...]

Posted in Media News on January 15th, 2009

Walt Disney Company appoints new General Manager of Online and Mobile Division, Sara Passarella

77Lab is proud to announce Walt Disney Company- Italy has recently appointed  Sara Passarella as the new Director and General Manager of its Online and Mobile Division.

As pointed out on today’s Corriere della Sera and the press release included below, Sara Pasarella will now be responsible for all new media, mobile and overall online activities [...]

Posted in Media News on January 9th, 2009

Warning: Internet Explorer is risking people’s security

As reported by the BBC, current users of all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer browser are currently vulnerable to getting hijacked due to a serious security flaw that has yet to be fixed.
It’s been reported that at least seven versions of the browser have been affected by this flaw and as many as 10,000 websites [...]

Posted in Media News on December 16th, 2008

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