With Facebook now valued at $85 billion, the company is looking for ways to polish its corporate image, especially in places like Washington, D.C. One possibility for a new company spokesman is the recently unemployed Robert Gibbs, who just stepped down from the position of White House Press Secretary.
Articles by Danny Wool
The most recent recipient of the JFK Profile in Courage Award is Google executive Wael Ghonim, who became a face of the pro-democracy uprising in Egypt.
The new trend for men is adultescence, that long transitionary period between adolescence and adulthood, rife with signs of both. They can now sign up to get a “Cloud Girlfriend,” a virtual partner who fulfills their every fantasy and doesn’t cost a penny. It’s a Facebook friend with benefits, and it’s not real.
If the Bard is correct and “All the world’s a stage,” then parking lots are part of that stage. Perhaps that was the idea behind a series of brief productions by the San Jose State University theater group. Their actors were performing Car Play, six theatrical sketches lasting 10 minutes each, but instead of using an auditorium, they were using a university parking garage. Ibsen be damned. This was realism at its finest.
Mohammad Qayoumi , the son of a carpenter from rural Afghanistan and mother who was illiterate, Qayoumi believed in the power of education to raise him up from his humble beginnings. This summer he will be assuming the position of President of San Jose State University.
Feeling guilty about being gay? Apple has an app for that, or at least it did. It was the ex-gay ministry’s Exodus International app, intended to put people back on the straight and narrow (minded) path.
According to a new report by Transportation For America, almost 20 percent of the city’s bridges qualify as being “structurally deficient,.”
More than 100 people showed up at the Santa Clara Valley Water District on Tuesday night to debate the pros and cons of fluoridizing the city’s water. San Jose is the largest city in the United States that does not fluoridate its drinking water, and people remain divided over the possible introduction of a fluoridation plant here.
Critics of Apple have long complained about the company’s insistence on proprietary software for all of its products. A class action suit underway now argues that by only allowing music purchased at Apple’s iTunes store to play on iPods, Apple has created a monopoly.
The French Commission nationale de l’information et des libertes (CNIL), a privacy watchdog group, has sued Google for 100,000 euros for collecting personal data. The information was collected by Google’s roaming cars and bicycles between 2007 and 2010 as part of Street View. The information was collected from local Wi-Fi networks and stored on Google’s servers.
