Inauguration of the EIT ICT Labs Doctoral School at UPMC manifests a collaboration of Education, Research and Business to empower ICT top talents for the future. Paris, March 27, 2013. EIT ICT Labs CEO Willem Jonker conducts an official inauguration of the EIT ICT Labs Doctoral School on ICT Innovation at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), where the ... Read More »
So, here’s a bit of trivia that you may or may not know. If you were born in 1973, then you are about as old as the first mobile handheld cell phone (that you could use outside of your car) is. That’s right, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the debut of the handheld mobile phone and the first ... Read More »
Fast internet connections have not become available across the world at a consistent rate. For quite a few years now Asia and the United States have led the way, with broadband networks that dwarfed much of the rest of the world. In some instances that made quite a bit of sense, as Africa and South America are building infrastructure and ... Read More »
This is the time of year when, naturally, the Pope tends to get quite a bit of media attention. That’s because Christmas is a big deal, especially for religious reasons, in Rome. Perhaps if anyone got the chance to ask Pope Benedict XVI just what he would want for Christmas, based on the amount of “eco-friendly attention” that he has ... Read More »
An unfortunate situation has grown even more unfortunate in the relatively small nation of Ghana. The country, which lies in the western part of Africa, has been in the news recently, but not for any kind of good reason, or for anything positive that one might hope to read about. Rather, the country of Ghana has been in the news ... Read More »
Okay folks, it’s time to be serious. Global warming is seriously real and we’re already starting to see the effects, hurricanes, flooding, icecaps melting. You don’t have to look far before you realise we are entering the flipping end times. Right now it seems we have only two ways to avoid having our civilisation completely eradicated by the fruits of ... Read More »
Natural disasters can destroy communities, ruin lives, and strike anywhere without warning. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti had a death toll of over 300,000. 2012 alone saw flooding in Nigeria, Great Britain, North Korea, Philippines and earthquakes in Guatemala and the Indian Ocean. After the latest “superstorm” Hurricane Sandy, New York governor Cuomo said it could cost the state $33 ... Read More »
It used to be that the biggest voter fraud always occurred in and around Chicago; Chicagoland. Perhaps you’ve heard the big joke of all the “dead people” voting there in decades past. Today, that is to say in the 2012 elections, it probably doesn’t matter, because Illinois, especially around Chicagoland is predominately Democrat anyway. In other words, it wouldn’t matter ... Read More »
London 8th November 2012: The Obama victory will be sending shivers down the spine of US bank CEO’s and their advisers this week. The one chance they had of dodging the Dodd-Frank Act, the single biggest change to US Financial Services oversight since the 1930’s, died with Mitt Romney’s failure to dislodge Obama. Standard & Poor’s estimates that Dodd-Frank, which ... Read More »
Here’s something that might surprise you. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in 2009, 2 percent of the American population that got plastic surgery was individuals between the ages of 13-19. Two percent may not seem like a lot initially, but that comes out to be about 284,405 people and the numbers are steadily on the rise. Although ... Read More »
