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Virtual socializing and social networking online

by Melissa Muhammad

With the advent of technology a host of opportunities and dangers have opened up with the use of social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo groups, Linkd In and other virtual... »

Making computers easy for seniors

by Nisa Islam Muhammad -Staff Writer- | Mar 8, 2010 - 12:38:20 PM

For 80-year-old Mary Muhammad coming to Saviours' Day meant learning how to use a computer.  I couldn't wait to get here. I was very happy because I knew I could learn how to do e-mail. I want to communicate with my grandchildren and they are on the computer all The time. »

Israeli politicians accuse Palestinians of hacking web site

by AP | Aug 13, 2009 - 2:54:59 PM

JERUSALEM - Israel's largest political party, Kadima, says it has shut down its Web site after it was infiltrated by Palestinian hackers. »

New school tech, old school advocacy fuel drive for alternative radio

by Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- | Jul 2, 2009 - 11:08:24 PM

Advances in technology and an old school sense of mission are driving Black media makers to find new ways to communicate, organize and advocate. »

Tips for healthy computing

by Shanitra X | Jan 27, 2008 - 12:02:00 PM

You just unpacked your shiny new computer system, set up your high speed Internet service, and installed the latest and greatest software, but what now? »

Web connects Black college students, alumni

by Donna Marbury
Special to the NNPA from the Columbus Post | Nov 13, 2007 - 11:54:00 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (NNPA) - Who would guess that the nation’s second largest Black–owned website was stationed in Columbus? Since 1999, brothers William R. Moss, III and Daniel C. Moss, who founded HBCUConnect.com, have more than 275,000 current students and alumni of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) registered to the site. »

Reforming universities is key to technology transfer

by SciDev.Net | Feb 3, 2007 - 2:30:00 PM

LONDON (SciDev.Net) - Developing countries must build world-class universities to be serious players in the knowledge-based global economy, says Mohamed H. A.Hassan. Traditionally, technology has always flowed from developed to developing countries. »

Underrepresented: Key to future of Information Technology

by Fred Green Jr.
NNPA Technology Writer | Feb 2, 2007 - 1:19:00 PM

There is trouble brewing in IT-Land. At a time when technology jobs are projected to double over the next five years, fewer people of color are graduating with degrees that will prepare them for jobs in information technology. This development has serious implications for industry, higher education and groups seeking their share of the American pie. »

Study: The Web is the No. 1 media

by Candace Lombardi | Jun 6, 2006 - 9:03:00 AM

(C|Net) - Web media is the dominant at-work media and No. 2 in the home, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association.  In March, the Pew Internet and American Life Project published a report that found more than 50 million Americans per day in 2005 used the Web as their primary news source. It also noted that news gathering was the third most popular Internet activity. »

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