Category: Media
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Facebook Challenges Past Relationship Configurations (Part II)
Should students and their teachers become Facebook friends? This is an interesting issue which brings to question many assumptions about the role that teachers play in the lives of their students, which is worth exploring. Not so long ago teachers were authority figures who demanded respect, if not awe, for their superior knowledge and place…
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WikiLeaks Annoys White House with Release of Sensitive Documents
The White House is one of many government bodies decidedly not pleased with the goals of the new WikiLeaks Website. Although so far the revelations of the documents seem to be far from the classified variety, nevertheless the White house and others are worried that, “when the substance of private conversations is printed on the…
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The ‘Queen of the Net’ Moves to Silicon Valley
Mary Meeker is moving from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, to partner with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. The venture-capital firm was one of the major supporters of the early wave of internet companies like Netscape, Amazon, and, later, Google. Mary Meeker, the head of global technology research at Morgan Stanley’s and the famous analyst…
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Blu-ray Beginning to Break Into the Movie Market
Blu-ray has already been on the market for five years, but there are only 3,000 Blu-ray titles available for consumers to purchase. This is compared with the light-speed rise of DVDs, which had over 20,000 titles available after the DVD format had been around for the same amount of time. These numbers for Blu-ray titles…