Gregory Wilpert: In spite of a new audit of election results that shows a win by Maduro that is recognized by all countries of Latin America, the US supports opposition … Read More
MessageMe chat app grows to 5 million users in just 75 days
The mobile messaging business in incredibly competitive. Users not only have the option of using their carrier's default messaging platform, they also have services like WhatsApp, Viber, Google+ Hangouts, and more to choose from. In spite of this there is apparently room for more, as a newer service called MessageMe has amassed… … Read More
Nvidia behind Windows RT with plans to launch multiple tablets
Nvidia believes in Windows RT and plans to keep making Tegra ARM-based processors for the operating system going forward. Even in spite of lackluster sales, especially when compared to other models on the market, the company thinks that the platform is heading in the same direction in which things are moving. … … Read More
Yahoo blows it again
Well, it’s a start, I guess. On Tuesday, NBC broke the news that Yahoo, of all places, has now significantly upped its family leave policy. The company will now increase employee maternity leave from eight weeks to 16 weeks, and offer new dads eight weeks paid leave. It will also give new parents $500 “to spend on such things as house cleaning, groceries and babysitters, plus Yahoo-branded baby gifts.” What’s this, boss? A tiny onesie with a corporate logo on it? You shouldn’t have! So yeahhhhhhh, thanks.In recent months, Yahoo has not won a reputation as the most family-friendly of organizations, in spite of its new CEO, Marissa Mayer. You may recall hearing a word or two about how everything in the world was going to be different henceforth for working parents back when Yahoo hired her last year, while she was still pregnant. Instead, Mayer made good on her vow to power through her own brief maternity leave like a character out of Monty Python, popping out a baby while never breaking stride. True to form, by November, she was confidently declaring, “The baby’s been way easier than everyone made it out to be.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Christian man insists terminally-ill atheist ‘sinner’ will ‘go to hell’ for assisted suicide
An atheist woman with an incurable brain disease took her own life on Thursday in spite of Christians who insisted that she was a “sinner” and would “go to hell” if she went through with the assisted suicide. The Winnipeg Free Press‘ Lindor Reynolds reported that…
Maddow: Republicans still trying to intrude into your bedroom
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow pointed out that in spite of whatever attempts the GOP is making at the national level at rebranding itself, the party is lost without its “bedroom intrusion agenda.” Even as national Republicans like Olympia Snowe…
