It’s hard to believe that even in late 2009, there are still countries, full-fledged independent countries, that do not have mobile phone service.
That list got smaller this week as the Pacific island nation of Nauru finally got access to…
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Mobile phone service comes to Nauru
Posted by Cyrus Farivar,
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 – 13:28 CEST
Internet addiction center opens in a Seattle (USA) suburb
Posted by Cyrus Farivar,
Friday, August 21st, 2009 – 16:00 CEST
After Internet addiction centers have opened up in South Korea, China, and Japan, now the United States has just opened its first facility in Fall City, Washington, in Pacific Northwest region of the country.
The institution, formally called reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery…
More →Austrian, Mongolian partner to unearth buried Buddhist artifacts
Posted by Cyrus Farivar,
Friday, August 7th, 2009 – 08:37 CEST
Last weekend, Austrian online media producer and amateur archeologist Michael Eisenriegler (above) and his Mongolian colleague, Zundoi Altangerel, uncovered two crates worth of irreplaceable artifacts, including manuscripts, Buddhist statues and clothing.
It was shown live and online last weekend at the Hauptplatz in…
More →Reminder: Participate in Online Storytelling!
Posted by Cyrus Farivar,
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 – 09:42 CEST
In the online world, where our identities are mostly unknown, people don’t always have a chance to meet each other in person. However, we can still create something together.
So, let’s write two stories together in English!
Whether it’s a love story…
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 – 14:53 CEST
In the world of Internet, where our identities are mostly unknown and users seldom have chances to meet each other in person; there is still the possibility to create something jointly.
Let’s write 2 stories together in English!
Whether it’s a love…
North Korea as Revealed by Google Earth, Citizen Activists
Posted by Florica Vlad,
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 – 16:12 CEST
For many years, citizen activists have been pooling information about North Korea in order to reveal the locations of hidden prisons and other sites of interest in the humanitarian effort to effect greater transparency on the isolated regime.
However, according to…
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