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I think that this website is a great online tool for searching for colleges.

This article offers an online class in Chinese via a MP3 player.

Here is another article focusing on social media trends

Business advise for the 2011 year in terms of social media trends. Quite insight full

Here is another website from my list of news favorites. This one contains valuable information about the IT world in terms of business. This site is useful for getting big corporations views of the changes in social media etc...

This website contains vast amounts of information on science and technology developments. Some of it is a bit odd, where as others have tremendous business and global implications. Example: Google plans to take IP to space.

This is a fabulous website holding vast amounts of current IT news. Some of it's articles are geared towards professionals, where as others are quite informative and easy to read.

Smart phones are increasingly being used to access the net, in particular social media sites at an increasing rates.

I know this week were talking about cell phones and mobile devices and how the internet is used on our phones. I know in my discussion, me and another student were talking about texting and how it was used for the deaf originally. I just thought I'd share this article with the rest of the class.

This article from the New York Times talks about what people use their smartphone for. The top reasons are games and weather. This article is very recent and talks about the most common apps used within 30 days.

This article talks about the future power of cell phones and how they will replace PCs.

Smartphones have outsold computers for the first time, this trend is only continuing to grow.

This article, which is authored by a member of the Asia Future Internet Forum, looks at some of the current mobile internet trends, and also addresses some of the potential problems. It gives the author's proposal for an alternative mobile network design. While I don't expect anyone to read all the fine print in this (some of it is IT oriented and somewhat confusing), the big picture is what I find interesting-- people have so much faith and support for mobile internet that they want to develop some sort of international standards for it. People taking initiative such as this will really have a big impact on how the mobile network is shaped in the future!

Social Media can expose Identity, Financial Information,etc. How much information is out there and is dangerous through social media.

This connection with the American Cancer Society can give the needed support to questions one has with issues with cancer. Symptoms, treatment, fund raising, research, and becoming involved etc.

This article has information on creating HTML Codes, passwords, etc.

This Valentine's Day article relates how a NY bakery kept business brisk during recent bad weather. Using Facebook and Twitter to remind customers of the hot drinks they serve and offering coupons helped out. The write-up also mentions a change in marketing Spot Dessert took by hiring a PR firm that would lead them into the social media as part of their advertising and communications with customers. People who frequent there are encouraged to join the fun by adding photos of their food or answering questions posted on the site. The general manager of the bakery is quoted as saying, "we wanted to create a personality around our brand." After reading this article, my response is "Mission Accomplished!"

"Cell phones have changed a lot over the years, and their main functions was to make calls - so how come the recent 2010 Mobile Access survey shows that making calls is not the most important feature? This was certainly bound to happen once SMS and other such features came about."

The article explains how the cell phone is not mainly used for making calls in 2010, but is used to access the Internet.

This article explains how Facebook is deciding to allow third-party app developers to have access to the users phone number and address. It explains that Facebook is taking some precautions to make sure that this feature is as safe as possible, but others mentioned in the article do not agree that it is enough.