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Following the principles of street furniture design, Bouroullec Brothers design a mobile kiosk for Parisian public engagement. Check it out and leave us your views…

Medical science on one hand and sensitive acceptance of important life changes on the other - together aid quality life for senior citizens. Check out this mobility concept and leave us your views…

"The way the public gets news continues to change with digital - and especially mobile forms - gaining audiences. Some shifts raise questions about the amount and quality of news consumed. All that leads to the crucial question of what people know about major public issues. Last week's Pew study on the Affordable Care Act didn't inspire confidence in the public's knowledge of news. Pew's survey found that "44% of Americans are unsure whether ACA remains the law. About three-in-ten (31%) say they don't know, while 8% think it has been repealed by Congress and 5% believe it was overturned by the Supreme Court." Should we cheer because more than half those surveyed (57%) knew that the law is being implemented? Should we allow slack for those who didn't know, since the Act is complicated and changes have been made and proposed? Is the study evidence of separate and unequal societies, one informed and one uninformed? To get a better sense of how the public is consuming news, and how journalists can best reach them, it's helpful to look at some data. Recent studies tracking news consumption could leave the impression we've moved from well-rounded civic information meals to fast-food news snacking."

I first came across this group of activists after August 2010 hot topic on Mobile Net Neutrality

This article by Noam Cohen describes the controversy over the use of public photos on flickr. Flickr is a website used to share images with family and friends, which is now being used by company's and site's selling images without the approval of their owners. One example was Virgin Mobile's use of a picture of Alison Chang, a 15 year old, in one of their campaigns without her knowledge. The picture was under the protection of a creative commons that allowed it to be used for commercial use, making this issue more about privacy than about copyright. Virgin Mobile responded that they were "promoting creative freedom and didn't do anything wrong."

@ Scholastic removes Bratz branded products from school book clubs - a campaign by the CCFC helped mobilize parents to complain. Note comments about reading in the later paragraphs.

A new app launched this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders.