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Politicker.com Leaves Amazon EC2 For Voxel.net

Politicker.com, a leading online political news network which operates 17 political news websites across the country, has switched managed hosting providers, leaving Amazon EC2 for Voxel dot Net. Primarily due to unanticipated scalability difficulties with the popular cloud offering, Politicker made a full transition of all its websites to Voxel just five days ahead of […]

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Should We Care WHY? (US)

Photo courtesy of Logos School website Something that seems irritating to me is that some people refuse to accept historical events and get on with their lives. What am I talking about? Well…take the war in Iraq, for example. By the way, regardless whether you have Republican or Democratic (political party) leanings, it appears that

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Former Klansman James Ford Seale Found Guilty for Role in 1964 Kidnapping and Murder

A federal jury in Mississippi found James Ford Seale, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, guilty for his role in the kidnapping, abductions and eventual slayings of two African-American men in 1964. Seale and other Klansmen conspired to abduct, interrogate, beat and eventually murder Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charlie Eddie Moore, both 19

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Jolie-Pitt Foundation Donates $1 Million to Three Groups Working in the Darfur Region

Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt have donated one million dollars towards the humanitarian effort assisting more than four million people affected by the crisis in Darfur. The donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation will go to three agencies playing key roles in Darfur and neighboring Chad: the UN Refugee Agency; the International Rescue Committee and

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VCs and Serial Entrepreneurs to Mentor TechStars Start-ups

Over 40 of the United States’ most prominent venture capitalists, “serial entrepreneurs”, and business leaders are lining up to serve as mentors to ten business start-up teams. Ten will be chosen in early April for the TechStars entrepreneur program. About 300 new company founders are vying for the chance to get their business plans off

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Indonesian Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Haji Subandi, a citizen of the Republic of Indonesia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, two counts of money laundering and attempted exportation of arms and munitions. He aided Tamil Tiger terrorists in the attempted purchase of surface to air missiles, night vision devices, machine guns,

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Alchemy World Charitable Foundation Launches, Focused on Improving Ethiopian Economy through Information Technology

Poverty alleviation through social entrepreneurship and focusing on Information Technology. This is the idea behind Alchemy World, a new Charitable Foundation based in Addis Ababa and Oxford. Launched today, the concept behind this Non Governmental Organization (NGO) is to try to alter the economic situation in the Ethiopia via Information Technology entrepreneurship. By the development

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Compu-Sketch Helps Solve Crime – Featured on Forensic Files TV Show

Compu-Sketch is computer software that contains a library of more than 40,000 artist-rendered physical features and uses pull-down menus to simply define specific features and accessories. A built-in witness module helps stimulate memory, assuring a most accurate sketch. Compu-Sketch is going to be featured on Court TV’s “Forensic Files,” 9 pm on April 18, 2007.

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