Articles Posted in the Technology Category
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MyLatinoVoice.com Website Folds
email The English-language website www.MyLatinoVoice.com, which launched in September, 2008 has shut down. The website had previously touted itself as the the fastest growing online destination for US Latinos, but the following message, as reported by Portada, now greets people on the website: “My Latino Voice thanks you, our friends, partners and audience, for sharing [...]
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El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center To Open in 2012
Exciting news for everyone in upper Manhattan and especially if you like around Harlem’s East 104th street. The new home of Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Manhattan’s Public Access TV Station, will open this year. SLIDESHOW: SEE El BARRIO! The new home of MNN isn’t in any building, but in a historic East Harlem firehouse. The five-story [...]
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Mexican Mitt Romney Parody Twitter Account Launches
Mitt Romney won the G.O.P. primary in New Hampshire and now you can follow the Mexican Mitt Romney on Twitter as he prepare for South Carolina. A parody Twitter account for “Mexican Mitt Romney” was created early Wednesday morning and had garnered 30 followers within hours of the first post. Lalo Alcaraz (@laloalcaraz) Tweeted “Holy [...]
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Video: Eric Schmidt on does “Google Plus Your World” favor Google+ too much?
@dannysullivan, editor of SearchEngineLand.com, interviews Google’s @ericschmidt on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. In the video, Schmidt says Google+ content is not being favored over Twitter and Facebook by Google’s search engine. Rather, those companies can be treated the same if they grant Google the right permissions to access their content. Video: Eric Schmidt on does [...]
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z Baby Girl, Blue Ivy Carter, Already on Twitter!
It’s official! Beyoncé gave birth to a baby girl Saturday night, according to EOnline!It’s official! Beyoncé gave birth to a baby girl Saturday night and as expected a Twitter parody account for the new baby girl has already started with over nine thousand followers. There was initial confusion regarding the child’s name as it was [...]
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NBCUniversal’s Telemundo Network Fires Social Media Coordinator, @HotChulo, after Racist Tweets Exposed
NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language network Telemundo announced Wednesday afternoon that they have fired one of their contract social media coordinators, who went by the Twitter handle @HotChulo, after he posted anti-Muslim and other racist tweets during the past several months. The Twitter account for HotChulo, who described himself as a “Latino Ken Doll” on his Twitter biography [...]
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Top 40 Viral Articles on Facebook in 2011
Facebook has released the most shared stories on Facebook in 2011.The list contains several baby and pet-related stories and videos. Are you surprised by any on the list? Let us know what you think. Also, it’s not even December yet, so do you think the list may change? Below are the top 40: 1. Satellite [...]
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YouTube’s first channel for original programming targets Latinos
YouTube launched its first channel for original programming and it’s a Spanish-language channel targeting Latinos. Clevver Media’s ClevverTeVe Spanish-language news and entertainment channel is the first of the nearly 100 premium channels that YouTube has planned, reported RapidTvNews.com, from a variety of content providers that include celebrities like Jay-Z, Madonna, Tony Hawk and Ashton Kutcher, [...]
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SlideShow: The Parody Bank of America Google + Profile in Pictures
Watch the SLIDESHOW below and read the FULL STORY about the Bank of America Parody Google + Profile SOUNDOFF Do you think Google should let the page stay or should it be removed? Watch Videos on World View Subscribe to the Dos Lives Daily Email Like us on Facebook Subscribe to our DL Podcast on [...]
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Parody Bank of America Google + Page Launched
A fake Google + profile has been created for Bank of America with a profile headline, “We took your bailout money and you mortgage rates are going up” The latest update on the parody profile from Nov. 8, reads “Big company party in foreclosed house #2340087 tonight!” and garnered 17 comments and the profile has [...]
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Univision Launches Revamped Univision.com Homepage
Univision announced its redesigned Univision.com homepage, for both online and mobile, Wednesday saying it will provide users with an enhanced content and navigation experience. Univision has been working on the redesign for a year and is part of an effort to rebuild and enhance the company’s entire network of national and local online and mobile [...]
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Nokia’s Lumia Smartphone Translates as ‘prostitute’ in Spanish
The name for Nokia’s new series of smartphones, the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710, is a colloquial term for “prostitute” in Spanish. The Real Academia Española defines “lumia” as a synonym for “prostituta.” The term may not be familiar to many Spanish speakers and MSNBC offers this explanation: Google’s clever book-searching tool pulls up a [...]
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Does the iPhone 4S Like Mexicans? Siri can Answer that Question, too
One of the more popular features on the new iPhone 4S is Siri, a personal assistant who tries to make life easier for iPhone users. Siri lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. Users can say anything to Siri and receive a response and iPhone 4S owners [...]
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Prince Royce Twitter Account Hacked
Another day, another hacked Twitter account. This time Prince Royce’s Twitter account @PlanetRoyce was hacked. It’s unclear when it was hacked or by who, but Prince Royce Tweeted to his followers in both English and Spanish Monday evening that he was back in control of his account. You can sit back knowing that Prince Royce’s [...]
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Univision News expands English-Language content with Facebook page
Univision News has launched an English-language Facebook page expanding the company’s English-language news content currently available on Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube. One recent Univision News Tumblr posts encouraged readers to post 9/11 10th anniversary pictures on their Facebook page. Univision launched their English-language Twitter feed in early March and has more than 18,000 followers. The [...]
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