Articles Posted in the Technology Category
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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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Hispanicize Acquires Stake in Being Latino
Social media content and blogger marketing platform Hispanicize (www.Hispanicize.com) has acquired a significant stake in Being Latino, one of the nation’s leading Hispanic community and social media platforms and publisher of the online magazine Being Latino (http://beinglatino.wordpress.com). The acquisition immediately combines the communities and resources of these influential and innovative Latino social media entities. “With [...]
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Counseling Ordered for Dallas City Hall Facebook Addicts
Some companies would just fire you, but not the City of Dallas. Two dozen Dallas City Hall workers received reprimands or counseling after a recent probe showed they spent too much time on the social networking site. “It’s [Facebook at work] definitely on the ‘bad idea’ side,” said Dallas attorney Travis Crabtree. “You hear lots [...]
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Live Stream: #140Conf in NYC
Streaming .TV shows by Ustream Watch the New York 140 Conference here on Dos Lives today and Thursday. This year’s theme, “Exploring the State of Now” brings people from all over the world, including South America, to discuss the effects of the real-time internet. Speakers include Ann Curry and Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley among others. Check [...]
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Denied! Apple Rejects Smuggle Truck Immigration game App Submission
Owlchemy labs created controversy earlier this year when they announced their new game “Smuggle Truck,” which would allow players to smuggle illegal immigrants across a virtual southern border in a truck. This morning the company announced that their iPhone/iPad submission was rejected by the App Store. The original game is still available for PC and [...]
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Will Apple approve ‘Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration’?
That’s what some people are wondering after a Massachusetts-based company has proposed a March launch date for an immigration game for the iPhone and iPad where the user is invited to smuggle illegal immigrants across the border in a truck. Dos Lives reached out to the company, Owlchemy Labs, with several questions including an interview [...]
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First Spanish-Language Digital Bookstore in the U.S. Launches
The number of Spanish-language books available in digital format just got a big boost from Barnes & Noble, the the world’s largest bookseller, who announced NOOKbooks en español, the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States. Working closely with many of the top international and U.S.-based publishers, Barnes & Noble will continue to [...]
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Dos Lives Launches New Internet Talk Show at www.DosLives.com/Live
We’re excited to start offering content on the VOKLE video platform starting with tonight’s debut of our latest Internet talk show “Around the World with JP” hosted by Uruguay native and New Yorker Juan Pablo Heins. The show will tackle current issues from around the world that impact U.S. Latinos and will be a mix [...]
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Video: Latino Tech News (week of November 1, 2010)
This week on Latino Tech News: What is Hispanicize and why is it important to the Latino social media community? MySpace has to improve or News Corp will get rid of it and who’s “checking in” the most these days? Elio has all the answers on this week’s Latino Tech News. What do you think? [...]
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Hispanicize Aims to Connect Latino Bloggers & Marketers
The new organization, Hispanicize, announced more details about itself as well as the addition of Louis Pagan and Migdalia Rivera, both of New York, to its executive management team during a Webinar Wednesday afternoon. You may recognize Louis Pagan as LATISM Co-Founder/Latino Rebranded blogger and his previous blog the Latino Pundit and also Migdalia Rivera [...]
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New MySpace Launches; Latinos are a focus, but who cares?
MySpace has relaunched, but does anyone care? With the relaunch comes a focus on younger bicultural Latinos. According to a company press release, “With young Hispanics, 16 to 25, making up 18 percent of the U.S. Gen Y population and approximately 20 percent of Myspace users, the redesign will be particularly attractive to the fast-growing [...]
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Venezuela and Mexico leaders join Top Government Twitteros
The leaders of Venezuela and Mexico have joined the top ten list of “World Leader Rankings on Twitter,” according to a new study released Monday by a Washington D.C.-based non-partisan think tank. The Digital Policy Council released an updated list of World Leaders on Twitter and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (chavezcandanga) jumped to the number [...]
