NAACP Use Mass Mobilization and Social Media to Help Save Troy Davis’s Life
The news of Troy Davis’s execution date has put the community in a bit of frenzy. Davis was sentenced to die for the killing of Mark MacPhail, an off-duty Savannah police officer at the time. The high profile case suggest that Davis was accused of crime he didn’t commit, a crime he has spent 20 [...]
Read MoreKik Provides Free Real-Time Texting Across Android, BlackBerry & iOS
Kik is a messaging application and service for Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices that allows for free texting across all three platforms. The service re-launched about two weeks ago and quickly jumped from 0 to 1,000,000 users: What an incredible couple of weeks. We re-launched Kik Messenger 15 days ago with 0 users, and at [...]
Read MoreAfrican Americans Talk and Text the Most
According to the latest from Nielsen, African Americans, Women, and Southerners talk and text the most in the United States. African Americans run up more than 1,300 minutes a month on average, followed by Hispanics at 826 minutes, Asian/Pacific Islanders at 692 minutes, and Whites at 647 minutes each month. African Americans and Hispanics also [...]
Read MoreDial2Do Follows in Jott’s Footsteps and Goes Pro
Free voice command service Dial2Do has gone pro and made most of it’s features pay only. There is a free account still available, but the only thing you can do with it is listen to and record reminders. Other features like email, text messaging, using your favorite social media applications, connections to various productivity applications, [...]
Read MoreAAA Aims to Ban Texting While Driving, Across America
Texting is at an all time high and the wireless telecommunications association, CTIA, claims that 110 billion text messages are sent each month. Recent research shows that approximately 1 in 5 U.S. drivers admit to texting while operating a vehicle in the last 30 days. In an effort to improve roadway safety across America, the AAA and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety are working to ban all texting (and emailing) while driving in each state by 2013.
Read MoreQ&A: Marcellus Alexander of Vesta Mobile Solutions
When BusinessWeek posted pictures of the finalist from the 2008 America’s Best Entrepreneurs list, we were very excited to see a photo of three young black men listed as finalist. Vesta Mobile Solutions was launched in April of 2007 by Brandon Davenport, 24; Elwood Green III, 25; Marcellus Alexander III, 23. As the name implies, [...]
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