Microblogging site Twitter has been hacked, affecting accounts of 250,000 users and prompting the online social networking site to ask Tweeters to reset their passwords. Hackers accessed user names and e-mail addresses of Twitter users by exploiting a Java vulnerability, according to Twitter’s blog post on Friday. Twitter’s director of information security, Bob Lord, said [...]
Meet Gambia Entreprenuer Muhammed Jah
February 4, 2013 | Posted by
The Gambia’s Muhammed Jah clearly remembers the day, in the late 1990s, when a friend told him that he was going to the airport to pick up a consultant who was coming to teach his department a word processing application popular at the time, WordPerfect. “I said: ‘How come we have a consultant coming all [...]
Video: Best Movie Previews During Super Bowl
February 4, 2013 | Posted by
For many of us, the Super Bowl isn’t about the game so much as the party and the food and the commercials, especially the movie previews. As usual, this year gave us a mix of ads for films opening fairly soon and blockbusters arriving this summer. And as usual, some studios spent their dollars wisely [...]
Want a Healthy Heart? Start With Natural, Whole Foods
February 4, 2013 | Posted by
February is National Heart Health Month, making it the perfect time to highlight some foods that promote heart health, as well as list those that do more harm than good. While heart disease can be hereditary, its prevention begins with a healthy lifestyle. For starters, this means no smoking, monitoring your blood sugar and blood [...]
Beyonce Flawlessly Rocks Super Bowl Halftime Show
February 4, 2013 | Posted by
Less than two weeks after her controversial rendition of the national anthem at President Obama’s inaugural ceremony, Beyonce returned to the national spotlight on Sunday evening at New Orleans’ Superdome for a mammoth Super Bowl halftime show. The pop star unleashed a medley of her best tunes – including older hits, such as “Crazy in [...]
Morehouse Students Meet, Rally For Peace in Wake of Shooting
February 4, 2013 | Posted by
Morehouse student government leaders say they will meet Monday to discuss campus security and what steps can be taken to curb violence in the wake of a shooting Friday. An arrest was made Saturday in the shooting incident that occurred at Archer Hall on the Morehouse campus. Clark Atlanta University student Amir Obafemi, 20, was [...]
Rosa Parks Honored on 100th Birthday With Postage Stamp, King Center Celebration
February 4, 2013 | Posted by
The U.S. Postal Service will release the Rosa Parks commemorative “forever” stamp today, and the civil rights icon will be honored at a celebration at the King Center in Atlanta. The stamp is being released on what would have been Parks’ 100th birthday. The unveiling of the stamp and the ceremony at the center will [...]
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle Pushing For New State-Private Venture Capital Fund
February 3, 2013 | Posted by
With Georgia’s promising technology center still hamstrung by a lack of cash, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is pushing legislation to combine state money and private dollars into a new venture capital fund. It could be a game-changer for the kind of jobs the state covets, but it also comes with high risk. Cagle’s proposal would [...]
Valentine’s Day: Whether You Like It or Not, Have a Plan
February 3, 2013 | Posted by
You think Valentine’s Day is a commercial opportunity designed by vendors? Think again, if your spouse doesn’t agree. If you miss the world-is-observing-love-for-a-whole-day without marking the love in your relationship, regardless or your sentiments, you will be saying, “I don’t care enough about us to put in a modicum of effort for one measly date. [...]
ATL Production Duo’s Soulful Touch is on City’s Sounds
February 3, 2013 | Posted by
Thanks to new releases from local heavyweights like DJ Kemit, saxophonist Darryl Reeves, and singer/guitarist Anthony David, 2012 turned out to be a great year for Atlanta’s soul community. And as we move forward into 2013, the scene’s momentum shows no signs of slowing down thanks to the new production duo of Khari Simmons and [...]
