Mobile social networking sees explosive growth - Rediff.com Business

Mobile social networking sees explosive growth - Rediff.com Business: "Social networking isn't confined to the fully-abled community anymore -- the sites have opened up new avenues to connect the hearing impaired and deaf communities.

Rajesh Ketkar, a 32-year-old hearing impaired person, who heads a Vadodara-based NGO, Mook Badhir Mandal, has found a solution to problems faced by the hearing impaired in RockeTalk -- a mobile social networking platform.

RockeTalk allows users to send video messages that makes communication easy for the community because facial expressions are critical during a conversation b"

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Naomi Wolf on Why Porn Turns Men Off the Real Thing -- New York Magazine

Naomi Wolf on Why Porn Turns Men Off the Real Thing -- New York Magazine: "At a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist most famous in the eighties for her conviction that opening the floodgates of pornography would lead men to see real women in sexually debased ways. If we did not limit pornography, she argued—before Internet technology made that prospect a technical impossibility—most men would come to objectify women as they objectified porn stars, and treat them accordingly. In a kind of domino theory, she predicted, rape and other kinds of sexual mayhem would surely follow."

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Facebook Lawyers Disclosed E-Mail Passwords in Court Filing, Ceglia Says - Bloomberg

Facebook Lawyers Disclosed E-Mail Passwords in Court Filing, Ceglia Says - Bloomberg: "Paul Ceglia, who claims a 2003 contract with Mark Zuckerberg made him a partner in Facebook Inc., said the company’s lawyers committed an “egregious and massive violation” of his privacy by publishing his e-mail passwords."

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Economics: What's causing high youth unemployment?

Economics: What's causing high youth unemployment?: "WE SHOULD interpret high rates of joblessness essentially as lack of adequate growth and the aftermath of the misallocation of the pre-2007 period—misallocation that varied across countries in terms of whether it was through financial sector excesses and resulting costs, housing subsidies, or other forms of entitlements. The misallocation has become an intergenerational issue as excessive provision of entitlements has benefited the current generation at expense of the future ones. This excess has now materialised as fiscal problems for many if not all of these economies."

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Bodyguard earns Rs 86 cr in 5 days

Salman Khan's Bodyguard is going to be a super duper hit.  The movie surpassed 3 Idiots by collecting Rs 86 crore in five days.

Gali Janardhan Reddy arrested

The CBI arrested former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and brought to Hyderabad on Monday in illegal mining case.

Filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra dies of cardiac arrest - Bollywood World

Filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra dies of cardiac arrest - Bollywood World: "Hollywood-based Indian filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, who made films like “Bawandar” and “Provoked”, died of cardiac arrest Sunday, a doctor said. He was 62.

His last rites were performed at the Shivaji Park crematorium here Sunday evening.

Apart from family and friends, Bollywood actresses Deepa Sahi, Deepti Naval and Udita Goswami were present at the rituals.

Mundhra is survived by his wife and a daughter, who lives in Los Angeles."

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