Articles on Death

Mobile Internet flourishes with Michael Jackson's death - Jun 29, 2009

Crave Network traffic overview when news of Jackson's death hit the Web. When news of pop music legend Michael Jackson's death hit the Web last week, it brought the Internet down ... Read story »

News of Michael Jackson's death swamps news sites - Jun 26, 2009

Crave Updated at 4.40pm (US time) with comment from Google and at 5.35pm (US time) with information about CBS' own traffic surge, and at 6.46pm (US time) with statistics from Keynote Systems. ... Read story »

Mourning death of Francis Magalona in cyberspace - Mar 9, 2009

Blogs The outpouring of grief over the death of popular Filipino rapper and TV host Francis Magalona can be seen not only in the hundreds of visitors that have been going to ... Read story »

The Internet as a speaker for the dead: Lo Hwei Yen - Nov 29, 2008

Blogs Orson Scott Card is one of the most wonderful writers of our time, to me. He writes so incisively, peeling away the layers of distraction to get to the difficult kernel ... Read story »

Michael Jackson tops 2009 Yahoo Search - Dec 1, 2009

Blogs Yes, Michael Jackson is now the King of Yahoo search according to a recent report by Yahoo! The sudden death of Jackson sparked a lot of curiosity among his millions of fans ... Read story »

Mainstream media: Don't demonize computer games (re: Recent suicides) - Mar 13, 2009

Blogs Recently, the mainstream media in Singapore has taken to demonizing computer games. You're causing problems for me when you do that. I've played computer games since I was six, from Pong ... Read story »

Mourning the death of the "greatest human being who ever lived" - Sep 22, 2009

Blogs I'll be honest: I didn't know Norman Borlaug, or realize the impact this man's work had on millions of lives, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. ... Read story »

With "memorialized" profiles, Facebook sees dead people - Oct 27, 2009

Crave With over 300 million active users around the world, it's a legitimate concern for social network Facebook to come up with a solution for what happens when members die. The company ... Read story »

Cory Aquino death used to spread malware - Aug 4, 2009

Blogs Once more showing how unscrupulous people can be in taking advantage of tragedies, some sites are tricking users into downloading fake antivirus software by pretending to offer news on the death ... Read story »

Angel Locsin, Kris Aquino and friends launches Shop & Share Web site - Oct 16, 2009

Blogs (Story Update): Kim Chiu, Gerald Anderson, Piolo Pascual, Richard Gutierrez, KC Concepcion, Dingdong Dantes, Lucky Manzano and many more have contributed to the project.   A Web site that aims to ... Read story »

UK survey reveals up to 60 percent Xbox 360 failure rate - Nov 18, 2009

Crave Console failure rates have been a common news item throughout the year, with numerous surveys out of the US suggesting that the problem was far greater than Sony, Nintendo and especially ... Read story »

New Xbox 360 motherboards could mean fewer crashes - Oct 3, 2008

Crave The "red ring of death" is the last thing any Xbox 360 user wants to see, as it indicates massive system failure. For Xbox 360 users, the so-called red ring of ... Read story »

Of science's frightful past & present - Oct 29, 2009

Blogs Whenever thought is directed at something aged, one would never have expected a correlation to that of possessing a scientifically driven nature that is perhaps a little too close for comfort ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS launch: What we now know - Nov 20, 2009

Blogs As I said, I don't see a compelling reason yet to embrace a Google OS, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not just as curious about Google Chrome OS ... Read story »

Mourning Neda Soltani: Martyrdom in the digital age - Jun 24, 2009

Blogs Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other online tools allowed the world to know what was happening inside Iran more quickly than mainstream media. Indeed, many Twitter users started using green avatars to ... Read story »

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