Interesting news from Russia today again. I have already mentioned that the way social networks operate here in Russia is often more than peculiar and they can come up with the most unexpected approaches to how they work. Yet it looks like we are watching a new example of some civilization arriving to Russian social networking space with a new court proceeding reported today by the local media outlets. The story is about a guy who accessed an account of his girlfriend on Odnoklassniki.ru, one of the largest social networks in Russia. In fact, the guy did not even need...
If there's a Kushner, there's a controversy! The former head of the financing arm of real estate developer Kushner Companies is suing his former employer and claims money from commission of the purchase of 666 Fifth Avenue (for $1.8 billion) actually went to keep the Observer, owned by Charles Kushner's son Jared, afloat. Swill also claims that other money was put into trusts for Kushner's kids and to pay off family loans--and that some money also went to Mark O'Donnell, aka boyfriend of former Governor Jim McGreevey and a Kushner employee. The Kushners' spokesman denied the accusations, calling Swill a...
simonstudionyc posted a photo: Deepak blamed the shooting of Jews in India on the oil industry. Kind of like blaming a junky's family for getting shot by a drug dealer, The misplaced accusations must stop. Deepak has been out of line for a while. As for the junky metaphor it doesn't work either, but it is time to start blaming the terrorists. If the Saudis are funding the terrorists then we must make sure we bring them to justice... however the U.S. must do business with the world. Oil is not the solution... but it isn't the problem here either....
Another attack this week against two Hispanic man in the town of Patchogue in Suffolk County has been chalked up to local teens--possibly ones connected to "The Caucasian Crew," the gang arrested in conjunction with the murder of Ecuadorian Marcelo Lucero. Luis Pichu and Carlos Banegas (a friend of Lucero's from Ecuador) were surrounded by a group of teens Tuesday night, some with skinhead haircuts, who yelled that they wanted "to kill everybody, all Spanish people." And yet another man has come forward and accused two of the members of the group that was arrested in Lucero's attack and murder...
Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian, Android Nothing like a couple passive-aggressive keynote speeches and some spirited debate to get the blood pumping -- and with competition in the open mobile platform space more heated than it's ever been before, it was just a matter of time before these cats met up in a back alley brawl, Anchorman-style. That brawl came at San Francisco's Open Mobile Summit last week, where tensions boiled over into a series of subtle (and not-so-subtle) jabs between Google exec Rich Miner, Symbian veep Jerry Panagrossi, and Nokia's Mary McDowell. Pimping Android's security model, Miner came out...
If you've been following along with the allegations of sexual harassment and general depravity at The Box—the nightclub where guests pay over $1,000 so that performers like transvestite Miss Rose Wood can pull a Jameson's bottle out of his ass, take a swig and then spit on them—you may be interested in NY Mag's lengthy profile on owner Simon Hammerstein, "The Impresario of Smut." He strongly denies the most scandalous accusations, but unnamed sources say auditions for Simon sometimes climax back at his apartment. Miss Rose Wood has perhaps the best Hammerstein horror story: "Then Simon said to me, ‘So,...
