Samsung Announces Environmental Review

The world’s second largest chip maker, Samsung, (Intel is #1) has hired Washington D.C.-based Environ Holdings to conduct a 12-month review of its semiconductor factories after reports surfaced that a number of workers have contracted leukemia, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Earlier this year, a group sued a South Korean government agency seeking [...]

Diaper Divas

So apparently Ernie diapers aren’t enough. Try telling that to my niece, who shuns Cookie Monster and Elmo for big E. Apparently she should be moving on to denim. I think she’d prefer purple or pink diaps but that’s not in the cards. Yes, you heard it right, Huggies, a Kimberly-Clark company, has introduced a [...]

Budget Mobiles: Pantech’s Dual-Keyboard Smartphone

The presence of a touch and a tangible keyboard offers emerging mobile phone makers a leg up when competing with the most popular handset makers–Apple, Research in Motion and Motorola. For over a year, AT&T and South Korea’s third largest mobile phone company, Pantech, have been working to expand the Asian company’s presence in the [...]

Drama QueensIndie and Foreign Films At The Venice Film FestivalWhat: Upcoming indie and foreign films take you from Europe to the slums of Brazil to the Far East.

The Dirt:Are you a fan of the American flicks that are so depressing you leave happy your life is seemingly ‘normal’? Or, do you put up with subtitles to get a dose of the international films, be they the African or Latin American, which often show faraway, seemingly unfamiliar lands, offering a mini cultural and [...]