O-mama - Opinionated Moms

• "LIKE" IT: Facebook Goes Public
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 5/18/12

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UPDATED May 18, 2012 - Today is the day, Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell on the NYSE!  

UPDATED February 2, 2012- Facebook goes public!  The most influencial social media network, with almost a billion users, has filed papers to become a publically traded company, and is hoping to raise $5 billion in its initial public offering.  Founder, Mark Zuckerberg will stay on as Facebook...

• HANG UP: Cell Phone Use Linked To Cancer
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 6/14/11

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Bad news for all chatterboxes.  Cell phone use has been linked to brain cancer in a recent study on adult males, apparently due to the radiation they emit.  Enough time has passed since the invention of cell phones to have some empirical data and the rate of brain tumors doubled in cell phone users over the last 10 years.   The World Health Organization is now listing, ”mobile phone use as a...

• WRONG NUMBER: National Don’t Call Registry
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 6/13/11

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It’s 6pm and the family has just sat down at the table to enjoy dinner together when the phone rings.   Who could be calling at dinnertime?  Doesn’t everyone know NOT to call at dinnertime?  Yes!  Most people do, but telemarketers aren’t most people…they are telemarketers.  They know when you are home, at dinner, with your family and that’s when they call. 

The government has established a...

• BRAINS NOT BOMBS: Cyber Worm Destroys Iran Nuclear Capabilities
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 1/19/11

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According to the New York Times, a super slinky cyber worm wiggled its way into Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and hindered their ability to make an atomic bomb.  So, for all of us who feared what was next from that region of the world - Iran can't bomb it's neighbors, at least not for 3-ish years.  (Even though Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pinky swear promises that Iran is only using...

• CYBER STALKING: GEOtags On Cellphones
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 12/15/10

Hey MAMAS - a word of caution today! Apparently, all cell phones made after 2005 have GPS tracking, "It's usually latitude and longitude coordinates that can be used to be put into a mapping program to show exactly where you are," said Lieutenant Dennis Lane from the New York Police Department's Computer Crimes Squad.  So, MAMAS, anytime you or your KID-Os take a picture from your cell phone...