LatinaLista.net — A recent study from Scarborough Research outlined how Latinos love their cell phones. In fact, for many low-income Latinos, buying a smart phone is considered a first computer purchase. According to the study, “sixty-four percent of Hispanics with a mobile phone use it to text message, compared to 56% of all mobile users, [...]
Global campaign underway to fight human trafficking
LatinaLista.net — January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Yesterday, January 11, was Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s reported that 27 million people worldwide are enslaved today. Whether it’s prostituting children and women or forcing people to do domestic chores or provide cheap factory labor, enslaving people still lives on as an underworld [...]
Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum offers full slate of programs, exhibits and galleries — only a click away
LatinaLista.net — While debate is still raging on the feasibility of creating the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, D.C., which would focus on American Latino art, history and culture, there is already a Latino museum open and accessible to everyone in the country — via computer. Launched in 2009 by the Smithsonian [...]
New Latina moms get help with caring for babies via their cell phones
LatinaLista — According to the U.S. Census, there were 4.3 million births registered in the United States in 2007 — 445,045 were to teens 15 to 19. These teen mothers, as well as, those moms in their 20s and 30s are part of the generation that was raised with seeing technology as a playmate than [...]
Myspace changes look and features with Gen Y Latinos in mind
LatinaLista — When it comes to today’s social platforms, the ones that get the most attention are: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. The one site noticeably missing is MySpace. There was a time when MySpace could more than hold its own with Facebook (FB) but when FB started letting people beyond college students set up [...]
New app brings clarity to Census numbers on nation’s racial-ethnic make-up
LatinaLista — Whenever people talk about race, inevitably, a number is pulled from the air as fact to underscore a particular population. Sometimes it’s accurate; Most times, it’s not. There’s only one definitive source that has all the numerical data that can accurately paint a complete picture of any part of the country when it [...]
