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Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu to Video Chat on Google+ Tonight

in Social on October 7, 2011 at 10:34 am PT

After the South African government did not grant a visa to the Dalai Lama to enable his participation in Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s eightieth birthday celebration, the two men agreed to meet virtually using Google+ video Hangout, starting at 1:30 am PT Saturday. Google+ leader Vic Gundotra said the video would be posted later, adding that responses to the event have been divided between delight and quibbles that the Dalai Lama doesn’t conform to the service’s contentious real names policy.

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Chinese Hackers Target NYPD Too, Says Police Commissioner

in News on April 23, 2009 at 10:16 am PT

New York City’s police department joins the Dalai Lama, the Joint Strike Fighter and the U.S. electrical grid as the latest alleged target of Chinese hackers. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday that hackers make at least 70,000 attempts every day to access computer systems of the New York Police Department, the largest police force in the U.S.

QOTD: The Sound of One Hand Tweeting [UPDATED]

Welcome to the official Twitter page of His Holiness the Dalai Lama–administered by The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

His Holiness thought it was prudent to make his office open and assessable to a more youth and technologically advancing audience.

Indeed HH is quite hands on. Albeit limited to only a few minutes at a time, he does truely delight in new mediums.”

– A selection of tweets from what appears to be the official Twitter page of the Dalai Lama

UPDATE: Apparently, the HHDL has far better things to do than Twitter. ReadWriteWeb reports the account was bogus.