Latinos Lead Technology Purchases In U.S.

Latinos Lead Technology Purchases In U.S.

Mary Mata December 27, 2010

A super duper interesting article from Advertising Age this week showed that Latinos (Hispanics) own or plan to own new technology at a higher rate than other groups. Basically, the […]

Net Neutrality Vote Bad For Latinos

Mary Mata December 23, 2010

We wrote about the potential impact net neutrality could have on Latinos previously and now that the Federal Communications Commission has taken a vote on this issue, we’re back with […]

Great Gadget: Phone Translator App

NewsTaco December 22, 2010

If you’re Latino in the US chances are that translating from English to Spanish or vice-versa is a huge part of your life. How often have you been called-on to […]

BlackBerry Hates My Spanglish

Mary Mata December 14, 2010

I’m a pocha, loud and proud, and part of my pocha heritage is that I comunicate in Spanglish. Everywhere. In letters, in conversation, in emails, in cards and, most recently, […]

Young Latinos Mean Big Money

Mary Mata December 13, 2010

Richie and Lucía Matthews wrote an interesting piece about the big money power of young Latinos in the U.S. Not only is the Latino market in the U.S. projected to […]

Americans Google Lindsay Lohan More Than Immigration

NewsTaco

It seems that in 2010 Americans, or at least those who use search engines on the Internet, were more concerned with Lindsay Lohan and Sandra Bullock than they were with […]

Latinos Use Twitter More Than Whites, Blacks

Mary Mata December 10, 2010

A study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 8% of adults in the U.S. use Twitter. But, in the survey’s results, 18% of these users were […]

Latinos Need Net Neutrality

Mary Mata December 3, 2010

A good piece on net neutrality ran on The Root this week; although the piece revolved around the importance of net neutrality for the African-American community, similar reasons exist for […]

Latinos Love Location-Based Services

Mary Mata December 2, 2010

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life recently published a study that found that only 4% of U.S. mobile users utilize location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare. However, Latinos […]

Govt Facebook Spying For Citizenship Fraud

Mary Mata November 30, 2010

The U.S. government has been encouraging its employees to spy on people, particularly those who may be dealing with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, via social networks like Facebook. […]