Indigo Design Company was selected for the new Howard University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery website. This Program offers four years of training that provide the resident broad experiences in orthopaedic surgery. There are five principal hospitals with over 200 orthopaedic beds and 2,923 admissions yearly--Howard University Hospital, District of Columbia General Hospital (including the Handicapped and Crippled Children's Service), Providence Hospital, the Veterans Administration Hospital, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and Children's Hospital National Medical Center. These hospitals have large outpatient clinics, which afford an opportunity for follow-up and ambulatory care. The rotations are for periods of three months and each hospital has junior and senior resident positions. These hospitals provide a spectrum of experiences ranging from municipal, Federal and private community hospitals to a university hospital setting. Residents are rotated through these hospitals to complete their training in adult orthopaedics, trauma and children's orthopaedic surgery.

The attending staff are extensively involved in teaching. Each participating hospital holds regular conferences. Combined clinical and basic sciences teaching conferences are held three times weekly at Howard University Hospital.

On Monday, the most trusted source for product reviews in America said it would not recommend the iPhone4 because of the widely reported hardware flaw that sometimes causes dropped calls. Consumer reports did not give the iPhone4 a "do not buy" warning, but it said that because of the design flaw, it would not recumbent it like the iPhone 3GS. Will Apple's customers even care?

The website Facebook has announced that it will allow a "panic button" application on its social networking website. After months of negotiation between Ceop (UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) and Facebook, the social network agreed to install the application on its home page to say that "they are in control online". Pressure mounted on the Facebook website after Ashleigh Hall, a 17-year-old was murdered by a 33-year-old convicted sex offender posing as a young boy on the Facebook website. Bebo was the first social network website to add the button to its web page. Myspace followed suite, but Facebook resisted at first because they thought their reporting system was sufficient. Facebook received a letter backing Ceop's request for a panic button with the signature of forty-four police chiefs in England, Wales and Scotland. Both sides seem pleased with this outcome because it ultimately will provide a safer environment online for users.

The long-running stand-off between Google and the Chinese government is over. Speculation that China would not renew Google's license after after Google began redirecting Chinese users to an uncensored and unfiltered search site in Hong Kong. Google began redirecting users after "sophisticated" cyber attacks originating from the Country. The email accounts of Chinese human rights activists and several US firms were targeted. Analysts have welcomed the renewal of Google's license but also warn about the fundamental difference between China and the internet giant.

A trend is happening that could make the iPhone / Flash debate seem very minor. Mozilla is declaring that HTML5 is the way of the future. In a recent article with The Register, the vice president of Mozilla said that the Adobe product will never be bundled with the browser. He is not against Flash like Apple, but states that web standards, including HTML5 are where the industry is going. While Flash remains the web standard for video, HTML5 is quickly being embraced. The top three major browser developers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Safari) are giving the thumbs up to HTML5 over Flash and the future is uncertain for Adobe.

Visit www.kathryndreitzler.com to view her recently updated portfolio. This outstanding Columbia College student majors in Interior Architecture. She is currently interning at HarmeningContract in the Vitra showroom in the Merchandise mart in Downtown Chicago.
Here are some examples of here work.

A close associate and friend of Indigo Design Company recently joined ReachLocal as an Internet Marketing Consultant to help bring Fortune 500 online marketing capabilities to local businesses (non-franchised & under 20 locations). They are a publicly traded technology company founded by execs from Apple, Yahoo!, SAP, and DoubleClick back in 2004. They were the first platform to deliver search marketing (PPC), call tracking, conversion-based optimization, and display advertising (CPM) specifically designed for local businesses. They have built relationships with all the major ad exchanges and today their reach extends to 98% of all places people are searching on the web and 90% of where they are surfing.

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A very talented web developer named Alex Giron has created a working model of the solar system using simple web standards. Alex uses some new CSS  3 features to create the animation. He uses the -webkit prefix, border-radius, transforms, and animations. You can only see the animation in Safari or Chrome where you will see the planets moving around the sun. View Alex's blog post where he reviews the code he wrote for this animation.

It is pretty old news that Steve Jobs and Adobe Flash are at odds with one another. Flash cannot be seen on the iPhone or iPad and the ongoing creativity of computer geeks around the world continues to grow. Is Steve Jobs the evil tyrant that is trying to take over the world?

Viewing YouTube videos from your mobile device just got much easier. The ever popular video website unveiled a new version of its mobile website that is accessible from any mobile phone browser. Just go to m.youtube.com in your phone's browser window. The company claims that it is the best YouTube experience available on the mobile platform. The site is much faster, features better video quality, and is up-to-date with the site's latest "like" or "unlike" videos feature. Most importantly, iPhone users will be able to use this vastly superior application which can replace their native iOS YouTube application. You can see a quick demonstration of the YouTube's new site below.