Caite Ferro shares her experiences studying abroad in Rome, Italy. She discusses the challenges and lifestyle differences to which she has been exposed.

The recent release of Halo Wars has caused many fans to jump for joy. Unlike the previous installments of the Halo series, Halo Wars is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. The game itself takes place 5 years after the book Contact Harvest and 20 years before the original Halo. This allows it to effectively fill in an important missing gap in the storyline

Halo Wars includes an extensive selection of available units and is extremely easy to play once players gain an understanding of the controls. In …

For those of you that don’t know, Wordpress is a free, featured-filled content management system (CMS).  Wordpress is especially beneficial for individuals and organizations that are looking to quickly roll out a highly functional, aesthetically pleasing website that is also easy to maintain.  In addition, through the use of easy-to-install plug-ins, Wordpress offers integration with a tremendous number of other sites and services and provides a variety of useful tools for webmasters.  For example, plug-ins can be used to give Wordpress the ability to perform automatic search engine optimization (SEO) …

On February 9, 2009, The College of IST held its first International Etiquette Dinner.  While IST usually holds a traditional Etiquette dinner at least once a year, this was first one that had an international spin.  Sponsored by Johnson and Johnson, the dinner provided participants with information regarding the different dining procedures and standards of etiquette that exist around the world.
 
The event began with two presentations, which were both given by representatives from Johnson and Johnson.  Kevin Ruffe, Vice President of IT Innovation Implementation, gave the first presentation.  He …

1 – Facebook.  Ah yes, my old friend Facebook.  It has an iPhone application, and if you’re anything like 95% of the college students in the world, you can’t live a single day without checking good ole’ F B.  Do yourself a huge favor and download this one.  It’s free and it has a better user interface than accessing the mobile Facebook site via Safari.  Enjoy!
 
2 – AIM.  Need I say more?  AIM, Yahoo, MSN, w/e.  You can get an application on iTunes for practically any instant messaging service, although …

OK, I’m going to do this as slowly as possible, so that no one gets lost.
 
First, locate the “Settings” Button on your iPod Touch or iPhone.  It should look like any other application, with three gray gears appearing in the icon.  Tap it in order to open the “Settings” menu.
 
Next, find the “General” option, and tap it once in order to go to the “General Options” menu.
 
This menu presents a list of options.  Find the one that says “Network” and tap it.
 
Inside the “Network” menu, tap the option labeled “VPN.”
 
Next, …

On February 18, 2009, the first new episodic content for Grand Theft Auto IV finally arrived.  The downloadable content (DLC), titled “The Lost and Damned,” costs a whopping 20 dollars!  Is Rockstar giving you your money’s worth?
 
The DLC includes approximately 20 new missions, totaling around 10 additional hours of game play.  Several new side tasks are also included, such as optional missions that involve gang wars and bike racing.  The bike racing is particularly fun, especially if you enjoyed the game “Road Rash,” which involved hitting people with a bats …

In developing nations, steps must be taken in order to combat the increasing doctor-patient ratios. This is where Mashavu steps in.

MIST has a chance to interview Prerana Delal, a recent IST grad that now works for Deloitte. Here is what she had to say about her new career.

Docomo, one of Japan’s leading manufacturers of mobile devices, has recently begun to research the use of E-paper in cellular phones.  E-paper, developed by SiPix Imaging, is “paper which uses small chambers, called microcups, that are filled with white particles and a colored liquid, allowing the E-paper to display two colors.”  This technology allows for the creation of an e-paper keypad that can change its layout based on the user’s current requirements.  For example, a keypad could be programmed to display both western text as well as Japanese characters, depending …