Search Details

Word: viral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Every public figure - athlete, pundit, actor - now has two audiences: the one he or she is addressing and the one that will eventually read the blogs or see the viral video. A few have adapted, like Stephen Colbert, whose routine at last year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner was decried by attendees as rude and shrill - but made him a hero to his YouTube audience. Imus, a 30-plus-year veteran of radio shock, seemed to underestimate the power of the modern umbrage-amplification machine. The day after his remarks, Imus said dismissively on air that people needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imus Fallout: Who Can Say What? | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...battery works as a commercially viable product, that alone could qualify Belcher as a climate-change hero, but her vision is green in other ways as well. Conventional batteries generate a lot of waste during manufacture, and they're a disposal nightmare. But a viral battery essentially grows itself, using water as a solvent, so there's practically no waste. And since much of its relatively small bulk is organic, the battery is partly biodegradable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angela Belcher | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...VIRAL POLITICS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viral Politics | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

Anyone who watches news or comedy or viral videos or listens to XM radio on a Treo, mobile phone or PC knows that MobiTV has been making waves. Just after its co-founders conceived the start-up's objective seven years ago--to solve the problem of large-scale, global data transmission on mobile devices--a eucalyptus branch fell outside Phillip Alvelda's Oakland Hills home, where the three sat brainstorming. The tree smashed his hot tub. Alvelda, a physicist, can probably explain the energy wave given off. But he could not necessarily say what triggered him and Paul Scanlan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming Provocateurs | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...tackle HIV where it hurts the most - by blocking the integrase enzyme, which the virus uses to insert its genes into a host cell's genome and hijack the machinery to churn out more copies of itself. Called isentress, the experimental agent helped 75% of patients reduce their viral load of HIV to acceptable levels, compared with only 40% of patients given placebo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beefing Up the Arsenal Against AIDS | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | Next