In his talk, Teso demonstrated an Android application he built that allowed him to redirect a virtualplane with just a tap on a map application running on his Samsung Galaxy phone.
Accounts of the deadly attacks last fall in Mumbai, India, the May 2008 earthquake in China and last week's plane crash show what used to be just a virtual gathering place to communicate pet peeves or plans for the weekend has evolved into a go-to spot for eyewitness news -- sometimes even before mainstream media has had time to crack the story.