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BigBrother on Oct 01 2007 | Filed under: Gaming, Tech Spy, Technology
Bill Gates received a warm welcome as he signed copies of Microsoft’s Halo 3 when it went on sale at midnight. Its the final installment of the successful trilogy of games for the company’s XBox game player.
Live Halo auctions on eBay:
[nms:halo 3, 5,0,1,pshalo3]
BigBrother on Aug 21 2007 | Filed under: Cover Page, Culture, Internet, Media, Medicine, Tech Spy
Bloggers have been advised to have themselves checked by a psychiatrist for internet addiction, which an Israeli doctor said was more serious than Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Most bloggers –particularly the so-called pro-bloggers — are known to spend hours and hours on the internet, often skipping meals, getting late for work (if they have a job) or [...]
BigBrother on Jul 27 2007 | Filed under: Cellphones, Cover Page, Hacking, PinoySpy, Tech Spy, Technology
“We can get any file we want.”
This was the statement made by a security firm which worked two weeks to discover security flaws in Apple’s iPhone, which enabled a hacker to access the owner’s text messages, phonebook, call history and voicemail information even without touching the phone.
Independent Security Evaluators, a computer protection consultancy, said its [...]
BigBrother on Jul 09 2007 | Filed under: Asia, Cellphones, Cover Page, Crime, Politics, Privacy, Stupid, Surveillance, Tech Spy
Two senators with martial law experience have filed bills seeking the regulation on the use of cellular phone SIM cards in the Philippines by having users register their names in a central database.
Senate Bill 289 — “An Act requiring the Registration of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Cards in Mobile Phones,” – will require buyers of [...]
BigBrother on Sep 28 2006 | Filed under: America, Language, Philippines, Tech Spy
Peter Hargittay, spokesperson of call center operator PeopleSupport, on why the company chose to set up shop in the Philippines instead of India:
“India pitched us very hard, but after looking at people in the Philippines we felt very strongly that’s the place to go,” Hargittay said. “Filipinos have much better Americanized accents and much more [...]
BigBrother on Sep 19 2006 | Filed under: Tech Spy, Uncategorized
When you ask a supercomputer to tell a story, you might not expect a creative outcome � or any. But a group of Virginia Tech researchers are using System X, the university�s supercomputer, to test a new search program that can tell the stories of life � the connections between gene sets, for instance, or [...]
BigBrother on Sep 18 2006 | Filed under: Tech Spy, Uncategorized
Chances are, somewhere in your household either in an attic, a closet, or bottom of a dresser drawer there resides the pictorial history of your family. You trust it to remain safe there. Time may slowly fade them, but photos will remain more or less in tact through the years. Your modern day video albums [...]
BigBrother on Sep 18 2006 | Filed under: Tech Spy
A guide to handling the Digg Effect using the Wordpress caching module. A good read even if you don’t plan to get dugg. Would be ironic though, if this page didn’t handle the digg effect…read more | digg story
BigBrother on Sep 18 2006 | Filed under: Tech Spy
Deborah Rothberg writes:
By picking the brains of Web developers and IT recruiters, eWEEK selected 10 programming languages that are a bonus for developers to add to their resumes. Even better, they’re great jumping-off points, with loads of job opportunities for younger recruits.
1. PHP
2. C#
3. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
4. JavaScript
5. Perl
6. C
7. Ruby and Ruby [...]
BigBrother on Sep 17 2006 | Filed under: Tech Spy
If you hear Windows suddenly play classical music, it’s a signal that your PC is broken. Strange but its true. read more | digg story
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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) today launches the company?s new video delivery service on PLAYSTATION Store for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) and PSP (PlayStation Portable) systems in the United States.
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Microsoft warns of new attacks
Microsoft is warning users of a newly reported attack on one of its ActiveX browser components.
The company said that it had received reports of a limited number of targeted attacks on a flaw in ActiveX control for Snapshot Viewer, a browser plug-in for Microsoft Office Access 2000, 2002 and 2003. The vulnerable control is not present in Office Access 2007.
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I rarely search for government websites, especially a agency as old as MArcos, like this one. The National Council on Disabled Affairs, however, as a physical therapist, I was drawn by this event...
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The entrance to the underground Svalbard Global Seed Vault juts from a hillside in the Norwegian Arctic. (Credit: John McConnico/Associated Press)
After several years of planning and digging, the world has its first secure, deep-frozen repository for backup supplies of seeds from hundreds of thousands of plant varieties that underpin agriculture.
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MANILA, Philippines - ?Yes we can. Maraming salamat po." This was a portion of a letter that was from a Filipino, but not just from an ordinary Pinoy. Eddie Charmaine Arivan Manansala wrote to leaders, family, and friends last June 24 encouraging them to help ensure Barack Obama?s victory in the 2008 US presidential polls.
?I look forward to working with you in the upcoming months as we engage the Asian American and Pacific Islander community nationwide, as well as in key battleground states," she told Obama supporters in her letter.
Mga pinoy nga naman. IDOL!!! PAPICTURE!
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Oh baby! Meet the 1-year-old Masche sextuplets and their proud parents.
A jumbo family
The Masches give new meaning to the phrase "one big happy family."
Bryan and Jenny Masche's sextuplets, Bailey, Blake, Cole, Grant, Molli and Savannah, were born on June 11, 2007, and life for the couple hasn't been the same since.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A powerful typhoon that weakened into a tropical storm blew Tuesday toward Japan, leaving at least 12 people dead in the Philippines, officials said.
- So is Frank's international name Mitag? The typhoon was weakened perhaps by egg offerings to Sta. Clara but it still continued to wreak havoc upon the rice-producing provinces of Luzon. I hoped the storm was too early for the plantings, or else rice hoarders will have a newer reason to drive Filipinos crazier.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/philippines.typhoon.ap/
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Flying saucers may soon be more fact than mere science fiction.
University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design reminiscent of the spaceships seen in countless Hollywood films. Roy, however, calls his design a ?wingless electromagnetic air vehicle,? or WEAV.
The U.S. Air Force and NASA have expressed interest in the aircraft, he said.
Illustration of proposed prototype mini-flying saucer.
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WAGA: A bizarre surveillance video is making the rounds on the Internet showing an office worker who suddenly gets violent and begins trashing not only his desk but the entire office, much to the shock of several coworkers. A healthy debate rages online as to the authenticity of the tape which has been widely circulated with the title "Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane."
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MANILA, Philippines - Action star Rudy Fernandez succumbed to cancer early Saturday morning, ending a battle that lasted several months.
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