The ongoing controversy about the Apple iPhone, App store and the rejection of Google Voice has brought a lot of bad press to Apple. Apple is also being investigated by the FCC.

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Canon announced the new Canon Powershot S90 which will be available September 2009.

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We all have seen these happen. People who were virtual unknown catapult to instant stardom beyond their wildest imaginations simply for putting out there a 2-minute or so video on YouTube. Bear in mind, YouTube was non-existent 4 years ago. Since its inception in February 2005, the way most of us ‘view’ life revolved around watching those clips, forwarding it, talking about it, blogging about it- next thing you know, the video has gone viral.

YouTube has channels for everything- comedians, directors, gurus, musicians, reporters, entertainers, politicians and the ordinary ‘Youtuber’ further subdivided into regular viewers, those who have real talent like Charice, those who don’t, those who are desperate for attention or just plain crazies.

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Don’t you just hate clutter? I know I do. This is not surprising really considering how obsessive compulsive I am. I especially hate it when I get tangled up in wires and cables of all the gadgets I carry around with me. In fact, I have had to replace my mouse and earphones just because I pulled too hard on them when I tried to get them from my bag.

I have a ton of nylon cable ties that I have to cut most of the time anyway, velcro cable ties that are more expensive and get worn out eventually and I have the good old trusty rubber band. But even with that, the cables are still exposed and prone to getting tangled up with one another.

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This time, I will show you how you can run Blizzard’s popular World of Warcraft MMORPG on Ubuntu Linux almost as if you are using Microsoft Windows.

Click here to learn the easy simple steps.

Nikon just announced the Nikon D3000 and the D300s.

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Yahoo search died today. If all goes well, Microsoft’s search engine called Bing will be taking over Yahoo Search. Microsoft launched Bing two months ago and currently owns 8 percent of the U.S. search market.

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- 100,000 new users per day
- 30 million minutes played already
- Most international Facebook Game with users from 208 countries
- Four new mini games in the works

Berlin, 24. July 2009 – “Brain Buddies”, the game that has become the new favorite of Facebook users, achieved the mark of one million users in the record time of only three weeks of being online.
Louise S. from Miami, USA is the one millionth user.

There seems to be no end to Brain Buddie’s growth: The game already belongs to the Top 40 games on Facebook – out of a total of 10,000 games – adding 100,000 users daily. Overall the brain training game has reached 30 million minutes of play time already. The availability of Brain Buddies in eight languages plays out to its advantage: It has attracted users from 208 countries, among them Albania, Rwanda, and Vanuatu, an island in the South Pacific.

“We are very happy about the extraordinary start, but are in no ways resting on our laurels”, says founder and managing director Jens Begemann. “Quite to the contrary: we are continuously working on the game and have already included a number of ideas from our users. In addition, we will be integrating four new mini games soon”.

The brain training game that was launched on July 1st is the first game of the international game development company wooga from Berlin. Currently the team is already working on completely new games that the company will publish in the next few months, building on the momentum of Brain Buddies.

Brain Buddies offers its users a playful way to determine their brain weight. The game is focusing on a contest among friends to find the one with the heaviest brain. A set of eight mini games as well as entertaining graphics make the game fun to play for a long time. Brain Buddies is available on Facebook at the following address: http://apps.facebook.com/brainbuddies.

About wooga
wooga (www.wooga.net) – which stands for “world of gaming” – was founded in January 2009 in Berlin by experienced entrepreneurs (e.g. Jamster). wooga develops and markets games for social networks like Facebook. These so-called “social games” combine the two biggest current online trends: online games and social networks.

CONTACT: Mylene Gongon, +49-30-55576188, press@wooga.net

Put your Facebook account to good use by using what it is designed for – connecting friends. Acer encourages Filipino users to do just that with a promo I call, Connect thru Facebook. All you need to do is choose a good friend from your list and share a wacky/heart warming/sad/ funny/sentimental/happy story on why you want to reconnect with a long lost friend. You and your friend may just Win an Acer Aspire One 10″ laptop and an Acer F900 Smart Phone.

More details on Connect thru Facebook – Acer >>>

In the photo above, you’ll see the inside back part of my Nikon F3 camera where the film is put in. The roller on the right side is where the film is attached and rolled. The left side where there is a big hole with the knob pulled up is where the film canister goes in.

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A World of Warcraft player playing on Linux OS have probably encountered some problems in running AddOn clients under WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) like Curse.com’s updater.

In this how-to, I will show you how to run the Curse Client on Ubuntu and have an easy way to update your WoW AddOns.

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the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is the Philippine’s main distributor of electricity, well they will soon be offering another service – that is broadband internet.

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Oracle – the giant enterprise I.T. company just partnered with AMA Eduction Systems by providing technical skills training in Oracle enterprise solutions to it’s students.

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- 1.5 Million minutes of play time during the first week
- Launched in 8 languages
- Most international Facebook Game with user from 150 countries
- Dispute among Facebook users: Whose brain is heaviest?
The new online game “Brain Buddies” is the new darling of Facebook users: Within the first week of being online, Brain Buddies reached 1.5 million minutes of play time, or 25,000 hours.

The brain training game has been developed by Berlin-based start-up wooga and was simultaneously launched in 8 languages on July 1st. During its first week the causal games has attracted users from 150 countries, among them Iran, Turkmenistan, and Fiji.

Brain Buddies offers its users a playful way to determine their brain weight. The game is focusing on a contest among friends to find the one with the heaviest brain. A large set of mini games as well as entertaining graphics make the game fun to play for a long time.

“Launching Brain Buddies in eight languages is paying off nicely”, says a happy founder and managing director Jens Begemann. “We are proud to have what is probably the most international game of its kind on Facebook”.

Brain Buddies is available on Facebook at the following address: http://apps.facebook.com/brainbuddies.

wooga (www.wooga.net) – which stands for “world of gaming” – was founded in January 2009 in Berlin by experienced entrepreneurs (e.g. Jamster). wooga develops and markets games for social networks like Facebook. These so-called “social games” combine the two biggest current online trends: online games and social networks.

CONTACT: Mylene Gongon, press@wooga.net

one of the unkewlest things an IT PINOY could do is to send emails to the wrong person/s, well survey says there are lots of people who fall into this trap.

i personally have experienced this, but some unfortunately had gone way overboard committing this mistake:
- an hr personnel (from a well-known Philippine IT company) mistakenly sent performance evaluations and ratings to everyone in the project… you wouldn’t believe how many resigned because of this!

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“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.” – Official Google Blog.

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Yes, you read that right. You can do fashion photography using a point and shoot camera.

Here’s an interview of Terry Richardson on how he started in the business using only a snapshot (point and shoot) camera. How the fashion magazines used to laugh at him and how when he went to a photoshoot with just one snapshot camera and the people are wondering where’s his equipment.

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this is probably the kewlest ad to date, meet lola techie (grandma techie) as she tries out online gaming!!!

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PINOY scientists are urged to post their medical research on to a globally shared portal, which hopes to serve as a “one-stop shop” for scholarly researched information made available for everyone.

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