Sunday, December 11, 2011

11 DEC 2011, SUN: Sci & Tech

Science


Weather to improve in next few days, says Pagasa

Philippine Star - 
MANILA, Philippines - A low-pressure area spotted off Palawan the other day is expected to move out of the Philippine area of responsibility today.

Photo of the day - Easter Island at sunrise

Gadling - 
Remote places are special. They certainly capture the imagination. Organized economically and socially around their distance from centers of commerce and distribution, they often share both a rhythm and many characteristics with each other.

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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 
Did you catch the total lunar eclipse early this morning? If you live in the western part of the United States, you probably had a good chance of seeing the moon turn red in the Earth's shadow.

Few Finns saw lunar eclipse

YLE News - 
Cloudy weather over most of the country prevented a view of a full lunar eclipse in Finland on Saturday. It will now be years before another will be visible in this country.


Technology


Ms. Earth USA 2011 denies having criticized PH on Facebook

Tempo - 
Manila, Philippines - NICOLE Kelly, Miss Earth USA 2011, quickly issued a denial on her alleged public rant on Facebook where she reportedly called the Philippines “noisy and dirty.

Ma, daughter drown

Inquirer.net - 
Bacolod City - A woman and her 2-year-old daughter drowned when the girl fell off a passenger ship an hour after it left Bacolod en route to Manila on Friday and the woman leaped into the water to rescue her, the Philippine Coast Guard reported ...

8 Best New Apps This Week

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Mashable - 
Evernote released two new iPhone apps on Wednesday, "Food" and "Hello," that coordinate with its archiving platform.

Gov't May Extend CNG Program

Manila Bulletin - 
MANILA, Philippines - The government is eyeing to extend by three years, or until the end of the term of President Aquino in 2016, the pilot program for the rollout of compressed natural gas (CNG) for the transport sector.

iPhone virtual assistant Siri has her flaws, but she's learning

Business Mirror - 
IT'S the new iPhone's signature feature: a female virtual assistant named Siri who can take dictation for a text message, check your calendar or look up nearby restaurants, all using voice commands and with no need to lay a finger on a keyboard.

BlackBerry Torch 9860 Smartphone

Business Mirror - 
DESPITE it being a little larger than those coming from the Bold and Curve series, the 9860 is significantly lighter than its predecessor, the 9800, because of its new all-touch technology.

Traveling With A Nintendo 3DS This Holiday Season? Get Free Wi-Fi in 42 Airports

TechnoBuffalo - 
If you're traveling with your Nintendo 3DS this holiday season, there's a chance you might be able to score free Wi-Fi in the airport.

Local telecoms firms prepare for iPhone 4S sales

Taipei Times - 
The iPhone 4S, Apple's latest smartphone model, is expected to be available at more than 1000 outlets of Taiwan's three largest telecoms operators when it goes on sale on Friday, market sources said yesterday.

Research in Motion Says It Will 'Work Through' Indonesia Issues

BusinessWeek - 
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Research in Motion Ltd., the BlackBerry smartphone maker, said it will “work through” any concerns the Indonesian government has with the Canadian company to avert any threats of service interruption in the ...

HP's webOS is going Open Source. Now what?

ZDNet (blog) - 
Summary: Assuming HP does all the right things when Open Sourcing webOS, what happens to the platform next? The blockbuster news this week in the mobile industry is that Hewlett-Packard has decided to ...

Steve Jobs Immortalized in Bronze (not Aluminum or Glass)

PC Magazine - 
A fan of aluminum and glass in life, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to be memorialized with bronze, in death. Hungarian software company Graphisoft is planning to unveil a bronze statue of Jobs on December 21 as both a tribute ...

Microsoft: We can remotely delete Windows 8 apps

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Computerworld - Microsoft will be able to throw a "kill switch" to disable or even remove an app from users' Windows 8 devices, the company revealed in documentation released earlier this week for its upcoming Windows Store.

Angry Birds is Top iPad, iPhone App of 2011, Apple Reveals

ITProPortal - 
'Rewind' is a compilation of charts Apple relesases annually at about this time, letting everyone know its best performers of the year in various categories, including: music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and apps.

Google Currents Moves Away from the Open Web

Forbes - 
Google Currents is a lovely new app for Android and iOS devices. In fact, you can read Forbes on your iPad or your smartphone as one of the flagship magazines for the fledgling Google app, and it looks great.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance developed by Bayonetta team

Shacknews - 
Much like the game's lead character Raiden, the Metal Gear Solid Rising video game from Kojima Productions is getting an overhaul.

Apple suffers major patent setback in Germany

The Age - 
Motorola Mobility won a preliminary injunction against Apple in Germany, which could bar the sales of iPhones and iPads in the country.

Report finds Firefox security lacking

ZDNet (blog) - 
Summary: Firefox lags behind Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers in several key areas. A report by security firm Accuvant finds Mozilla's Firefox lacking when it comes to ...

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