Monday, January 9, 2012

09 JAN 2012, MON: Sci & Tech

Science


Stephen Hawking misses 70th birthday celebrations

BBC News - 
British scientist Stephen Hawking has had to miss a symposium to mark his 70th birthday because of ill health. Professor Hawking was discharged from hospital only on Friday, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, ...

Is the end near? Opinions vary on Mayan calendar, doomsday

Las Vegas Review - Journal - 
By John Przybys Have a good New Year's Eve? Party a bit? Drink too much? First week of 2012 been going pretty well? Well, enjoy yourself while you can because, if some anonymous and long-deceased Mayan calendar-maker is to be believed, it's the last ...

Faroe Islands photo set

Gadling - 
by Elizabeth Seward (RSS feed) on Jan 7th 2012 at 10:00AM The Faroe Islands is a country tucked away in the Norwegian Sea. Located about halfway between Scotland and Iceland, this country is beautiful, but small.

Technology


Internet security

Manila Bulletin - 
By HANNAH L. TORREGOZA MANILA, Philippines - The Senate Committee on Science and Technology Sunday pushed for the passage of two bills that seek greater Internet security following reports of the latest cyber attacks.

Regulators move to probe tender offer for Digitel

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
REGULATORS HAVE moved to investigate complaints against Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.'s (PLDT) allegedly underpriced tender offer for the remaining stocks in Digital Telecommunications, Inc. (Digitel), with documents being compiled and ...

Tablets CES 2012

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CNET (blog) - 
LAS VEGAS--Not to rest on the laurels of its recently announced A200, on Sunday, Acer unveiled a new Iconia Tab tablet, featuring a screen resolution of 1920x1,080 pixels (1080p).

Information technology forecasts for 2012

Manila Bulletin - 
MANILA, Philippines - Mobile Internet was the hottest thing in 2011. What's to look forward to this year? We ask those at the helm.
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CES 2012: The perils of ubiquity

Washington Post - 
Tucked among the 2700 exhibitors at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week will be nearly 100 fledgling start-ups that represent a first for the 45-year-old trade event: Many don't yet have products to sell.

Welcome to cyber war

Ynetnews - 
We were so naïve to view hackers in the past as technological whizzes who use the computer creatively and reinvent the wheel. In the United States, they predicted this horror 50 years ago already.

Google Chrome finally gets malware download protection

Computerworld New Zealand - 
Nine months after first being put into testing, the new version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently downloading malware executables, Google has announced.

No whale sharks yet for Gwen, tourists

Inquirer.net - 
By Carmel Loise Matus ON board a motor banca with a group of divers in barangay Tan-awan, Oslob town, Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia waited for hours but didn't get to proceed with her dive to see the town's whale sharks.

The new Facebook: The times of our lives

Washington Post - 
Nobody likes change, but I'd argue I like it least of all. When my mother forced me to replace the carpet in my childhood bedroom that doubled as my sibling's playroom, after weeks of tantrums, she made a deal: I could chose my favorite stain on the ...

MCWD signs deal with Maynilad for study on surface water sources

Sun.Star - 
By Bernadette A. Parco A FEASIBILITY study on water sources, status of pipelines and a sewerage treatment for Metro Cebu that will be conducted by a Manila-based water and wastewater treatment services company will start soon.

Automakers have reason to cheer in Detroit this year

CTV.ca - 
Workers prepare exhibit space at COBO Center in preparation for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012.

Google adds LG Electronics to list of TV partners

The Australian - 
Sony CEO Howard Stringer stands near a screen displaying Google TV. Picture: Paul Sakuma/AP Source: AP GOOGLE, seeking to revamp its struggling efforts in television, said consumers will soon have a broader choice of TV sets using its software, ...

CES: Nokia Set To Launch Lumia 900 For AT&T, NYT Says

Forbes - 
Buried in a nice meaty piece about Microsoft's efforts to regain relevance in the smartphone business, the New York Times on Sunday reported that Nokia on Monday will unveil a new “sleek metallic” Windows Phone called the Lumia 900 that will be sold by ...

Microsoft: 'Nothing Has Changed' About Windows Phone Updates

PC Magazine - 
By David Murphy Panic! Only a few months after the successful universal release of Microsoft's Mango update for Windows Phones, a new post has appeared in Microsoft's Windows Phone Blog detailing updated, er, update strategies for Windows Phones going ...

Raps eyed vs courier firm in seized anteater, turtle parts

Inquirer.net - 
By Maricar Cinco SAN PEDRO, Laguna—An antipoaching watchdog group is studying whether to sue a courier that had agreed to transport a cargo of turtle and anteater parts that were seized by authorities before these could be shipped to Cebu City.

Marvell and One Laptop per Child unveil the XO 3.0 Tablet

Geekzone - 
Marvell and One Laptop per Child, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help every child in the world gain access to a modern education, are introducing the XO 3.0 - a low-cost, low-power, rugged tablet computer designed for classrooms around ...

The problem with $99 Android tablets - they suck!

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By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | January 8, 2012, 10:01am PST Summary: There's a lot of cheap and nasty junk out there - Don't fall into the trap!

SolarKindle promises 3 months of unplugged reading time

Gizmag - 
By Emily Price What if you could read on your Kindle for three months straight? SolarFocus will be showing off a Kindle case at CES this week designed to do just that.

Value Pack for Samsung Galaxy S May Not Be Delivered

Planet Insane - 
Earlier reports initially revealed that the Samsung Galaxy S will receive a 'Value Pack' in the place of the Ice Cream Sandwich update.

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