Sunday, February 5, 2012

05 FEB 2012, SUN: Sci & Tech

Science


New Planet Found: Could a Super-Earth plus Triple Stars Equal Life?

TIME - 
By Michael D. Lemonick Friday, Feb. 03, 2012 The search for exoplanets, or worlds orbiting other stars, is evolving so fast that discoveries that seemed exotic just a few months ago have become commonplace.

NASA sheds light on tech needed for space travel

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by Martin LaMonica February 3, 2012 9:12 AM PST Follow @mlamonica NASA this week released high-quality images from the dark side of the moon.

Fungus with an appetite for plastic

SmartPlanet.com (blog) - 
By Amy Kraft | February 4, 2012, 7:06 AM PST On a routine trip to the Amazon last year to collect and analyze plant samples, a group of students from Yale University along with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel picked up an interesting ...

Deep freeze hits Poland's hardy lake swimmers

AFP - 
WARSAW - Hardy fans of swimming in the frozen lakes of northern Poland have decided to call off a mass outing this weekend due to the vicious cold snap gripping the country, organisers said Friday.

United Kingdom to Develop Climate Change Plan for Overseas Territories

Caribbean Journal - 
By the Caribbean Journal staff Four agencies of the United Kingdom plan to develop a Climate Change Programme specifically targeted for the UK overseas territories.

Technology


Facebook Readies IPO Filing

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Wall Street Journal - 
By SHAYNDI RAICE and RANDALL SMITH Facebook is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter for its initial public offering, a significant step toward what is likely to be one of the biggest-ever US public debuts.

Playing Facebook With Puts

Barron's - 
By STEVEN M. SEARS | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR Six days after the stock begins trading, options on it will be listed. Here's what to do.

Digital Medium Overtakes Radio And Print Media In Philippines – Study

Manila Bulletin - 
By EMMIE V. ABADILLA MANILA, Philippines - Digital medium has overtaken radio and print, according to TNS Digital Life 2012, a study by custom research firm TNS which covered 93 percent of the world's online population via interviews with 72000 ...

The Gov'ts technology development agenda

Tempo - 
MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Science and Technology (DoST) unveils its five-point development program for 2012, focusing on the use of local technology for agriculture, energy, service delivery, and genomics, and adopting the policy that ...

ALERT: Watch Out For Facebook IPO-Related Scams

AllFacebook - 
Scammers will seize any angle they can to try to reel in the unsuspecting, and the initial public offering announced by Facebook yesterday is no exception.

Satellite commlinks eyed for PHL seafarers

GMA News - 
Philippine officials expect satellites to play a more important role in protecting Filipino seafarers from threats and keeping them in touch with their families.

KLM unveils Meet & Seat for social-network-powered seat mates

Yahoo! Philippines News - 
KLM has officially launched its 'Meet & Seat' tool, allowing passengers to pick a seatmate using social media. The Dutch carrier confirmed February 3 that passengers on select flights are now able to use the tool after linking their Facebook or ...

The BlackBerry Torch 9810 4G Takes Two Spots in Amazon Top 5 Bestsellers List

Mobile bloom News - 
The BlackBerry Torch 9810 has been able to successfully occupy two of the top fie spots on Amazon's Bestseller list at Amazon Wireless.

Censorship and how govt reacts to it may push us to country-specific networks

Indian Express - 
Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, recently announced that “[today] we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country - while keeping it available in the rest of the world”.

An iPad with Transformer-like keyboard dock? I'm down with that

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By James Kendrick | February 4, 2012, 2:36pm PST Summary: Apple's recent statement that an ARM-based MacBook is not on the table leads CNET to speculate on a new iPad with a Transformer-like keyboard.

Feature phones: Is the end near?

FierceWireless - 
Get FierceWireless: Europe via twice-weekly email and save time following the European wireless industry. Sign up today! IDC's latest insight into mobile phone shipments states that the worldwide market grew more than 6 per cent in the fourth quarter ...

One out of five page views in the US occurs on Facebook

Hindustan Times - 
Love it or hate it, Facebook accounts for more and more of people's time spent online. In the US, one in every five pages viewed on the web is on Facebook, revealed market researcher Hitwise in a February 2 blog post.

NASA sheds light on tech needed for space travel

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by Martin LaMonica February 3, 2012 9:12 AM PST Follow @mlamonica NASA this week released high-quality images from the dark side of the moon.

Google loses app refund appeal in Taiwan, still not selling apps there

The Verge - 
By Dieter Bohn on February 4, 2012 03:19 pm 0Comments Last June, the city of Taipei in Taiwan issued a complaint to several companies contending that they weren't in compliance with a local law that entitles users to a seven-day trial period, ...

Apple iTunes Match Glitch Replaces Explicit Lyric Songs With Censored Versions

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By Jared Newman, PCWorld Feb 3, 2012 10:24 AM Jay Z and Kanye West--Image: Courtesy of Theo Wargo, Wire ImageExplicit lyrics might not bother you, but at the moment, they're a problem for Apple's iTunes Match service.

Mazda MX-5 Special Edition heading for Chicago

Yahoo! Philippines News - 
Mazda is to launch a limited-edition model of its popular MX-5 sportscar at the Chicago Auto Show next week. The Japanese brand confirmed the launch February 2, saying that only 450 Special Edition variants of the MX-5 will be produced, ...

Privacy in the Age of Big Data

Stanford Law Review Online - 
by Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky We live in an age of “big data.” Data has become the raw material of production, a new source of immense economic and social value.

Facebook post sets world record with over 1M comments

GMA News - 
A post on social networking site Facebook about the Zynga game Frontierville has set a world record for getting more than one million responses.

Lawyers Network of Belgium urges Pres. Aquino to prosecute Arroyo, Palparan

Davao Today - 
PROGRESS Lawyers Network of Belgium urges the Philippine government to release all political prisoners and to institute criminal and administrative cases against major human rights violators like former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and fugitive ...

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