Monday, February 27, 2012

27 FEB 2012, MON: Sci & Tech

Science


Boldly going where men haven't gone before

Yahoo!7 News - 
It's definitely a club that plenty of gentlemen would boldly go where they haven't gone before. A gentlemen's club featuring a zero-gravity dance club and a casino featuring "human roulette" would become a feature in a future space station if men's ...

Nigerian Satellites: The way to go!(1)

Vanguard - 
By Prof. Dike N. Kalu One should be rightly puzzled that I would venture to write about the country's satellite program at this time of national crisis with Nigeria having to deal with Boko Haram, infiltration of the administration by fundamentalist ...

Cordova eyeing 2 recla projects?

Sun.Star - 
By Bernadette A. Parco PEJC co-founder Gloria Estenzo-Ramos said they asked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for documents regarding the reclamation project for the roll-on, roll-off port at Cordova.

Search For Happiest Pinoy Launched

Manila Bulletin - 
By PHOEBE JEN INDINO CEBU CITY, Philippines - Recognizing the country's most optimistic and passionate Filipinos despite life's many challenges, the Cebuana Lhuillier Insurance, Inc., (CLIS) has launched the search for the happiest Pinoy here, ...

Venus, Jupiter, and the moon all together

NewsChannel 9 WSYR - 
Tonight Jupiter, Venus, and the moon are putting on a spectacular show in what's called a "Triple Conjunction." Venus and Jupiter are currently in the process of moving closer to each other in the night sky view, and by the middle of March you should ...

Technology


Porsche to recall thousands of cars: China

Ninemsn - 
Rate your placeRate and review suburbs, discuss, and find out more about where you live. How does your place stack up? Who will pay the price for flood damage?

Report: Facebook app spreads Android malware

GMA News - 
Cybercriminals may be trying to spread malware targeting Google's Android OS this time via social networking site Facebook. A report on The Hacker News cited a Sophos report indicating the malware disguises itself as an Android app named “any_name.

Part-time Santa Cruz resident Elyse Saugstad credits backpack with saving her...

Santa Cruz Sentinel - 
By JULIE JAG Second place Jesse McMillan of the United States, from left, winner Elyse Saugstad and third place Marja Persson of Sweden, celebrate on the podium, after the Women's freeride ski, at the Xtreme freeride contest in Verbier, Switzerland, ...

Gumpert To Unveil Two Cars In Geneva

Motorward - 
To most people Gumpert is forever associated with the mighty fast but incredibly ugly Apollo. That's about to change, though, as the German auto maker will bring not one, but two new models to this year's Geneva Motor Show.

Nike's new basketball tech backed by LeBron

Yahoo! Philippines News - 
LeBron James heads up Nike's new campaign for tricked-out basketball shoes that measure speed, jump height and work rate. Nike has been providing Apple-friendly tech for its shoes since launching the Nike+iPod in 2006.

France Telecom Preps Orange-Branded Smartphone With Intel Chip

BusinessWeek - 
By Ian King Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- France Telecom SA's Orange unit will begin selling a smartphone based on an Intel Corp. processor this year, helping the chipmaker in its decade-long attempt to break into the mobile-device market.

"HTC One" brand, Sense 4.0 hearken new phone strategy

CNET - 
By on Feb 27, 2012 Besides sharing similar names, the HTC One X, HTC One S, and HTC One V are all Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) smartphones that also include the toned-down Sense 4.0 interface, HTC's Beats Audio enhancement software, ...

'Rotary Swimarathon' bids for world record

Inquirer.net - 
THE Rotary Club of Talisay-Cebu will join the Global “Swimarathon,” world's biggest swimming event. The public is invited to join the club's “Rotary Swimarathon” today at 8 pm at the YMCA on Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City.

Scientists Use Stem Cells to Generate Human Eggs

New York Times - 
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital say they have extracted stem cells from human ovaries and made them generate egg cells.

Asian mobile giants go ultra fast in race for smartphone pie

Ninemsn - 
Asian mobile telecom giants Huawei, LG and HTC on Sunday launched a new generation of ultra-rapid smartphones, in a race to catch up with market leaders Apple and Samsung.

Facebook: txt snooping report 'completely wrong'

National Business Review - 
User privacy issues through social networking site 'Facebook' have been appearing frequently for some time, but the latest concern has risen regarding the company's open access to people's personal text messages, according to a report by the Sunday ...

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 sighted in Barcelona at MWC

Computerworld - 
By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - BARCELONA -- Samsung, known for its extensive array of smartphone and tablet device sizes, began displaying outdoor billboards here on Sunday of a 10.1-in.

Checa and Biaggi win opening races

Malaysia Star - 
PHILLIP ISLAND (Australia): World Superbikes champion Carlos Checa recovered from a crash in the first race to easily win the second on the season–opening weekend for the international motorcycle series at Phillip Island yesterday.

Strangers' numbers in 'new' phone

Straits Times - 
By Lim Yan Liang Last month, civil servant GK Tan bought a Sony Xperia smartphone from M1, then put it aside. When she finally turned it on this month, she found the names and contact numbers of over 40 strangers in its phonebook.

PlayBook reloaded

New Straits Times - 
FOR fans of Research In Motion (RIM) products, here's some good news: PlayBook now sports more features. The new BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 now boasts smoother integration with social networking services as well as better connection with BlackBerry ...

Jaguar Land Rover to unveil Evoque convertible at Geneva Show

Economic Times - 
NEW DELHI: Tata Motors-owned British marque Jaguar Land Rover will unveil the convertible concept of its latest premium sports utility vehicle (SUV), Range Rover Evoque, at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show next month.

LG in talks with Google for Nexus device

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CNET - 
by Roger Cheng February 26, 2012 9:08 AM PST Follow @RogerWCheng LG wants to be on the ground floor for one of the next iterations of Android.

Pokemon Black And White 2 Coming In June

Cinema Blend - 
This weekend Game Freak announced not one, but two, new games in their long-running Pokemon series. Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 will debut in Japan this June.

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