Archive for the ‘News’ Category

The Seven Great Medical Myths

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Reading in dim light won’t damage your eyes, you don’t need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won’t make the hair grow back faster. These well-worn theories are among seven medical myths exposed in a paper published last week in the British Medical Journal, ...

A Porsche for your pocket

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Stuttgart, Germany-based Porsche Design Group and French-based Sagem Mobiles (Safran Group) have joined forces to create the first Porsche Design mobile phone, the P’9521. Like its much-coveted automotive namesake, the new mobile phone combines sophisticated, purist design with high-quality natural materials such as aluminum and glass. The phone’s casing is milled out ...

Internet - online magazine

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Foreword of Maximum PC Magazine issue January 2008 from Will Smith, Editor in Chief. Have you ever heard of this thing called “the Internet”? It turns out that it’s a great platform for publishing information. Color me impressed! I think this “Internet” thing just may change the future of magazine publishing. ...

Pakistan’s attempt to block YouTube

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Most of the world’s Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours after an attempt by Pakistan’s government to block access domestically affected other countries. The outage Sunday highlighted yet another of the Internet’s vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off ...

2007: Year of creeping terror

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

The year about to pass began inauspiciously with the ASEAN summit in Cebu, postponed from December 2006 due to threatening typhoons, then marred by accusations of corruption when it finally pushed through. But perhaps 2007 will be best remembered as the year when terror – whether caused by extremists or faulty ...

Travel, shop, and win with Visa at Hong Kong International Airport

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Local Visa cardholders flying out of Hong Kong and overseas Visa cardholders1 travelling to Hong Kong will have a chance to win a dream vacation to any destination in Asia Pacific or worldwide and receive a special gift when they spend with their Visa cards at Hong Kong International Airport ...

ZTE NBN controversial

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

It is plugging until to this date the never-ended controversial in the Arroyo administration in the Philippines. The rumored large span of graft and corruption affecting the present administration is being divulged in this current controversy the nation’s currently facing off, the ZTE-NBN Controversy. As a part of this nation, awareness ...