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Wednesday
Jun 25,2008

Songbird Regine Velasquez prefers a simple wedding — and even jokes about a wedding at famous and high-traffic fastfood chain Chowking, where she would be with her family and closest friends. Regine also says that she’s ready to get married, and that she has found the one.
Regine is busy promoting Urduja, the first full length [...]

Google’s moon race challenge

  • Filed under: Science
Tuesday
Jun 24,2008

Google Welcomes you to a new kind of space race, where the earthly guest will be a machine and the goal is as much exploration. This quest is part of the Google Lunar X Prize, which will put $20 million into the hands of the first privately funded team that can land a rover on [...]

Motorola, Kodak Launch ZN5 Handset

  • Filed under: Tech
Tuesday
Jun 24,2008

Motorola and Kodak launched the ZN5 last Monday, a new candy bar-style mobile phone with a 5.0-megapixel camera, the first device from its line. Developed in cooperation with Kodak, the ZN5 is aimed at users who don’t want to carry a separate camera for photos. The handset allows users to take photos in several modes, [...]

Senate okays lower movie tax

  • Filed under: News
Tuesday
Jun 24,2008

The Senate has passed a bill seeking to lower amusement tax on movie house tickets. Approved on June 4, Senate Bill 2325 is titled “An Act Amending Section 140 (A) of Republic Act No. 7160, Otherwise Known as The Local Government Code of 1991. The bill was prepared jointly by the committees on Local Government [...]

YouTube tries longer videos

  • Filed under: Tech
Tuesday
Jun 24,2008

The popular video site is experimenting with full-length video to attract more advertisers.  YouTube has only posted a handful of such lengthy videos. But we’ll probably see a lot more. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen clearly want the site to be more than just a destination for clips of skateboarding dogs, experiments involving [...]

Tuesday
Jun 24,2008

Pinoy Dream Academy 9th Scholar Chivas Malunda is now back in the academy after being rushed to the hospital because of migraine attacks. Chivas was first rushed to the hospital before the gala night. he was found to have suffered from Hyperventilation Syndrome. His wife, Bunny, is always at his side.

Tuesday
Jun 24,2008

The Pinoy Dream Academy Season 2 has Laarni and Inaki as its first probationary scholars. They were originally four, but Christian was saved by the mentors, and Bea by her co-scholars.
To vote for your favorite Dreamer, text PDA <name of dreamer> to 231 (Smart, Talk N’ Text) or to 2331 (Globe, TM, Bayan Wireless).

PBA canceled games resched on July 6

  • Filed under: Sports
Monday
Jun 23,2008

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) has resheduled the canceled basketball games last Sunday at the Araneta Coliseum due to typhoon Frank. The new date is on July 6.
The matches will be between Red Bull and Sta. Lucia Realty and Barangay Ginebra and Alaska Milk.
 

Monday
Jun 23,2008

ABS-CBN kapamilya prime actor John Lloyd Cruz and the country’s pop princess Sarah Geronimo is the newest love team, under Star Cinema’s new movie, All About Love. The two first teamed up in a hit special episode in Maala-ala Mo kaya.
John Lloyd also will be celebrating his 25th birthday tomorrow, June 24.

ClearChat PC Wireless headset

  • Filed under: Tech
Monday
Jun 23,2008

For massive multiplayer online games like the popular World of Warcraft, it’s helpful to have a headset if you’re trying to coordinate efforts with other members of a team or guild. Rather than tangle up your desk with messy wires, a wireless headset is a nice option. For US$100, Logitech sells the ClearChat PC Wireless, [...]

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