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Patrick Garcia leaves for US

Monday
Jun 16,2008

Actor Patrick Garcia leaves intrigues behind as he goes for a new life abroad — with the hope to pursue studies in directing at the New York University. Patrick will also be leaving behind actress Jennylyn Mercado, who is pregnant with his baby.
Patrick will fly back to the country in September, for his sister Cheska Garcia’s [...]

Toyota develops plug-in hybrid

  • Filed under: Tech
Sunday
Jun 15,2008

 Toyota Motor is planning to produce lithium ion batteries next year for a plug-in hybrid vehicle available in 2010. This is a joint venture between Toyota and Panasonic EV Energy to begin production of lithium ion batteries and move to full-scale production in 2010. Using the battery, Toyota plans to introduce a small electric vehicle for mass [...]

MySpace New Look

  • Filed under: Tech
Sunday
Jun 15,2008

MySpace will release the improved major site design next week. It was enhanced for six months to achieve the purpose of drawing users to interact more to the site. The site doesn’t look that different at all; it’s still clearly MySpace. But a number of features have been redesigned to improve user experience: namely, the homepage, [...]

Who will be the last PDA Scholar?

  • Filed under: News
Sunday
Jun 15,2008

Four dreamers of Pinoy Dream Academy Season 2 are on the waiting list: Hera “Hera” Redoblado, Lamberto “Lambert” Reyes, Catherine “Poy” Palma, and Ranjit “Jet” Singh.  Their fate will depend on your votes.
Vote for your bet wait-listed Dreamer, all you have to do is type PDA (name of the Dreamer) and send it to 2331 for [...]

Grand Theft Auto IV gears up some more!

  • Filed under: PC Games
Sunday
Jun 15,2008

The video games industry grew 37% last month on strong sales of the Grand Theft Auto IV game. However Microsoft(MSFT - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr) saw sales of its Xbox 360 console lag rival Sony’s(SNE - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr) PlayStation 3. Meanwhile Nintendo/s Wii console and its handheld DS system bagged the top two [...]

UK worries about online sex and violence

  • Filed under: News
Sunday
Jun 15,2008

United Kingdom government officials vowed for a common set of standards for internet content in response to worries about the impact of violent and sexual output online. Culture secretary, Andy Burnham, said he wanted to see online content meet the same standards required for television as the boundaries between the two media continue to blur. [...]

Saturday
Jun 14,2008

11th Scholar to Enter the Academy is 18 year old Apple Abarquez from Cebu.
12th Scholar to Enter the Academy is 25 year old Christian Alvear.
13th Scholar to enter the Academy is 22 year old Jovannie Malunda. She is also the husband of another scholar chivas.
14th Scholar to enter the Academy is 18 year old Rafael [...]

Saturday
Jun 14,2008

The 10th scholar to enter Pinoy Dream Academy is Maria Liezel Garcia. Liezel left her job in Dubai just to try to reach her dream here in the Philippines.

Saturday
Jun 14,2008

Chivas Malunda is the 9th Pinoy Dream Academy Scholar.  He auditioned with his wife which is also included on the Top 25 PDA dreamer

Saturday
Jun 14,2008

The 8th dreamer to enter the academy is 18 year Beatriz Munoz. She is the girlfriend of Miguel Mendoza who also made to the Academy.

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