Media - TV, Radio, Newspaper

[judE_Law]

^well, alam naman natin ang stand ng simbahan.. so, i don't see anything wrong kung pasaringan man yung mga pro-RH Bill..

[mang juan]

PHL competes in world's largest Pacman game

The Philippines made it to the top 50 list of high scorers and maze builders in the "World's Biggest Pac-Man" project, borne out of a tie-up between Namco-Bandai, the original game's creators, and Microsoft Australia to showcase the capabilities of Internet Explorer 9.

The "World's Biggest Pac-Man" project has so far attracted considerable participation globally, not just in terms of playing the game but also in designing mazes for it.

"Not content with redesigning Pacman.com we've gone one further and created The World's Largest PAC-MAN game. Launched at the MIX11 IE9 Keynote event in Las Vegas just (a week) ago, the game has become a huge hit. We've had over 20,000,000 pac-dots eaten and 1,400 mazes created from 80,000 visitors," Soap Creative, which set up the collaborative project, said in a blog post.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the site (WorldsBiggestPacman.com) has seen 26,056,285 dots eaten; 1,363,964 lives lost; 2,932,578 ghosts eaten; 12,063 mazes created; and 2,433,172 mazes played and 138,609 mazes completed.

The top three countries with the highest scores as of Wednesday afternoon were the United States (74.504 million); Brazil (30.473 million); and Spain (19,445 million).

The Philippines ranked 37th with 817,232.

According to Soap Creative, the project was born out of a collaboration between Pac-Man publisher Namco-Bandai and Microsoft Australia to help showcase the power of Microsoft's newest browser, Internet Explorer 9.

While there were user-created mazes that bordered on the indecent, Soap Creative said the problem was relatively under control.

"We're happy that the 'penis to non-penis levels' ratio is well below 1:100 (the standard for user generated campaigns) ... We've been watching the moderation closely, so every penis has a short life. We also suspect the Facebook connect helps reduce this," the company said.

Users can start at a maze and play the Pac-Man game by eating the dots while avoiding the monsters, just like in the classic game.

But unlike the classic game, players who exit a maze do not enter a different point in the maze, but enter a different "connected" maze instead. — TJD, GMA News

source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/218332/technology/phl-competes-in-worlds-largest-pacman-game

[judE_Law]

^Nice! thanks for the Info Mang Juan

[angelo]

Tama bang i-ban yung Mcdo commercial na may mga bata na nag-uusap about BF/GF? Tsk tsk tsk...

actually Doc, naisip ko rin yan.. i don't see anything wrong dun sa tvc. i guess masyadong naging mainit lang kasi yung "child abuse" issue kay pati yun napagdiskitahan.. o di kaya, binigyan ng maling interpretasyon yung commercial..

well, hindi rin naman yan yung first time na ipa-stop yung Mcdo Commercial.. kung hindi ako nagkakamali yung isa yung tinatanong ng Mommy niya yung bata kung kanino nagmana ang eyes, lips, nose.. tas sinasagot ng anak sa Daddy, eh ito pa lang Daddy may inaabot na fries sa ilalim ng table.. ayun.

ito lang from an advertising POV, may mga consumer insights kasi na kailangan i-gather and this one will eventually persuade the consumer to purchase the product/service.

tama naman ang insight and ang message na ipinapaabot. kaya lang, pagdating talaga sa creatives, doon nagkakaroon ng problem. hindi naman talaga ma-please ang lahat ng tao may mga tumututol at napapangitan sa taste.
kaya kahit nahuli na yung insight, kapag medyo sumablay sa execution, nagrereklamo ang ilang sector ng mamamayan.

i think marami na ring mga commercial ang mcdo na pull out. yan na yung most recent. isa pang bata na napull out was yung may tween na bumaba na sa car kasi ayaw makita siya ng parents tapos nung nagbabayad na, andun pala yung magulang sa drive thru at sila yung nagbayad ng inorder nung bata at nung date niya.

i feel bad for ddb. wala naman kasing masama talalga. napagdidisketahan lang talaga....

[mang juan]

Friendster, another Facebook casualty

MANILA, Philippines -- Social networking pioneer Friendster has advised its millions of users to take their files elsewhere, or face oblivion by May 31, when the site begins a reincarnation of itself as a non-Facebook-competing, "entertainment and fun" service.

TechCrunch, an IT-website, has reported that "Friendster has advised registered members to install a custom application that will export all their profile data as most of it will be deleted on May 31, 2011."

The report, along with several others that discussed how Friendster planned to stay relevant in the age of Facebook domination, has sparked rumors of a winding down or at least a reinvention that will see the destruction of a social networking site that has connected people and made them friends.   

But Friendster itself has explained to its users in its help page that the removal of all users' information -- blog, photo, profile -- is to pave the way for the introduction of a new Friendster.

"We are introducing a new and improved Friendster in the coming weeks that will be focused on entertainment and fun. There will be new features that will leverage on your online activities and will enable you to connect with friends or engage new friends with similar interests."

Friendster said the "improved site is designed to create new profiles that allow you to connect differently with people and do things differently than other networking sites. Basically, the new site will complement your existing online presence in other social networking sites."

To do this, Friendster will retain users' friends lists, basic profile information, wallet and games.

Attempts via phone and email by abs-cbnnews.com to get more details about this from Friendster failed.

TechCrunch described the impending move "exactly like Myspace when they started feeling the Facebook heat for real."

This observation comes against a backdrop of intense attrition for social networking sites.

"Tech industry analysts comScore say figures show MySpace lost more than 10 million unique users worldwide between January and February... Year on year the site has lost almost 50 million users, down from close to 110 million in February 2010," BBC reported in March.

Yet, in a ZDNet Asia report just this month, Friendster CEO Ganesh Kumar Bangah may have hinted how his company views this kind of brand reinvention.

In that report, Bangah pitched for a unique value proposition in an attempt not to be sidelined by a global social graph dominated by Facebook.

"Friendster... will be re-launched as a social entertainment site that will leverage the global social graph using Facebook's "Connect" feature... will not compete with but instead will complement Facebook," ZDNet Asia quoted Bangah as saying.

A preview of what the site may have in mind may be the announcement last September that it is launching social media portals for music and social gaming fans in Asia.

Friendster claims to be a leading global online social network with 95 million members worldwide.

source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/04/26/11/friendster-another-facebook-casualty

[judE_Law]

^kailangan ng i-save mga pix ko na nandun.. haha..

[angelo]

gaano naman kaya kahusay ang bagong format ng friendster? baka naman hindi na worth it...

[mang juan]

Photo shows Ampatuan patriarch outside cell

MANILA, Philippines—Angered by the refusal of jail officials to allow prosecutors and the media to inspect the cells of the Ampatuans, Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu showed to the media on Thursday photos showing Andal Ampatuan Sr. outside his cell in the high-security prison in Bicutan, Taguig.

Magudadatu said there were "more explosive" videos purportedly showing special treatment for the Ampatuan patriarch.

Mangudadatu's revelation came after tensions went up inside the jail warden's office when Mangudadatu and other massacre victims' relatives insisted on an on-the-spot inspection of the Ampatuans' cells.

They taunted a defense lawyer often seen with Andal Ampatuan Jr.

"If you have money, there's no law," an angry Mangudadatu said.

"If they're not hiding anything, why don't they allow an inspection?" said lawyer Harry Roque.

Roque said Andal Ampatuan Sr. was even seen by two lawyers at the Hotel Sofitel in recent months.

One of the photos showed Andal Ampatuan Sr. outside the prison building with more than three guests, the minimum number of visitors allowed at a time.

Another showed the Ampatuan patriarch with a woman purportedly with his wife using a cellphone.

A third photo showed Ampatuan with two men who Mangudadatu identified as Ampatuan's masseur and cook.

source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/9411/photo-shows-ampatuan-patriarch-outside-cell

[maykel]

Microsoft latest security risk: "Cookiejacking"

BOSTON (Reuters) - A computer security researcher has found a flaw in Microsoft Corp's widely used Internet Explorer browser that he said could let hackers steal credentials to access FaceBook, Twitter and other websites.

He calls the technique "cookiejacking."

"Any website. Any cookie. Limit is just your imagination," said Rosario Valotta, an independent Internet security researcher based in Italy.

Hackers can exploit the flaw to access a data file stored inside the browser known as a "cookie," which holds the login name and password to a web account, Valotta said via email

Once a hacker has that cookie, he or she can use it to access the same site, said Valotta, who calls the technique "cookiejacking."

The vulnerability affects all versions of Internet Explorer, including IE 9, on every version of the Windows operating system.

To exploit the flaw, the hacker must persuade the victim to drag and drop an object across the PC's screen before the cookie can be hijacked.

That sounds like a difficult task, but Valotta said he was able to do it fairly easily. He built a puzzle that he put up on Facebook in which users are challenged to "undress" a photo of an attractive woman.

"I published this game online on FaceBook and in less than three days, more than 80 cookies were sent to my server," he said. "And I've only got 150 friends."

Microsoft said there is little risk a hacker could succeed in a real-world cookiejacking scam.

"Given the level of required user interaction, this issue is not one we consider high risk," said Microsoft spokesman Jerry Bryant.

"In order to possibly be impacted a user must visit a malicious website, be convinced to click and drag items around the page and the attacker would need to target a cookie from the website that the user was already logged into," Bryant said.

[maykel]

Heavy cell phone use harms memory, research shows

Telebabad on cell phones can damage your brains and ability to remember things, if experiments on mice are any indication. And no, these were not talking mice. They were exposed to radio frequency radiation, simulating the effects of gossiping on a mobile with an "unlimited" plan.

Recent studies suggest that heavy exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones and cellular base stations can harm certain segments of the brain.

According to research by scientists working under the Environmental Health Thrust (EHT) and presented this week in Istanbul, Turkey, high exposure to cellphone radiation can lead to memory defects, brain damage and pregnancy complications.

In one of the studies, mice exposed to two hours of radio frequency radiation a day had a hard time learning and re-running mazes, suggesting an impairment on the brain's spatial memory.

In a second study, the barrier located between the bloodstream and the brain that protects the latter from environmental toxins were found to be more penetrable after steady exposure to 20-minute radio frequency radiation.

In rabbits, meanwhile, a third study discovered that exposure to six minutes of electromagnetic radiation spurred release of "secondary messengers" such as free radicals, which tend to destroy DNA and fat molecules.

Researchers found that even the non-ionizing radiation emitted by cell phones can also cause damage to the brain, contrary to what past studies have asserted.

According to the World Health Organization, non-ionizing radiation is a kind of radiation that has insufficient energy to cause ionization, or the alteration of an atom's makeup.

Typical non-ionizing types of radiation include the ultraviolet rays from the sun, microwaves and radio waves.

The studies were part of a research program conducted by the EHT, which regularly publishes studies looking into the effects of cellphone radiation on the human body and the environment.

Previous studies include the connection between phone radiation and sleeping habits, and the commonalities of tobacco and asbestos with cell phones in terms of their long-term effects on health and the economy.

Studies by different research institutions around the world have looked into this topic before, but research findings were still far from being conclusive.

A recent study by scientists at the United States' National Institutes of Health also suggested that cellphone radiation can alter brain activity, but didn't assert that emissions were particularly harmful.

The researchers observed that 50 minutes' worth of cellphone use causes a 7-percent increase in brain metabolism in the region closest to the cellphone antenna.

The study did not conclude, however, that such an amount of change is harmful to the brain, but the results were deemed "intriguing" by experts who have long studied the possible connections between cellphone use and brain cancer.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer's Interphone Study Group, on the other hand, failed to establish the link between cellphone use and risk factors for cancer.

The 10-year, $14-million epidemiological study, however, found that brain cancer incidence was more common among heavy cellphone users, suggesting further research on the topic to establish possible causes.

[joshgroban]

PHL competes in world's largest Pacman game

The Philippines made it to the top 50 list of high scorers and maze builders in the "World's Biggest Pac-Man" project, borne out of a tie-up between Namco-Bandai, the original game's creators, and Microsoft Australia to showcase the capabilities of Internet Explorer 9.

The "World's Biggest Pac-Man" project has so far attracted considerable participation globally, not just in terms of playing the game but also in designing mazes for it.

"Not content with redesigning Pacman.com we've gone one further and created The World's Largest PAC-MAN game. Launched at the MIX11 IE9 Keynote event in Las Vegas just (a week) ago, the game has become a huge hit. We've had over 20,000,000 pac-dots eaten and 1,400 mazes created from 80,000 visitors," Soap Creative, which set up the collaborative project, said in a blog post.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the site (WorldsBiggestPacman.com) has seen 26,056,285 dots eaten; 1,363,964 lives lost; 2,932,578 ghosts eaten; 12,063 mazes created; and 2,433,172 mazes played and 138,609 mazes completed.

The top three countries with the highest scores as of Wednesday afternoon were the United States (74.504 million); Brazil (30.473 million); and Spain (19,445 million).

The Philippines ranked 37th with 817,232.

According to Soap Creative, the project was born out of a collaboration between Pac-Man publisher Namco-Bandai and Microsoft Australia to help showcase the power of Microsoft's newest browser, Internet Explorer 9.

While there were user-created mazes that bordered on the indecent, Soap Creative said the problem was relatively under control.

"We're happy that the 'penis to non-penis levels' ratio is well below 1:100 (the standard for user generated campaigns) ... We've been watching the moderation closely, so every penis has a short life. We also suspect the Facebook connect helps reduce this," the company said.

Users can start at a maze and play the Pac-Man game by eating the dots while avoiding the monsters, just like in the classic game.

But unlike the classic game, players who exit a maze do not enter a different point in the maze, but enter a different "connected" maze instead. — TJD, GMA News

source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/218332/technology/phl-competes-in-worlds-largest-pacman-game

astig lang a

[mang juan]

Las Piñas resident
claims P356.5-M lotto
prize

Thursday, June 2, 2011 01:59
PM
A Las Piñas resident on Thursday
claimed the over P350 million
jackpot prize he won from last
night's 6/55 Grand Lotto draw by
the Philippine Charity
Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).
The lucky bettor won a total of
P356,552,917.20 for picking the
winning combination
5-9-19-26-30-45.
Grand Lotto consolation prizes are
P150,000 for five winning
numbers; P2,000 for four; and
P150 for three.
The previous big winner of the
6/55 draw was a 60-year-old
male balikbayan, who placed a
bet at the Royal Duty Free Mall at
the Subic Metropolitan Authority
in Olongapo City. He won in
November 2010. - KBK, GMA

[mang juan]

Boy regrets selling his kidney to buy iPad

A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, with his health getting worse, the boy is feeling regret but it is too late, the Global Times reported today.

"I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it," said the boy surnamed Zheng in Huaishan City. "A broker contacted me on the Internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan."

On April 28 Zheng went to Chenzhou City in neighboring Hunan Province for the kidney removal surgery arranged by the broker. His parents knew nothing about it, Zheng said. He was paid 22,000 yuan after his right kidney was taken out at the Chenzhou No. 198 Hospital.

When he returned home, his mother found out and reported to the police immediately. But they could not locate the broker whose cell phone was always powered off, the report said.

It turned out that the Chenzhou No. 198 Hospital was not qualified to perform organ transplant. The hospital claimed they had no idea about Zheng's surgery because the department that did the surgery had been contracted to a Fujian businessman.

The case is still under investigation, the report said.

source: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2011/06/02/Boy%2Bregrets%2Bselling%2Bhis%2Bkidney%2Bto%2Bbuy%2BiPad/

[incognito]

Las Piñas resident
claims P356.5-M lotto
prize

Thursday, June 2, 2011 01:59
PM
A Las Piñas resident on Thursday
claimed the over P350 million
jackpot prize he won from last
night's 6/55 Grand Lotto draw by
the Philippine Charity
Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).
The lucky bettor won a total of
P356,552,917.20 for picking the
winning combination
5-9-19-26-30-45.
Grand Lotto consolation prizes are
P150,000 for five winning
numbers; P2,000 for four; and
P150 for three.
The previous big winner of the
6/55 draw was a 60-year-old
male balikbayan, who placed a
bet at the Royal Duty Free Mall at
the Subic Metropolitan Authority
in Olongapo City. He won in
November 2010. - KBK, GMA

di kaya si fox to? hehe. las pinas daw eh.

[bukojob]

China fired at Filipino fishermen in Jackson atoll

"This is Chinese Warship 560. You are in the China territory. Leave the area immediately."

Upon hearing this warning through a marine band radio, three Philippine boats fishing in Quirino, or Jackson atoll, a Philippine-claimed islet off Palawan in the disputed Spratly Islands, scampered away.

But the Chinese warship still fired three shots at the vessels F/V Jaime DLS, F/V Mama Lydia DLS and F/V Maricris 12. The Philippine Nay later identified the Chinese warship as Dongguan, a Jianghu-V Class missile frigate.

full story here