Finally, your favorite ape and blue bird come together to make a fashion statement.
BAPE Store in London and eu.bape.com will be releasing two styles of shirts with arguably the hippest ape to date, Baby Milo and today’s most popular bird on Saturday, March 19.
Just another example of technology and fashion going hand in hand.
The devastating earthquake and tsunami combo in Japan has left a lot of people worried about the status of their beloved family members living in hard hit areas. Many can’t contact family membersand because of the ongoing rolling blackouts and unreliable communication networks, communication is difficult, at best. Google has stepped up and created the Google Person Finder, a handy little web based app that allows you to search for information about loved ones and colleagues, and even post information about quake victims that you’ve currently come in contact with. You can search for people via their name and mobile number, or add information about people if you’ve managed to contact someone and want to post their current status. Good on you, Google.
Source: Google Person Finder
Mobile internet has changed the face of mobile phone technologies with its diverse offerings, moving away from the typical text and call services that were once the only available services in a mobile phone. With this latest technology moving quickly to adapt to the changing needs of today’s users, Globe Telecom is taking an aggressive stance in pushing mobile internet usage with its offering of the most innovative devices and handsets, content and applications, and affordable browsing plans for its subscribers.
Breakthrough devices
To make the experience more compelling, Globe is offering an array of the world’s most hardworking smartphones and gadgets, which are now available at lowered prices. The Huawei Ideos u8150, rated as one of the best-valued handsets by global tech experts, is one of the world’s cheapest Android smartphones. Then there is the Samsung Galaxy 5 i5503 Europa that is powered by a 600 Mhz processor that’s fast enough for gaming, sending Tweets, viewing Facebook photos and even reading eBooks. Globe has also introduced two of Samsung’s latest devices—the Samsung Galaxy Mini s5570 and the Samsung Galaxy Ace s5830.
The Samsung Galaxy Mini s5570 comes free at Globe MySuperPlan 999, while the Samsung Galaxy Ace s5830 is free at Plan 1799. Both are bundled with 30 days of Super Surf for free so users can experience and enjoy mobile internet their way.
Apart from handsets, Globe is also carrying the Huawei Ideos S7 tablet. Powered by Android 2.1(Éclair), the S7 tablet is one of the most affordable tablets in the market. It boasts of a 7-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen, 800×480 pixel resolution and 720p high definition video playback. Running on a 768MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the S7 provides users quick and easy access to information through via 3G.
Up-to-date mobile phone applications
Globe partnered with the world’s second largest independent app store GetJar to provide users access to over 75,000 free apps available on http://m.globe.com.ph. Apps range from games, education, social networking, entertainment, finance, food, health, search, lifestyle and several other utility applications, including popular applications such as Facebook Mobile, Yahoo!, Nimbuzz, Opera Mini Browser and eBuddy.
Affordable and relevant data plans
Completing the triumvirate is a mobile browsing plan to allow a seamless user experience. Two pioneering data plans lead the list: Globe Supersurf and Globe Powersurf. With Globe Supersurf, you can surf all you want with no surprises and no hidden charges on your mobile phone. For one-day internet surfers, you can enjoy SuperSurf50, which lets you surf all-you-want for PhP50 per day. Those with a greater appetite for mobile internet can avail of SuperSurf220, at PhP220 good for 5 days. But for folks who can’t live without mobile internet at their fingertips, then the monthly SuperSurf999 plan is just for you.
ArtPetron, the national student art competition of oil industry leader Petron Corporation was recognized in the 46th Anvil Awards held last 18 February 2011 at the Edsa Shangri-la Hotel.
ArtPetron 10, with the theme Alay sa Natatanging Pamayanan, received Excellence Awards in the Special Publications and External Publications categories, recognizing the ArtPetron 10 collaterals as well as the ArtPetron Folio 2010 Celebration Issue, respectively.
ArtPetron seeks to promote Philippine art, culture, tradition and values among the youth, through an annual painting and photography contest open to students enrolled in regular college or university programs, or in a museum-based or private tutorial art or photography course.
Over the years, ArtPetron has received numerous Anvil Awards, endorsing the project’s ideals of reaching out and nurturing young Filipino artists. Since 2001, when ArtPetron first won a Bronze Award of Excellence, the program has earned a total of 20 Anvil Excellence Awards and 10 Anvil Merit Awards.
The Anvil is an award given by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP), as a symbol of the highest level of excellence in the practice of public relations in the Philippines. Its multi-sectoral jury chooses winners that reflect and promote public interest, good values, and real public service.
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As we are in dire need of more love in the world, Virgin Mobile and singer/actress Mandy Moore have teamed up to bring the “love button” to Facebook.
“There’d been a rise in discussion about why there isn’t a love button on Facebook. So we polled them and 75 per cent said ‘yeah, we’d love to have a love button,’” said Nathan Rosenberg, chief marketing officer at Virgin Mobile Canada, which is owned by Bell.
A most lovable Mandy Moore, Disney’s “Tangled” star and singer who gave you hits like, “Cry” and “I Wanna Be With You” (my personal favorites), believes there should be a way to express our feelings more deeply. “With a Love Button, I’d get to share those special posts, pages and photos that I don’t just like – I love.”
So join the movement and start showing some love.
It’s what the world needs now.
Here’s something to chew on: a report by the Social Science Research Council concludes that media piracy can’t be halted by stringent enforcement of IP, and describes the issue as more of a global pricing problem than anything else. The study was conducted on several emerging economies, including Russia, India and Mexico and found that people in said countries aren’t exactly what you’d call lawless or morally challenged, even in countries that had extremely high piracy rates. Its just that citizens of these countries can’t justify a purchase of a regular, original DVD that retails for say, $15 when you consider that that amount of money is a fair chunk of change in these nations. To address the problem, the report says that the pricing of these particular goods need to be adjusted depending on the region or the country where it’s being sold, and not to tighten the already harsh IP enforcemet already in place. To quote the report “little evidence—and indeed few claims—that enforcement efforts to date have had any effect whatsoever on the overall supply of pirated goods. Our work suggests, rather, that piracy has grown dramatically by most measures in the past decade.”
Gold’s Gym recently launched their newest addition to their family of fitness programs: ZUMBA Fitness. Deemed the ultimate fitness party, ZUMBA Fitness is the only Latin and internationally-inspired dance-fitness program that blends red-hot international music and contagious steps to form a “fitness party” that is downright addictive.
Here, Benjamin Arnold and I give you a glimpse of the 55-minute workout as we party-hearty to our favorite club hits. Read our full review in our April issue of GADGETS MAGAZINE.
Fast. That’s pretty much everyone’s consensus on Microsoft’s newest iteration of their web browser, Internet Explorer 9. The new browser is fast, clean and more importantly – more secure than ever before. Don’t believe us? You can try it out here for yourself.
While you’re waiting for the download, let us give you the summary of what makes the IE 9 great, at least to the Redmond firm’s eyes. The design is much, much cleaner than their previous effort, with most of the clutter gone. All you get with the standard build is the address bar (which doubles as a search bar using the search engine of your choice), back and forward keys and the current tabs you have open. You can add plug-ins to the experience if you wish. Prompts for remembering passwords appear in an unobtrusive bar located on the bottom.
You can now pin your favorite sites directly to your taskbar, just like an application. Once there, it gets its own large icon so it looks like any other program you have on the taskbar. Another great thing about pinned sites is that you can right click on them and a jump list appears, allowing you to jump straight to a page if the website was made with IE 9 in mind.
Another nice touch is the search bar/address bar. Not only does it pull double duty, but it also is able to display instant results to items that you type on it. Pretty cool. One particularly excellent new feature of IE 9, one that users won’t see right away is its ability to utilize a PC’s GPU to render pages and content. Traditionally, a PC’s GPU isn’t used by the computer to render pages on the web, and it sits idle whenever you go online. This isn’t the case with IE 9, and it shows.
Again, you can download IE 9 from here if you want to try it out.
Twestival is a movement that uses social media for social good by connecting communities offline on a single day to highlight a great cause. Ideas start as a tweet and as it spreads, becomes a movement that has the power to make things happen.
This year, Twestival is going ‘local’ in cities around the world on Thursday, 24 March 2011. All local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all ticket sales and donations go directly to local non-profits that organizers have identified for having an incredible impact within their own community. The goal is to raise funds and awareness by doing a local meet-up with various activities.
Twestival Manila, our very own Twestival in the Philippines, will be supporting JeepneED. Their mission is to provide community-driven, financially sustainable in-school support in science and technology on a redesigned jeepney that runs on used vegetable oil. Their goal is to graduate both academics and farmers by reconnecting the disparity between everyday science and the science of inventors. JeepneED serves as an engaging outdoor learning lab with 10 netbooks, a 3G hub for Internet connectivity, a printer and scanner, a projector, and other basic science materials for a community of 8 to 12 rural public schools. Its unique and creative approach to enriching the quality of education for Filipino children is a cause worth supporting.
Twestival is the brainchild of Amanda Rose, who believes that if cities were able to collaborate on an international scale, but work from a local level, it could have a spectacular impact. Since 2009, over 200 international cities all over the world have joined the movement.
1) Grab a Ticket. Find your city on the official events list and attend your local event on March 24th.
2) Volunteer. Local events are run 100% by volunteers and teams are always looking for more help.
3) Donate. Each Twestival is supporting a amazing local cause with 100% of donations going direct to projects happening in their own community. Give what you can and help them reach their goal.
4) Sponsor or contribute in-kind. Are you a company or organization looking to connect with the digital set? Twestival Local has great sponsorship opportunities and cities are always happy to receive great prizes.
5) Tweet, Blog, Promote. Please spread the word about Twestival and our local charities.
To learn more, you can check out Twestival’s Twitter and Facebook pages.
Want to promote your local Twestival? Feel free to do so in the comments section below.
This story was originally posted on The Next Web
With visible results in as little as eight weeks, Slendertone Flex fits conveniently into your busy schedule. A clinically proven, easy-to-use abs belt that uses Electronic Muscle Stimulation (EMS) technology, Slendertone Flex delivers a complete abdominal workout to firm up the core muscles and flatten the tummy area. In a matter of 20minutes, you get the equivalent of a 120-situp workout. And with seven programs and 99 intensity levels to choose from, you can tailor your workout and train your muscles using a pace you are comfortable with.
The beauty about Slendertone is that it targets not only the muscles you see, but also the ones difficult to reach using conventional exercise, particularly the transversus abdominus (the deepest part of the abdominal muscles that’s essential to a stable lower back). This is because its patented EMS technology mimics the body’s natural muscle movements. Signals are sent between three medical grade GelPads, reaching nerves that branch out to all three main ab muscles—the rectus, oblique, and transversus abdominus—causing deep, strengthening contractions and effectively working the entire core. As the signal strength increases, the nerves in turn cause your muscles to contract and relax naturally, delivering a complete workout to the ab muscles. This same EMS technology is prescribed in hospitals and clinics worldwide to strengthen and rehabilitate muscles so you can be confident that it works.
Designed with the modern and busy city denizen in mind, Slendertone Flex may be worn under one’s clothing, helping consumers look and feel good while they lead their busy lives. Simply fasten the belt around your waist and let the toning begin. Wear the belt 30 minutes a day, five times a week, complement it with a proper diet, and expect toning and inch-loss in as little as eight weeks.
Designed by the Research & Development team of Biomedical Research Ltd (BMR), a company with over 40 years’ experience in EMS, Slendertone Flex is now present in the Philippine market through the distributorship of the Primer Group of Companies.
The Slendertone Flex is now available in Male and Female variants retailing a Php 7,990 in the following outlets of R.O.X. (Recreational Outdoor eXchange): Bonifacio High Street, Marquee Mall, Ayala Center Cebu; The Travel Club: TriNoma, Powerplant Mall, Resort World, Alabang Town Center.
If you’re a fan of portable storage, NAS, networking and multimedia, you need to check out the new Buffalo concept store that just recently opened last March 11 at the SM Megamall Cyberzone. The new concept store showcases the breadth of Buffalo’s product offerings, and it seems like the place to go for all your home networking needs. Present during the launch was MSI-ECS head honcho Jimmy D. Go, Hiroyuki Hirai, Philippine Country Manager for Buffalo, Princess Chua, SVP for Sales and Marketing, MSI-ECS; Jerry Wong, General Manager, Complink; Michael Wong, President, Complink; and Kelly Tan Operations Manager, SM Cyberzone.
As part of the opening, customers can avail of a special promo where buyers can get a limited edition Buffalo tumbler for every purchase of portable storage, NAS, multimedia and wireless products and a Buffalo keyboard cleaning brush for every accessory purchased.
Globe Telecom introduces GLOBE MYSUPERTXTALL, the latest service that allows users to send unlimited text messages not just to Globe but to ALL networks. Exclusive to Globe Postpaid subscribers, the new promo enables constant connection among users of different networks -either from Smart, Sun, Globe, TM, Talk ‘n Text or Red Mobile- without the need for an extra phone or SIM for a fixed monthly fee of P599 valid for 30 days, or as low as P20 per day.
Interested? You can text MYSUPERTXTALL ON to 8888. The monthly service fee is charged on top of the subscriber’s current bill. The promo is available until May30, 2011.
School libraries were always my favorite place of seclusion and meditation when I was a still a student. I would devour books on Greek and Roman mythology, poems on love, and would constantly re-read and borrow (only to finally steal away from my highschool library a few years later, long after I had graduated as a final, though delayed act of defiance) The Riverside Anthology of Literature. And the closest thing you had to a search engine was the Dewey decimal system.
However, libraries in general are becoming a thing of the past. Books are replaced with e-books and the once paper-filled sanctuary is now becoming more and more like an internet-café for kids to go online away from their homes.
After providing stats about the state of libraries, Phillip Torrone offers suggestions about what libraries could become to stay relevant in the digital era. Instead of providing access to books, Torrone envisions a future where people will be able to go to engage in the making, creation or invention of things. He sees TechShops, Hackerspaces a FabLabs as contenders for what the library could be in the future. Rather than provide access to data everyone already has via the Internet, he believes these new spaces should give more hands-on opportunities to technology that is expensive and out of reach. These spaces would include devices such as 3D printers, laser cutters and CAD stations.
From library to factory, this is what Torrone believes we can do to cope and adjust to importance and prevalence of digital technology. Personally, I still would like pursue me and my husband’s dream of putting up our own public library (not techshop) filled with nothing but books. Real books. A library with no internet, no computers. Call it an ode to the old… but after watching The Book of Eli, I hardly think it’s such a bad idea.
Petron, the country’s leading oil company, is making its mark as a fuel innovator with the introduction of specially formulated fuels, such as the new Petron Turbo Diesel.
A high-performance diesel designed to deliver that optimum driving experience, Petron Turbo Diesel contains a technologically-advanced cetane booster, resulting in a cetane number higher than other diesel fuels in the market.
According to Wikipedia, “Cetane number or CN is a measurement of the combustion quality of diesel fuel during compression ignition. It is a significant expression of diesel fuel quality…”
A high cetane number indicates that the diesel fuel has a shorter ignition delay from the start of injection to start of combustion. It causes lower rates of pressure rise and lower peak pressures, thus lessening combustion noise and vibration, and resulting in increased efficiency. The cetane boosters in Petron Turbo Diesel ensure better ignition quality for quicker engine start-up, improved fuel economy and reduced exhaust emissions.
Petron Turbo Diesel also contains a robust multifunctional detergent additive that delivers non-stop cleaning action. This keeps the fuel system and the engine clean by preventing residue build-up and removing deposits and contaminants.
A premium organic combustion enhancer that promotes more efficient and complete combustion is part of the special formulation of Petron Turbo Diesel. This unique fuel conditioner crates a catalytic reaction that enables more oxygen to combine with carbon molecules to produce a more complete fuel burn, thus generating more power and faster acceleration.
With its enhanced and advanced additive technology, Petron Turbo Diesel offers motorists a high-performance diesel fuel that delivers the following benefits: Superior acceleration and performance, reduction of engine noise and ignition delay, cleaning of fuel injectors, protection against engine corrosion, improvement of cold start performance, and reduction of exhaust emissions.
Petron Turbo Diesel is the ideal fuel for high-end vehicles with common rail direct injection (CRDI) diesel engines, as its multi-additive formulation has been customized to deliver extraordinary diesel engine performance and a more enjoyable driving experience. At the same time, older diesel engine types can benefit from its detergent and combustion-enhancing properties, for more optimized performance.
Following its highly-successful launch at a few service stations in mid-2010, Petron Turbo Diesel is now more widely available in select Petron service stations nationwide.
Petron Corporation is the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines. Its oil refinery produces a full range of petroleum products to supply nearly 40% of the country’s total fuel requirements. Through more than 1,500 service stations nationwide — the largest service station network in the country — Petron retails gasoline, diesel and kerosene to motorists. Petron will continue to be at the forefront of product innovations aimed at giving the motoring public environment-friendly fuels that provide more value for money.