PRESIDENT Aquino, assisted by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director General Emmanuel Joel Villanueva, distributes ballers to the participants of the 7th Puregold ‘Tindahan Ni Aling Puring Sari-Sari Store’ Convention during the tour and inspection of the booths at the World Trade Center at the corner of Gil Puyat Avenue Extension and Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, Pasay City, yesterday. (Photo by: Robert Viñas / Malacañang Photo Bureau)
AMERICAN contemporary ballet company Trey McIntyre Project performs at Central Philippine University in Iloilo City. Its 10-day Philippine tour is a joint program of the U.S. Embassy in Manila and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. (Photo by Tara Yap)
CAGAYAN’s Junar Arce (center) finds himself sandwiched by Gio Ciriacruz and Kelly Nabong of Blackwater during PBA D-League action last night at The Arena in San Juan.
MIAMI Heat guard Dwyane Wade, foreground, regains control of the ball as he is guarded by Indiana Pacers guard Paul George, rear, during Game 2 of their NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series in Miami.
VENDORS arrange bananas in a makeshift stall on Road 10 in Tondo, Manila, as they sell ‘lakatan’ at P30 per kilo yesterday morning. The Philippines’ fruit exports to China, particularly bananas, seem to have trouble getting cleared by Chinese Customs amid a tense standoff between the two countries over the disputed islands on the West Philippine Sea. Fruit shipments, especially bananas, were rotting in Chinese ports because pests were allegedly discovered in some produce, prompting stricter quarantine inspections. (Photo by Linus Escandor II)
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Kaspersky Lab Performs Best in Dedicated Testing Against Online Banking Threats
Manila, Philippines – Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 has come out on top among three commercial solutions in dedicated testing by the independent test lab AV-Test.org. The Kaspersky Lab solution was up against products from Symantec and BitDefender and was the clear leader in terms of dynamic and static detection of online banking threats. Incoming search terms:paolo mallari accident storysymantec...
LG Optimus 4X HD set for Europe launch
The LG Optimus 4X HD, which first came out during the Mobile World Congress last February, will finally be made available starting in Europe next month. The LG smartphone will feature the Tegra 3, NVIDIA’s 4-PLUS-1 Quad Core mobile processor. The said processor makes use of a fifth core to ensure that it will make use of the best power efficiency. The Tegra 3 will actually run on all four cores...
Yahoo names Levinsohn interim CEO
NEW YORK (AP) – Yahoo swept out Scott Thompson as CEO Sunday in an effort to clean up a mess created by an exaggeration about his education that destroyed his credibility as he set out to turn the long-troubled Internet company around. Ross Levinsohn, who oversees Yahoo’s content and advertising services, is taking over as interim CEO. He becomes the fourth person to run Yahoo in eight...
Captain tossed from troubled Yahoo! ship
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Yahoo! boss Scott Thompson stepped down Sunday in the face of controversy about his allegedly inflated resume, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer seeking its sixth CEO in five years. As part of a truce in a proxy war with mutinous shareholder Daniel Loeb, Ross Levinsohn became interim Yahoo! chief and Fred Amoroso took charge of the board of directors. Read More »
Google’s driverless car passes Nevada test
Las Vegas (dpa) – Google has cleared a major road block in its quest to introduce self-driving cars to the roads of the world. The Nevada Motor Vehicles Department has given one of the company’s prototypes the first-ever license to drive itself, after test runs down the bustling Las Vegas Strip and other streets showed the vehicle to be as safe – or safer – than human drivers. Incoming...
Samsung overtakes Nokia as world’s top handset vendor
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co overtook Nokia as the world’s top handset maker for the first time in the first quarter, ending the Finnish firm’s 14-year reign, a report by research firm Strategy Analytics showed on Friday. Samsung sold 93.5 million handsets in the first quarter, taking 25.4 percent of the global mobile phone market, Strategy Analytics...
Dogfights on Your iPhone
The invasion of apps on toys continues with this weeks release of Foam Fighters Pacific from WowWee ($9.99), a set of three-inch styrofoam gliders that you can suction cup under your iPhone’s outside camera. Align the wings with an on-screen template and the app’s augmented reality features superimpose a WWII dogfight over your living room. Here’s how it works. After the free app is installed,...
Widespread Virus Proves Macs Are No Longer Safe From Hackers
For years, Mac users have been told that not only are they cooler than their PC counterparts, they are safer too. Apple has always held that computer viruses and malware only dogged its competitors. That is no longer the case. This week, security researchers discovered a new computer virus had infected half a million Mac users – about half of them in the United States. The virus is infesting...
Kaspersky Lab Launches Kaspersky Internet Security Beta-Testing Program for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Manila, Philippines – Kaspersky Lab, a leading secure content and threat management solutions developer, recently announced the launch of the beta testing program for its flagship Kaspersky Internet Security product. The Kaspersky Internet Security Technical Preview is designed specifically for early adopters of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft, currently also in the beta...
