Entries Tagged as 'News'

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Fire prevention

Family Plan fire protection Step 1: Install smoke Warner
A smoke detector detects the less dangerous cloud of smoke and triggers a siren, your family, the warnings of the danger, which all have a chance to escape. Install a Warner smoke in any room in the hallway and the kitchen.
Family Plan fire protection Step # 2: [...]

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

ZTE NBN controversial

It is plugging until to this date the never-ended controversial in the Arroyo administration in the Philippines. The rumored large span of graft and corruption affecting the present administration is being divulged in this current controversy the nation’s currently facing off, the ZTE-NBN Controversy.
As a part of this nation, awareness of everyone should be practice [...]

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A Porsche for your pocket

Stuttgart, Germany-based Porsche Design Group and French-based Sagem Mobiles (Safran Group) have joined forces to create the first Porsche Design mobile phone, the P’9521.
Like its much-coveted automotive namesake, the new mobile phone combines sophisticated, purist design with high-quality natural materials such as aluminum and glass.
The phone’s casing is milled out of a solid aluminum block, [...]

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Internet - online magazine

Foreword of Maximum PC Magazine issue January 2008 from Will Smith, Editor in Chief.
Have you ever heard of this thing called “the Internet”? It turns out that it’s a great platform for publishing information. Color me impressed! I think this “Internet” thing just may change the future of magazine publishing. Seriously though, I’m super-stoked to [...]

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Pakistan’s attempt to block YouTube

Most of the world’s Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours after an attempt by Pakistan’s government to block access domestically affected other countries.
The outage Sunday highlighted yet another of the Internet’s vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off line and caused communications problems [...]

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

2007: Year of creeping terror

The year about to pass began inauspiciously with the ASEAN summit in Cebu, postponed from December 2006 due to threatening typhoons, then marred by accusations of corruption when it finally pushed through.
But perhaps 2007 will be best remembered as the year when terror – whether caused by extremists or faulty septic tanks – crept [...]

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Travel, shop, and win with Visa at Hong Kong International Airport

Local Visa cardholders flying out of Hong Kong and overseas Visa cardholders1 travelling to Hong Kong will have a chance to win a dream vacation to any destination in Asia Pacific or worldwide and receive a special gift when they spend with their Visa cards at Hong Kong International Airport during the festive Christmas and [...]

Monday, December 31st, 2007

The Seven Great Medical Myths

Reading in dim light won’t damage your eyes, you don’t need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won’t make the hair grow back faster.
These well-worn theories are among seven medical myths exposed in a paper published last week in the British Medical Journal, which traditionally carries light-hearted features [...]

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Vibration analysis

Vibration analysis is becoming more and more well-known as a prognostic maintenance procedure as well as a support for machinery maintenance judgment and decisions. Generally, machines don’t fail, malfunction, or break down without showing some symptoms or warning, which is often shown by an amplified level of vibration. To find out the nature and harshness [...]