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Archive for January 2008

Movie on the Go

Posted by: Admin on: January 30, 2008

YouTube Announces New and Expanded Mobile Offerings
by: Jerry Liao
How many talents were given the opportunity to show their wares because talent managers saw their videos on YouTube? Take the case of Charise Pempengco, the 15 year old girl who got her break after someone put her video on YouTube. Ellen DeGeneres saw [...]

Dangerous Money

Posted by: Admin on: January 27, 2008

Voice Phishing (vishing) Incidents on the Rise
by: Jerry Liao
Move over phishing, a new scamming scheme is in town to replace you – its called “vishing” short for voice phishing.
Phishing occurs when an email is sent that pretends to be from a bank or major online merchant. The email will request that the user click [...]

iRobot

Posted by: Admin on: January 22, 2008

Scientists Clone First Ever Human Embryo
by: Jerry Liao
The development in creating an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another called “cloning” is hugging the world of science once again. cloning has been used to reproduce type specific cells. In some instances, cloning of an individual organism, like the sheep, Dolly, has [...]

Come Fly With Me

Posted by: Admin on: January 20, 2008

The Apple MacBook Air
by: Jerry Liao
Apple unveiled MacBook Air, the world’s thinnest notebook. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. MacBook Air has a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in [...]

Taking Care of Business

Posted by: Admin on: January 15, 2008

Organizations Not Prepared For a Business Outage Lasting Longer Than Seven Days – Gartner
by: Jerry Liao
If you think that after the 9-11 incident, companies will be more prepared if in case such incident will happen again, you better think again because according to a survey conducted by research firm Gartner – companies are [...]