UNTV 37 offers P1-million-reward for conviction o...
UNTV 37 has offered a P1-M reward for the speedy arrest of the killers of Marcos Mataro, one of the hosts of D’ Ex-Man program.UNTV Station Manager Jay Sonza confirmed that sponsors, sympathizers, friends and kind...
Apostrophes in names stir lot o' trouble
NEW YORK - It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It's a...
Let’s Talk Spammers: Consonant VirginiaB Usernames
This is an interesting post, a call for committed cyber-communication. Here is an excerpt:"Lately, there had been vicious spamming initiatives done here in iTalknews. They come in the form of a lot of consonant usernames with the same location, VirginiaB. The interests...
Razon Requests Razon: Please Protect my Accuser
Manila, Philippines - Congressman-elect Daniel S. Razon called on
Philippine National Police Chief Avelino Razon before some 50,000
followers Saturday to protect his accuser.
In a phone patch conversation with the Police General during which
Daniel Razon was reporting to...
171 media workers killed in 2007, int'l group says
BRUSSELS, Belgium - A Sri Lankan bombing raid that killed three
employees of a rebel radio station has taken the number of journalists
and media workers killed to 171 this year, the worst in over a decade,
the International News Safety Institute said Wednesday.
Apology as data on millions lost
Story Highlights Personal, banking information of half of UK's population was on lost disks Disks were missing for 3 weeks before being noticed, Treasury chief says Customs and Revenue chief resigns over error Treasury chief insists no signs of criminal involvement
Asia would be hit by a US recession - M. Stanley
Asia would be hit by a recession in the United States because it heavily depends on the world's top economy, a Morgan Stanley executive told Reuters, rejecting a view Asia has "decoupled" from the rest of the world.The notion that the United States is no longer the driver of...
Many Europeans choose Internet over TV
Users watching video online once a month jumped 150 percent since 2006.BRUSSELS, Belgium - Almost six out of 10 West Europeans now regularly access the Internet and, for the first time, young people are more likely to go online for most days of the week than turn on the...
Blast rocks Philippines lower house
An explosion rocked an entrance to the Philippine House of Representatives late Tuesday, killing a driver and injuring at least seven people, including lawmakers, officials said. This followed after the recent...
The Power of One Little Story
"At a time of gloom for the news business, it's important to remember the power of stories, even the power of one little story.
"At a time of gloom for the news business, it's important to remember the power of stories,
even the power of one little story.
Citizens offer new take on news
A news agenda formulated by citizens would be radically different from that put together by journalists.
That is the conclusion of a US study which compared what
made the headlines in the mainstream media with that of three diverse
user-driven news sources.
3 girls, 3 stories, 1 message: The Filipino Can!
When Noelle Wenceslao, Carina Dayondon and Janet Belarmino became the first Southeast Asian women to summit Mt. Everest and the first women in the world to traverse Mt. Everest from the North side to the South side, Himalaya didn’t seem to care.
Imposter Caught
High school graduate pretends to be a Stanford student, even living in the dorms, buying textbooks and ‘studying’ for exams
The word on Wikipedia: Trust but verify
Popular online encyclopedia, plagued by errors, troubles educators Can we trust wikipedia at the thick of surmounting controversies and how accurate are the information we are getting from this marvelous online collaborative encyclopedia?
Oops! Techie wipes out $38 billion fund
Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke
accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk
drive containing an account worth $38 billion.




