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Are you sick of seeing some stories or not verified news in your Facebook timeline or newsfeed? Worry no more as Facebook, number one Social Media site,  announced FB Newswire, a resource that will make it easier for journalists and newsrooms to find, share and embed newsworthy content from Facebook in the media they produce. Powered by Storyful, FBNewswire is a new resource for journalists and newsrooms that aggregates newsworthy social content shared publicly on Facebook.


"Powered by Storyful, the leader in social content discovery and verification for newsrooms, FB Newswire aggregates newsworthy content shared publicly on Facebook by individuals and organizations across the world for journalists to use in their reporting. This will include original photos, videos and status updates posted by people on the front lines of major events like protests, elections and sporting events. FB Newswire is accessible on Facebook at Facebook.com/FBNewswire and on Twitter at @FBNewswire, and will be updated in real-time with content related to top news stories." said Andy Mitchell, Director, News and Global Media Partnerships


Millions of people share videos and pictures every day. Storyful is the fastest and safest way to separate news from noise per Storyful.

So what's the future of USB Storage device? Post-it notes are on queue! Based from New Delhi, India, Designer Aditi Singh and university professor Parag Anand, are currently developing Paper-thin Datastickies (Data-that-sticks). They are built using from a super-strong, conductive material called graphene - made from a layer of carbon atoms - and will be available in sizes up to 32GB.


So how do Datastickies work? Here are some features.

DESIGN: Imagine carrying data like carrying a stack of sticky notes.
REDEFINE: Storing, transferring and retrieving digital data.
EASE: Easy peeling from the stack (ODTS). dataSTICKIES are envisioned to be stuck anywhere on the proposed ODTS (Optical Data Transfer Surface) in multiple numbers with their low tack conductive adhesive that transfers digital data.
EXPERIENCE: Sharing, expandability and usability like never before. Low tack multiuse conductive adhesive allows stacking together for increased capacity and enables carrying multiple dataStickes together.
COHERENCE: To personalize for volume, kind and attributes.





Indeed, Datastickies have futuristic design concept for Graphene based flash drives that may replace USB devices. Source: datastickies.com

When you try to search some information or data in "Facebook Search Box", there are times that results are not that related to your keywords. Luckily and finally, Facebook, the number one Social Media site, gets Hashtag Support. On the coming weekends, Facebook Hashtag will be visible to users which give them the opportunity to be informed and to join a public conversation with their interests just like NBA Finals, Game of Thrones or The Vampire Diaries Episodes, or any topics.

A sample output of a Facebook Hashtag came out in Cebu Bloggers Society Inc. Founder, Mark Monta's timeline.

" During primetime television alone, there are between 88 and 100 million Americans engaged on Facebook - roughly a Super Bowl-sized audience every single night. The recent "Red Wedding" episode of Game of Thrones, received over 1.5 million mentions on Facebook, representing a significant portion of the 5.2 million people who watched the show. And this year's Oscars buzz reached an all-time high on Facebook with over 66.5 million interactions, including likes, comments, and posts. " said Greg Lindley a Facebook post.


Introducing Hashtags on Facebook

Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion. When you click on a hashtag in Facebook, you'll see a feed of what other people and Pages are saying about that event or topic.



Now you can:

• Search for a specific hashtag from your search bar. For example, #NBAFinals.
• Click on hashtags that originate on other services, such as Instagram.
• Compose posts directly from the hashtag feed and search results.

As always, you control the audience for your posts, including those with hashtags.

On the coming weeks, more features will be rolled out just like trending hashtags and deeper insights, that help people discover more of the world's conversations.

"It is not true that we have instituted a hiring freeze.What is true is that we are evaluating hiring as we always do and we might make projections that are different than perhaps we had at the beginning of the year." said Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman.

Is America now definitely suffering financial crisis? leading Microsoft to do this alleged action? Well, i am not a judgmental person but i was informed through the net that some of the employees of Microsoft Corp. were receiving a note saying that Microsoft was reassessing its staffing levels and will not be adding more employees. But Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, announced that they will be hiring Engineers in Norway and other European places for their development on search technology.

In this news, could this be an indication that US financial crisis is now affecting the IT sector? Well, i hope not.

It was reported last September 12 that Yahoo Inc. will spend time and money for the controversial makeover of its Home Page which will happen soon for the next few months. The makeover is said to be their step to regain the supremacy in the internet search marketing which is currently owned by Google Inc and this serve as their preparation for the growing online social communities like Myspace and Facebook.



Yahoo had gained its downturn of profit share for the past two years which give way to Microsoft bid this year which was canceled. Currently, Yahoo is doing their best to regain its stock price which was sank to its lowest rate. Yahoo plans to open up some major design on its homepage which will enable many users to put mini-applications like "widgets" on their personalized home page, as said by Ash Patel, executive vice president of the company's audience product division.

But when is this controversial change happen?

"You will see a rolling thunder kind of thing," Patel said.

Nope, i am not a fan of Yahoo! Mash, but i was informed that the social site is shutting down this September, why? hmmmm, i do not know too! Since we know that users are "online community" lovers, it is definitely showed in the high number of traffics encountered by some social networks like friendster, multiply(huh?!), facebook, tag, and many others.. Even though its still a beta phase, Yahoo! has left a good project, very memorable for Yahoo! Mash users.



Here is the complete details of the controversial shutdown, this is according to their Yahoo! Mash blog.



Don't worry guys, you can still see me in Friendster and Multiply! lol!...

Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner snatches
an apple from the grasp of a robot arm and
hand that can sense objects purely
by changes in the surrounding electric field.


Zachary Drake of Emotiv Systems demonstrates
an interface that monitors external signals
of brain activity with a special headset
and then translates the data into actions
in a basic video game. Here, his angry
expression chases away glowing
sprites in a video game.


Drake makes a gesture to lift parts in a video game.


Jason Campbell, a senior staff scientist with Intel Research,
described devices called catoms that collectively
could be assembled into materials that are in effect programmable.
Here, he holds two basic models.
Intel expects catoms to be miniaturized over time.
Because catoms can communicate and interact
electromagnetically, they'll be able
to take up more or less volume, Intel said,
so that shape-shifting and
color-changing materials can be built from them.


This catom, shown close up, is bristling with electronic elements.
Catom is a Carnegie Mellon University
term standing for claytronics atom.


A shorter catom shows delicate copper wiring.


The Intel robot, called Herb, moves a mug without tipping it.
Had it been full of a liquid, that might have kept
it from spilling--up until the point when the robot
unceremoniously dropped the mug it into its storage bin.

Source: ZDNet Photo Gallery: Advancing Machine Intelligence

This primarily benefits all call centers, since this is developed basically for security and privacy purposes. IBM wants "to proactively address a potential threat that can be used in an attack vector in call centers." as stated from J.R. Rao, senior manager of the secure software and services group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights.

This technology identifies sensitive data and or information through audio recordings and then mask them through white noise, silence or an edited announcement, with this, only authorized personnel can access the said information. This technology has been used already by some call centers but IBM still is still in puzzle if this will be taken as a service for their customers or product.

It is being reported that controversial YAHOO company has planned to reorganize. According to rumors, this is due to the failed bid by MICROSOFT to take over YAHOO and which cause some of the executives being dismayed and had planned to leave the company.




This reorganization is being pushed by YAHOO's new president, Susan Decker on which its goal is to improve communication between Yahoo's various divisions, including mail, search, and home page, with overseas sales staff.

On August 1 of 2008, its shareholders will vote for their new board of directors during their shareholder's meeting.

Bill Gates keynote at Tech·Ed Developers conference at Orlando served as a preview of some of Microsoft's soon to be released technology. Some of the mentioned technologies/data oriented products were; the go live edition of silverlight 2, a new data caching technology and a partnership with IBM, the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Velocity, a distributed in-memory application cache platform, and a CTP of the Microsoft Sync Framework for Windows Mobile.

“When I think back on the early days of development when we were all programming in DOS, and then take a look at what we can do now with technologies like the .NET Framework, it simply amazes me how far we’ve come,” Gates stated.

He humbly finished the speech and got off the stage with polite applause from the audience.

What happen to Entrecard?
I cannot see the avatar...
Entrecard is back....no its not
what the h@7l is happening to entrecard!!!

These are the phrases i heard when i logged in today and check on my entrecard...
Sad to say, i cannot advertise some of entrecard users...

so to confirmed what really happen, i check first their website and found below error or i may say an apology announcement?



Outage

There was a fire at our datacenter resulting in the failure of some of our systems, our database server appears to be offline still, we're working on it and we're really sorry about the issues at this time. more information arriving shortly.

Served from s02

And to add above statement is their email of apology to all entrecard users, want to repost this...

Greetings,

Unfortunately, there has been an electrical fire at the data center housing Entrecard's servers. The servers have not been damaged, but the site may be down for as long as 12 hours.Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected over 9000 websites, as many of the world's most popualar websites are hosted with ThePlanet. They are working around the clock to get their data center back online, and we are hoping that they get it back online fast.Thank you for your pateince and understanding with this rare and frustrating problem. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing we can do but wait for The Planet to get their datacenter back online.Please check back with Entrecard in 12 to 24 hours.

Thanks,
Entrecard Team

Do i hear 24 hours? tsk2x....

First of all, i am not into web development, eventhough i am a newbie blogger (a 1 year in blog? still considering myself as newbie..lol)
But want to share this idea to those who still do not know about Twitter.
As define from twitter itself, It is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool



For blogger like me, there are many definitions we can think of but as of now, i define Twitter as:
:140 characters mini blogging
:its a minute online talking for self and friends updates
:creating and expanding online circle of friends
:it will make you a better editorial writer, the briefer the words the better.
:one way of promoting and advertising your blog..LOL

So what's with TWITTER? This cool web application topped some of the Technology news sites last 8 days ago when some of the users or i may say twitterers including ME encountered problem asking why they are always get disconnected and get some error call outs. The reason is that Twitter have encountered Database failure and they are on the process of recovery until yesterday, when Twitter official representative, Jason Goldman, in their support Forum officially stated:

"We are coming back to life now - the recovery took a bit longer than anticipated.
With outages of this type, there is impaired performance after the database recovers. Essentially, it needs to be restored by handling incoming traffic but it takes a while to catch up with demand.
This process is concluding now but the site will be slow for a while longer."

Hmmm... do i hear the word SLOW? Anyways, every applications whether online or not, needs to have more testing or i may say development for it to be reliable and stable. so long live TWITTER! follow me NOW!

Desktop virtualization is getting more better with Microsoft technology (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)) and Kidaro's technology which produces new desktop virtualization product called Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization. This product is very useful for roaming laptop users.



“This technology will help enable end users to run applications from multiple versions of Windows at the same time, with seamless windowing and menus, and without the confusion of logging into and seeing multiple virtual machine desktops,” stated Shanen Boettcher, general manager of Windows product management.

Very cool combination indeed!

If Paris Hilton has its House of Wax well, we, hackers (am i included? lol) has our very own HOUSE OF HACKERS network. The site was run by GNUCITIZEN Think Tank.



According to the site, since its launched earlier this week, it has now signed up to about 1000 members (it includes me, again!).

The network was built for everyone's benefits. Hacking here is not used in negative side, they use it to elevate cooperation to all security researchers for the common good.

"House of Hackers stands strong behind the true meaning of the words hacker, hack and hacking. To the community, they should all express admiration for the work of the most skilled, creative, clever, unique, provocative, intelligent, intense, intriguing and interesting people among the human society."

Here is my newbie HOH profile..

I really thought that someday of this year, Microsoft and Yahoo, two great companies will fuse into one giant team-up, despite of the rumors that Yahoo had rejected $44.6 billion cash-and-stock offer to Microsoft. But then, May 3 of this year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer have officially sent a letter to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang to withdraw Proposal on acquiring Yahoo!.


Steve Ballmer, Google-CEO

“We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the market as a whole. Our goal in pursuing a combination with Yahoo! was to provide greater choice and innovation in the marketplace and create real value for our respective stockholders and employees,” Ballmer said

In addition, “We have a talented team in place and a compelling plan to grow our business through innovative new services and strategic transactions with other business partners. While Yahoo! would have accelerated our strategy, I am confident that we can continue to move forward toward our goals,”

But i believe the two specified companies are still in experimenting or i may say in deep research on how to defeat GOOGLE dominance in the Search engine advertising market.

Yes, there are cool gadgets now at some Asian country but not available in other place. This is according to PC World, and here they are:


Panasonic Viera P905i (click image for larger view)


Raon Everun UMPC (click image for larger view)


Samsung 'Soul' SGH U900 (click image for larger view)


NEC ValueStar W (click image for larger view)


Toshiba ApriPoko Robot (click image for larger view)


Sony VAIO G2 (click image for larger view)


Fujitsu F705i (click image for larger view)


Aigo USB Dongle (click image for larger view)


NEC LUI (click image for larger view)


Face Bank (click image for larger view)

I hope they are here in the Philippines...

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Is this the one we are waiting for? Is this the real Asus EE PC desktop? i just got this pictures from the web. Is this a real deal?



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Charlie miller hacked Macbook air at around 2 minutes in a famous PWN 2 OWN (pawn to own) hacking contest. The organizers offered three laptops namely; Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook Air as a prize for the said event. Contestants can owned the said laptops if they could hack each system.

On the first day of the contest, nobody can do the hacking. But on Thursday, miller did it with just the said time span. He won the Macbook Air laptop and a cash prize worth $10,000. He was the first contestant attempted to hack the system and was successful. He then signed a Non Disclosure agreement and he is not allowed to discuss anything.

Charlie Miller is the hacker behind Apple Iphone last year.

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March is about to end, and Smiling and laughing day is about to reach. April fool's day according to Wikipedia, "is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, enemies and neighbors, or sending them on fools' errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible."



And as we welcome April, lets review Top 10 April Fool's day joke websites (according to Computerworld favorite)

10. Facebook Funnies
9. Dead Fairy on ebay and Euts
8. PodShave and PodShaveLady
7. Wikipedia Britannica
6. Water On Mars
5. Animated Tattos
4. Indescribably Geek-elicious
3. Beyond Buggy
2. Opera Soundwave
1. Deer in Camouflage

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As i browsed Microsoft's download page, i found out that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is definitely available for downloading. And take note, it is available for Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008,Windows Vista x64 Edition and Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition, Window XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2 and lastly Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Edition and Windows XP SP2 Pro x64 Edition ...