Steve Jobs Resignation Letter - Officially Resigned

Steve Jobs officially resigned as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Apple, according to international reports. As posted in Mashable, here is the full copy of his resignation letter sent to the Apple Board of Directors:

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve

Globe Telecom Official Statements on Tonino Lamborghini Fake Accusation Issues

Globe Telecom officially released their statements regarding the accusations of Tonino Lamborghini that that their product is fake and used their name without authorization. In the message they posted on their website, Globe said,

"Globe Telecom obtained authorization to use the name and logo Tonino Lamborghini through an agreement with Primo Mobile, the master franchisor of mobile phone related products for the Italian brand Tonino Lamborghini. Primo Mobile is a Singapore-based company that has a master license agreement with Tonino Lamborghini s.r.l. and is duly authorized to sub-license the use of the Lamborghini logo. The design of the Globe Tattoo Tonino Lamborghini 4G USB sticks was reviewed and approved by Primo Mobile.

Globe Telecom assures the public of its strong adherence and commitment to the highest ethical standards in business and good corporate governance. The company will not engage in any activity that will mislead the public in the course of doing business and serving its customers."

Globe Tatto Stick 'Tonino Lamborghini' is Fake and a Trademark Infringement (Photo)

Tonino Lamborghini, an Italian based company of shades and watches accused Globe Telecommunications 'Tonino Lamborghini' Tattoo broadband as fake. As stated on the press release posted and signed by Tonino Lamborghini, the CEO of the company,

"Tonino Lamborghini, an Italy-based company which is the sole lawful owner worldwide of the trademark 'Tonino Lamborghini' wishes to inform its customers that unauthorized people are currently trading online and through Globe stores '4G Tattoo Tonino Lamborghini' broadband stick which is a counterfeited product."

"Tonino Lamborghini s.r.l. has never manufactured or authorized anyone to manufacture such a product, which constitutes therefore a serious trademark infringement," Lamborghini said in the statement, which was posted in the Italy-based company's website and in several blogs.

Moreover the advertising campaign 'Feed your Need for Speed' featuring Marlon Stockinger, first Filipino to win a formula race in Europe, is deceitful and unlawful since it leads to a serious likelihood of confusion between two different and separate brands and businesses that is to say 'Tonino Lamborghini' and 'Automobili Lamborghini,'" he added.

Tonino Lamborghini s.r.l. shall take any legal action to protect the brand."

Globe is not giving their official statements yet regarding the issue.

Meanwhile, Tonino Lamborghini and Automobili Lamborghini are two different companies. Tonino is a luxury brand of watches, shades, among others while Automobili is a company which sells automotive related goods like sports car.

Photo courtesy of Google

Facebook Comment Button disappeared - replaced by Enter key

The Facebook comment in Facebook wall posts has disappeared. This is part of Facebook's innovations in faster comment post processing. Instead of pressing the "comment" button below, it was replaced by a phrase "Post Enter to post your comment".

These changes raised so many questions to some Facebook users around the globe. Some of the most common questions are:

Pinoyparazzi.com website domain name expired - Where can I find PinoyParazzi?

After weeks of failed accessing in the Philippines most controversial entertainment site, Pinoyparazzi.com,  is no longer on maintenance, the website's domain name has expired. This is according to the texts appearing when someone visits its homepage.

PinoyParazzi is a Philippine entertainment site featuring articles in PinoyParazzi Magazine. This is the former site that exposed controversial photos, blind items and commentaries on several ABS-CBN and GMA actors and actresses. Nip slip, scandals and other articles written in two languages, English and Tagalog.

Where can you find Pinoyparazzi?

Since the site is not yet accessible as of the moment, buying their magazine will be the option, next to accessing other entertainment sites like wallyibong.

Flash in iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch backed using Skyfire 2.0 Web Browser Application

After long time of waiting for Flash in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, Skyfire 2.0, an application that enables iPhones and iPads users to view flash videos was approved by Apple App Store for distribution. CNN Technology News reported that Skyfire 2.0 was the first application approved by Apple Company to do such feature.

Apparently, Skyfire 2.0 came up to an innovative solution in order to follow the restrictions of above-mentioned Apple products. Flash video will be played after the user encountered or clicked a page with flash videos, this will then be converted to HTML5 which is standard in iOS. After convertion, a small thumbnail will appear giving an option to the user to view the flash video. Skyfire 2.0 for iOS works on top of Apple’s Safari web browser. Aside from this major feature, Skyfire company also showed other features such as exploring the related content on the page you are browsing, social sharing with Facebook and Twitter, private browsing, user agent switching and multi-tab browsing of up to 8 pages are also capable through this application.

In May 2008, Skyfire was also debuted to Nokia and Windows Mobile and surpassed the overall 3 million downloads. The first released was criticized for its slowness and privacy concerns but in the 2.0 version of Skyfire, the errors has been fixed.

The video below posted in Skyfire official website shows its demo features for iPhone.



After 5 hours of successful release, Skyfire 2.0 was declared by Skyfire company as “Sold Out”. In the statements by Oberhofer written in Skyfire website, he said:

Skyfire for iPhone has been received with unbelievable enthusiasm. Despite our best attempts and predictions, the demand far exceeds our initial projections.
The user experience was performing well for the first few hours, but as the surge continued, the peak load on our servers and bandwidth caused the video experience to degrade.
Thus we are effectively ‘sold out’ and will temporarily not accept new purchases from the App Store. We are working really hard to increase capacity and will be accepting new purchases from the App Store as soon as we can support it.
We are very grateful for the demand. Within 5 hours, Skyfire for iPhone became the top grossing app, the third highest paid app overall and the top application in the Utilities category. Wow!
Please bear with us as we bring our capacity in line with the incredible demand – stay tuned.

China Supercomputer is the fastest in the World - Tianhe-1A

This 2010, China has dethroned United states for having the fastest supercomputer in the World.

This is called Tianhe-1A, a new supercomputer that set performance record of about 2.509 petaflops (quatrillion calculations per second). This is the fastest as of today according to NVIDIA. Tianhe-1A was designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China. The system is housed at National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin and is already fully operational.

News confirmed that Tianhe-1A, the fastest supercomputer is faster than the previously recorded fastest supercomputer, Cray XT5-HE Jaquar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which can deliver 1.76 petaflops of sustained performance.

China SuperComputer - Tianhe-1A Picture

As to its specifications, NVIDIA described this Chinese Supercomputer has a modern heterogeneous computing by coupling massively parallel GPUs with multi-core CPUs, enabling significant achievements in performance, size and power. The system uses 7,168 NVIDIA® Tesla™ M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs; it would require more than 50,000 CPUs and twice as much floor space to deliver the same performance using CPUs alone.

Siemens 1924 Hearing Aid Pictures

Siemens already have its innovations in Hearing Aids. But when it started? Hearing Aids of Siemens actually started on their 1924 version of the Product. This 1924 product is described by Siemens as a compact, pocket sized carbon microphone/amplifier device suitable for pocket instruments.

The later product of Siemens brought about several handy developments in hearing aid technology and became a based on many of Hearing Aid manufacturers.

As described by Siemens, The electrical energy controlled by the carbon microphone was not fed to the receiver directly. It first drove the diaphragm of an electromagnetic system connected to a carbon-granule chamber. Current was transmitted across this chamber from the vibrating diaphragm electrode to the fixed electrode plate. The amplified current produced mechanical vibrations in the electromagnetic hearing diaphragm that were then transmitted to the ear as sound.

1924 Siemens Hearing Aid Pictures

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Globe Wimax Plan 795 Review | Globe Wimax Plan 795 Package is not 795 - its 900

Customer is always right, a lose adage which is very applicable with my experience with Globe Broadband (Wimax Plan 795). When they advertised and talked about this Globe Wimax Plan 795, I am so amazed that each of my questions were answered as to what I am expecting them. My first question: Since this is Globe Wimax Plan 795 - a "wireless technology", should it be freely possible if I carry it from one place to another (e.g, Batangas to Mindoro) provided that I have all the paraphernalia? (antenna, main globe wimax device). They confidently answer me "Yes", so I am happy. Next thing, 795 is per month right? How come it is so cheap considering that 512kpbs is a little bit fast by theory. Nice strategy! "Nakakaengganyo" is local term. But when they came to my house and installed this Globe Wimax Package, I observed that the connection speed is sometimes ranging to only 230- 300 kbps, based on Speedtest.net. When the bill delivered to my house, I am shocked because my payment was Php 1,346.28. How sad, cause I am only expecting 795 this month. They lacked information during their advertising that there is a VAT equivalent to Php 144.28. So you will not pay 795, but will pay 1,346.28, why? Because they added another "ontime charges" cost 446.43.

Globe Wimax Plan 795 Plan Review

With my experience, I called 211 (a customer service hotline of Globe) and verify my concerns. The customer representative said that Globe Wimax is transferrable, but you will pay 552.00 each time you transfer. (not free! contrary to what they said when they are advertising the product) I also asked for the possibility of cutting the plan, It is also possible but you will pay two months bill f you are not yet finished with the 1-year contract.

In short, they love their "Information-lacking" advertising, because if you are part of the contract, and you subscribed, you cannot get out of it. You will pay!!

I come up to this review because this is my own sad experience with Globe Wimax Plan 795. What about you? Did you experienced this also?
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Sony 3D TV that do not need eyeglasses

One of the biggest television companies, SONY, is currently venturing on creating 3D (three dimensional) television that don't need specialized eye glasses, this is their planned product for their rival company, TOSHIBA, but they are considering cost also. Why did Sony planned to work out on this specialized 3D TV? It is because Toshiba also announced that they are currently working with developing eye-glasses free television but not final on when it should be released.

Seeing 3D without glasses is more convenient," "We must take account of pricing before we can think about when to start offering them.", statement of Sony Senior Vice President Yoshihisa Ishida.

Next iPad | 5.6 and 7 inches OLED Screens

The next generation of iPad will feature a 5.6- and 7-inch OLED screens, and may hit the iPhone stores as soon as the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the Taipei-based Digitimes.

According to the Digitimes, Apple has "recently placed new iPad orders to Taiwan-based component makers for the fourth quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011 with 9.7-inch, 5.6-inch, and 7-inch models all included."

This report is consistent with the earlier rumors (also reported by Digitimes) in April that suggested the second-generation iPad would feature an OLED screen.

SMARTBRO: Error 619 | A connection to the remote computer could not be established

Perhaps you are experiencing this error from SMARTBRO. Error 619, a connection to the remote computer could not be established. I have here some of the suggestions for your Smartbro stick to connect again to the internet. This actually worked for me, so it will also work for you if you encounter this error.

How to solve Smartbro: Error 619 Problem of SmartBro.

1. Disconnect your smartbro stick from your computer.
2. Uninstall the Smartbro on the Control Panel of your computer.
3. Load your smartbro with a minimum of Php. 10.00
4. Reinsert your Smartbro on the same USB port.
5. Reinstall the Smartbro installer.
6. Try to connect.

it works.

iPhone 4 Signal Issue | Signal Indicator Errors

Have you already purchased iPhone 4 and still having problems with its signal Strength? Yeah, that's not a problem according to some blogs and statements released by apple, but continuously became an issue after the release of the newest product of Apple, the Iphone 4.

Some users reported the above mentioned issue with their newly bought iphone 4 cellular signals appearing to degrade/ decrease when holding the lower left portion of their iPhone. While not all users have been able to reproduce the problem, it does seem to be fairly widespread. In order to avoid this signal interruption, just avoid touching the lower left corner of this iphone 4.

You may also want to watch the video below concerning the apple's newly released product glitch.

New Design of Google Search Engine

Are you curious about the new design of Google Search Engine?
Google has just introduced the new google search engine interface which is more useful and faster than the previous Google Search interface.

If you tried to visit Google.com, you can see that the navigation can be found at the left side while the sponsored links can be found at the right.

New Google Search Design has fresh look but still following the previous Google Search Engine interface.
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Youtube TV

According to news, Google is venturing to a Youtube TV. If you may remember, Google is the new owner of Youtube. But today, Google is planning a series of celebratory events for closer to the fifth anniversary of the public launch of YouTube in October 2005.Google bought YouTube in a 1.65-billion-dollar deal about 19 months after the online video-sharing service was founded in February of 2005. The Internet giant has been carefully transforming YouTube into a money-making stage for enjoying works ranging from backyard videos to independent films.

"YouTube has the potential to be a very instrumental part of Google's future Television plan," said Gartner technology analyst Allen Weiner.

"In the meantime they will tweak features to be more user friendly and will carefully follow what happens to Internet in living room." YouTube says more than a billion videos are seen daily on its website, which serves up money-making ads to viewers. An average of 24 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube each minute in an amount of content equal to 150,000 full length films over the course of a week.

If google will venture on Youtube TV, this will be another good feature that will be enjoyed by Youtube fans.

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WORM ATTACK via PDF File

Security researcher Jeremy Conway says he has discovered a way to spread malicious code such as worms and Trojans across PDF documents on a victim’s computer. This attack is just the same with some email attachments but little bit differ in a way that PDF files automatically opens together with its attachments. Hackers have known for some time that PDF readers could be manipulated in this way, but Stevens’ attack showed how one reader — Foxit Reader — could launch the executable without even notifying the user. Foxit has now patched this bug, but the underlying flaw in the PDF standard can’t be fixed without changing the PDF standard itself.

For the users who want to turn off the Adobe Reader or Acrobat feature that allows the attack to work, you can click “Edit > Preferences > Categories > Trust Manager > PDF File Attachments” and then un-check the box that reads “Allow opening of non-PDF file attachments with external applications.” Although we are not new to these kind of attacks via different media, we should always be aware.

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Top 10 Free Apple iPad Applications

For iphone fanatics, there comes another product from apple, it is called iPad. Bloggers already named the best free applications for ipad and if it so happened that you have bought the product, don't miss to download this top 10 free iPad applications:

Netflix: Yep, it's official — Netflix's catalog of streaming movies and TV shows is indeed coming to the iPad, and it's a free service for Netflix subscribers. No word about a version for the iPhone (or at least, not yet).

ABC Player: Free, ad-supported shows from ABC via Wi-Fi, ranging from "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy" to "Dancing with the Stars" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

Tweetdeck for iPad: This jumbo-sized version of the Tweetdeck iPhone app is perfect for scanning column after column of live, custom Twitter searches, along with tweets from your favorite Twitter pals and your latest "mentions."

Aurora Feint 3: An addictive puzzle game with a medieval, RPG twist, the original Aurora Feint is one of my favorite iPhone time-wasters, and I can't wait to try its free counterpart for iPad.

NPR for iPad: Follow your favorite shows on National Public Radio with this free, "magazine-style" iPad app, complete with playlist support and an offline reader for text stories.

The Weather Channel Max: Access full-screen, "in-motion" weather maps, breaking video news reports, nationwide weather cams, and (of course) your local forecast.

Tap Tap Radiation: From the makers of the best-selling "Tap Tap Revenge" for iPhone comes this new, iPad-sized rhythm game that "takes users on a visual ride alongside the beats of each track." The first eight tracks (from the likes of Serge Devant, Richard Vission, and Mos Def) are included; for more, though, prepare to pay up.

AIM for iPad: Now with a bigger, three-column view, with your active AIM conversations in one column, your current chat in the middle, and your AIM buddy list on the right.

Dragon Dictation: Can't be bothered to tap out messages? Just fire up Dragon Dictation, tap the red button, and speak; you can then e-mail your musings via a pop-up window or browse previously dictated notes in the left-hand column.

BBC News: Breaking news from the Beeb, complete with tappable photo galleries, full-screen streaming video, and — best of all — no pay wall.

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Google will be leaving China

Google, the world's largest internet related business company have threats to leave the Communist country, China by April 10. - PCWORLD

Shanghai based Business news says that Google might pull out the plug on its operations in China and could announce the final decision on Monday. If this were true, it would bring an end to the controversies about cyberattacks of China against Google and other US Companies. But pulling out Search giant Google to China means another consequence, considering that China is the most populous country in the world.

China censors Internet access by the people and arrests those who go too far in criticizing the government including Chinese media and imposes imprisonment if case permits.

If we may remember, social networking sites are also banned in this country, and only Google Buzz is their way of doing so. If Google will be pulling out their services in this country, another limitation will be executed to its citizens.

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FACEBOOK users are targeted by Email Scams

Facebook users are being targeted by computer hackers through email scams trying to steal their passwords, this was confirmed by MacAfee. They said some of the world’s popular social networking sites were receiving emails from Facebook site informing them that they have to reset their password and click on the attachment incorporated with the email.

Security firm confirmed that the attachment is a password stealer that is installed when the user clicks the attachment. This is very dangerous since Facebook has an approximate of 350 million users, MacAfee added.

If you happened to receive this kind of email with a subject: “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation!Customer Support”. Don’t dare open it, and if you happened to receive such email, don’t be curious, just delete it.

This kind of strategy is not new to us, but I want everyone to be aware about this email scam, since we are all avid fan of Facebook and we don’t want to spend another year for our farm, for our ville and for our friends.

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China Phone Pros and Cons

Filipinos are fan of affordable products. Be it dress, food, school, accessories and even cell phones. Way back then, China phones are not yet reaching the affordability pockets of Pinoys. But as it reaches our portals, China Phones were suddenly adored by ordinary Philippine consumers. China phones were made in China but unlike original phones, they are far more affordable since they are just imitations of phones developed by popular phone companies. You can immediately recognize this kind of Phone because of its font, they are all identical regardless of model. You can also identify this phone by the icons attached at the bottom part of the phone. But what can we expect from this phone? Is it really advisable to be bought? Or you are just wasting your money?

Below are the Pros and Cons of China Phones based on my observations:

Pros

1. It is very cheap compared to original phones. You can buy an iphone imitation from 1000 – 5000 pesos only.
2. It has many features which cannot be found in the original. Specifically, China Phones have FM radio station, voice recording, camera, video recording, mp3, large storage capacity and even television.
3. It has made to support all Cellphone Networks such as Smart, Globe, Touch Mobile and the like. 
4. You are worry-free even you public use it. Why? It’s cheap.

Cons

1. It just naturally last for 6 months compared to original cellphones which endure for years.
2. This kind of phones is hard to repair since the components of the most important chips are condensed into one.
3. This can be considered as disposable phones.

I am not saying that China phones aren’t good, I am just giving both sides of the coins. At the end of the day, it is still you who decides.