Month: January 2012

Interactive News View of #CJONTRIAL

abs-cbnnews.com once again offers PINOYs a new way to experience news reports.  they have created a live text data visualization of the opinion of people on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other sites regarding the ongoing trial of Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.using the Infomous web app, an interactive, real-time word cloud is formed. […]

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Wikipedia Blacks Out in Protest for SOPA

in less than 4hrs, the english wikipedia will be blacked out globally in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).  “Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout […]

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CES 2012 – Samsung's Transparent Smart Window

to those who have seen the movie Minority Report, the “Transparent Smart Window” is a welcome news @ the CES 2012 as Samsung unveiled its transparent LCD touchscreen technology – the kewlest way to look outside into the future. Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the worlds largest consumer techonology tradeshow. the event started in 1967 was […]

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UPCAT – USTET Online Tussle

a post from an unofficial UPCAT (UP College Admissions Test) Facebook page by its administrators triggered an online uproar from UST students after the latter’s admins made a comment about the difficulty of UST’s own entrance exams.on jan8 this post regarding University of Sto. Tomas (UST)’s admission exams was posted, “Lumabas na pala ang results […]

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RedMedia Launches #ItsMoreFuninthePhilippines Generator

the Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT)‘s new slogan promoting the country has been trending lately, as usual PINOY ingenuity again is @ its best, #ItsMoreFuninthePhilippines Generator was launched allowing PINOYs to create their own image memes with the DOT’s tag “It’s more fun in the Philippines!”after yesterday’s It’s More fun in the Philippines Photos, today RedMedia launched #ItsMoreFuninthePhilippines Generator  allowing photo-addict- PINOYs create image memes with the DOT’s […]

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It's More fun in the Philippines Photos

the Philippine’s Department of Tourism‘s newly released slogan, “It’s more fun in the Philippines” immediately caught fire in the Twitterverse, allowing PINOYs to post photos of the country as their status updates and a collage of images is shown via It’s More fun in the Philippines Pics website (www.itsmorefuninthephilippinespics.com)a “weekend project” by Arnold Gamboa, the […]

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2011 Year-ender and Memories Lookback (YAML): A PILIPINAS.IT Review

YEAR: 2011  description: 2011 YAML (Year-ender and Memories Lookback) is a consolidated tech news posted here on PILIPINAS.IT for 2011 (in YAML format)! 😛 TopStories:  TopTechNewsWorld:   WhatsNew:   – title: Who is Tim Cook      description: Apple names Tim Cook as next head    – title: Apple’s WWDC 2011      description: Apple launches iCloud, OSX Lion and iOS5   […]

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