Severe Update

According to PAGASA Tropical Storm Mina (Nanmadol) has moved farther away from the country issued today 11:00 pm.

Location of the eye of the storm: TS Mina was estimated based on the satellite and surface at 380 km Northwest of Basco, Batanes. With the strength of maximum sustained of 95 kph near the center with gustiness up to 120 kph. It is moved Northwest at 7 kph. It is expected to be at 370 km West of Taipei,Taiwan by tomorrow evening.

• All public signals are now lowered.
• Residents in low lying and mountainous areas particularly over the western section of Northern and Central Luzon are alerted against possible flashfloods and landslides, likewise, those living in coastal areas are alerted against big waves generated by monsoon surge. 

International Airlines resume operations

According to CNN, here are the airlines who resume their flights early Monday morning (US time) in three major airports serving New York-Kennedy, Newark and LaGuardia and others along US east coast:

*Delta Air Lines

*United Airlines and Continental Airlines


*AirTran Airways


*Jet Blue


*US Airways


*American Airlines

We Should Write Our Own Experience ???

For us to have an account in Google Adsense, we should write our own article and do not copied from the intenet. Because when I submit my application in Google Adsense their reply to me was:


 Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense
at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

Issues:

- Page type

Further detail:

Page type: Your website is a type of website that we do not currently
accept into our program. Such websites include, but are not limited to,
chat sites, sites that drive traffic through cybersquatting, sites without
original, substantial content, and sites that use excessive keywords in
the content or code of their pages.

After I read that message, I searched to the internet if what does it means.

Page type" error mean that your contents are not genuine. That mean your web contents may also available with other website. May be you copied these articles from other web site or in your web site doesn't have enough content or some other reason with your site or blog. If you can post your web site link or blog we can tell what the reason for this error.

 --- Hmm, how are we going to share the same news if we are not allowed to copied an article from the internet ??

We are copying the same article because we want to share the same news/articles to others.

IBM Mobile Connections Now Free

IBM sells a social media and community building tool that competes with Socialtext and Jive and combines wikis, social streams, discussion forums and integrates with IBM's Sametime for presence/IM communications. It is called Connections and today IBM announced that mobile versions of Connections are free to download.


The free mobile versions are available on the Android, iOS and Blackberry phones through the links on their respective app stores. They connect to either a Windows or Linux Connector server. But wait, there is more. There are also desktop versions.

 IBM announced that it has beefed up the mobile versions with some bonus features, and of course they differ depending on the phone you are using:

• Partial wipe for Apple iOS devices, This is new and allows an IT administrator to wipe only the company data from the device while preserving a worker's personal data. There are many other MDM products that offer this feature, it is nice to see IBM promoting this too. 
• Click-to-call from Android OS device calendar. Available in beta now, Lotus Notes Traveler will allow IBM email users to call people listed in their calendar views with just one click. 
• Online meeting support for BlackBerry only, OSv6 is required for this client. 

IBM is probably one of the biggest users of the product.

How Many People Actually Use Twitter?

Here's a shocker for you: Newt Gingrich probably didn't pad his Twitter follower list with fictitious accounts. And, to make matters weirder, the reason that people thought that he had is the same reason why even Twitter isn't sure how many users it actually has: inactive users.

(MORE: Report: 92% of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Aren't Real)

According to Mashable's investigation into Gingrich's Twitter followers, his campaign's explanation that why so many followers' accounts were inactive was that the majority of them were once genuine accounts that started to follow him during a period of "Suggested User promotion" back in 2009-2010 turned out to be true. Apparently the high level of drop-off is what prompted Twitter's VP of International Strategy to underestimate the number of the company's registered users by more than 100 million earlier this year.

In April, Katie Stanton—Twitter's VP of International Strategy—told the Guardian Activate summit that the site has 200 million registered accounts, just before its 300 millionth user signed up. That number is now closer to 360 million sign-ups. According to Twitter, there are around 460,000 sign-ups per day. The discrepancy may come when trying to gauge whether or not users are considered active,

According to Business Insider, there are actually less than 21 million active users on Twitter, but that's working from a very specific definition of "active" that demands more than 30 feeds being followed. Assuming that some Twitter users are more selective—and I don't think that's a stretch to assume, to be honest—then the math gets fuzzier.

The only people who know for sure how many Twitter users are actually actively on the site work for Twitter, and they're not talking... Well, aside from Ms. Stanton. So maybe 200 million should be considered the new baseline for Twitter estimates—until we know anything more, of course.

By Graeme McMillan 

Smartphone Evolution Over the Last 40 Years

It has only been recently that people have been able to read and write on the Web with their mobile devices. The evolution to where phones are now smart, mobile and ubiquitous has been a train long in transit. The infographic below from Product Development Technologies shows that evolution through major product lines and pop culture. Before the advent of the smartphone, what did you think was the coolest mobile innovation of the last 40 years?

Personally, I was partial to the Motorola Dynatac 8000X. I never owned one, but I was a big fan of Saved By The Bell and Zack Morris. Those of an earlier generation may have been partial to the Get Smart shoe phone, which, admittedly, still seems like a cool idea. Before smartphones started to become ever larger devices, Ben Stiller in Zoolander lampooned the popularity of the shrinking smartphone.

It is interesting to see how phones went from big, clunky devices (Martin Cooper's original mobile phone) to sleek and thin voice machines (the Motorola Razr) and then again to large form factors (the HTC Evo, for instance). It is likely that we will see this trend play out within the smartphone era itself. The evolution within the last several years is clear. Lay an original iPhone next to an iPhone 4 and note the differences.

By Dan Rowinski

Half of U.S. Adults Use Social Networking Sites

For the first time ever, 50% of all American adults are using social networking sites, according to new data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Of active Internet users in particular, 65% are social networking users, a number that continues to climb. To put things in perspective, only 29% of adult American Internet users reported using social networking tools in 2008.

Unsurprisingly, social media usage is even higher among Americans under 30 years old, 61% of whom use sites like Facebook on a daily basis. It's not just younger people who are using the Internet to connect with friends, family and colleagues. The rate at which older people are using the social Web continues to grow as well.

Although the report doesn't break down usage by site, it's safe to assume that the majority of people are partial to Facebook, which has 750 million users worldwide and recently surpassed 1 trillion pageviews in a single month. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he expects the site to reach 1 billion users before long.

Virtual Computer's NxTop Creates More Potent Virtual Desktops Than VDI

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Virtual Computer is trying to make desktop virtualization easy by having centralized management with distributed execution so you can deploy hundreds if not thousands of VMs. The difference is that the VMs are run on the endpoint devices, and cuts costs and infrastructure requirements. The NxTop platform, as it is called, has its own bare metal hypervisor that sits on the desktop and manages the various VMs.

The new version 4 has over 50 enhancements. The most notable is a centralized storage option, where the VMs need to stay inside the datacenter and boot off a storage array, like a regular VDI solution but without the need for a specialized VDI network and storage array. Also you can deploy their management solution on both vSphere or Citrix Xen in addition to their existing Hyper-V support. There are added policies to support managed access to port controls and faster access to Windows with simplified logins and user management. Using their solution, you also can create large collections of shared computers for training classes for example.

NxTop's VM collection is actually stored as VHDs, the same format that Microsoft Hyper-V uses. This makes it easier to convert existing VMware VMDK disk images over to its collection.

Virtual Computer has long had the ability to lockout users if a computer is stolen and also a remote kill switch feature for further protection. The next time a stolen laptop sees the Internet, it's hard drive will be wiped clean.

Virtual Computer will be showing the latest version at the VMworld show in Vegas this week. Pricing is for $160 per machine plus $40 annual maintenance. 

By David Strom

Typhoon drenches Taiwan after claiming lives in the Philippines

Dawu, Taiwan (CNN) -- Typhoon Nanmadol pounded Taiwan with heavy rains Monday before it was downgraded to a tropical storm and headed toward China.

The storm made landfall in the southern portion of Taiwan about 3 a.m. Monday, dousing some areas with up to 300 mm (11 inches) of rain, officials said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties, although officials closed several highways in the landslide-prone region.

Nanmadol reached Taiwan after pummeling the Philippines over the weekend. By Monday, the death toll in the Philippines had climbed to 12.

Among them were two children who died when Nanmadol, known locally as Mina, triggered a landslide in northern Philippines on Saturday, authorities said.

The landslide buried the victims in Pangasinan province, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

Ten others were killed in different incidents, 21 people were injured, and nine remain missing, the council said in a statement Monday.

By the CNN Wire Staff

Ang Utol Kong Hoodlum

         Ang Utol Kong Hoodlum is another teleserye and first actionserye that will air in Philippines by TV5 and starred by JC De Vera and the new TV5 actress Jasmine Curtis. It is a remake of the original movie where Robin Padilla played the role of Ben, a hoodlum, and Vina Morales, as Bing.

Trailer:

Main Cast:

JC De Vera as Ben

Jasmine Curtis as Bing

Palabas na sa September 12 wag palalampasin !!!

Shamcey Supsup

Shamcey Supsup

-  is a Filipino beauty titleholder who will represent the Philippines in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. Supsup graduated as a Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines-Diliman with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Architecture. She also topped the June 2010 Architecture Licensure Examination in July 2010. She was crowned Bb. Pilipinas-Universe on April 10, 2011 through the 2011 Binibining Pilipina pageant and took over the crown from the 2010 winner and Miss Universe 2010 fourth runner-up Venus Raj.

So, let's Vote for Shamcey Supsup up to 10x a day! Let's help Shamcey enter the semis in the Ms.Universe 2011

Here is the Link:

http://missuniverse.com/members/profile/599558/year:2011

THELMA

    
           Thel-ma: a name of Greek origin which means “will” or “volition”.

      Maja Salvador trains under athlete Elma Muros, Asia’s fastest woman and track and field champion, for her upcoming Indie Film “Thelma.” Produced and directed by Paul Soriano, “Thelma” is a story of dreams and determination of a young athlete.

In this film, Thelma takes running in the fields of her hometown Ilocos Norte to relieve her from pain and problems. Disaster strikes when her younger sister is run over by a speeding car that crippled her for life. The only hope for her to recover is an expensive operation which they cannot afford.

Life has been harsh to Thelma since then until she joins a road race and wins. Her skills set her to journey to Manila where she faces new challenges that almost make her decide whether to go back home or to pursue the distance.

The story not only centers on a young girl’s passion for running but also around her relationships and trials. Runners and non-runners alike will be able to relate to thefilm especially at everyone’s growing interest in running and fitness as well as the popularity of marathon running these days.

Maja Salvador is supported by a talented cast: Techie Agbayani, John Arcilla, Eliza Pineda, and Jason Abalos. The movie features stunning cinematography by the award-winning Director of Photography, Odyssey Flores. Shot with the latest in camera technology– the ARRI Alexa–

Official Trailer:

    

                                Showing nationwide on September 7, 2011

Like this on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/runTHELMA

Get an updates here: http://thelma.timehorizon.co/about-thelma/

Mozilla Chair Acknowledges Enterprises Do Count for Firefox

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       Exactly what will end up being the very final, last word on the subject of Mozilla Firefox's expedited release system, may yet be seen. Yesterday, however, the Mozilla Foundation's chairperson, Mitchell Baker, weighed in with what appears to be an attempt at finality, albeit a dualistic one. On the one hand, Baker wrote, Firefox should be less like software and more like the Internet.

On the other hand, enterprises do count in determining how software like Firefox should continue to improve.

"Philosophically, I do not believe a product that moves at the speed of traditional desktop software can be effective at enabling an Internet where things happen in real time," wrote Baker on her personal blog. "If we want the browser to be the interface for the Internet, we need to make it more like the Internet."

Baker tried to gloss over the problem many Firefox contributors have pointed out in recent days: that independent developers of Firefox add-ons may not easily make the adjustment to a six-week major release cycle. She said that add-ons were managed through Web pages that structurally aren't any different from any other kind of Web page, making them easier to manage.

She used that as an example of expediting the browser management process while at the same time addressing user concerns, and here is where she invoked enterprises. "We need to listen carefully to those who are experiencing difficulties. We need to be creative and try to find practical ways of alleviating these difficulties if we can. This is true for the enterprise use case, and it's true for the add-on experience. I know that's not a perfect answer, and it's not a promise that we can meet everyone's needs perfectly. Despite this, I believe the rapid release process is the right direction."

This comment comes a few months after Firefox product manager Asa Dotzler made his now infamous proclamation, "Enterprise has never been (and I'll argue, shouldn't be) a focus."

In a late effort to determine how many add-on developers the rapid release cycle may impact, Mozilla has posted a survey whose questions include, "Are you aware that desktop Firefox will be moving to a multi-process architecture like the one used by Firefox for mobile?" and "If Mozilla provided a marketplace for add-ons, would you be interested in selling a premium version of a new or existing add-on?"

Massacred in Batangas

BATANGAS CITY, Philippines – Three family members were stabbed to death by their own relative in Lian town Saturday evening, police said.

Senior Inspector Joel Laraya, Lian police chief, identified the victims as Merlita Austria, 48 and her children Emmanuel, 28 and Emelita, 27. They are all residents of Sitio Matuod, Barangay Luyahan, Lian, Batangas.

Police are now hunting down the suspect identified as Roldan Mendoza, 26, the nephew of Merlita.

Suspect Mendoza and Emmanuel allegedly had a heated argument, leading to the stabbing of the latter.

Witnesses said Merlita and Emelita came to the rescue of Emmanuel, but they too were stabbed to death by Mendoza.

A manhunt operation was immediately ordered by Batangas Police Director Senior Superintendent Rosauro Acio against Mendoza, who fled after the incident.
 


--From ANC ALERTS

Weather Update

At 4:00 pm today, the eye of Typhoon "MINA" was located based on satellite and surface data at 90 km South Southwest of Basco, Batanes (19.7°N; 121.5°NE) with maximum sustained winds of 140 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 170 kph. It is forecast to move North Northwest at 07 kph. 

Hurricane Irene

This picture of Hurricane Irene hitting the coast is ridiculous:

NEW YORK - Residents of New York and New Jersey are anxiously waiting for the arrival of Hurricane Irene.

The two states are under state of emergencies. A hurricane warning is in effect in the area until tomorrow night.

The outer band of Hurricane Irene reached New York about an hour and a half ago and weather conditions in the area started to deteriorate rapidly

A tornado watch is also in effect in the area until 5 am tomorrow

While Irene is now downgraded to category 1 (which is equivalent to signal number 3 in the Philippines), state and national officials still warn of flooding in low lying areas such as in lower Manhattan in New York and
Hoboken in New Jersey.

Thousands of residents have evacuated earlier today but many residents chose to ride out the hurricane because they have no other place to go or they feel safer in their own homes.

Many Filipinos have also evacuated and moved to safer or higher grounds.

Some Filipinos have also reported power outages in their areas
However, a few other Kababayans decided to ride out the storm since it's been downgraded to category 1 and they live in high rise apartments.