Articles Archive for February 2006
Science and Technology »
As rumors unfurl about a new gadget upcoming from Microsoft, the company’s Origami Project [^] is starting to take shape as a very small tablet computer, one perhaps affordable enough to appeal to mainstream consumers.
The concept, which Microsoft plans to detail next month, is built on top of the Windows XP operating system but aims to be a new kind of device, rather than a replacement for existing PCs, according to sources familiar with the effort. With a screen bigger than that of a handheld but smaller than a notebook …
Sine Pinoy »
March 2006
Moments of Love: DingDong Dantes, Karylle, and Iza Calzado
(a man of the present falls in love with a woman of the ’50s)
(a la Pretty Woman)
Katrina Halili and Dingdong Dantes
Pinoy People »
Filipinos continue to dream the American dream.
American Idol: Jose ‘Sway’ Penala
American Idol: Jasmine Trias
World Talent (Hawaii, USA): Alyssa Ashley Soriano Palacsa
Kapamilya (ABS-CBN 2) »
Pinatunayan nina Judy Ann Santos at Piolo Pascual na sila ang pinakamalakas sa kasalukuyan na love team sa pelikula sa Don’t Give Up On Us.
All set naman sila na patunayan ang lakas ng kanilang tambalan sa telebisyon through their new soap coming up, Sa Piling Mo. Sa Pebrero 27 na ang simula nito.
May impression kami na isang strong character ang gagampanan ni Juday sa bagong soap nila. Isang babaeng kristo ang gagampanan niya. Isang kristo sa sabungan, si Jennifer.
Ano kaya ang uri ng karakter ni Piolo na si …
Sine Pinoy »
Cinemalaya filmfest announces 10 finalists
[source: article by Nestor U. Torre of inq7.net]
Local movie buffs and new filmmakers are excited over the second Cinemalaya alternative filmfest, which unreels four months from now.
Who are the 10 new writer-directors who will each be given a seed grant of P500,000 by Tonyboy Cojuangco to demonstrate their ability as filmmakers, and to enrich viewers’ lives with alternative movies they wouldn’t usually get to see in the country’s more predictable mainstream cinema?
Entries
The 10 winners were supposed to be announced last month, but the members of the …
Iba Tayo (ABC 5) »
ABC-5 airs American Idol Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10pm.
Fil-Am among ‘Idol’s’ top 24
[source: article by Kathryn Reyes of inq7.net]
ANOTHER FIL-AM TALENT HAS MADE IT TO the top 24 of the widely popular talent search, “American Idol.”
Jose “Sway” Penala turned 28 on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), when the final crop was selected during proceedings in Pasadena, California.
Out of thousands who auditioned from all over the United States, 200 had been sent to Hollywood for the qualifying rounds.
Sway said he felt “numb” when judges Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell told …
Sine Pinoy »
I Love Paris (Angel Locsin and Richard Gutierrez)
Sometime mid 2006.
Science and Technology »
The shares are down, but satellite radio won’t die yet, thanks to Howard Stern. This could be the reason why Google is thinking of marrying radio ads with adwords.
There are no federal decency standards to constrain you, that’s a plus. However,
The bigger problem, is that the potential of satellite radio to justify even current valuations remains very much unproven. The mass appeal of satellite radio is not yet a given.
Even if the two managed to run a cosy duopoly, moreover, they will also have rival technologies to contend with. …