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By: Eugene Araneta
There’s no stopping the data boom, and storage solution giant Western Digital acknowledges this trend by introducing storage products with capacities that now range from 3 terabytes to 6 terabytes. Western Digital’s latest external storage products include the My Book Studio and My Book Studio Edition II external hard drives—huge capacity storage devices for creative [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2011 in Headlines,Infotech | Read More »
TOKYO – Japan on Sunday shifted to digital terrestrial broadcasting, switching off its analogue television network in all areas except those worst hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the government said. Japanese broadcasters ended analogue transmission across most of the country at noon (0900 GMT) after 58 years. No major problems among viewers [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2011 in Infotech,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »
By: Carmela Reyes-Estrope
The chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has warned Filipino women anew to be wary of using social networking sites to find partners or spouses because they might fall prey to international drug syndicates looking for couriers of illegal drugs.
Posted: July 23rd, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »
Tweet-happy swimmer Michael Phelps Saturday expressed surprise he was unaffected by China’s ban on Twitter—and said many Chinese fans were breaching the country’s Internet controls to read his posts.
Posted: July 23rd, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

YouTube will live stream Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits in the video site’s continuing push to bring music festivals to digital screens.
Posted: July 23rd, 2011 in Featured Gallery,Latest Technology Stories,Photos & Videos | Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO – A US judge on Friday blocked the latest courtroom campaign by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss to undo a deal they made to settle a squabble over who came up with the idea for Facebook. US District Judge Douglas Woodlock in Boston granted a request by Facebook that the case there be dismissed. [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »
By: Maricar B. Brizuela

Ever wonder what you can do with your hundreds of Facebook friends other than connect with them? How about winning an award and placing the Philippines on the map of globally connected nations. People from different countries are given the opportunity to be known as globally connected individuals under Western Union’s Network Challenge. On Thursday, [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2011 in Headlines | Read More »
China’s leading e-commerce company Alibaba said Friday it will launch a mobile operating system, joining industry giants Google and Apple in providing software for smartphones.
Posted: July 22nd, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »
By: Glenn Chapman
Notorious hacker group Anonymous posted a defiant message to police Thursday and boasted of plundering sensitive data from NATO computers.
Posted: July 22nd, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »
By: Chris Lefkow

Look out Nokia, Angry Birds are plotting to knock you off your perch as Finland’s top company.
Posted: July 22nd, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO – Online groups startup Fridge said Thursday it has been bought by Google and will become part of the Internet giant’s freshly-launched social network. New York City-based Fridge is closing and its small staff will become part of the Google+ team, the startup said in a post at its website. “We look forward [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO — The changing face of the computer industry was on display Wednesday as two companies representing the old guard and the new issued strong results for the latest quarter. Intel, a bedrock of the PC business, and Qualcomm, a vanguard in mobile computing, showed how companies at opposite ends of the computing spectrum [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2011 in Columnists,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos | Read More »

LOS ANGELES — At the end of a long day, many gamers zone out by competing in online death matches, or they check out by escaping to virtual realms. Spiritual leader Deepak Chopra is hoping gamers will instead choose to chill out with “Leela,” his ambitious new effort to combine gaming and meditation. “I personally [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2011 in Editors' Picks,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos | Read More »