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Embattled top Filipino television personality Willie Revillame has taken a two-week leave from hosting his hit game show Willing Willie. This comes after key sponsors started pulling their ads out of the show following the alleged on-air abuse of a six-year-old boy last March. Some credit what is now looking like a concerted ad boycott…
Why did I hesitate? The cynicism in me took over but I was drawn to him and for every word that was exchanged in that early morning jeepney ride, my fondness in him grew stronger. It was a fresh Saturday morning in a soothingly windy Metro Manila suburb that made me want to take a…
On Tuesday, the 12th April is the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off on that day to embark on a 100-minute voyage to space in a Vostok 3KA spacecraft. He completed a full orbit of the planet before safely landing near Engels, Russia. At the time, the…
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Convergence is sweeping the social networking world. Facebook recently implemented an across-the-board consolidation of all its messaging services, bringing them all together within one page stream. These are now accessible through an all-encompassing “Messages” link on our profile navigation pane where there was formerly a link labelled “Inbox”. Mail, text messaging, chat, and “other real-time…
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I didn’t realise how much this quiet batchmate of mine had achieved in the last quarter century until I read about his “return” in the lifestyle section of the Inquirer.net. I used to see Den Abesamis in high school and grade school but did not know him at all. Obviously he was a physical standout…
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I noticed in an article in CNN.com listing The 10 most innovative Web companies that the only reference to a specific revenue generating activity is Twitter’s selling “Promoted Tweets and Trends”. Other than that all the rest merely boast their millions of users, millions of searches, millions of “check ins”, millions of subscribers and followrs,…
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They say love hurts. Or at least being rejected does. Whether it is a lover or a friend – they say that being jilted is just like getting punched in the gut. Spare a thought for Philippine President Noynoy Aquino. PNoy and his team were left licking their wounds after their most recent approval rating…
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Congratulations to star of the 1980s Carmi Martin for graduating at 47 with a fine arts degree from the Philippine Women’s University (PWU)! Martin co-starred with Freddie Web in the seminal Filipino sitcom Chicks to Chicks at the height of her fame. Martin in an interview said in Tagalog that showbiz for her is not…
