Members of Associations of bloggers singapore are stepping down one after another.
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Rachel, Endoh and Paddy.
What happened as all on the same day within hours of each others.
4.40pm
Nicole also quited.
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It is now being reported that Warners Bros. Pictures and producer Dan Lin ("Sherlock Holmes," "Jonny Quest") are in early development on a reboot of the video game turned film franchise "Tomb Raider" says The Hollywood Reporter.
The rumored recasting as well seems to be a rights issue. Though Paramount previously made the two movies based on the game, the rights have since reverted to Eidos. Time Warner upped its stake to nearly 20% in Eidos in December and films rights to the property became part of that deal.
Much like the recent Batman and James Bond series, the new project will ignore the previous films and will reimagine the origins of Lara Croft, her love interest and the main villain.
As the project is an open-writing assignment, a writer and director are yet to be attached making the casting of Croft herself an unlikely event for a long time yet (sorry Megan Fox fans).
The hugely popular game series, first published in 1996, followed the daredevil archaeologist Lara Croft on a series of global missions. After four subsequent and increasingly panned sequels, the series was put in the hands of new developers who effectively 'rebooted' the series with the game "Tomb Raider: Legend". A direct sequel to that, "Tomb Raider: Underworld", hit stores in November.
Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight and Daniel Craig starred in the first film adaptation in 2001, while Jolie, Gerard Butler and Ciaran Hinds starred in the second in 2003. Despite dreadful reviews the first film scored a major $275 million in international box-office. Reviews were better though still dire for the sequel, while revenue notably sank with only a $157 million global tally.
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News footage captured a shadowy object flashing across the sky before the new President’s speech.
The high-speed object appears to streak behind the Washington Monument and then disappear into the clouds.
The CNN clip, featuring veteran US broadcaster Wolf Blitzer, has attracted thousands of hits on video-sharing website YouTube.
UFO experts are convinced it shows an alien craft speeding behind the 555ft-high monument – but sceptics say it was a bird or a bat.
Enthusiast Nick Pope said: “We know it is not an aircraft because a strict no-fly zone was imposed over the area.
“It seems to have been going a little bit too fast for any type of bird.”
During the election run-up, UFO bloggers claimed mysterious “orbs” were spotted over an Obama rally in Chicago.
Calls for him to release all information held on UFOs attracted over 170,000 votes on his new online “Citizen Briefing Book” last week – more than any other subject.
Mr Pope said: “Despite the economic downturn and the conflict in Afghanistan, the number one topic people were pressuring the President over was UFOs. It proves this is more than a fringe issue.”
THE quartet who played at the inauguration have admitted they were miming – after recording the music two days before.
They said sub-zero temperatures would have put their instruments out of tune.
See video
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2167191.ece
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A small part of the population escapes to Mars, leaving millions of people behind. The man of faith and leader of an ancient brotherhood Brother Samuel is a believer of God and the Chronicles, a bible about the mutants. With the city under siege of the mutants, he visits the Corporations' leader Constantine asking for an aircraft and twenty men for a suicide mission to destroy The Machine, planting a bomb and a detonator following the knowledge of the Chronicles.
He recruits the tough Major 'Mitch' Hunter; the Bauhaus Lieutenant Maximillian von Steiner; the keeper of the Chronicles Severian that is under a vow of silence; the gorgeous and lethal Corporal Valerie Duval; Corporal Juba Kim Wu; Captain John McGuire; and Corporal Jesus 'El Jesus' de Barrera. Together they become the last hope of Earth against the evil mutants.
http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=51939
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A middle-aged slacker living in a rundown, graffiti-ridden slum, Daisato's job involves being shocked by bolts of electricity that transform him into a stocky, stick-wielding giant several stories high who is entrusted with defending Japan from a host of bizarre monsters. But while his predecessors were national heroes, he is a pariah among the citizens he protects, who bitterly complain about the noise and destruction of property he causes. And Daisato has his own problems – an agent insistent on branding him with sponsor advertisements, an Alzheimer-afflicted grandfather who transforms into a giant in dirty underwear, and a family who is embarrassed by his often cowardly exploits. A wickedly deadpan spin on the giant Japanese superhero, "Big Man Japan" is an outrageous portrait of a pathetic but truly unique hero.
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Pierce Brosnan may tell you that singing with Meryl Streep in Mama Mia was intimidating, but in his latest movie, The Greatest, that just premiered at Sundance to rave reviews, the Irish actor goes places, emotionally, he has never gone before, playing a grief-stricken father opposite Susan Sarandon.
In this exclusive interview, Brosnan talks about the challenges he had preparing for this role and the conscious decision he made not to have in family around during filming. He talked one-on-one to Paul Fischer in Park City.
Question: Did this film come to you as an actor first and then as a producer? Or were they both kind of – synchronized?
Brosnan: They came to Irish DreamTime as producing, acting. And Bo said, “Read this.” And I read it, and I thought it was wonderful, then I threw it under the bed, and I said, “I just – let it lie there.” Literally put it under the bed. I have a little house, out and away. I didn’t really want to go there, just because it was so well-founded by Shana, and the emotions of it. And then Bo kept on at me, saying, “Read it again. Read it again.” And I read it again. I said, “All right, let’s meet with Shana and Lynette, the producer.” And I said, “Okay. Let’s go ahead, let’s do it.”
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This is a unofficial Laetitia Casta site, Laetitia is one of the most beautiful women to walk the earth as of now if you ask us and therefor we decided to make a website dedicated for her so that others could enjoy her beauty.
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Just weeks after the New Year's celebrations ended, the European Union's European Commission has issued a fresh round of accusations against Microsoft. Likely inspired by past successes which saw the EU reaping $1.4B USD (899M €) in its latest fine against Microsoft, the pair is getting ready to wage battle in the European Union's courts yet again. http://www.dailytech.com/EU+Accuses+Microsoft+of+Wrongdoing+Again/article13988.htm
Aren't they tired? Is Microsoft really that bad and not learnt antyhing?
A new year, new charges from the EU against Microsoft
The EU released a statement Friday stating, "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."
Microsoft is currently reviewing the statement and deciding whether to fight the charges by requesting a formal hearing. It has been given an eight week deadline to reply to the charges. In the past Microsoft has had little success fighting the EU, with its appeals against fines consistently failing.
While Microsoft has diversified substantially, with revenue from internet business, the Xbox
It’s hard to argue the effectiveness of Microsoft's strategy. Internet Explorer maintains a relatively large lead over second place competitor Firefox, with a 59.5 percent market share in Europe compared to Firefox's 31.1 percent. While part of this is due to Microsoft's advantages over Firefox in a large business environment, much of it is simply due to the fact that the software comes with every Windows install. This practice, says the EU, while effective, is anticompetitive.
The last fine against Microsoft came in February 2008. The fine and future fines to come from the European Commission saying Microsoft willfully ignored a 2004 ruling, which ordered it to cease certain anticompetitive practices. As the result of these violations, Microsoft is under extended oversight, and now looks to be headed for even more fines.
The most recent charges were spurred by a complaint from Norway's Opera browser company. Some analysts are noting that the timing of the latest charges is rather odd, as Internet Explorer is at its lowest market share in several years. Further, while the U.S. focused on IE in antitrust charges in the late 90s, the EU has for several years declined to focus on it, instead targeting Microsoft's bundling practices in general.
While Microsoft may be a bit morose over the fact that more antitrust charges have been dropped on it, it can take comfort in that at least it is not alone. The European Commission, which practices a stricter brand of antitrust law than the U.S., has targeted Intel and even Apple with separate charges or accusations. However, those charges fall short of those leveled at Microsoft, which has proved the EU's favorite source of antitrust fine revenue over the years, being forced to pay over $2.4B USD in fines.
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Association of Bloggers (Singapore) was submitted for registration in December 2008 by a team of like minded bloggers whose vision and purpose is to strengthen and unify blogger relations in the local blogosphere.
Our mission is to -
* To promote and support the positive development of the blogging scene in Singapore, as a distinct form of media; with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen.
* To promote professionalism in blogging among members.
* To promote its members by advancing the grassroots media movement generally through activities and events organized.
* Fostering a positive identity with creditability.
* Educating its Members through mutual support and robust internal discussion, by partnering with organizations dedicated to education in the area of technology, methods and standard otherwise, creating educational opportunities for the association and its Members.
* To provide for the interchange and advance of knowledge in the field of blogging.
* To promote social interaction and cohesion among Members.
http://associationofbloggers.wordpress.com/
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"Today marks a new milestone for BLOG2u and SGBloggers. BLOG2u Pte Ltd announced today that it has acquired SGBloggers, a local blog hosting site catering to the needs of Singaporean.
As a new media advertising network, BLOG2u believes that SGBloggers’ services complements our existing business model. With SGBloggers, BLOG2u will be able to reach out to a wider audience and roll out new services to help bridge new media between companies and bloggers."
BLOG2u.SG is an online advertising agency that match-make between Advertisers and Bloggers together (New Media); to deliver online ‘word of mouth’ for products and services, to ignite the spread of the ‘wild fire’ to the targeted group of potential customers (readers of the blogs)
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An asterisk appeared on the site next to Hathaway's name in a list of nominees - even though the Golden Globes do not take place until Sunday.
A nominee was "randomly marked as a winner" by mistake, a statement on the Golden Globes website said.
Hathaway is up for best actress in a drama for Rachel Getting Married.
"In the process of preparing for Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, a technician working on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's (HFPA) website made a mistake and a name of a nominee was randomly marked as a winner," the statement said.
"The mistake was immediately corrected."
It said it did not mean that Hathaway had won the award for her role as a recovering drug addict in the Jonathan Demme film.
66th year
Other nominees in the same category are Angelina Jolie for Changeling, Meryl Streep for Doubt, Kristin Scott Thomas for I've Loved You So Long and Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road.
On Thursday night, Hathaway tied with Meryl Streep for the best actress gong at the Critics' Choice Awards in California.
"To win with my idol - who I was nominated against - is amazing," Hathaway said backstage.
"I'm so thrilled for her and I'm very thrilled for myself, too."
Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire dominated at the awards, winning five prizes including best film and director.
On Friday, it was announced that British singer Sting and US rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs would be among celebrities presenting awards at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, at the Beverley Hilton Hotel in Beverley Hills, California.
The awards, which honour both film and television, are in their 66th year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7821947.stm
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Title : The Games Xpo 2009 (TGX'09)
Date : 3 July 2009 - 5 July 2009
Location : Suntec Exhibition Hall 404 (Level 4)
Time (First Day) : 11.00am - 8.00pm(Trade & Media Guests)
Time (Other Day) : 11.00am - 8.00pm
Time (Last Day) : 11.00am - 8.00pm
www.thegamesxpo.com
Source : http://www.suntecsingapore.com/calen...?event_id=1986
Jointly organised by Conference & Exhibition Management Services Pte Ltd (CEMS) and Rapture Gaming Pte Ltd, TGX09 will take place in the heart of Southeast Asia - Singapore, from 3 - 5 July 2009 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre.
With Games Exchange Alliance (GXA), a trade industry body in Singapore, as event host, together with the Singapore Cosplay Club and Virtualand, Singapore’s leading arcade games centres, as official event partners, TGX09 is presenting the entire spectrum of gaming industry to the next higher level. Tens of thousands of gaming enthusiasts are expected to swarm the show floor and witness this revolution of gaming.
Singapore Cosplay Club’s most spectacular Cosplay competition in Asia and various exciting and exclusive gaming and arcade tournaments by Rapture Gaming and Virtualand are among the many highlights of the event that will surely capture the hard-core players and gaming enthusiasts.
In this three-day fun-filled and action-packed event, TGX09 is expected to draw in 90,000 gaming public plus 1,500 trade and media guests, strengthening its position as the most preferred business platform for local and regional industry players to promote their latest games, products and peripherals.
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Here’s the quick run-down of specs we received from Palm as well. I think many of them will sound veeeeerrrrry familar in terms of the functionality:
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Microsoft has delayed the public release of its Windows 7 beta download due to an overwhelming demand that its servers couldn't handle.
Windows 7 Beta Delay
"Due to very heavy traffic we're seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public beta," the message explains.
The post does not give a definitive time for when the Windows 7 beta will be made available again.
"We want to ensure customers have the best possible experience when downloading the beta, and I'll be posting here again soon once the beta goes live," it says.
Overwhelming Demand
Reports as early as Friday morning indicated that Microsoft's servers were being crushed by the demand for Windows 7, even before the files were initially posted. Microsoft had planned to allow only the first 2.5 million users to download the operating system. The company has indicated it would like to have the software fully tested and ready for its final release by the end of the year.
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Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Its legacy is tangible, with terms like algebra, algorithm and alkali all being Arabic in origin and at the very heart of modern science - there would be no modern mathematics or physics without algebra, no computers without algorithms and no chemistry without alkalis.
For Baghdad-born Al-Khalili this is also a personal journey and on his travels he uncovers a diverse and outward-looking culture, fascinated by learning and obsessed with science. From the great mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, who did much to establish the mathematical tradition we now know as algebra, to Ibn Sina, a pioneer of early medicine whose Canon of Medicine was still in use as recently as the 19th century, he pieces together a remarkable story of the often-overlooked achievements of the early medieval Islamic scientists.
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The stream (note: direct QuickTime link) presents the full hour-and-a-half keynote, including a concluding performance by musician Tony Bennett.
At the event, Apple introduced a new version of iLife with key updates to GarageBand, iMovie and iPhoto; it also unveiled both iWork '09 and iWork.com, establishing the first web component to its productivity suite.
The company also introduced a new 17-inch MacBook Pro that uses the same unibody construction as 13- and 15-inch Apple notebooks but with a newly designed 8-hour battery and a dramatically improved display.
Finally, Apple has also revealed that it will remove DRM from virtually all music on iTunes by the end of March while increasing audio quality. In return, pricing for songs will vary depending what labels hope to charge Apple.
iPhone 3G owners can now also download music and podcasts directly over the cellular network instead of waiting to reach a Wi-Fi network.
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'Touch tablet,' flip phone, rechargeable TV remote and femtocell in a picture frame also to be shown
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January 6, 2009 (Computerworld) Motorola Inc. is still in the midst of plans to spin off its mobile handset division in 2010, but will show off a new cell phone made from recycled plastic water bottles at the Consumer Electronics Show later this week.
The Moto W233 Renew is described by Motorola as the "world's first carbon neutral mobile phone." Because it is based on recycled plastics, Motorola said today that 20% less energy is needed to produce the phone, compared to the standard plastic process.
To further the green theme, the Renew will come to customers in a box that is reduced in size, and with brochures printed using vegetable-based inks on 100% post-consumer recycled paper.
The conservation theme carries over to the phone itself, with up to nine hours of talk time, meaning users can talk more, charge less and reduce energy usage, Motorola said. Details about pricing, availability, carriers and device specifications were not immediately available. The device was shown in a greenish-yellow skin.
Motorola will also present the Motosurf A3100, a mobile device it describes as a "touch tablet" to be used for data access over HSPA and Wi-Fi wireless networks. It runs Windows Mobile 6.1.
It also has a flip phone, the Motorola Tundra VA76r, that provides push-to-talk capabilities for workforces. The phone will run on AT&T Mobility networks. Others details on the Motosurf and Tundra were not immediately available.
Among other products, Motorola's home and networks division will show a femtocell that CES officials are honoring for innovative furniture design. The KeepMeConnected Femtocells CDMA 9100 Series is a low-cost wireless access point, but unusual because of its touch screen inside a digital picture frame. It will be available from carriers this year and will provide a voice-over-Internet soft phone, a spokesman said.
Motorola is also showing what many TV watchers have been begging for since the invention of the remote control device. The remote, to be available through IPTV carriers this year, is rechargeable and includes a feature similar to the infamous "Clapper" device, allowing a user to find it when lost.
The remote control sits in a base station powered by a wall socket or a USB connection to a set-top device. The base station provides recharging, and also has a switch that triggers an audio tone and flashing lights on the missing remote.
Motorola is also showing a home network device with a WiMax modem and a Wi-Fi router combined. Called the wi4 WiMax CPEi775, it will be available through service providers later this year, Motorola said.
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The company said that its own internal support tools had been used to hack the accounts. The support tools - which are used by the company’s support team for helping users in editing e-mail addresses associated with their Twitter account and other such things - were used by the hacker to compromise the hijacked accounts. The hacking of accounts followed a nasty phishing scam on Twitter, over the weekend. According to the site, during the spam, regular Twitter users could possibly have been tricked into logging on to a page masked as the Twitter front page.
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Research groups tell us a lot of interesting things, and Nielsen has begun the new year with some unexpected news from 2008. With other reports fussing over the three “next-gen” consoles, who would have thought that Sony’s PlayStation 2 would win the popularity contest? Based on data gathered between January and October 2008, Nielsen has determined that 31.7 percent of the American gamer pool was comprised of PS2 users. The Xbox 360 comes in second with 17.2 percent, followed by the Wii at 13.4 percent.
Furthermore, the research data showed the original Xbox hanging on at 9.7 percent, as the PlayStation 3 sits at 7.3 percent. Nintendo’s GameCube falls below that at 4.6 percent, leaving 16.2 percent in the “Other” category, which consists of “any other console found in the home.” This doesn’t include portable platforms on the DS or PSP. Even more impressive data from Nielsen is the fact that World of Warcraft (WoW) users average 671 minutes (over 11 hours) per week! In any given minute, “almost 1 percent (0.723 percent) of all PC gamers are playing WoW.”
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Celebrating the braless women of the universe!
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Nokia E63 is designed for communication, it has advanced messaging features and you can also share your stories, photos, and videos directly from your Nokia E63.
Nokia E63 has a full keyboard and large landscape display that help you stay connected, and share your media more easily. Nokia E63 has two home screens and dedicated one-touch keys for home, calendar, contacts, and email.
Nokia E63 is also a great multimedia device; you can store songs on your device, or listen to Internet and FM radio. The 3.5 mm audio plug works with your favorite headphones.
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