Business
Walmart Valentine Gifts: Valentine’s Day 2012 Walmart eGift Cards and More
Walmart Valentine gifts are now available online with sweeter savings and affordable ideas, according to the retail giant’s newsletter ads on Saturday, January 28, 2012. The Walmart Valentine’s Day 2012 ads encourages customers to order their gifts early and have them delivered on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012. Walmart Valentine eGift Card Image Credit: Walmart [...]
iPhone Factory Conditions to be Addressed by Apple CEO Tim Cook
iPhone Factory Image Credit: 9to5mac.com iPhone factory working conditions will be addressed directly by Apple CEO Tim Cook, according to reports by several international news sites on Friday, January 27, 2012. Employees at Apple supplies factories in China were reportedly working over the normal working hours. Reports added that factory workers are living in unsuitable, [...]
Education
Apple Announcement: iBooks 2 And iBooks Author For Digital Textbooks Unveiled
iBooks 2 on the iPad Image Credit: Apple Apple unveiled iBooks 2 in an Apple press event held at New York‘s Guggenheim Museum on Thursday, January 19, 2012, technology news sites reported that day. According to reports, iBooks 2 will give a “new textbook experience” for the iPad. It is a free application for the [...]
PNoy signs EO 66, new rules for the suspension of classes and work during natural disasters
Manila, Philippines – President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III (PNoy) recently signed Executive Order 66 (EO 66), which is about the new rules for the suspension of classes and work during natural disasters such as typhoon. Philippine government logo Image Credit: Philippine government Twitter As noted on local news sites on Thursday, January 12, 2012, PNoy [...]
Entertainment
Senator Lito Lapid to star in teleserye despite being a judge on CJ Renato Corona impeachment trial
Manila, Philippines – Senator Manuelito “Lito” Lapid will star in a teleserye (TV series) despite being one of the senator-judges on the ongoing Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona impeachment trial. Senator Lito Lapid Image Credit: ABS-CBN video According to ABS-CBN News on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Senator Lito Lapid will be back on [...]
Demi Moore hospitalized for exhaustion treatment, drops out from movie “Lovelace”
Demi Moore was hospitalized recently, and is now dropping out from the movie “Lovelace“, a biopic of Linda Lovelace, where she is supposed to play the role of feminist Gloria Steinem. Demi Moore Image Credit: Jason Kempin/Getty Images According to TMZ on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Demi Moore was rushed to a hospital in Los [...]
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Events
Walmart Valentine Gifts: Valentine’s Day 2012 Walmart eGift Cards and More
Walmart Valentine gifts are now available online with sweeter savings and affordable ideas, according to the retail giant’s newsletter ads on Saturday, January 28, 2012. The Walmart Valentine’s Day 2012 ads encourages customers to order their gifts early and have them delivered on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012. Walmart Valentine eGift Card Image Credit: Walmart [...]
Chinese New Year: Year of the Water Dragon 2012 Celebrated All Over the World
Exactly when the clock stroke 12 midnight on January 23, 2012 in China, and wherever Chinese people live across the world, they celebrated the Chinese New Year to welcome 2012, according to various international news sites. Chinese New Year celebrated in China Image Credit: Diego Azubel / EPA The New Year 2012 is the Year [...]
Lifestyle
Walmart Valentine Gifts: Valentine’s Day 2012 Walmart eGift Cards and More
Walmart Valentine gifts are now available online with sweeter savings and affordable ideas, according to the retail giant’s newsletter ads on Saturday, January 28, 2012. The Walmart Valentine’s Day 2012 ads encourages customers to order their gifts early and have them delivered on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012. Walmart Valentine eGift Card Image Credit: Walmart [...]
Taco Bell breakfast menu FirstMeal launched, offered in 10 Western states
Taco Bell, a Mexican-style restaurant in the US is now offering breakfast to its customers called FirstMeal, its first breakfast menu that promises to combine great Taco Bell value with classic breakfast tastes. Taco Bell breakfast menu FirstMeal Image Credit: TacoBell.com According to a press release by Taco Bell on its official website on Thursday, [...]
Politics
Australian PM Julia Gillard’s missing shoe found, lost during Australia Day protest escape (Photo)
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard lost her shoe while being rescued by bodyguards during a protest on Thursday, January 26, 2012, known as Australia Day, but was found later, as shown in the photo below. Pat Eatock, showing the lost shoe of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Image Credit: Gary Ramage/The Daily Telegraph According to [...]
Gov Jan Brewer points finger at President Obama during exchange of words over a book (Photo)
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was recently pictured pointing her finger at US President Barack Obama during an alleged exchange words at the tarmac of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, as shown in the photo below. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, pointing her finger on US President Barack Obama Image Credit: AP As noted in US news sites on [...]
Amazing
Blue Marble 2012: NASA releases “Most Amazing” High Definition Image of Earth (Photo)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 the Blue Marble 2012, the so-called most amazing high definition image of the Earth, as shown in the photo below. As noted by NASA on its official website, the huge image was captured by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), aboard the [...]
Laura Dekker, 16, becomes ‘youngest sailor’ to complete solo voyage around the world
Laura Dekker, a 16-year old Dutch citizen, is now being considered as the youngest sailor to complete a solo voyage around the world on Saturday, January 21, 2012, aboard a sailboat named ‘Guppy‘. ‘Youngest sailor’ Laura Dekker, arriving in Sint Maarten after completing her solo voyage around the world Image Credit: AP As noted at [...]
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Sports
President Obama Declined to Predict the Outcome of Super Bowl 46
Image Credit: Wikipedia.org President Obama declined to pick his preference on the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI which will happen on February 5, 2012 in Lucas Oil Stadium in Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. According to an ABC exclusive interview he said: “I can’t call it. I can’t call it,” Obama told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview. “When the [...]
Super Bowl 2012 Tickets Are in Demand as NFL Championship Nears
The Super Bowl 2012 will be held at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Thursday, February 5, 2012, where the awaited NFL Championship will kick off, and the demand for Super Bowl 2012 tickets now reportedly keeping its prices high. Super Bowl 2012 Tickets Image Credit: Indystar.com According to SeatGeek.com, which tracks trends and [...]
Technology
Twitter Blackout: Twitter users not to tweet on Saturday, January 28 to protest Twitter censorship
A huge number of Twitter users plan to launch a Twitter Blackout on Saturday, January 28, 2012, as a protest to the earlier announcement by Twitter that it would censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. Twitter Blackout symbol Image Credit: CNET As noted at technology news sites on Friday, various tweets in different languages with [...]
iPhone Factory Conditions to be Addressed by Apple CEO Tim Cook
iPhone Factory Image Credit: 9to5mac.com iPhone factory working conditions will be addressed directly by Apple CEO Tim Cook, according to reports by several international news sites on Friday, January 27, 2012. Employees at Apple supplies factories in China were reportedly working over the normal working hours. Reports added that factory workers are living in unsuitable, [...]
World
Walmart Valentine Gifts: Valentine’s Day 2012 Walmart eGift Cards and More
Walmart Valentine gifts are now available online with sweeter savings and affordable ideas, according to the retail giant’s newsletter ads on Saturday, January 28, 2012. The Walmart Valentine’s Day 2012 ads encourages customers to order their gifts early and have them delivered on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012. Walmart Valentine eGift Card Image Credit: Walmart [...]
Taco Bell breakfast menu FirstMeal launched, offered in 10 Western states
Taco Bell, a Mexican-style restaurant in the US is now offering breakfast to its customers called FirstMeal, its first breakfast menu that promises to combine great Taco Bell value with classic breakfast tastes. Taco Bell breakfast menu FirstMeal Image Credit: TacoBell.com According to a press release by Taco Bell on its official website on Thursday, [...]
Weird
Misspelled “School” sign in New York since 2010 has been corrected (Photo)
A misspelled school sign in a New York street that has been there for more than a year has been corrected, as shown in the photo below, a day after it was reported online and earned a lot of criticisms. According to the New York Post on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, a sign at Stanton [...]
Illinois man with nail inside his brain, posts X-ray at Facebook before operation (Photo)
A man from Orland Park, Illinois had a nail inside his brain early this week, and posted the X-ray result on his Facebook page, as shown in the photo, before doctors removed it from his head. According to US news sites on Friday, January 20, 2012, Dante Autullo, 32, first thought that the doctors were [...]
Science
Lego man in space by 2 Toronto teens goes viral (Video)
A so-called Lego man in space was recently launched by two Toronto teens, as shown in the video below, which was made only for fun and not as school project. Lego man, while in space Image Credit: Mathew Ho/YouTube According to The Star, a Canadian news site on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, teens Mathew Ho [...]
NASA: Asteroid 2012 BX34 to pass by Earth on Friday, January 27
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Thursday, January 26, 2012 that an asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, January 27. According to NASA Asteroid Watch program that day, Asteroid 2012 BX34 will pass by Earth on Friday, January 27 at around 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 GMT) but will not pose any [...]
Opinion
Target Day After Christmas Sale 2011 Offers Savings up to 50 Percent Off Beginning Dec. 26
Target Day After Christmas Sales for 2011 will offer up to 50 percent off on popular women’s and kids’ apparel, and home and holiday decor in stores and online at Target.com. Here are some of the items that will be on special at Target’s Day After Christmas Sale. Samsung 32″ HDTV Sony Cybershot 12.1 MP [...]
Gaces-Roque Nuptials: Unique Blend of Military and Ethnic Wedding Rituals
Baguio City, Philippines – The Gaces-Roque nuptials was held December 17, at the Baguio Cathedral with the reception following at the Baguio Convention Center (BCC). Reportedly, majority of the guests considered the wedding unique because of the blending of the military and ethnic wedding rituals.
