LP on The Move

The Liberal Party has moved its national headquarters from Mandaluyong City to the former headquarters and media center of the defunct Genuine Opposition in Makati City. LP campaign manager Sen. Francis Pangilinan said they have decided to move to the Manila Bank building from the Parc House office to accommodate more people during press conferences regarding sorties of standard-bearer Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, his running mate Sen. Mar Roxas and the party’s senatorial slate. He...

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Facebooks' First Asia's Office

 Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said Monday. It will supplement Facebook's other centers in Palo Alto, California; Dublin, Ireland; and Austin, Texas. The move is part of a push to create support centers across time zones, with round-the-clock, multi-lingual...

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No Fees For Online News

 Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be "like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons," a new consumer survey suggests. That was one of several bleak headlines in the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual assessment of the state of the news industry, released Sunday. The project's report contained an extensive look at habits of the estimated six in 10 Americans who say they get at least some news online during a typical day. On average, each...

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Google Open Apps Store

Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet. The online store marks another step in Google’s crusade to convert the world to “cloud computing,” the idea of running applications in Web browsers instead of installing them on individual hard drives. The information entered in the programs is also stored in data centers run by third parties such...

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Manny Pacquiao...Icon of Boxing

 The fight was long over and most of the biggest crowd to see a fight in the U.S. in 17 years had found their way out of massive Cowboys Stadium. Manny Pacquiao was in the shower, where one member of his entourage surely was in charge of selecting his shampoo while another had the task of making sure the towels were just right. Pacquiao had easily disposed of a timid Joshua Clottey, and now he had a concert to perform. He finally emerged in an argyle sweater that would have looked better...

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Lebron's Unstoppable Performance

LeBron James(notes) scored 30 points, 24 in the second half, and Cleveland wore down the aging Boston Celtics in the second half for a 104-93 victory on Sunday, the Cavaliers’ second decisive win over one of the East’s premier teams in less than a month. The Cavaliers were closer to full strength with the return of forward Antawn Jamison(notes), who had 15 points...

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FAA Checks 737 Flops

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive demanding that airlines check a mechanism that controls tail flaps on about 600 Boeing 737s. The directive was issued on Friday and concerns flaps on the horizontal tails of the jets. On March 2, a Ryanair 737-800 en route from the Netherlands to Madrid, Spain, experienced severe vibrations in flight and had to make an unscheduled landing in Belgium. Inspection afterward found "extensive damage" to the left...

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Alice Still Number 1

Alice is still ruling the movie palace. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" easily remained the No. 1 weekend draw with $62 million. The Disney fantasy has climbed to a $208.6 million total domestically, becoming the first $200 million hit released this year. A rush of new movies had so-so openings, led by Matt Damon's Iraq War thriller "Green Zone," which debuted at No. 2 with $14.5 million. Among other debuts, Jay Baruchel's romantic comedy "She's Out of My League" was...

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Cyber Crime Increases

 Losses from cybercrime and online scams more than doubled in 2009 to $559 million as Internet criminals used more sophisticated techniques, an FBI-led task force said Friday. The report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), said losses in the United States linked to online fraud shot up 110 percent from 265 million in 2008, when losses were up just 11 percent. "The figures contained in this report indicate that criminals are continuing to take full advantage of the anonymity...

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Mar and Nukes

 Add Sen. Manuel Roxas II to the list of nuclear power advocates. "I have an open mind about it. Let us think about it. It's the cheapest form of power and [it is for long term]," Roxas, the Liberal Party's candidate for vice president, told reporters here on Saturday. He said the Philippines' neighboring countries were either using or open to the use of nuclear power. "Dapat malawak ang pagtingin dito, pag-aralan natin ito (We should keep an open mind about this issue. We should study...

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After Fight Concert Party

After what he had gone through in his 12 round showdown with Joshua Clottey Saturday (Sunday in Manila), ordinary mortals would think that Manny Pacquiao would be dead tired. But Pacquiao is no ordinary guy. Not only is he the only boxer to win seven crowns in as many divisions, he is also regarded as pound-for-pound king and Fighter of the Decade. No wonder, Pacquiao, wearing dark shades to hide a swelling on his right cheek, can afford to smile as he answers questions from the sports ...

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Its Mayweather Time to Prove

His mission accomplished, Manny Pacquiao is now calling out on Floyd Mayweather Jr. to do his part against Shane Mosley so that their aborted megabuck showdown can push through. Pacquiao came out firing on all cylinders to trounce Joshua Clottey by unanimous decision Saturday night and keep his World Boxing Organization welterweight crown before a packed Cowboys Stadium here. Now, Mayweather has to get past fellow American Mosley in their battle for the World Boxing Association welterweight...

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A Knockout Finished...Everybody Waits

Although his victory on Sunday was just as sweet, it was apparently not as savory for fans used to seeing Manny Pacquiao subdue opponents who were at least willing to trade blows. Denied the spectacle of a knockout or even just a vicious brawl, several paying spectators at an SM Megamall theater in Mandaluyong City immediately headed for the exit after sitting through the 12-round bout—no longer bothering to wait for the formal result or the post-fight hoopla. “Of course, expectations...

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Kobe's Mature Move?

Privately, people wonder: How many more passes does Kobe Bryant(notes) give Pau Gasol(notes) for speaking so boldly about him? How long until Bryant’s public and private reprisal comes with a ferocity that could bring a 7-footer to his knees? All season, Gasol has been a relentlessly consistent, if not passively aggressive, critic of the franchise star’s shooting habits, of an offense that doesn’t deliver him the ball with the frequency that he wants. Whatever the reasons, Gasol has been...

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