Tag: privacy

Marjorie Barretto puts gossip bloggers and scandal mongers on notice!

May 9, 2013October 27, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

Philippine laws against violation of privacy and malicious capture of images will once again be put to a high-profile test as the subject of the latest sex photo scandal, Filipino starlet Marjorie Barretto, releases her legal hounds. This was after two photos of Barretto posing in various stages of undress somehow made their way onto…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour

Will social media as we know it thrive in a corporate setting?

June 26, 2012December 21, 2018 benign0 7 Comments

If you can’t take on social networking giant Facebook on its home court, bring the battle to your own field. Microsoft seems set to leverage its still undisputed hold on systems that run big corporate networks to capture business-oriented social networking. Bill Gates’s IT behemoth has recently acquired “enterprise social networking” startup Yammer for USD1.2…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Facebook.com acquires facial recognition startup Face.com

June 19, 2012 benign0 1 Comment

Facebook has recently acquired Israeli startup Face.com for an undisclosed sum. AFP reports that Face.com in a blog post had hinted on a focus on developing products to improve user experience among Facebook members who are “increasingly using smartphones or tablets to interact with the service” but that Facebook “has yet to show how it…

Society, Tech Talk

Cara Doble: the unofficial Philippine national dance

May 28, 2012 FallenAngel 6 Comments

Do you remember any of the native dances that were taught in kinder, and elementary? Pandango sa Ilaw, Tinikling, Maglalatik, Itik-itik, Subli, do any of these ring a bell? Also, I believe that in high school, and college, we were also exposed to modern dance. Ballroom dance primarily, but some of us also studied ballet,…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Saint Theresa versus the Facebook bikini photos

March 30, 2012October 24, 2014 benign0 15 Comments

So the quaint row over the St. Theresa’s College (STC) High School students’ “lewd” bikini photos exhibited on their Facebook profiles has been settled for now after a bid by the school to ban these students from attending their graduation rites was ToRpedOed by a Cebu court. Just another day in Christianabad, where instances like…

Culture, Religion, Society, Tech Talk

Google Plus or ‘Google+’: jumping into the Borg

July 12, 2011July 12, 2011 benign0 4 Comments

I finally found the time to get off my bum and jump into this new new thing called Google+ (pronounced “Google Plus” presumably). This is the Web behemoth’s new social networking platform that was rolled out on limited testing among a select set of users. I got roped in by a friend who was a…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk, Technology