Jan 28

300,000 Could Lose Jobs In Philippines Amid Crisis 28 Jan 2009 MANILA (AFP)–Up to 300,000 people could lose their jobs in the Philippines over the next six months as the global financial crisis deepens, labor secretary Marianito Roque warned Wednesday. Some 15,000 …

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300,000 Could Lose Jobs In Philippines Amid Crisis

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Jan 28

Wednesday, Jan 28th 2009 by Chris Davies Worth Reading?Accelerometers are found in all manner of cellphones and mobile devices nowadays, usually responsible for flipping screen orientation from vertical to horizontal when you want a widescreen view of a webpage.  However that’s not all they’re good for, as this DIY motion-controlled MP3 player demonstrates.  The work of an unnamed Japanese engineer, different motions - such as tilting, tapping and rotating - translate to controls such as pl

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Motion-Controlled DIY MP3 player: Video Demo

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Jan 28

Wednesday, Jan 28th 2009 by Chris Davies Worth Reading?Oh, what utter fools we’ve been.  While everyone was expecting the robot invasion to come from the skies, wiping us out in sleets of laser beams (or maybe just nets) , in actual fact they’re planning on taking us one piece at a time.  A Japanese 3-year-old has lost the tip of a finger in the deadly transforming limbs of a TV tie-in toy robot; apparently he’s one of several young people affected by the finger-feasting monster.The robot i

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Finger-eating Bandai robot prompts Japanese complaints

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Jan 28

Have you every wondered if you could trace cell phone numbers free? You know that there are sites you can go to and pay a fee to in order to trace numbers, but there really out to be a way to get this information for free right?

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Can You Trace Cell Phone Numbers Free? A Case Study For the Masses

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Jan 28

We’re hearing from Sprint themselves that the Treo Pro, originally slated for early December, then January 25th, then February 15th is being pushed back further till the vague “end of February”. All outstanding orders are now canceled, with Sprint’s apologies and a $25 credit is being applied to our accounts.

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Sprint Treo Pro: Now delayed until end of Feb; can do Voice + Data?

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