One of the popular online sharing services today received a very bad news from the United States Federal Court after the music industry that filed suit due to copyright infringement won the case five months ago.
LimeWire was ordered by the court to shut down its online service after the US judge ruled to favor the case filed by 13 music [...]
The famous octopus who has taken the center stage during the 2010 World Cup for predicting the results of different matches perfectly has already died.
Paul the Octopus was found dead on his tank at the SeaLife Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany. Paul is 2 and half years old.
Paul on predicting the results of World Cup games in particular the games with [...]
Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo has been most recently one of the most controversial Supreme Court justice due accusations of plagiarism on the majority decision he penned on the Vinuya et al vs. Executive Secretary for which a purported 22 parts of the decision were directly lifted from foreign sources without attribution.
The issue spurred academic and legal discussions with the [...]
After the majority of the Supreme Court Justices absolved their colleague Associate Justice Mariano C. Del Castillo for plagiarism as regards to the majority decision he penned on the Vinuya et al vs. Executive Secretary case involving the Filipina comfort women asking the Japanese government for compensation, the highest court of the land is committing another grave mistake of asking [...]
The past couple of months, we have seen the strengthening of the peso currency against the US dollars and this makes some sectors frown. From the 45-46 peso per dollar, it has now spiraled down to the 43 level.
Some of the sectors hit by this strengthening of the Philippine peso against the US dollar are the exporters, the OFWs and [...]
The review made by the Palace legal people and approved by President Aquino on the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) Report on the Manila Hostage Crisis makes some people scratch their heads. What has happened to all the recommendations? Well, most of them were downgraded from spanking to simply verbal reminders.
I personally am very much disappointed with what President [...]
President Aquino announced today that he had signed the amnesty to all mutineers that had participated in a coup against the administration of Gloria Arroyo in a move to usher in unity and reconciliation. This amnesty will include Sen. Trillanes who is detained and had not since performed his official duty in the Senate.
The said amnesty was forwarded to [...]
I am a Catholic and I strongly support the Reproductive Health Bill or simply the RH Bill that has been once again the center of hot debates and protests between those who support them and the Catholic clergy and all their minions. This very important piece of legislation has been stalled for years because of the strong pressure and meddling [...]
Another blog post about jeepney and hopefully this one will not really paint the obvious picture that I am one big jeepney fan, not to mention that my father actually fed his family out of sweating it out on the steering wheel 6 days a week.
Well, weeks a go I shared about my love of choosing to be on the [...]
He is known to be a business genius enjoying the admiration from the sector he has dominated for years. But San Miguel Corporation president Ramon Ang is now proving himself as a sage too.
Ang shared during an interview with Inquirer last week that the Philippines is set to experience a power and water shortage by the summer of 2011 – [...]
