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World health officials gather in Mexico for global A(H1N1) summit - Jul 3, 2009

Blogs While stressing that most A(H1N1) cases so far have been mild, World Health Organization director-general Margaret Chan warned that the new influenza strain colloquially referred to as "swine flu" is "unstoppable". ... Read story »

Philippine Airport on alert Level 3 due to swine flu problem - Apr 27, 2009

Blogs The officials of the Philippine Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have issued an alert Level 3 due to the declaration of the World Health Organization (WHO) that the swine influenza A/H1N1, more ... Read story »

Email accounts for people who don't have access to computers - Sep 16, 2009

Blogs Last December, Nokia launched Ovi Mail, an email service for people who don't have access to a computer but have access to a mobile phone. My initial thought was, why email ... Read story »

Photography can cause undue stress and madness - Nov 13, 2009

Crave Here's a funny video clip by two photographers in Colombia, South America. Taking a jab at some of the gearheads who trawl DPreview's forums, one of them portrayed a delirious photographer ... Read story »

The Asians Who Live in Trees - Dec 7, 2009

Blogs The first time I saw this image was many years ago in a National Geographic magazine. This is a typical house in Irian Jaya, the part of Indonesia that borders Papua ... Read story »

An unofficial "dislike" option on Facebook - Nov 5, 2009

Crave Feeling grumpy? Add a "dislike" button to Facebook. Facebook's "like" feature has been around since February, but the massive social network never provided users with a way to quickly voice ... Read story »

gScreen: The real dual-screen laptop - Aug 28, 2009

Crave Of course, we still love the ThinkPad W700ds. Who doesn't? After all, it comes with a cute little secondary panel that makes it just a little larger than its competitors ... Read story »

Lies about global warming - Dec 11, 2009

Blogs I find it strange that scientists would lie. I guess it was naive of me to assume that all scientists are interested in research because they would like to uncover mysteries ... Read story »

Nintendo offers free Web browsing on its Wii console - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Nintendo Wii owners who wanted to browse the Web from their consoles have previously been forced to purchase the Wii Internet Channel application from the Wii Shop Channel for 500 ... Read story »

First Transformers, then 2012... Seriously, GSC, please fix your Web site - Nov 16, 2009

Blogs Seriously... I've been trying to get into the GSC.com.my (Golden Screen Cinemas) Web site for the last 20 minutes. And the bar on my browser still reads "loading". All I want ... Read story »

Low-tech problems for high-tech gear - Nov 20, 2009

Crave The following is a true story. Sam (not her real name) has been using an iPhone 3GS for two months. Since buying it, she's been plagued by poor voice quality--people she ... Read story »

Aftermath of the iPhone price war - Dec 14, 2009

Crave Unless you've been living under a rock, you'd have read or heard that Singapore telcos StarHub and Mobile (M1) announced and then revised their iPhone price plans early last week. This ... Read story »

Analog watch with 24 time zones - Oct 19, 2009

Crave I'm one of those persons who don't wear a watch, depending instead on my mobile phone for time. The good thing about doing that is if you set your phone's ... Read story »

Facebook porting over to PS3 - Nov 17, 2009

Crave If you're a Facebook addict who simply cannot live without your social network of friends, relatives and colleagues, we've good news for you. It looks like Sony's PlayStation 3 has ... Read story »

How much will it cost to upgrade to Windows 7? - Jun 26, 2009

Crave In anticipation of the October 22 launch of the Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft has announced today an upgrade program for those who are planning to purchase new computers. According ... Read story »

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