Thursday, August 26, 2010

Jimena Navarrete: Miss Universe Winner 2010

Twenty-two year old former model Jimena Navarrete won the title of Miss Universe at last night's pageant in Las Vegas. The beauty pageant, co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC, has been announced last night and the other runners-up were Miss Jamaica, Miss Australia, Miss Ukraine and Miss Philippines. And the Filipinos were busy ruing that but for that dumb answer of her in the last round, the pageant would have gone to the beauty from their country.


Miss USA, Rima Fakih, was eliminated early in the show. First runner-up in the 2010 Miss Universe contest was Miss Jamaica, 24-year-old Yendi Phillipps. The remaining winners in the top five were: 2nd Runner-Up Miss Australia Jesinta Campbell; 3rd Runner-Up Miss Ukraine Anna Poslavska; and 4th Runner-Up Miss Philippines Venus Raj.

Fans of the Miss Universe contest watched in approximately 190 countries with many keeping up with the show’s results on Twitter.

maria_909: It took one man to bring the country to shame. let one woman bring back its flame.

@deppthoughts: congratulations to the new Ms. Universe representing Mexico! the Latina reign continues!

Miss USA 2010, Jimena Navarrete, is Mexico’s second Miss Universe. One of the questions she was asked was by Olympic gold-medal figure skater Evan Lysacek. He asked how she felt about unsupervised Internet use to which she replied, “I do believe that Internet is an indispensable, necessary tool for the present time,” she said through an interpreter. “We must be sure to teach them the values that we learned as a family.”

The Miss Universe 2010 pageant was held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Strip. The event, co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC, had 84 contestants. Contestants were judged by Criss Angel, Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek, Chynna Phillips and actress Jane Seymour.

Plane Crashed In China, 42 Dead

Chinese state television said 42 people died Tuesday after a plane with 91 people crashed while landing at an airport in the country's northeast. The fate of the remaining passengers was unclear, but earlier reports said 48 people had been rescued.

The Henan Airlines aircraft crashed in Yichun City of Heilongjiang province at 9:36 p.m. There were 91 passengers, including five children, and five crew members, on board the plane which left the provincial capital Harbin at 8:51 p.m., officials with Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said.

The jet was engulfed in blaze after it crashed. A heavy fog blanketed the airport, Xinhua reported.

A team of CAAC officials and technicians are leaving for Yichun to participate in the rescue and

Intel To Buy McAfee For $7.68 Billion

Intel's buying McAfee for $7.68 billion in cash-Intel and McAfee abashed the tech apple this morning with the advertisement that Intel is accepting McAfee for 7.7 billion dollars. The antecedent acknowledgment from analysts and industry experts is confusion–or maybe alert skepticism–as the tech apple tries to accept how a aggregation alike with processors and computer dent technology will accomplish use of a above aegis software and casework organization.

Intel McAfee, Intel takes a camp about-face into the aegis industry with the acquirement of McAfee.I batten with IT-Harvest analyst Richard Stiennon for some acumen on the blockbuster news. With data still somewhat sketchy, Stiennon accepted that it isn’t about antivirus software. “You’re paying $7 billion for an AV aggregation which is crazy because there are 80 of them and they all do the aforementioned affair and you could buy one for $50 million.”

Stiennon aswell offered some belief that the McAfee accretion ability accredit Intel to accretion bigger admission to advantageous government contracts. McAfee has a solid ballast in government desktop aegis that could accessible some doors.

Forrester analyst Jon Kindervag’s aboriginal acknowledgment is beneath than optimistic. In 2000 Intel bought a solid VPN company–Shiva–and aural a few years it basically burst into abeyance because VPN technology is not Intel’s amount competency.

The acquirement of McAfee, and the move into action and customer aegis is analogously alfresco of Intel’s acceptable abundance zone. Kindervag said “I would adulation to be wrong, but I anticipate we may all attending aback 5 years from now and say ‘Wow. That was a big mistake.’”

McAfee’s CEO Dave DeWalt discussed why the amalgamation of McAfee and Intel makes sense. “The amount of affiliated accessories is accepted to abound from 1 billion to 50 billion by 2020, according to industry estimates. This atomic advance of Internet and IP-enabled accessories is about-face communication, accord and business opportunities for individuals and organizations about the world.”

DeWalt elaborates “We are abutting armament to accouterment this next bearing cybersecurity issue, which impacts anybody and annihilation abutting to the Internet. Aegis will be a third colonnade in Intel’s strategy, next to ability able achievement and Internet connectivity. By bringingMcAfee ’s aegis DNA to Intel, we can action bigger solutions and articles to the market. By next year, we will acquaint new aegis offerings as a aftereffect of our collaboration.”

George Kurtz, Global CTO of McAfee, explains in a blog column “While you may ask “Why?” – It makes absolute faculty to me. Given the accepted challenges in ambidextrous with the admeasurement of baneful malware, bringing software afterpiece to silicon will accommodate a absolute advantage for consumers and businesses. Beating aback the course of malware admeasurement by alteration the bold on the bad guys is an agitative proposition.”

At face value, it seems like an “oil and water” array of purchase–like the blighted accretion of Skype by eBay, but conceivably there is some admirable plan or atom of ability that we will accept added absolutely as the dust settles and the operations ofMcAfee and Intel become integrated. It could be a ablaze move, or a huge mistake

BlackBerry App World Launches in the Philippines

This is a great news for all BB users!, now I'm excited for more apps and also that Adobe tie up, read the PR below to know more about the new features and apps.

Manila, The Philippines – 24 March 2010 – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that BlackBerry App World™ is now available to BlackBerry® smartphone* customers in the Philippines, bringing together a broad mix of free mobile applications.

Customers can now download BlackBerry App World directly to their smartphone by visiting www.blackberry.com/appworld or mobile.blackberry.com. BlackBerry App World can be conveniently accessed over both Wi-Fi® and mobile phone networks in the Philippines and it automatically presents customers with the relevant catalog of applications available for their specific BlackBerry smartphone model. (reae more below)

“BlackBerry App World makes it very easy for customers to discover and download applications for their BlackBerry smartphone. We are very pleased to offer this enhanced experience to our customers in the Philippines ,” said Gregory Wade , Managing Director, Southeast Asia , Research In Motion. “ Customers can also access BlackBerry App World todownload updates of apps such as the popular BlackBerry Messenger or Facebook apps as they become available.”

Arjun Atwals Winner of 2010 Wyndham Championship

Arjun Atwal earns first PGA TOUR victory in his 120thcareer start at the age of 37 years, 5 months, 2 days He wil now be fully exempt for the remainder of 2010 and all of 2011 and 2012.

His victory is the 15th first-time winner in the 71-year history of the Wyndham Championship. Is the 14th first-time winner on TOUR this season an it is the fourth first-round leader to win the Wyndham Championship since 1976.

Atwal began the 2010 PGA TOUR season playing on a Minor Medical Exemption out of the Qualifying Tournament/Nationwide Tour category. He had eight events in which he had to earn $586,007 to gain status for the remainder of the season. His eighth start was the RBC Canadian Open, where he failed to earn the needed balance. Therefore, was not eligible to receive FedExCup points at the WyndhamChampionship.

He is the first Monday Qualifier to win on TOUR since Fred Wadsworth at the 1986 Southern Open.

Is the first native of India to win on the PGA TOUR. Is also the first native of India to join the PGA TOUR (2004). His previous best TOUR finish was a P2 at the 2005BellSouth Classic where he lost in a five-man playoff to Phil Mickelson.

Roger Federer Takes Third Set, Championship

Even facing straight-sets elimination in a second-set tiebreaker, all Roger Federer needed was one break.
Federer got it by winning the tiebreaker to even his match with Mardy Fish at one set apiece, then Federer broke Fish's serve--indeed, the only service break of the entire match--at 4-4 to put him one game away from victory. He converted without serious difficulty, and Roger Federer is your 2010 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters champion.

Federer will take home the lion's share of the $2.4 million purse, and looks to be back in championship shape for the US Open looming just two weeks away.

Devil May Cry 4

Devil May Cry 4 is an action game that was published and developed by Capcom in 2008 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows platforms. The game is the fourth installment to the Devil May Cry series.

In the game, the player controls both Nero and Dante, and fights enemies in close combat using firearms, swords, and other weapons. The characters Lady and Trish from previous games in the series make appearances, along with new characters Nero, Kyrie, Credo, Gloria, and Agnus. The game is set afterDevil May Cry 3 but before Devil May Cry 2.

The game received generally favorable reviews, receiving an average 82% over three consoles from Metacritic (84% on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and 78% on the PC). GameSpy gave it 4 stars out of 5, stating that “DMC4 succeeds on many levels because it fuses fan service with entertaining gameplay”, finding that “visually, DMC4 is a dynamo.”