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umors are again circulat-

ing that Microsoft will buy 

Nokia's mobile division. For 

how much? USD $19 Billion.

Russian editor-in-chief of 

Mobile-Review.com Mr. El-

dar Murtazin tweeted that "Steve Balmer,

 Andy Lees and Stephen Elop, Kai Ostamo

  will meet in Las Vegas to finalize agree-

ment about Nokia smartphone unit." Of 

course Nokia denied the rumor and Nokia

UK issued the following statement “We’ve

put these rumours to rest a long time ago.

The focus for Nokia is on executing on our 

partnership around Windows Phone and

growing the ecosystem, and each company 

has the tools they need to do so”.Nokia Spokeman, Doug Dawson dis-

pelled the rumor by email saying, “We put

these rumors to rest a long time ago”.

Why would Microsoft buy Nokia? May-

be because two of its closest competitors

Google and Apple have their own offering.

Google with Motorola, Apple with its iP-

hone. Apple is successful with its iPhone

but the same cannot be said with Google's

Moto as the deal has not been closed. So

 what assurance will Microsoft get that ac-

quiring Nokia will make Microsoft a force

to reckon with in the handset business?

Now on the other hand, why would Nokia

sell? I really don't know. A recent Gartner 

ablet or laptop?

It’s a fair question

to ask, given today’s

technological trends.

But if you’re in the

market for only one

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top.

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  As yet another demonstration

of the company’s commitment to

break the barrier between people

and technology, the Acer Iconia Tab

W500 is a revolutionary device with

a beautiful hybrid design that com-

bines the multi-touch experience

and portability of tablet computers

 with the efficiency and reliability of 

laptops and PCs.

 As a tablet, the 10.1-inch Iconia

Tab W500 boasts of an incredibleLED-backlit 1280 x 800 resolution

screen, smooth and speedy multi-

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all made possible by a hardcore

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C-Series dual-core processor, an

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chipset, 2 GB of DDR3 memory, 32

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 As a laptop computer, the Acer 

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EVERY MONDAY• January 9, 2012D6 Technews

As a tablet, the 10.1-

inch Iconia Tab W500

boasts of an incredible

LED-backlit 1280 x

800 resolution screen,

smooth and speedy

multi-touchscreen

technology, and HD

multimedia playback

capabilities, all made

possible by a hardcore

hardware set that

includes an AMD

C-Series dual-core

processor, an AMD A50M

Fusion Controller Hub

chipset, 2 GB of DDR3

memory, 32 GB solid-

state drive capacity, and

AMD Radeon HD 6250

Graphics.

By Jerry Liao

T

Tablet? Laptop? Acer Iconia Tab,

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 worlds. (Carl Rogel Inocentes)

Was it Photoshopped or not?

Gaining popularity as a powerful graphic design

software, Adobe’s “Photoshop” has since become

the single-word term for image adjustments and

photo manipulation. Today, there have been several

iterations of this word, such as “belo-shopped” or 

“body-shopped” and all sorts of similar terms used

to point out the endorsers of a popular cosmetic doc-

tor.

I Photoshop, you Photoshop, we all (or most of us

have tried) Photoshop. This makes me curious – do

 you still trust the images you see? Do you still be-

lieve what the naked eye sees is the actual image

that has been captured by cameras?

Editing images will not end anytime soon. In fact,

I have had my share of shooting photos of people and

trying to edit my shots to remove blemishes, pim-

ples, and dark eyebags. I boost the brightness and

decrease the contrast. I remove unwanted items in

the photos to make it look cleaner. All these in the

hope that someone comes along and says, “Look at

my face back in 2010. My skin looks so vibrant and I

managed to sleep well during those days.” When, in

fact, it was full of unsightly ugliness that you wanted

to hide.

This problem is actually not new. I believe we all

remember the failed DPWH Photoshopped image

that happened several months back. Their apologies

didn’t seem clear to everyone, because it was as if 

photoshopping the images is really part of what they do, saying “it was not cleared yet before the staff 

posted it.” Whatever the case, how is clearing photos

any different from Photoshopping?

Then we have those huge billboards and costly 

magazine covers that show flawless skin, perfect-

shaped bodies and huge breasts of women. I remem-

ber seeing a picture of a popular celebrity with elon-

gated fingers, and another, a before and after photo

of a woman’s trimmed mid-section. Why oh why do

they need to ride on the celebrities’ popularity then

fool the public?

Back when there was still no Photoshop, people

did not have to crop and insert elements, then pol-

ish the image using a healing brush tool. They did

not have to use filters and brushes to create effects

of olden times. It took more hard work and talents

to shoot magnificent photos. That was all prior to

 Adobe Photoshop.

We can’t blame ourselves for using Photoshop,or them, the creators of Photoshop. All they had in

mind was to help people to make their images look 

better. However, because of Photoshop, the cred-

ibility of images has fallen to an all-time low. In my 

opinion, no image can be trusted.

Thankfully, innovators have started to come up

  with software – we can consider it as a Photoshop

CSI – which helps identify what aspects of a certain

photograph have been altered. Through this, the

public, especially young women, won’t have to result

to excessive dieting causing eating disorders after 

seeing the highly edited and digitally Photoshopped

celebrity icons in fashion magazines. (Glenn Rich-

mond Ong)

R survey shows that Symbian retains the top

spot as the world's most popular mobile

operating systems with 36.6%, followed by 

  Android (25%) and then iOS (17%). In as

far as handset sales is concern, Nokia is

still on top with a 28.2%, Samsung second

(17.2%), LG was third (6.6%), Apple fourth

(3.2%) and RIM fifth (2.9%). Both Sony Er-

icsson and Motorola, 6th and 7th respec-

tively. So with the numbers - should Nokia

sell?

The strategic partnership formed ear-

lier this year between Microsoft and Nokia

to which Nokia will be dumping Symbian

and MeeGo in favor of Windows Phone 7

as the primary smartphone platform for its

handsets is paying off.  A recent Appcelerator and IDC study 

finds Microsoft is enjoying symbiotic suc-

cess with Nokia. The study, which sur-

 veyed over 2100 mobile developers, looks

at how companies are making the move

from web to mobile, and how mobile is

fundamentally transforming customer re-

lationships.

Furthermore, the study reveals that out

of 2100 mobile developers surveyed - 91%

of developers are interested in the iPhone,

 while 83 percent are interested in Android

handsets. Only 21 percent are interested in

Blackberry and 38 percent of respondents

saying they are ‘very interested’ in Win-

dows 7, the highest ever for Microsoft.

When asked why developers are more

interested in Windows Phone 7 now than

a year ago, a plurality (48%) said it was the

Microsoft/Nokia partnership. Nokia also

received high marks from its new Lumia

Windows Phone 7 smartphone announce-

ment last month, with 28% of developers

saying they are ‘very interested’ in devel-

oping for the device.

Now we are just talking about Windows

Phone 7 here, Windows 8 will soon become

available and if Windows 8 delivers as what

Microsoft says it will, you can expect the

numbers to even go up more.

My point here is this, if the Microsoft/

Nokia partnership really become success-ful, I see no reason why Microsoft should

buy Nokia and I don't see why Nokia should

sell. Now if the partnership fails, both

companies should go back to the drawing

board and see what went wrong and then

fix it - buying and selling may not be the

solution.

I maintain that Microsoft and Nokia

are at their best with their core compe-

tence - Microsoft for software and Nokia

as a handset manufacturer. But I am not

Microsoft nor Nokia. They might be see-

ing something that we don't. There must

be some opportunity somewhere that we

failed to analyze. So let's wait and see.

Should Microsoft buy Nokia's phones?

Samsung Electronics Philippines Cor-poration (SEPCO) a leader and technologyinnovator in consumer electronics, mobile

communications and home appliances,recently donated Two Million Pesos(Php2,000,000) as relief funds for disas-ter victims in areas hit by tropical storm

Sendong . The donations were given toABS-CBN Foundation (Php1,000,000) andKapuso Foundation (Php 1,000,000).

Floods have submerged parts of thePhilippines’ eastern island, Mindanao,one week after tropical storm Sendong (International name Washi ) killed more

than 1,250 and left hundreds of thousands homeless.

The tropical storm has dis-placed more than 431,000 peo-

ple with more than more than 54,000sheltered in evacuation centers.

Philippine ofcials said they expectthe death toll to rise as more bodies arerecovered from the devastation.

The turn-over of the check donation to

the ABS-CBN foundation Sagip Kapamilyafor Sendong victims was held during theChristmas Party of Samsung ElectronicsPhilippines Corporation last December 22at the Blue Leaf in Taguig City.

SEPCO head for corporate marketingChiqui Tan, head for human resourcesMaryanne Felipe and Chief Finance Of-cer Philip Lee turned over the check torepresentatives of ABS-CBN Foundation, Umagang Kay Ganda hosts Drei Felix,

Venus Raj and Jeffery Tam.