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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.
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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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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.