History Turns the Lens on Asia’s Best Shutterbugs

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13 amateur photographers give it their best shot to be crowned champion  for the Third Time with New Season of Photo Face-Off.

After two successful seasons, A+E Networks Asia’s original production Photo Face-Off is set to return on HISTORY for season three. Currently in production, viewers in the region can look forward to the five episode series’ premiere later this year.

Award-winning resident professional photographer Justin Mott is back to take on a new group of amateur photographers who will compete against him, and each other, for the top prize. For the third consecutive year, Canon will be the series’ presenting sponsor, in association with Silk Air. This season’s pool of talented photographers are vying for an overseas trip to the Canon Photo Clinic, a Canon EOS 7D Mark II camera + Canon Red Line Professional Backpack and the opportunity to photograph a red carpet event for A+E Networks.

Besides picking up valuable photography tips from the region’s leading experts, viewers will also experience some of Southeast Asia’s most unique activities and exotic locales. From capturing a figure skater in action, to styling and shooting an album cover for a popular local band, this year’s challenges will be more exciting than ever.

Globe Fires Up 130 Sites Using the 2600 MHz Spectrum in Visayas, Mindanao

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Globe Telecom continue to charge ahead and utilized company's additional allocation in the 2600 MHz spectrum for 130 sites in Visayas and Mindanao, providing customers in those regions with additional network capacities to support growing demand for bandwidth.

The company’s additional allocation in the 2600 MHz band forms part of the resources that Globe recently acquired following a joint purchase of San Miguel Corp.’s telecommunication assets.

Joel Agustin, Globe Senior Vice President for Program Governance, Network Technical Group, said the company is planning to use the 2600 MHz band in more sites in line with efforts to immediately put to use frequencies that were previously underutilized to improve the broadband data experience of its customers.

The 2600MHz spectrum is well placed for increasing network capacities using the state-of-the art LTE technology. While lower frequencies such as the 700MHz band provide better signal penetration and offering stronger indoor coverage, the higher frequencies, such as the 2600MHz band, provide additional capacity for broadband data, Agustin said.

“This is particularly beneficial for our customers especially since they now demand more bandwidth capacities in light of their growing inclination for multi-media content. In fact, to fully realize the benefits of the 2600 MHz frequency, the 130 sites where we deployed the additional spectrum is just an initial rollout and we plan to fire up a substantial number of our sites in this band,” he said.

According to Agustin, Globe will also continue to rollout the Carrier Aggregation technology by using the company's spectrum allocations. An important component of the LTE-Advanced, the Carrier Aggregation technology will provide higher peak data rates and better broadband data experience, he said. Globe acquired half of San Miguel’s assets in an effort to harmonize spectrum assets and unlock the benefits of underutilized frequencies previously held by San Miguel.

Finding Dory Can Inspire People to See Fish in the Wild – Not Bring Them Home

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Here are 3 ways to save Nemo & Dory if ever people will suddenly want to bring home the equivalent fish types that the characters represent. 

It was found out from the previous showing of the Finding Nemo movie that a great number of people wanted to have their very own clown fish or more popularly known now as "Nemo" as their very own pet. Thus the movie inspired people to do the opposite of what the movie tried to send across.

The article below shares an incredible story that almost caused the probable "extinction" of the clown fish - that's actually me exaggerating but still you have to admit that there is some truth from it.

Please read on and enjoy, and hopeful, the Finding Dory movie won't have the same negative effect that would make our fellow beings desire to have a "Dory," or a Regal Tang, for their aquarium.

We all love to have a very colorful aquarium but it is not so appealing to see fishes being used as decorations to provide entertainment or as household pets.

Taking care of fishes are more delicate than having a cat or dog so not everybody can be a responsible owner of an aquarium filled with different species of fishes.