The Parliament of Iran is discussing a draft bill that criminalizes “establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy (abandonment of one’s religion).” This is on top of a long list of crimes punishable by death.
Continue reading ‘Iran drafts Death Penalty Bill for Bloggers’
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Published by: yuga under: AdSense.
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July 4th, 2008
This was just informed to me by the Western Union branch I frequent — WU will start charging for Documentary Stamp Tax (DST) from July 1, 2008 and onwards.
Continue reading ‘Western Union adds Documentary Stamp Tax’
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Asus has unveiled a new member of its Eee family of PC - the All-in-One Asus Eee Monitor. This sleek and stylish Asus PC is obviously positioned towards the Apple iMac market.
Continue reading ‘Asus Eee Monitor PC an iMac beater?’
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Published by: yuga under: Mobile.
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July 4th, 2008
Yesterday, HTC officially launched their newest line of smart phones named HTC Touch Diamond. I totally missed the media launch yesterday noon at the Renaissance Hotel (I have a record of 80% probability to miss an event if it’s earlier than 1pm) but was able to check out the unit last week.
Continue reading ‘HTC Touch Diamond released in the Philippines’
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We’ve got over a hundred submissions from our recent poll on mobile 3G services. The results are not that surprising but the breakdown of services is a bit interesting though. See figures and graphs after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Results: Mobile 3G Usage’
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A new competitor to the Asus Eee PC, HP Mini-note and the Acer Aspire One has just arrived in stores. PC Corner has photos, specs and prices — including one with up to 2GB RAM and a 320GB HDD.
Continue reading ‘MSI Wind gets 320GB HDD’
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The HTC Shift is like a smartphone that evolved into a laptop (UMPC). We spotted one on display at Park Square 1 the other day. See specs and price after the jump.
Continue reading ‘HTC Shift Spotted and Priced’
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Apparently, the iPhone can still be bought without the required 24-month contract with AT&T. A recent press release from AT& reveals the iPhone 3G to be priced at $599 for the 8GB and $699 for the 16GB. These contract-free prices seemed like the same prices when the first iPhone went out. Sold or not sold?
Continue reading ‘Contract-Free iPhone 3G to cost $599 at AT&T’
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An entry in the wiki site Take Back the Web points to 15 people who changed the Internet. These are personalities that pioneered some of the most popular and widely used properties on the web.
Continue reading ‘Top 15 People Who Changed the Internet’
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I never thought this would happen know that Google is trying to move away from CPC and slowly pushing the CPA model but today, it announced that they will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August.
Continue reading ‘Google officially terminates AdSense Referrals’
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Having had several mp3 players (an iPod Video 30GB, a Nano, an iPod Touch and a Red Zune) for sometime now, I find myself using the Zune more often than the others. Let me share with you some things about the Microsoft Zune and why I think it’s a good replacement for the venerable Apple iPod.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft Zune 8GB Review’
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Blizzard Entertainment has just announced the 3rd installation of one of my all-time favorite game — Diablo 3. Coming really, really soon to your desktop PC and bringing tons of sleepless nights.
Continue reading ‘Blizzard announces Diablo 3′
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Published by: yuga under: Mobile.
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June 29th, 2008
This is one of those rare times when Smart can really plug their myTV as an on-demand, anytime, anywhere service in the Philippines. The Manny Pacquiao vs. David Diaz fight can be watched online for free over the Smart myTV network.
Starting 8am, you can get live streaming video straight from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for the entire match. If you own a Nokia N77 or a Nokia N92, just tune in to Channel 11.
That’s better than going for pay-per-view or going to cinemas at the mall. If only Smart was able to get the mobile TV policies approved earlier, they would have made bonus points in this arena.
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Two years ago, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced that he will retire from his work at Microsoft. Today, he steps out of his office in Redmond, Washington for the last time. After 33 years at the helm of the software giant, Bill is finally leaving the tech industry.
Continue reading ‘Bill Gate’s last day at Microsoft’
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Just bought a new phone — the Nokia E51. In the box was a little pamphlet that says Nokia E Series phone users can get as much as 60 free wifi days from Airborne Access.
Continue reading ‘Free Airborne Access WiFi with Nokia E Series Phones’
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In a landmark move, ICANN has approved the introduction of a whole range of new names introduced to the Internet’s addressing system.
Continue reading ‘ICANN to open tons of new top level Domain Names’
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Had trial copies of Windows Vista 64bit and Windows XP 64bit for some time now. Since both my laptop and my PC are on 4GB of RAM, the 32bit versions of XP and Vista can only use around 3GB. Was wondering if it’s worth to try the 64bit versions to maximize the available memory on board.
Continue reading ‘The perils of upgrading to Windows 64bit’
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As a country that leads in worldwide internet speeds, it’s a surprise that a Japanese Internet Service Provider will put bandwidth limits on its subscribers. Only shows that despite the very fast and cheap DSL connectivity, consumers will still abuse the service.
Continue reading ‘Japanese ISP to Impose Bandwidth Limits’
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