Published by: yuga under: Telecoms.
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May 9th, 2008 (Visited 361 times)
Globe 3G may be facing some serious issues this month due to frequent disconnection charges on their 5 Peso per 15 minute rates. Last month, Globe introduced time-based charging on top of the previous kilobyte rates — a pleasant development to loyal Globe subscribers. Problem though is the arbitrary disconnection/reconnection charges.
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Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere.
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May 9th, 2008 (Visited 142 times)
This should be an inspiration to a lot of bloggers out there. A Cuban blogger, a 32-year old woman named Yoani Sanchez, received a Spanish Journalism award for her 13-month old blog.
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Manufacturers HP and Dell are battling it out with graffiti-influenced Artist Editions of their top tier laptops. On the left hand is an HP Pavilion dv2800t and on the right side is Dell Inspiron 1525 — both unit are strikingly cool.
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Published by: yuga under: PC Gaming.
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May 7th, 2008 (Visited 326 times)
WCG 2008 is on. The Cyber Game Festival will be held in Cologne, Germany this year and the Philippine contingent better make it to the finals this time. Spent the whole afternoon at City Kart Racing to attend the press launch of the 2008 World Cyber Games, and of course some kart racing.
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Published by: yuga under: AdSense.
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May 7th, 2008 (Visited 313 times)
A number of people have emailed me asking about their problems with their Google AdSense Checks. So here’s the question — What to do with your Google AdSense Check if you don’t have a US Dollar Bank Account?
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Published by: yuga under: Polls.
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May 6th, 2008 (Visited 721 times)
I just ended the previous poll and it looks like AMD is still popular among desktop PC users. Our new poll is for those owning a laptop or notebook. Which brand of laptop are you using?
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Published by: yuga under: Contests.
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May 6th, 2008 (Visited 334 times)
Scribd is running a nifty contest where winners get to take home a new Apple Macbook Air, an Amazon Kindle or an iPod Nano. All you need to do is sign up here and upload as many original and interesting documents into your Scribd account.
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Published by: yuga under: Microsoft.
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May 5th, 2008 (Visited 644 times)
Some say Microsoft is wasting its money buying Yahoo. Now that it has formally backed out of the deal, may be looking the other way for acquisitions may be in order. Let’s look at what Microsoft can get off of their $45 billion budget.
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Published by: yuga under: Curious.
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May 5th, 2008 (Visited 328 times)
That’s how one magazine does their link footnotes nowadays. Reminds of those AOL Keywords. Digital Media Asia showed screenshots of my Macbook Air Commercial video parody in their February 2008 issue.
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Published by: yuga under: Yahoo.
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May 4th, 2008 (Visited 523 times)
It’s all over the place — Microsoft has formally announced its withdrawal from the proposed Yahoo merger. This, after Microsoft upped its original bid of $31/share to $33; but Yahoo apparently wanted $37.
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Published by: yuga under: Freewares.
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May 4th, 2008 (Visited 421 times)
First, there was Twitter. This time, it’s Microsoft Photosynth. It turns out, the lab techs on CSI New York are using Photosynth to re-create a virtual 3D of a crime scene. Got a copy of the segments uploaded here.
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Asus Philippines has just announced the winners of the Asus Dress mEee Up! Design Contest. There were over 500 entries and close to 80,000 votes were sent in.
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Got this in the Inbox earlier. It’s the new line of compact home theater-in-a-box systems from Samsung. The models I specifically liked are the HT-X710 and X715 series.
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Last March, Apple tried to sneaked in a copy of the Safari browser on every Apple Software Update even if Safari is not installed in the system. Mozilla CEO called the move downright wrong and called Safari a malware.
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Asus Philippines is still mulling over the suggested retail price of the newer Asus Eee PC 900. The firm handling the launching of the model next week indicated it will be Php24,995 but the final price will be revealed during the event.
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Twitter has a relatively nice growth in the past year. Amidst the cloud of hype, some numbers are finally making their way out into the clearing. Pretty interesting stats.
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Published by: yuga under: Web 2.0.
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May 1st, 2008 (Visited 401 times)
Mobile advertising network launches in beta a new analytics software to track and monitor traffic to your mobile web sites or blogs.
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We interrupt the serious string of posts with a little bit of entertainment and parody. This time, folks from Lenovo are pitting their X300 versus the Macbook Air. See video after the jump.
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