Philippines, Technology News & Reviews
Never in the history of Microsoft that they had generated this much excitement over a release of a product (well, maybe the launch of Windows 95 was comparable).
Still the launching of Halo 3 for the XBox 360 breaks all previous records the Redmond-based company had.
Prevention is the best protection. It goes without saying that where ever you go, bring some protection with you.
Will be guesting on ANC’s The Explainer with Manolo this Tuesday, 6PM to share my thoughts about the NBN Project. I wrote some of the underlying technical issues (politics aside) over at PTB and wanted to solicit more of your technical opinions on the matter.
Sign up for Paypal in the Philippines!. You can withdraw an amount not exceeding $500 per month to any debit, credit card or directly into your Philippine bank accounts. You will just need the bank codes and savings account number.
At long last, Paypal’s promise to allow receiving funds into Philippine accounts have been fulfilled. Just today, reports have been circulating in the previous post here about the development.
Continue reading ‘Send & Receive payments via Paypal in the Philippines’
Related Link: www.sendmethecard.com from Chase Bank
Looks like the beta stage for the Western Union AdSense payout has been completed and rolled out to everyone. The Western Union Quick Cash is now available for Philippine AdSense Publishers.
Continue reading ‘Western Union Quick Cash for Philippine AdSense Publishers’
Websites of Interest: cash advance for everyday money needs
Two new desktop softwares developed via Adobe Air got me interested lately. Check out Google Analytics Air and Air Press below.
Not that people in the 80’s were not that hip or anything. It’s just that…
Continue reading ‘Why the iPod would never have been a hit in the 80’s’
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Rave reviews of the newly launched AmazonMP3 music store abound in the last couple of days. The big win here is obviously the over 2 million DRM-free songs it offered at launch day, something Apple is still struggling to do for years.
Here’s a quick comparison of the two services so far:
Continue reading ‘AmazonMP3 a serious competitor to Apple iTunes’
About 2 weeks ago, I was able to reactivate a 4-year old dormant Paypal Premier/Business Account. I’ve been using that account now to receive funds from advertisers as well as pay some online bills. Now that I have both Xoom and Paypal, I’ve been contemplating which of the two I should be using more often.
Here my quick analysis of the two:
Continue reading ‘Paypal or Xoom: Which one is cheaper for Publishers?’
Been receiving reports of reloading problems from Globe’s Prepaid customers. A similar problem was experienced with Smart’s GPRS/3G load limit.
The long awaited release of Dexter, WordPress 2.3 is here. The upgraded features are awesome, but so are the things you need to look out for when upgrading to this version of the software.
Here are the highlights, on top of the 351 bugs fixed:
Continue reading ‘WordPress 2.3 Dexter: Major Update, Major Headache?’
Ok, this baby is going to be my next phone. I’ll totally skip the iPhone, get the Nokia E51 and just pair that with the iPod Touch. See specs and pictures after the jump:
There’s gonna be a new player in town and it’s called Revolution Money. It’s being touted as the next Paypal-killer and do better than the non-performing Google Checkout.
But what is this Revolution Money really all about?
Ok, new poll again. Just wondering how much do people spend for their internet connectivity on a monthly basis?
Continue reading ‘Poll: How much do you spend for your Internet?’
Official release of the new line of iPods in the Philippines is reported to be this October but several units have already been spotted in stores. Here’s the new iPod Nano 8GB I just got from my favorite store. And they tell me they sells like hotcakes.
Marc and I were shopping for some suit last week in anticipation of next month’s SEMCON 2007 and Aaron Wall’s wedding with his would-be Filipina wife. While discussing details of the conference, I told him that he should be blamed for locally popularizing loaded terms such as link juice, link love and link bait. He replied, “that’s why I don’t blog anymore!”, or something along those lines.
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Yup. That’s right, sixty percent (60%). I was informed by a reliable source that almost 60% of the internet bandwidth consumed in the Philippines are coming from peer-to-peer and torrents.
I would have wanted to go to the 2008 Beijing Olympics next year but it looks like those much coveted tickets are very, very hard to get by so I’m scrapping that plan on my wish list for 2008 (that’s where all my Mabuhay Miles credits would have gone to).
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