Paypal’s Chief Information Security Officer recommends everyone who has a Paypal account to avoid using Apple’s Safari browser. Apparently, Safari is still way behind in security features compared to Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Archive for February, 2008
Friendster ain’t dead yet. They’re actually looking for a Senior Product Manager in their Philippine office here in Makati. That’s according to a recent job listing on Jobstreet.com.ph.
Continue reading ‘Friendster Philippines is looking for Senior Product Manager’
Just came back from an hour long talk at the UP College of Engineering in Diliman for an elective class on Technology Entrepreneurship. I find the class very interesting.
Our current poll asks about how much portable storage people carry around nowadays. I didn’t realize I needed more than 4GB USB drive until my old laptop ran out of disk space from all the photos I’ve taken recently.
Yesterday, I had a short 15-minute one-on-one interview with reps from eBay South East Asia who flew in from their regional headquarters in Singapore to answer some questions for the media on eBay’s expansion in the Philippines.
Continue reading ‘On eBay & Paypal’s presence in the Philippines’
As if the regular 100Mbps connections are not enough for Japan’s residential broadband users, a new satellite internet service has just been launched to deliver ultra high-speed broadband connectivity to the country.
Continue reading ‘Kizuna: Japan’s Ultra-High-Speed Satellite Internet’
Ever wondered which countries or regions which social networking sites are popular? We know Friendster is still #1 in the Philippines; but what about the others?
At least 3 bloggers have already asked me about the ongoing landrush of .asia domains — what i think about it or am I interested to join the rush. Surprisingly, this has been on my radar for months now but haven’t gotten much interest.
I’m not sure if this story is true or just plain funny but it seems Accenture may have actually gotten patent rights to “outsourcing”.
A quick post at Techdirt quotes:
Continue reading ‘Accenture Patents Outsourcing to 3rd World Countries’
According to a report, a group of hackers at the Black Hat conference in Washington D.C. claim that they’re able to hack GSM calls with equipment costing about $1,000.
Continue reading ‘It’s now cheap to wiretap Lozada and de Venecia’
In October 2007, Google announced YouTube with AdSense overlayed on the videos. It was a move to monetize the 1.6 billion dollar investment Google made on Youtube.
A short news report today from Inquirer says that Mobile WiMax in the Philippines will be rolled out by the end of the year. Could this be the Globe Innove and Intel Philippines WiMax service I blogged about last October?
There’s some leaked images and numbers on a supposedly new UMPC from HP. The HP Compaq 2133 is small, lightweight and carries a Linux flavor. I say it’s a sweet cross between a MacBook Air and an Asus Eee PC.
Continue reading ‘HP UMPC 2133: Now that’s an ultraportable!’
So, it’s finally official. Toshiba delivers the “betamax address” and announced it’s giving up on the HD market and will discontinue production of players and recorders, according to recent press release.
A lot of people (including me) are claiming that the next wave will be on the mobile phone. With faster wireless connectivity and high adoption rate, the mobile web may become the next top destination for everybody.
A set of data recently released by HitWise suggests a trend on the economic status of people using either Google or Yahoo search engines. The results revealed that those financially well-off are likely to use Google while the lower class ones gravitate to Yahoo.
Continue reading ‘The Poor uses Yahoo; Rich ones use Google’
Long gone are the days when we carry around 3.5″ floppy disks for copies of important documents and files. Even CDRWs are seldom used as well. It’s now mostly flash drives and portable HDDs.
Continue reading ‘Poll: How much portable storage do you have?’
I’ve completely moved from shooting JPEGs to RAW just this year when shooting with my Canon EOS 40D. That has made a huge difference in how the quality or the drama of the photos turn out.
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