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Lenovo X300 vs. Macbook Air

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 20 replies

posted: April 30th, 2008

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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MeasureMap converts to Google Analytics hybrid?

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle. 11 replies

posted: April 30th, 2008

After years of waiting for the guys from MeasureMap to update their awesome blog analytics service, they’ve actually done something there. This, according to a email they just sent a while ago.

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Download Windows XP SP3

Published by: yuga under: Freewares. 22 replies

posted: April 29th, 2008

This has been out there in the wild for some time now but it’s just now that the official release of Windows XP SP3 is available.
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Philippine Broadband Normalization Index

Published by: yuga under: Telecoms. 8 replies

posted: April 28th, 2008

Or something along those lines… I couldn’t remember the exact phrase mentioned to me by Dr. William Torres (more commonly known in the local IT industry as the Father of Philippine Internet) during the last eCommerce Forum when we huddled in a group discussing suggestions on infrastructure that could help promote internet commerce in the country.

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Is the PDA dead, or close?

Published by: yuga under: Mobile. 17 replies

posted: April 28th, 2008

PDAI was watching an old episode of Tekzilla and one of the viewer questions was about the PDA already in a state of becoming obsolete. The hosts argued that since smartphones are becoming more popular, they’ve slowly replaced the stand-alone PDAs.

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Nikon bags top dSLR Award

Published by: yuga under: Tech Toys & Gadgets. 7 replies

posted: April 27th, 2008

The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) recently announced the 2008 Most Coveted Photo & Imaging Awards in Europe. Two Nikon dSLRs, the D3 and D300, took trophies in the Pro and Expert categories.

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Important Security fix on WordPress 2.5.1

Published by: yuga under: Wordpress. 5 replies

posted: April 27th, 2008

A new WordPress release is just out on version 2.5.1 which fixes tons of bugs and a patch to a very important security vulnerability specifically if your blog is open to user registration. Those on WordPress is strongly encouraged to upgrade.

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CPU Comparison Charts @ Tom’s Hardware

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 11 replies

posted: April 25th, 2008

While we’re still hot with our CPU survey, I’d like to direct everyone to this nifty CPU Comparison Chart for 2007 over at Tom’s Hardware.

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NTC Circular on Data Log Retention for Telcos

Published by: yuga under: Telecoms. 3 replies

posted: April 24th, 2008

During the last eCommerce Forum at the Rockwell Center, participants were furnished copies of circulars, memos and drafts of bills. One such memorandum was an NTC Circular on Data Log Retention of Telecommunications Traffic.

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Poll: What’s inside your rig, Intel or AMD?

Published by: yuga under: Polls. 27 replies

posted: April 23rd, 2008

Last month, I upgraded my old desktop PC. I have been a longtime AMD fan and for the last 5 years or so, have used almost all of their CPUs — Athlon, Sempron, AMD64+, and the X2. Even most of the dedicated servers I get runs AMD Opteron CPUs. They’re cheaper and does the job just fine.

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The 7-inch UMPC Round Up

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 29 replies

posted: April 22nd, 2008

Someone asked to compare all the available ultra-portables in the market, especially the ones in the 7″ display. So we rounded-up four UMPCs — Asus Eee PC, Neo Explore X1, Astone UMPC and Deep Blue H1. See comparison chart after the jump.

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Simply Smart ECS G10IL has Super-3G

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 7 replies

posted: April 22nd, 2008

As previously reported, ECS has unveiled details of their Simply Smart ECS G10IL and boy, does it have a whooping 7.2 Mbps HSDPA built-in with it.

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Astone UMPC hits store shelves in Manila

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 27 replies

posted: April 21st, 2008

Yet another player in the UMPC market has emerged. Definitely a hot item this season. The Astone UMPC is a 7 inch laptop that’s looking to grab a piece of the ultra-portable pie. See picture and specs after the jump.

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Nokia N81 8GB Special Edition Review

Published by: yuga under: Mobile. 20 replies

posted: April 21st, 2008

I’ve been using the Nokia N81 for a couple of weeks now and I must say I wasn’t that quite excited about it as many would have. Despite the squarish and heavy built, this model is a beauty. Let me share some of the noticeable features of this unit.

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Asus Eee PC 900, anyone?

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 28 replies

posted: April 21st, 2008

Those waiting for the 9-inch Asus Eee PC will most probably be disappointed with the local retail price of around Php33,900. At that price, it already costs as much as a lot of regular laptops around.

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eBay to sell Skype

Published by: yuga under: Daily Dose. 3 replies

posted: April 20th, 2008

After just over 2 years of acquiring VoIP service Skype, eBay may be selling off the unit if it does not find anything of significant use for it in its core business. If that happens later this year, Skype could be the largest single useless acquisition ever.

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Germany’s .de is Most Popular ccTLD

Published by: yuga under: The Internet. 6 replies

posted: April 20th, 2008

It’s no contest that .com domains are the most popular ones today — over 71 million of them registered as of February 2008. We might also think that the .net domains will come in second. Well, according to EuropeRegistry, it looks like Germany’s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) has surpassed the dotNet TLD to get the second place globally.

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Getting sued for Linking

Published by: yuga under: Pinoy Bloggers. 22 replies

posted: April 19th, 2008

When they said you can get sued for linking to a libelous blog, some people do really mean it.

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Palm Centro hits Manila and Disappoints

Published by: yuga under: Mobile. 21 replies

posted: April 18th, 2008

The most anticipated $99 Palm Centro has arrived in Philippine stores. It’s supposed to be a cheap full-featured smartphone that will revive Palm’s dying foothold of the market. The announcement yesterday sparked some excitement among avid Palm followers only to be doused soon after the price was revealed.

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Alexa announces new Web Rankings

Published by: yuga under: The Internet. 8 replies

posted: April 17th, 2008

Alexa just announced they’ve changed to a new algorithm in computing the web rankings. Previously, Alexa only relies on its toolbar to gather site usage data to perform web rankings. They’ve added more sources now to improve the metrics but have not revealed what these are.

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