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Archive for August, 2008

India’s growing Captcha-Solving Industry

Published by: yuga under: Netrepreneur. 20 replies

posted: August 31st, 2008

Both the Philippines and India are fiercely battling the top spot in the global call center and BPO industry. However, it seems India is moving ahead with more innovative and highly in-demand outsourcing needs. ZDNet looks into India’s CAPTCHA solving economy and share some insights on the industry.

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Is Anino’s bust a blow to the game development industry?

Published by: yuga under: PC Gaming. 15 replies

posted: August 31st, 2008

Word that Anino Games, a local game developer, was busted by the National Bureau of Investigation last week for allegedly running pirated software was confirmed by a story in Inquirer.net.

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LG LX110 netbook: an MSI Wind clone?

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 7 replies

posted: August 31st, 2008

It’s a bit of a surprise that LG is joining the UMPC race with its own netbook that really looks like an MSI Wind. Check out the sample pics and specs of the LG LX110 below.

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Free passes to SemCon 2008

Published by: yuga under: Contests. 20 replies

posted: August 29th, 2008

The Search Engine Marketing Conference 2008 is coming up in two weeks and I have 3 free passes with me to give away. Check below how you can grab one of these free tickets to the 2-day event this September.

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Samsung X360: Lighter than Air? Almost.

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 4 replies

posted: August 29th, 2008

Samsung new ultralight laptop took a cue from the Voodoo Envy 133. Obviously, this is an attempt to unseat the MacBook Air in the ultrathin department.

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LG KF700: Codename Virgo

Published by: yuga under: Mobile. 5 replies

posted: August 28th, 2008

The LG Virgo is another attempt to cater to the full touch screen phone crowd. Initially announced back in February 2008, the LG KF700 sports both a slider keypad and a full touchscreen UI.

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Poll: Which iPod are you?

Published by: yuga under: Apples and iPods , Polls. 28 replies

posted: August 28th, 2008

Reports say that the iPod Nano is the most popular of all the Apple media player line. That’s maybe because when it first came out, it was the cheapest iPod at that time. Now that there are more than half a dozen models, I’d like to see which iPod people buy.

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Update: Mobile 3G Usage Survey

Published by: yuga under: Telecoms. 5 replies

posted: August 28th, 2008

When I first published results of my latest poll on mobile 3G usage, several readers requested that I extend it to get more samples. After a month and about 530 votes, I think we’ve got the sample size in the vicinity of 1 to 1.5%. See results of the poll below.

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Dell Vostro Laptops & Desktops unveiled

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 9 replies

posted: August 27th, 2008

In a live webcast this afternoon, Dell Executives at Beijing, China announced the new Dell Vostro series of laptops and desktops. The models are more targeted to small and medium business looking into affordable out-of-the box computing solutions.

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Google Ad Manager now open to the public

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle. 7 replies

posted: August 27th, 2008

Six month after it was first introduced on a limited invite, Google Ad Manager has now opened its doors to the public. That’s if you already have an AdSense account.

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HTC s740 reminds us of the Communicator

Published by: yuga under: Mobile. 2 replies

posted: August 27th, 2008

HTC has lately been doing mostly high-end phones and aside from that leaked info on the Android, the HTC s740 went out without being noticed much. Still, this one somewhat reminds me of the Communicator.

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The Canon 50D is official!

Published by: yuga under: Photography. 11 replies

posted: August 26th, 2008

I’ve been a Canon fan for years. So every time there’s a new dSLR model coming up, I get excited as well as a bit sad since it reminds me that my own gear is growing old. This is the same feeling I have with the announcement of the Canon 50D.

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Thanks to Asia Century for the Free Ads

Published by: yuga under: Site Updates. 23 replies

posted: August 26th, 2008

I completely forgot about this but I hope I’m not too late to publicly thank Asia Century for featuring YugaTech in their affiliate network.

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Sun Cellular unveils Wireless Broadband Plans

Published by: yuga under: Telecoms. 57 replies

posted: August 26th, 2008

The tip we got earlier this month about Sun Cellular Wireless Broadband was spot on. New mobile 3G packages are now available at the Sun Cellular website announcing attractive rates.

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Specs of Nikon D90 leaked

Published by: yuga under: Photography. 3 replies

posted: August 26th, 2008

The 2-year old Nikon D80 has a new big brother, the Nikon D90. Leaked details of the new Nikon dSLR were spotted in a couple US retail stores revealing some nice specs.

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Nokia N85, N79 coming up next

Published by: yuga under: Mobile. 19 replies

posted: August 25th, 2008

Expect to get a model refresh from Nokia every 6 months or so. Up next is the Nokia N85 slider phone (upgrade to the Nokia N81) and the Nokia N79 which is a minor update to the Nokia N78.

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Globe myServices for the iPhone 3G

Published by: yuga under: Apples and iPods , Telecoms. 12 replies

posted: August 25th, 2008

Update: Check out our iPhone 3G Review.

Globe has included a web app for the iPhone 3G so postpaid and prepaid subscribers can access and manage information about their account. Here are some tips on how to access Globe myServices on your iPhone 3G.

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MSI Wind U90 sells for Php19,500

Published by: yuga under: Personal Computing. 9 replies

posted: August 24th, 2008

Apparently, the 8.9-inch MSI Wind U90 is also available in the Philippines and selling for Php19,500 at selected branches of PC Corner. Now the cheap Acer Aspire One has a strong competitor in the sub-20k 9″ UMPC segment.

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Building a rig with an AMD Phenom X4 9950

Published by: yuga under: PC Gaming , Personal Computing. 15 replies

posted: August 24th, 2008

Received an AMD Phenom X4 9950 for review last week which came with a Gigabyte motherboard and a huge ATI Radeon HD4870 X2 graphics card. I thought I’d build a gaming machine with this test unit and compare it with my own Intel Code 2 Quad X6600.

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Migrated Feedburner to Google: New Feed URL

Published by: yuga under: Site Updates. 8 replies

posted: August 24th, 2008

Just got an email that my Feedburner account has been migrated over to a Google account. And thus, this blog will also have a new feed URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/yugatech.

The old Feedburner RSS will no longer work (the native WordPress RSS/ATom feeds do) but RSS to email subscribers will still get updates to their Inbox as usual. I’ve update the links and the rss meta to reflect this change.

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