Surprising news last week was the buzz that Nokia is sort of pulling out of the Japanese market for the majority of its products. Care to guess why Nokia conceded the battle on mobile phones in Japan?
Archive for November, 2008
It’s like the Polaroid all over again. Japanese toy company Tomy launched this new point-and-shoot camera, the Xiao TIP-521, with a built-in printer in tow.
Continue reading ‘Xiao TIP-521 Digicam comes with a Printer!’
True to their words, LG Philippines launched today the cheapest fully touchscreen phone in the Philippines - the LG KP500 or the LG Cookie. My prediction of under Php15k was surpassed — it’s actually just Php11,900.
Yesterday, Samsung Philippines introduced their new line of HDTVs just in time for the Christmas shopping season — the Series 7 and Series 8 LCD TV with 46″ and 52″ models.
Local IT distributor MSI-ECS is running a warehouse sale this first week of December. See details and price list after the jump.
In an email by Sony Ericsson today, the new Sony Ericsson XPeria X1 phone will be coming out to the public tomorrow in stores but people who made early reservations are supposed to get their own units today. The retail price — a cool Php42,500.
What if The Matrix ran on Windows? Check out this nicely done video parody after the jump.
I think this could be the first time we are seeing a mobile phone that can reach 10.2Mbps on HSDPA and it comes from the new Nokia 6260 Slide.
All these time that competing company Yahoo has been announcing layoffs after layoffs, no new has beens heard about Google’s status and its roster of employees. Maybe they’re not affected by the financial crisis as much as the rest.
Continue reading ‘Google sheds some fat — up to 10,000 people’
There’s this ongoing debate on what really differentiates a notebook from a netbook. It’s supposed to be the size or the computing power but recently, the borderlines have been crossed as well. Take for example the Dell Inspiron Mini 12…
Continue reading ‘Is the Dell Inspiron Mini 12 still a netbook?’
I got an email from the AdSense Team announcing the migration of all FeedBurner account to Google Accounts on December 5, 2008. This is a required step as Google pushes to integrate all its services into one account.
Just got a seed unit of the new Intel Core i7 and a copy of Far Cry 2 to play with. Intel announced the release of the new Core i7 quad-core CPUs last Friday which targets enthusiasts and hard-core gamers.
Last month, Adobe launched the Creative Suite 4 in the Philippines. I got a trial DVD of the Master Collection from their Singapore office this week and installed it on my machine for some quick testing.
Didn’t know there was such a thing as the CES Innovation Awards and turns out the LG Dare took the prize home in the wireless handset category.
Got this laser pointer in the mail last week. First thoughi it was just one of those ordinary ones I see during presentation. Well, at least that’s what I thought until I powered it up.
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