Just landed this morning at Seoul, South Korea and will be spending the rest of the day here before I head home. I’m off for some last minute gadget shopping and maybe I’d find something interesting.
Archive for December, 2008
All that discussion last month about the Ilumina got me thinking — TV is still the #1 appliance in the living room. But how much has it changed in the last decade?
LG Mobile is the first one to introduce an affordable, full touchscreen phone in the market. Banking on the popularity of touchscreen devices and marketing it to folks with a limited budget, LG is poised to grab a segment that might just bite the cookie.
Yahoo! Philippines sent in a report for their 2008 Top Searches on the main portal Yahoo.com.ph. The results are as expected but still interesting — gives us a glimpse of what regular Filipino surfers as interested in.
Continue reading ‘Top Searches of 2008 on Yahoo! Philippines’
There’s this huge buzz in the US where Radio Shack is offering the Acer Aspire One for just $99.99. This reminds me of what Asus reps said during the netbook forum organized by CyberPress a couple months back.
The newly launched Mahalo Answers is just like Yahoo! Answers plus a couple bucks of tip. In short, you get paid for the best answers you contribute.
Google Chrome recently got promoted to version 1.0 and dropping the beta label. At the same time, it also got another promotion on Google Pack, pushing back FireFox down as the default web browser.
Some laptop manufacturers like TG (and their Averatec brand) doesn’t seem to want to ride in the netbook label so they’re calling their own versions as a mini-laptop despite the fact that features are just the same.
Here’s another stylish all-in-one desktop PC from Averatec that runs an Intel Atom CPU and sports an 18.4-inch LCD display you might be interested in.
Continue reading ‘18.4″ Averatec All-in-One PC runs Intel Atom’
Smart introduced the other day this mobile-in-a-USB product called Plug ‘n Talk. It’s basically targeted to OFWs which allows them to call and text from a PC abroad to any cellphone or landline number in the Philippines.
Dell seems to be the only western brand that is already on board the nettop crowd at the moment — the Optiplex 160 being the flagship nettop PC on its line.
Owners of FlowersExpress.com.ph should tell their internet marketing / SEO people to stop using outdated SEO spamming techniques or they’d end up on the other end of the SERPs.
Did not know Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch was also making cars for some time now. This tiny, compact car I saw the other day is the most parking-friendly car I’ve ever seen.
A new version of WordPress is now out at 2.7. Some major re-design of the administration layout was done as well as a few tweak, bug fixes and improvements.
Not everyone knows that Google is also offering an AdSense partnership with people who own a lot of un-used domains. Now, every AdSense Publisher will get to run this campaign in their domains as well.
Before you continue reading this, please read my review of the Nokia E71 first so you’d get a better perspective of where I am coming from and so I don’t have to repeat the sections where the Nokia E63 is similar to the E71.



































