According to Smart, these are the areas where their HSPA+ base stations or cell sites are available so you can expect speeds of up to 12Mbps here using Smart Bro Rocket Plug-It.
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According to Smart, these are the areas where their HSPA+ base stations or cell sites are available so you can expect speeds of up to 12Mbps here using Smart Bro Rocket Plug-It.
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The details are still sketchy but an insider has tipped us last night that Smart Communications will be launching mobile LTE (3GPP Long Term Evolution) this week with promised speeds of up to 6Mbps per subscriber. N
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For the past two days, right after SEMCON 2010, I was taking our guest speakers to a trip around Boracay and I decided to not bring any camera with me and just use the iPhone 4 instead.
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Congratulations to everyone who joined. It’s been fun looking at all the entries submitted. So here are our best submissions and dozens of other lucky winners. Check out if your photos are on the list of winners below.
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So the Sony Bloggie HD that we won during the amazing race event we had with Sony in Boracay has arrived. This is one of the first few units available and should be out in stores this month.
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Sony’s latest Cybershots have changed my wish list for a new range finder camera. Up high on the list is the all-around Cyber-shot TX5 made for rugged and extreme conditions.
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Nokia’s debut on the netbook market was met with a lot of excitement. Being the number one mobile handset maker in the world, it’s pretty interesting how they’d implement their very own netbook with the Nokia Booklet 3G.
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So while I’m away in Boracay, Canon finally showcases its new dSLR yesterday — the Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i and Kiss X4 Digital elsewhere) — with an impressive 18MP sensor and Full HD 1080p video recording.
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Sony Philippines today introduced a whole line of Edge LED TVs and a new 3D TV which will be available to the public this summer (2nd quarter of 2010).
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I’ve seen this new privilege card some time ago but didn’t really bothered until I was recently told it came with an iPhone App. The guys at Enjoy Philippines sent me a membership kit a couple weeks back and I’ve no downloaded the iTunes App.
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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.
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By this time, we’ll be in Boracay for an early summer get-away. That means I won’t be able to send out the giveaway prizes by this week-end.
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Just came back from the official launch of Smart myTV, the new mobile TV service in partnership with 360media (and MediaQuest). They designed the NBC Tent at the Fort with picturesque booths representing situations/locations where myTV could be enjoyed — on the beach, the golf course, at the bus stop, coffee shop, living room, and inside the car (which I think is a potential road hazard).
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Just got back from Boracay, via Kalibo, Aklan hoping we could get a glance of what their Ati-Atihan Festival would look like. But alas, the heavy traffic, crowded streets and heavy baggage prevented us from doing so.
Here’s some quick picks from the Bora gallery I’m currently uploading.
Taken using my Canon Rebel XT with the Canon 50mm F/1.8 & 10-22mm F/3.5
It helps if you understand or speak the local dialect so the kids won’t be too shy to get their pics taken.
At first, I just take shots before even asking them but it turns out you’re gonna get better poses if you ask nicely.
Even if I asked, I don’t usually get positive replies. I wanted to shot a kid while he’s doing some back-flips but he stopped when he saw me aiming my lens at him.
I also met one of the top professional photographers (dorm mate and old friend back in college) in the country, Jake Versoza.
More pics once I finished uploading them in the Photo Gallery.
2006 was a really busy year for me and from the looks of it, 2007 will be a busier year as well (4 interviews so far, 1 series of talks and 2 events). I never really got a good and relaxed vacation last year so it was a good timing that an old friend from Korea is coming over for a 2-week stay at Boracay.
So here we are…
Won’t be back until Sunday. I have Smart 3G/GPRS with me and Mobile GMail so you can reach me easier via email instead of calling or texting (as if I know how to answer my phone or reply to emails promptly).
More on the Blog Parteeh! 2007.
We’ve finalized the date, the time and the venue and we will all reveal it to everyone in a day or two (or ’til the dedicated blog is up and ready). I’ve gotten a fairly good number of sponsors and prize donors but would like to extend the same to those who want to catch up and be counted. 
We’ll launch the blog on Friday morning and do some massive blog marketing over at PinoyBlog & PinoyTopBlogs — that’s over 5,000 bloggers reading about the event and seeing your company or product on the sponsors page. I’m sure you’ll get tons of blog mentions and prolly even links. That’s blog exposure for you, your site, product or service. (How’s that for a sales pitch?)
Originally, we wanted this to be small and manageable but from the initial response, it has grown some good traction that we’re making this one bigger. (Yup, even bigger than the last BlogCon.)
We’ve got more sponsors/donors coming up but here are the ones we’ve just added to the list:
Attendees will get to bring home schwags/goodie bags and we’re raffling off a lot of prizes, games & interactive contests rolled in. Registration requirements will be posted within the week on the official site so stay tuned.
For over a week now, I’ve been drooling over this Canon lens that I’m dying to get. I’ve checked out the stocks over at the digital camera store in Park Square 1 as well as the Canon store (Digital Zone) in Mall of Asia and they’re really pretty expensive — almost as expensive as the Canon 350D itself.
Still I can resist to get my hands on this one — Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM. I can’t really tell you how good this lens is but if I’d show you some of the sample pictures taken using this one, I’m sure you’d love to have one too if you’re carrying a dSLR.
Just take a look at these I found over at Amazon:
I’ll venture out into the woods (read: Hidalgo Street in Quiapo) tomorrow to take a final look. I’m going for a week-long vacation to Boracay next week with friends from Korea so I’m praying to have this lens in tow.
P.S.
The other one, which I can’t really afford but already in Markku’s crib, is a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens.
CNN reports that Google has recently applied for patents on delivering free wifi and ads. SEORoundTable explains the 3 Wireless Advertising Patent Applications.
Imagine the whole of United States being blanketed by free wifi running Adsense? Pretty neat. If I remember right, their test wifi network in San Francisco runs on 386Kbps — decent enough.
But patenting ad delivery on free wifi? I’ve seen similar strategies with Airborne Access actually. Whenever you login to an AA hotspot, a pop-up window appears showing you’re logged in and times your connection. At the same time, that pop-up window would show up varying image ads depending on which AA hotspot you hook up.
They are basically internal ads — AA at The Shang, AA at GB3 or AA in Boracay.
With geo-targetting, Google could serve up location specific Adsense ads as well. Picture this — you’re hanging out in Starbucks at GB3 using the ad-supported free wifi and you get a swarm of ads from neighboring Seattle’s Best and Figaro. *heh*
