Apple has just announced the latest iteration of its iOS platform, the completely redesigned and improved iOS 7.
Earlier today, Tumblr has finally broke the news that they’ve been acquired by Yahoo! The sale was pegged at $1.1 billion, just a little more than what Facebook got Instagram.
Having a good set of lens is as equally important, if not more important, as having a good camera body. As such, it is important to know some of the different kinds of lenses, some of its basic features, and why pro photographers invest heavily on good optics.
Most AdSense Publishers in the Philippines would use Western Union to pick up their earnings because it’s the fastest and most convenient method. However, based on recent experience, it’s also the most un-secure and prone to fraud. Just the other day, someone claimed my AdSense earnings via Western Union and got thru.
We see these symbols printed at the back of almost every electronic gadgets we use such as smartphones, tablets, digital cameras or device chargers, but rarely do we pay attention to what they actually mean. So if you want to make sense of it all, please read on.
It’s been little under a decade since Cisco acquired Linksys for half a billion US dollars. But just when things seemed to be going OK, the California-based networking giant is said to be consulting Barclays to find a new owner for their consumer-centric product line.
It was a pretty interesting tour going around the Qualcomm Museum last week as we saw the chip and wireless development in mobile phones thru the decades. Here are some of the more interesting stuff we found in there.
Do you remember the times when phones had extremely long life cycles? Or even when mobile technology didn’t advance so rapidly? Those were probably the times when the dumbphones were prevalent.
Our recent visit to Singapore over the week-end got us scouring around the shops of Sim Lim and Funan Digital IT Mall. Sim Lim has been a favorite gadget mall since a lot of stores carry new and interesting gadgets where you can haggle for discounts. Our recent visit was totally different though.
We’ve already heard about it. We’ve probably seen its logo on the box of our smartphone, but I only know a handful of people who have actually used this neat feature. So what exactly is DLNA?
Despite of numerous attempts to stop it, the malicious worm is still in the wild and still affecting Skype users via the software’s Instant Messaging feature.
Sony has really hit it off with their NEX line of digital cameras, naturally, next on the spot is the entry-level A35′s successor — the SLT-A37 DSLR which boasts a mile-long list of features for something that’s priced at under Php34,000.
Wikipedia is in dire times right now as they observe a decline in editors and admins count in recent years and it continues to plummet down at an alarming rate.
Intex Technology is a company that offers a wide range of electronic gadgets and appliances. They may not be that well-known here in the Philippines but they service to 63 countries manufacturing affordable devices that, according to them, aimed at experiencing future and living life which nobody has lived before. Let’s see if their tablet [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we got news that the Senate has finally approved their own version of the Anti-Cybercrime Bill (Senate Bill 2796). It has gotten a lot of mixed reactions and has even been labeled as a measure similar to SOPA/PIPA in the US.
TechLocal.com reports that there is a brewing plan for a bill to combat online piracy in the Philippines. A group is said to be lobbying in congress and the senate to pass a bill similar to SOPA or PIPA.
Starting later today until 24 hours after that, Wikipedia.org will go dark (English language) as a sign of protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).
This is part of my year-ender series for 2011. We’ve done a ton of gadget reviews for 2011 and one of the key indicators that a gadget is hot or very interesting is by the number of pageviews it gets thru the years. Check out which devices got the most hits in 2011 after the [...]
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
After the recent public hearing by the NTC, they’ve announced that provisions for bandwidth caps have been removed from memo. But that’s just the NTC and it’s still a draft so ISPs can still continue with their bandwidth capping provisions as stated in their service contracts and AUP.
Was driving in SSH this afternoon to go to church when I saw a billboard ad with the logo of Aowa. I’ve had bad experiences with their sales people years back but the name already reminded me of the electronics brand, Aiwa.
I’ve been asking engineers around for reasons why ISPs around the world have been implementing bandwidth caps and got several possible scenarios to consider. Here are the top 5 most probable reasons behind the issue of bandwidth caps.
With the help of our tipster, we went to VirraMall to look for the iPed yesterday. The store wasn’t very easy to locate so we had to wander around for a bit before we got there.
A tipper sent this in this afternoon telling us he’s spotted a Chinese Android Tablet in one of the local malls (this is probably the iPed).
The Acer Aspire 4553G is probably the first locally-available laptop sporting an AMD triple-core CPU. The CPU sits somewhere between Intel’s Core i3 and Core i5 systems (not just because it has 3 cores).
