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Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Yahoo! opens Buzz to the public
Yahoo! Buzz opened its doors to the public today. The Digg-like system by Yahoo! used to be an exclusive club to a select 40 or so publishers (e.g. TechCrunch, Read Write Web, etc) when it first launch in February 2008. Yahoo! Buzz has been touted as a more mass-market version of Digg and Yahoo has proven that it still has … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Free Deep Blue H1 Netbook for every Fuji Laser Printer
Villman is running a promo for a free Deep Blue H1 netbook when you buy the Fuji PE220 multi-purpose laser printer (serves as a printer, copier, scanner and fax). Price tag is Php21,995. Not bad considering the Blue H1 costs about Php16,995. Read my review here of the Deep Blue H1. [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Filipino bags 2nd place on Guitar Hero WCG Asian Championship
Luis Benesa landed 2nd place in the Guitar Hero competition at the recent World Cyber Games (WCG) Asian Championship held in Suntec City, Singapore over the weekend. The 18-year old Benesa bested other players from China, Vietnam and Korea, to fight for the championship against New Zealand. Luis Benesa (left) at the winner’s podium with Samsung executive Christopher Chew, the … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Samsung Omnia i900: First Impressions
I was quite fortunate enough to be able to get a first-hand experience on Samsung’s latest touchscreen phone, Omnia (SGH i900). Slated to be released today here in the Philippines, the timing was perfect to give potential iPhone 3G buyers another phone to consider. Before I proceed, I’m not really a phone freak. I’m a bit of a newbie when … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » The Price of Globe’s iPhone 3G
Globe Telecom announced the official release date of iPhone 3G in the Philippines on August 22, 2008. Both postpaid and prepaid prices were also revealed. Prepaid kits will cost at least Php41,889 for the 8GB version. Comes with 50 hours of free mobile internet. Includes Php200 free load per month for 6 months. We got a scanned copy of the … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Friendster’s new $20M funding & ex-Googler CEO
Fresh from an announcement that Friendster Philippines’ mobile content partner Entertainment Gateway Group being acquired by Globe Telecom, Friendster itself announced a new round of funding for the amount of $20 Million. Likewise, it will focus more on Asia where SEA alone attracts more than a 3rd of Friendster’s total traffic. In the Philippines, there’s an estimated 10 Million Filipino … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » SiteMeter crashes thousands of websites on IE7
Over the weekend, thousands of websites inexplicably crashed when browsed via Internet Explorer 7. The common thing about them is that they all use Sitemeter and a bug in the site tracking service caused all the havoc. Sitemeter has promptly fixed the issue: Dear SiteMeter Users, We corrected a compatibility issue with our SiteMeter tracking code and IE7 and IE6 … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » MSI confirms $50 price hikes on Wind U100
Reports are out that MSI is going to increase the SRP prices of all MSI Wind U100 to $499 and up. The average increase will hover around $50. The company has had “no choice” but to increase the price as the raw manufacturing costs for the battery and other notebook materials have increased significantly, according to an MSI official. {via} … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Nokia Tube Specs and Pics
Nokia’s fully touchscreen mobile phone which is supposed to be a direct competitor of the iPhone is nicknamed the Nokia Tube. Specs and leaked pictures after the jump. 640 × 360 pixels (16:9 aspect ratio) Symbian S60 5th ed. touch screen with haptic feedback 3.2 MP autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics Dual LED flash Built-in GPS 140 MB RAM … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » 1 Trillion Unique URLs
Google today blogged about reaching the 1,000,000,000,000 unique URLs indexed. And how do they crawl all these bazillions of pages everyday? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » HP Mini Note lagging behind UMPC Bandwagon
The recently launched HP 2133 Mini-note seems to be lagging behind the newer and faster ultraportables from Acer and MSI. A round-up of the current 9 inch and 10 inch laptops in the Philippine market showed HP’s choice of using Via CPUs instead of the faster Intel Atom broke the deal for most prospective buyers. Included in the table are … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Google ranking on Google Search
Barely a day after Google Knol was launched to the public, several pages of knol.google.com are already ranking quite high on Google’s own search results. It’s a little weird to see the Google domain showing up on Google search results. This could be the start when Google becomes the content of Google search. Is it possible that someone, all the … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » HP Mini Note lagging behind UMPC Bandagon
The recently launched HP 2133 Mini-note seems to be lagging behind the newer and faster ultraportables from Acer and MSI. A round-up of the current 9 inch and 10 inch laptops in the Philippine market showed HP’s choice of using Via CPUs instead of the faster Intel Atom broke the deal for most prospective buyers. Included in the table are … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » iPhone 3G spotted at Greenhills
Several independent reports indicate that gray market iPhone 3G has landed in the Philippines. Apparently, there are plenty of them coming in from neighboring Hong Kong. iPhone 3G Philippines The price — a cool Php61,500 for the 8GB. The cost includes the mandatory 2-year contract from the HK telco (Hutchison Telecom) reselling the iPhone 2.0 for Apple. The 24-month plans … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Ynzal to lose its Apple Reseller status
Due to some internal issues, Apple has transmitted a revocation of reseller status to Ynzal Philippines. Letters circulated to Ynzal clients indicate the reasons for this termination: July 18, 2008 To all our patrons, customers and friends, We regret to inform you that Ynzal Marketing Corp. will cease to be an Authorized Apple Reseller beginning July 29th. We received notice … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Smart Uzzap IM Service
On July 6, Smart launched an all-in-one IM service called Uzzap. The service was geared towards teens that’s obviously been hooked up on chatting all the time. Smart Uzzap offers unlimited chatting from your phone to a PC and vice-versa, allowing additional interconnection features such as email and SMS. The platform is a free software you can download directly to … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » World Cyber Games 2008 Philippine Champions
The 8th World Cybergames Philippine leg concluded last Sunday at the SM Mall of Asia activity center. Philippine champion gamers were announced to represent the country in the world championships in Germany later this year. Winners list below: Counterstrike: Team Horsemen of the Apocalypse Arvin Agbisit Paolo Nancho Jupiter Mars Gaboy EJ Clores Gary Guevarras WarCraft: Frederick Pe Guitar Hero: … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak: The Race to Unlock the iPhone 3G
The race is on to hack/unlock the iPhone 2.0 and developers from across the globe are competing to get the jailbreak working. The iPhone Dev Team has earlier reported that they’re very close to putting out a public release of the iPhone JailBreak 2.0. No final word yet on the accuracy of their target deadline. In Brazil, a group has … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Asus EeePC 1000 Philippine Launch: July 23
Asus Philippines is set to launch the new 10-inch Asus Eee PC 1000 40G next week, July 23, 2008. The Asus EeePC 1000 sports a more comfortable keyboard — 92% the size of an average laptop. Asus Eee PC 1000 to launch in the Philippines Intel Atom Processor 1.6GHz 2.93 lbs 40GB solid state drive 2GB of RAM WiFi 802.11n … [Link]
Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog » Nokia E71 Specs and Price
Them Nokia E71 (the big brother of the E51) are now on sale in local mobile phone shops and we got some updates on final specs and pricing. Nokia E71 Philippines HSDPA 3.6 Mbps 2.36 inches screen (320×240 pixels) Full QWERTY keyboard 110 MB internal memory 128 MB SDRAM Memory ARM 11 369 MHz processor WiFi 802.11 b/g Bluetooth 2.0 … [Link]
