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AyosDito.ph, New Market Place in the Internet
A new market place opens in the Philippine internet. Just recently, through the assistance of Singapore Press Holdings and Schibsted ASA, 701 Search Inc. launched AyosDito.ph in the country. AyosDito.ph is a venue for Filipinos to buy and sell different items online. Who wouldn’t notice AyosDito.ph’s presence in the internet after they launched several campaigns [...]
BlackBerry Storm in Philippines
Globe Telecom announced a few days ago the availability of the BlackBerry smartphone in the Philippines. BlackBerry Storm is BlackBerry’s first clickable touch-screen designe for communications and multimedia. Among the notable features of BlackBerry Storm is its stunning display, 3.2 MP Camera, Office Applications, built-in GPS, 3G/3.5G capability and other multimedia functionalities.
BlackBerry Storm 9500
BlackBerry Storm is bolder than its predecessor, the BlackBerry Bold. The BlackBerry 9500 Storm is RIM’s (Reasearch in Motion) first touch screen phone. It features SurePress, the first clickable screen. According to RIM, SurePress is a touch-screen technology which emits a click sensation each time a user touches the phone’s screen interface. It ensures precision [...]
Google Map View now available for Manila, Cebu, and Davao Maps
More than a month ago, I blogged about Google’s silent deployment of the Philippine street maps in Google Maps for Mobile and Google Maps for web. The new map data were taken from the Google’s Mapmaker for Philippines, a web application which allows user to openly plot streets, places, landmarks, and establishments in the map. [...]
I want a Nikon D90
I’ve been holding my internet earnings these past few months to raise funds for a new gadget that I’m planning to get. Since when I was in college, I’ve been using our groups’s Canon EOS 300D and Nikon D40 but I never really had a gear to call my own. I’ve been eying for D90. [...]
GMail goes global
[A press release] Gmail Labs goes global, now available in Filipino Google extends experimental features to international users as Gmail marks its fifth birthday April 2, 2009, Manila, Philippines , Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Gmail Labs will now be available internationally in 49 languages. Gmail Labs is an experimental feature playground within [...]
YouTube EDU, an educational video repository
YouTube, the world’s leader in online video, opens a new section called YouTube EDU. YouTube EDU is a “volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities“. The new section, launched last [...]
Asus WL-520gU Wireless Router
GET MORE WITH WIRELESS! [Press Release] More and more people are getting hooked up with the internet. Laptops and desktops are filling many households nowadays. With all the technologies used at homes, users do want to ensure mobility and have less hassle with the wire works. Asus now offers consumers an easy way to set-up [...]
Samsung OMNIA HD
Last December, Samsung shocked us when they launched the first 8.0 – megapixel camera phone in the country, the Samsung Pixon M8800 camera phone. If you think the 8.0 – megapixel camera phone is the ultimate multimedia phone from Samsung, then you’re wrong. Samsung will be launching the ultimate mobile phone mid this year, the [...]
Manila Maps now available on Google Maps!
Philippine Street Map on the Nokia N82 Symbian S60 Platform After the long wait, Google finally released the updated Manila Map for Google Maps. The recent Google Maps update include detailed street maps of major Philippine cities like Metro Manila, Cebu City, Davao City, and Cagayan de Oro City among others.