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Lonely Planet contents are now available on selected Nokia mobile phones which can be downloaded directly onto the device or PC.
Users of Nokia Maps can download Lonely Planet content covering more than 100 worldwide destinations. Each download will cost $11.75. Nokia Maps already cover more than 200...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Roboteknik i100 (Patent Pending) is the first commercially available, locally manufactured underwater inspection robot and was developed by Filipino engineers. To date, it is the most affordable UIR in Asia. The robot is equipped with a video camera and a data recording device that is capable of...
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Google has finally found a replacement to its CFO which left for Facebook. The new one is Canadian Patrick Pichette. Looking at his compensation package, I’m sure this guy already feels like a million dollas: $500,000 in signing bonus $500,000 6-month anniversary bonus $37,500 monthly salary (...
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Right after the WWDC 2008 where Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed the new 3G iPhone 2.0, Globe Telecom released news that it will be offering the new iPhone to the Philippines.
Apple is selling the iPhone 3G at $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model. The units will also come in black [...]
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The MSI Wind was officially announced at the Computex in Taipei, Taiwan.This 10″ mini-laptop sports the new Intel Atom processor clocked at 1.6GHz. Screen resolution goes as high as 1024×600 pixels running an Intel 945 GMS. Stardard memory is 1GB DDR2 RAM and an 80GB HDD running Windows XP...