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Ars technica has this coverage of the FCC approval of the Bellsouth and AT&T merger. I covered this before as AT&T to acquire BellSouth! Return of the Bell System?. So after about nine (9) months of waiting…
The deal is done. Yesterday afternoon, the FCC voted to approve the massive AT&T/BellSouth merger. The vote came […]

Verizon has recently annouced its foray into the mobile adverstising space as covered by the New York Times. This is after Sprint decided to get into the space too as annouced last October. The Verizon Wireless COO Lowell McAdam said it best, “More than the PC the cell phone is a personal space. If […]

Things seem to be amiss in Google-land this Christmas season. Maybe too much partying is causing them to slip a bit? Techcrunch covers this scoop on a rare Google Gmail blunder.

Regretfully, a small number of our users — around 60 — lost some or all of their email received prior to December 18th. Once […]

No blogs for the past few days? Well, here is an email snippet describing our recent Internet connectivity-related problems.

Several International cable facilities specifically APCN2 and its secondary route - have experienced major cable breaks due to the recent earthquake in Taiwan measuring 7.2 in the Richter scale. As a result of this, […]

Here are some pictures of the gentile Sta. Barbara (A town in Iloilo Province Philippines) countryside and farm scene:
      
More pictures in this set can be found here.

In another uncalled for move by our House of Representatives, there is a House Resolution (HR 190) and a House Bill (HB 1108) looking into the possibility of having our National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) revoke the 3G frequencies currently assigned to local mobile network operators: Smart, Globe, Digitel and CURE. I cannot find an online […]

Sun Microsystems has finally release the GPLed source code to its Java 2 Micro Edition Platform. This is opposed to the expectations of most people which was the release of Java 2 Standard Edition. The new mobile Java platform is called phoneME and can be downloaded from this site. Here is the objectives of this […]

Congratulations for successful blog meet hosted by Max Brenner (the guy is first from the left on the second row) himself?

More power guys!

I decided to take a break from writing long blogs and have decided to post my very first link roll. There are a bunch of interesting links on my reader that I felt the need to post them all. First off, is our list of companies doing things they don’t normally do.

Microsoft Hands Out 16000 […]

If this is not a sign then I do not know what else is. Computerworld has this article about Microsoft signing up three (3) big companies in its Linux support program. Yes, you heard me - Linux Support! When I first heard about the Microsoft-Novell deal, I was not quite sure they were serious. But […]