I rarely post about friends of mine. But, this is an exception. I just read in the news that a high school classmate of mine named Omid Uy Etemadi (graduated from the Cebu Institute of Medicine aka Velez) ranked number 4 in the 2007 Physician Licensure Exam. I guess Omit stopped focusing on Basketball Cards? […]
Here is a press release from Hinge Inquirer Publications about the indefinite suspension of PC Magazine Philippines. I got this from an email to the contributing writers.
Hinge Inquirer Publications regretfully announces the indefinite suspension of publication of PC Magazine Philippines under our aegis effective February 2007.
Despite being the number one tech magazine in the […]
Ola again! I am back in the Philippines and have been able to collect more pictures of our stay in Spain. Again, all of them can be found in my flickr site. Since, I don’t have a professional account only the latest 200 images can be shown at any given time. Tsk. Tsk.
GSMA World 2007 […]
Ola from Barcelona! After may blogless days, here is something to check out in the meantime. This is our final full day here and we are just winding down catching up with some office work here in a nice quite Cyber Ice Cream Parlor that plays technofusion (yuck!) music. I believe we have had our […]
Innovation comes from strange places. It is something people search for and rarely find. Sometimes, they are the product of resources and access. Other times, they are the product of pure genius. And at times, they are just the product of plain ole luck. No matter where innovation comes from the mobile industry has been […]
The guys at Funambol are making a big announcement at 3GSMA in Barcelona. This PR article from Yahoo mentions that they will be demonstrating the world’s first open source mobile email, contacts and calendaring solution.
Funambol, the mobile open source software company, today announced it will preview its new mobile email portal for consumers at 3GSM […]
Interestingly, Google may be trying out a new business model soon. Currently, Google makes bucket loads of cash by selling advertising on its applications and affiliate networks. However, here is a move to change its primarily advertising-based model into a subscription-based model. Here is the story from ArsTechnica.
The original goal of Google Apps for Your […]
Digital Rights Management (DRM)’s biggest and most successful supporter is now advocating its removal. Apple Inc’s Steve Jobs has released a statement in their corporate website on Apple’s support for a DRM-free online music ecosystem. Here is some food for thought.
In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over […]
Here is a Washington Post story about the GSMA awarding a contract to LG electronics to make low cost Third Generation (3G) GSM mobile phones.
The handset will cost around $100, breaking through an important price barrier which is expected to boost sales of 3G phones. Most 3G phones are currently much more expensive and […]
The department has been facing a serious problem in the last few years. This problem is basically the ever decreasing numbers of people taking up computer science as an undergraduate degree. In the Philippines, we have attributed this to the fact that students are now taking up health science-related courses because of the boom in […]
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