IT was a great experience watching the Manny Pacquiao-Jorge Solis fight via Smart 3G and doing the INQUIRER.net Running Account of this bout (this is my first sports Running Account, as opposed to the Estrada impeachment trial, People Power 2 and other political Running Accounts I did before).

Manny kayoed his Mexican opponent, and server traffic actually also kayoed our Running Account, heh — it was erratic, so the account was unavailable to some readers  if they were accessing the servers that went down – though our homepage is still standing and we’ve broken Pacquiao’s 8th round knockout victory as our headline. 

I have to admit I’m impressed with how well the Smart 3G feed held up — we were all keeping our fingers crossed. The biggest scare we got was when the feed got disconnected as Pacquiao and Solis were being introduced, but fortunately I was able to reconnect after a few minutes.

By the way, “congressman” chants from Pacquiao supporters broke out after his postfight interview. Hmm…

I’M doing a Running Account of the “Blaze of  Glory” bout using the Smart 3G feed on my mobile phone. 

We’ve just ended Round 4 of the Brian Viloria-Edgar Sosa bout, one of the undercards.  Earlier, Bernabe Concepcion of the Philippines retained his World Boxing Council Youth superbantamweight championship in a unanimous decision over his Mexican opponent.

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GOOGLE has once more outmaneuvered rivals Microsoft and Yahoo! by winning a bidding war over online advertising company DoubleClick Inc., but was this latest acquisition really worth $3.1 billion?

Of course, Google has a lot of money to spare, and this latest coup gives the company more ammo in the online advertising war.

Here’s an excerpt from a San Francisco Chronicle article:

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WE just finished recording Episode 10 of hackenslash: the podcast a few hours ago, with ABS-CBN Multimedia head Mitch Padua as our “Hot Seat” guest.

Apart from talking to me and my co-host Alex Villafania about gaming, Mitch had interesting things to share about the upcoming portal from ABS-CBN known as Amped.ph. While gaming will be one of the offerings, the overall direction is to make it a full-blown digital entertainment site, with music downloads, mobile content and other services. By the way, Aimee Marcos will be the one in charge of the music initiatives, according to Mitch.

I won’t spoil the surprise — listen to Episode 10 once it’s online  — but it’s interesting how ABS-CBN plans to leverage its traditional media content in order to complement the multimedia services it will offer on Amped.ph, including an iTunes-like service. Stay tuned.

MY previous blog post on watching the Pacquiao-Solis bout on your mobile phone drew reactions from readers who are far from happy with the Smart Bro wireless service.

In fact, a number of Smart Bro subscribers are so unhappy that they’ve set up The Smart Wifi Chronicles site.

Here are some of the recent entries on the site:

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