Those who are wondering where the July issue of m|ph is need not panic. It’s that time of the year once again, when your young and feisty mobile magazine group gets together to plan out even more incremental improvements. And so what we have is a July|August double issue.
And it’s coming! Really! And when it […]

While Sony Ericsson owners are blessed with well-made (and free) PC phone managers such as flOat’s Mobile Agent, it amazes me no end how the millions of Nokia owners (as well as Symbian phone owners) seem shortchanged by comparison.
Sure there’s Nokia’s own PC Suite, but this has lately become a clunky battery of programs that […]

The Hughpage has arrived. Enjoy!

I was wondering how much I was spending on my power bill by running a desktop PC on 24/7. So I used Meralco’s Appliance Calculator (MAC) and figured that I was spending about 900 pesos a month(!) for one desktop PC alone.
There are two things going against desktop PCs. First, they are space-hungry monsters, many […]

For those of you who have been living with Graffiti, virtual keyboards or other pen-based word entry techniques, you’d know the pain and suffering that’s involved just getting your thoughts into your PDAs.
Well, IBM claims to have found a better way.

The SHARK (Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding) is a pen-based shorthand system that uses an onscreen keyboard. […]

Thank you to the fabulous men and women who link to our site. Found it by accident, really.
I was searching for relevant news about how Palm, Inc changed their name once again. But I got the usual “press releases cum corporate Garfield grins” from the web saying how the name change is supposed to streamline […]

The ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which is the big cheese that regulates the world of domain names, has just approved .mobi as a new suffix for websites.
The .mobi suffix will be used for websites that are designed especially for access by mobile devices, which means that such sites would have stripped […]

Does the world need another video format? Well, if it’s portable…
The Universal Media Disc (UMD), a tiny optical disc cartridge of about 65W x 64L x 4.2H mm., is the bullet that you chamber into Sony’s popular PlayStation Portable. It holds 1.8 gigabytes of data, which is plenty of juice for games.
Or for movies.
Apparently, Sony […]

What did Microsoft do that Apple didn’t? Surprisingly enough, they had a better marketing strategy. While Apple was telling everyone to Think Different, Microsoft was showing people “how to wash those Windows.”