Let’s face it, the ring tone on your MP3-enabled phone that you think is so cute is actually annoying to just about everyone else around you. They’re just too polite to say anything.
So more and more business folks are doing the smart thing, which is to permanently set their phones on silent/vibrate mode.
That means always […]

This is Raymond “Moks” Remoquillo. He’s the Assistant VP and Business Head for the Corporate Business Group of PLDT.
And he’s holding a USB 3.5G modem.
Moks says that he has been testing the modem for a couple of weeks now, and he was able to get Internet speeds of 1.7Mbps while waiting at Davao’s airport. Wow.
Not […]

I was able to get my hands (albeit briefly) on the unusually-named UBiQUiO 701 tablet PC and…
(slight pause for dramatic effect)
I must say that for the longest time now, I have always been antagonistic to the idea of the Tablet PC (much to the consternation of tablet evangelist Carlo Guerrero). But I had my reasons. Mostly it […]

I exaggerate. But hey, it almost is.
Once upon a time, a week before the Asian Crisis set in, I bought a black, Singapore-made IPC laptop. It was a pretty good unit for its time, save for the fact that the plastic casing seemed flimsy. It was a Pentium unit with 32MB of RAM, 4GB of hard […]

Apple Computer has warned that a small number of its video iPods came with a Windows virus, RavMonE, inside. Apple’s Vice President, Greg Joswiak, assures that only a tiny number coming from a contract manufacturer came with the virus, which can easily be detected by updated antivirus software. He notes that it only affects Windows computers and […]

Let’s face it, there is only one good reason why you should apply for international roaming when you head out into the world. And that is to receive text messages. Try placing a call, or even a text message, from your roaming phone when you’re out of the country and you’ll soon realize that the […]

Head on over to the Cinema Lobby of Greenbelt 3 in Makati and you can still catch the video works of some of the country’s top filmmakers – all shot on the Nokia N93, which is being promoted as THE videocam-phone (remember the way-cool Gary Oldman ad!).
The exhibit runs until October 1 and features works by Manolo […]

So my mom just got a new phone. A Nokia 3650. You know, the one with the outlandish rotary-layout keypad. And this finally replaced the trusty, reliable, and next-to-the-5110-perhaps-the-most-indestructible-phone-around Nokia 3530 which she had been using for ages now. In other words, she has finally entered the graphical interface age.
Problem: my mom’s pushing 70. And […]

Planning on buying a new laptop or PC? Prices are dropping like flies in anticipation of Intel’s new Core 2 Duo processors, which are now being launched globally (first week of August for us here).
The big deal about Core 2 Duo is that these dual-core chips are priced surprisingly low while offering greater performance/power dynamics. […]