I used to think that I was a pretty fast texter. In fact, there was even a time many years ago when I thought it to be unthinkable for anybody to text any faster than I and my Nokia 5110 could, pardon the egotistical lapse.
And then I read that the world record for texting was […]

Time was when I used Chikka with a little twinge of guilt. That’s because it allowed me to send text messages to my friends for free.
…And to top it off, I always ended my messages with "<chikka>" just to remind my textees that they should not reply to my message lest they get charged P2.50. […]

Tell me, is it just me, or am I correct in concluding that it is mostly the women who are buying flip-phones?
Prior to their new slew of slider phones, Samsung had a vast line of flip-phones. And, I swear, practically everyone I’ve met who was using a Samsung flip was a female. Ditto for flips […]

Okay, so going wireless is glamorous. Thanks to all those images of surfing the net while sipping espresso at some overpriced coffee shop. Or of rough riding on a mountain bike while chattering with a loved one over a Bluetooth headset…
But I still love wires. And for good reason. Wires are still a faster, more […]

Okay, this will be a bit of a geeky rant. But my MP3 player keeps playing Wang Chung’s “Hypnotize Me

You don’t have to camp out at Grauman’s Chinese Theater this early just to get ahead of everybody else for “Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith” (while anxiously wondering whether or not it will indeed be the first theater to screen it).
Instead, why not just read the script right on your handheld device? Star […]

The new 7-MP Samsung phone with built in flash and removable lenses. Time to throw your dSLR away? Hmmm.. tempting .. not!

If you love Japanese “New Wave Horror

TechTV vanished from the local cable channels when, in March 2004, it was acquired by the giant ComCast Communications group and absorbed by its G4 games channel, thus creating the G4techTV channel. This new channel isn’t available locally. And even if it was, it simply does not capture the essence of what TechTV was all […]