By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net
JUST how tough is the Toughbook?
Here’s a video I took for iVDO when Alex Villafania and I covered the Kickstart Asia 2007 information technology forum held last week in Bintan, Indonesia. That’s Linus Lim, sales and marketing executive for IT Products, Wireless Communication Division of Panasonic Systems Asia Pacific, giving the demo.
Check out Alex’s Toughbook story for INQUIRER.net Infotech.
By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
ONCE in a while, an electronic device manufacturer would try and compete with Apple in the portable MP3 device market. Most of the competition would try to make theirs look as simple as the iPod that they end up looking like the iPod.
Korean electronics giant Samsung has previously attempted to enter the MP3 device business with their small Yepp series. Now, the company is stretching its legs as it launched the K3 series. Not surprisingly, it looks like the iPod nano and because it is somewhat a clone of Apple’s mid-range MP3 player, the K3 admittedly looks good.
The unit is just slightly longer than the nano but is just as thick. It has a stainless frame lining while top is covered in seamless colored laminated glass with a large black-tinged LCD. The K3 comes in three colors: black, green and maroon.
By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net
YUP. trust the Japanese to come up with something as cool as a robot that pours your beer for you.
OK, it’s a serious waste of money at a price of supposedly $799, and it takes about three minutes to pour beer when you can do it in seconds, but you have to agree the Asahi Beerbot looks awesome, heh 
Too bad, it’s supposed to be out of stock right now.
Check out the video.
By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
COMMERCIAL electronics company Nokia is leading the pack in the latest list of “green electronics companies” of international environmental group Greenpeace.
The quarterly “Guide to Greener Electronics” also puts Dell, Lenovo, and Sony Ericsson at the top of the list of around a dozen global electronics firms evaluated by Greenpeace.
Other companies considered “green” in the list are Motorola, Samsung, Toshiba, Acer, Fujitsu-Siemens, Apple, HP, Panasonic LGE and Sony.
However, the last six companies are still in the latest guide’s “red zone” for weak take-back programs of end-of-life products, not removing hazardous chemicals in their products, or lack of policies on conducting both.
By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net
WILL the 2008 race to determine who will be the world’s most powerful man or woman hinge on YouTube?
You might think so, the way the candidates in the 2008 US presidential elections are trying to rock the vote via YouTube and other online video sites. Of course, the YouTube clip that has really caught everyone’s attention is the sexy “I Got a Crush…On Obama” By Obama Girl. As if Barack Obama weren’t already popular, heh.
It doesn’t hurt that Obama Girl is sexy model/actress Amber Lee Ettinger, who lip-synchs the vocals provided by Leah Kaufmann. Photo courtesy of Amber’s official site.
Here’s the YouTube video clip in case you haven’t seen it yet.
