Month: July 2009

Friendster for Sale?

what’s this? the top social networking site in the Philippines (and asia) – Friendster – is now looking for buyers and even tapped Morgan Stanley to find anyone willing to buy the company (or at least some of its assets). in the techcrunch report it shows that Friendster is 11.3% higher compared to Facebook as […]

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State of the Philippine IT Address

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) just had 9th and “last” SONA (State of the Nation Address) yester. i found this nice article from abs-cbnnews where they somehow outlined PGMA’s “State of the Philippine IT Address” – IT initiatives duringher term. since PGMA took the post, internet users grew from 2M in 2000 to 20M+ […]

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Bill Gates Leaves Facebook

“It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up,” this was what Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has to say when asked why he gave up his facebook account. i can’t imagine that this was his reason – he finds it troublesome figuring out whether he knew a person or not. LOL another […]

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Nettop ng Bayan 2.0

Intel and the Commission for Information and Communications Technology (CICT) have just devised a PC solution for all IT PINOYs called Nettop ng Bayan 2.0. the low-cost desktop features an Atom N270 chip, 80G hard disk, 1Gb memory, 15in LCD and is priced @ P10,800. this however comes without an OS and internet, which leaves […]

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TWINOY!!!

can’t get over twitter???? well for all PINOYs you’d enjoy TWINOY (Mga tweet ng pinoys!!!)another kewl thing about twinoy is that posts here automatically get reflected to twitter!!! barely under a week’s old, it already has a thousand members, what you waiting for? join na! check out [http://twinoy.com/twinoy]

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Comelec Urges Bloggers Cover 2010 Elections

raring to cover the upcoming 2010 Philippine National Elections? well here’s your chance as COMELEC (Commission on Elections) has opened up doors for us bloggers to write about the event. COMELEC is formulating a “framework of cooperation” for bloggers to cover key points of the election – such as voter education and field testing of […]

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Meralco Broadband Internet

the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is the Philippine’s main distributor of electricity, well they will soon be offering another service – that is broadband internet. this came upon after the Philippine Long Distance Co (PLDT) along with a pension plan became biggest share holder of Meralco. utilizing its power lines to deliver broadband internet service […]

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