Month: August 2011

PLDT Partners with Microsoft, Banners Cloud Computing

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) has just partnered with software giant Microsoft and ride the Cloud Computing bandwagon by offering services to it’s consumers via cloud.“Hopefully as we transcend through the future, we may be able to come up with more pervasive value-laden propositions across markets,” PLDT head of consumer sales and marketing group […]

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Remembering Ninoy Aquino

Benigno Simeon “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr., a Filipino Senator and a great critic of then President Ferdinand Marcos, was assassinated today 28yrs ago. along with Gerry Roxas and Jovito Salonga, Ninoy formed the opposition to the Marcos regime. and in 1973 he was arrested and incarcerated for 7yrs, but was allowed to depart for the United […]

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HP Ditches webOS and TouchPad

Hewlett Packard (HP) has just announced that their ditching their webOS devices such as phones and HP Touchpad tablet. their Q3 2011 financial report states, “HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options to optimize the […]

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Google Buys Motorola

this week’s tech buzz – Google‘s acquisition of Motorola – could be a sign that the search giant is transforming itself to both software/hardware manufacturer (hmm pretty much like Apple). “Google is moving into hardware, which is very different from what they’ve done all along,” said Darren Hayes, a computer science professor at Pace University. […]

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