Even if we are the so-called SMS-capital, in the Philippines, it’s not practical to have cellphone vending machines just like what Vodafone did in UK where they deployed such machines particularly in Manchester. The vending machines were dubbed as Quickphone kiosks. For at least £30 ($ 53), you can get a fully-charged handset with £1 [...]

At the Johannesburg airport, they have two telco stalls which each have cellphones for rent for travellers. Rent ranges from around Php450 down to Php220 per day, not including cellphone load.

One telco had a promo which “rented” out cellphones for FREE!

Get paid to play World of Warcraft. A dream job, or a post in a MMOG sweatshop?

Pangasinan Representative Mark Cojuangco is proposing a 50-centavo tax on SMS.

The alternate browser for the Pocket PC, Minimo (short for Mini Mozilla) was released last 26 October 2005.

Visa has a password verification program to increase security for Internet transactions. They want to introduce this to local merchants and banks.

Smart and PLDT Global are offering a Smart-branded Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) service in Singapore.

Who isn’t annoyed by the bad, unfit-for-public-consumption jokes by these guys?

Kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan?

In the US, entry level programmers make about PhP 300,000 per month. In the Philippines, significantly less.

Now stop wondering about why companies offshore operations.

Nothing wrong with offering MMS-powered photoblogs. It’s when users start doing the unthinkable that a great idea such as the Addict Mobile Blog becomes a PR nightmare.