Two weeks with my Acer Aspire 3628 ANWXCi and all I can say is : I just love my Aspire 3628! OK, now we know where this post is heading.

I was canvassing for a 40k laptop for my office use; thanks to Angelo, I found out that there was a recent drop in Centrino-Powered [...]

Would you really care to install another browser in your system?
If you do, you can try Swift (formerly known as GetWebKit) an Alpha-stage web browser based on the Apple Webkit rendering engine.
Installation proved to be buggy, and it was reccommended to download the following Windows components:

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)
Windows Installer 3.1 [...]

I first wrote about PLDT & Smart’s Pwede card in May. I wrote about how I like the idea of loading the card almost *anywhere* in the Philippines through any nearby Smart reloading stall.

Now a darkside of the Pwede card is slowly manifesting itself …

Why is this good for the Philippines? Read on to find out.

Sending an unencrypted email through the internet is like sending a postcard. It exposes your message to the world. Freenigma aims to solve that.

Fellow PTB contributor Ka Edong posted some interesting thoughts on delivering online services using internet rental shops that abound.
As I commented on his blog, my former employer, PhilRice, is doing some of that. The Open Academy used internet shops to hold training sessions for extension workers. We taught them to get email accounts and enrol [...]

Do you know you can get free US and UK telephone numbers even from the Philippines? Or anywhere for that matter? If you have a decent Internet connection (preferably broadband) and a VoIP client (software or hardware), you can easily sign up for free US- and UK-based DID numbers that callers can use to contact [...]

Check out Sacha Chua’s business proposal. You could use the lid of her ultraportable laptop to make your pitch. Sacha’s going to BarCamp Earth Toronto and she’ll be meeting the probably the geekiest people on earth Might as well take the chance, eh?
Awesome
Update: Orange and Bronze already has space on [...]

The title says it all. A new web IM called Wablet developed locally by FBM Software with headquarters in Las vegas, took some below-the-belt comments after a thorough review over at TechCrunch specifically because the app was done in the Philippines.
Nothing to be surprised really but some westerners tend to be biased against anything [...]

Found this one from a banner ad over at Friendster. At first I thought it was one of those Friendster services being silently rolled out without much funfare but it turns out to be a 3rd-party service.
Aryty (sounds like All Righty!) specifically targets OFWs in the US and Canada to send call and text loads [...]