From all of us at the PTB Team:

Greeting you all to a more prosperous 2007. Happy New Year!

I got a call from Caloy Conde this afternoon wanting to get my feedback about the recent connectivity issues across all networks due to the earthquake that shook Taiwan earlier. He was gonna write it for the New York Times and wanted to get “on-the-field” reports about how the connectivity issues have affected businesses and [...]

The plans to split up Inq7.net into a portal for Inquirer.net and GMANews.tv has been finally revealed.

I first reported about the possible break-up last October when an insider unintentionally confirmed a tip I got from another source. Of course, management repeatedly denied about it until a recent article in Inq7.net published to weeks ago hinted [...]

Just finished extending my Top Level Domains to take advantage of the exchange rate between the Dollar and Peso (hovering around P49=$1.)
Logically December would be the best month to do dollar/peso transactions because of the good performance of the peso due to the influx of OFW money into the country due to the [...]

MacHeads got excited with Gizmodo’s post a few days back that the iPhone was soon to be released. Brian Lam “guaranteed” that the iPhone will be announced in a few days, and that it wasn’t what he expected. True enough, the iPhone was announced, but it is not from Apple. The iPhone trademark has actually [...]

First there was Google Earth, next came Google Mars. With the new deal signed by NASA and Google, that “establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces,” we will expect to see the wealth of data that NASA [...]

It was a Friday when I got a text message that Ynzal (an Apple reseller and service center in the Quezon City area) was having its annual inventory sale from 18 to 20 December 2006 and they were posting their sale merchandise early Saturday evening.
With some money to burn, I eagerly anticipated their inventory that [...]

In the age of the OFW (or OCW as some might prefer), we are seeing the exodus of more and more Filipinos to so many countries on this planet. There is an ever increasing need to stay connected and the internet (directly or indirectly) is stepping up and taking on that challenge.
Enter Skype. If you [...]

Today’s our last day for the Guest Bloggers to send in their contributions at PTB.
If you’ve signed up but haven’t written anything yet, you can still catch up in the last 24 hours. All Contributor status will be downgraded back to Subscriber by Friday midnight.
Thanks to all those who participated.

Now why and when did the upload bandwidth counter die for Flickr PRO users? This thread on the Flickr Central forum just made me aware of this surprising, brouhaha-less fact from this smart Yahoo-acquired photo-sharing service.
For $24.95 (PHP1,200++) a year, a PRO account is entitled to:
-Unlimited uploads
-Unlimited storage
-Unlimited bandwidth
-Unlimited photosets
-Permanent archiving of high-resolution original [...]