Now that Alcatel-Lucent won an unprecedented $1.5 Billion patent infringement lawsuit (one of six lawsuits) against Microsoft, this will boost their claim against all other companies using MP3 technology. The patents in question govern the conversion of audio into the digital MP3 file format on personal computers.
We’re already seeing reports that Apple, Samsung and Sandisk [...]

I’ve been complaining for a few weeks now that my Smart Bro connection has been crappy whenever it rains, so I called up tech support and asked for a reposition of my antenna.

It’s election season once again, folks. It’s the time for crappy campaign advertisements on TV and radio, poster-polluted streets, and musically-challenged jingles. We’ve heard them over and over–campaign lyrics sung to the tune of popular songs, mostly from vans blaring the songs from tinny speakers (which makes the songs barely comprehensible). Apparently, music is an [...]

William Yu reports that local magazine PC Mag Philippines will be suspended indefinitely. This is primarily due to low ad sales and high licensing fees forced Hinge Inquirer Publications to stop printing/distribution of the tech magazine.

Hinge Inquirer Publications regretfully announces the indefinite suspension of publication of PC Magazine Philippines under our aegis effective February 2007. [...]

A few days ago, I noticed that Feedburner has started counting subscriber stats for Rojo & Google Reader. This was confirmed from by the official Google Reader blog and the Burning Questions blog.
Everyone saw huge spikes in their feed counts and here at PTB, we even got past the 500 subscriber mark with Google Feedfetcher [...]

The $100 laptop by OLPC is old news. Even so, the Philippine government has no plans to distribute the laptops in the country. Since government will not sponsor such a project, the $100 laptop will probably not reach our soils, unless some enterprising individual manages to get hold of units and sell them in the [...]

Great article here that shows you how you can fix your damaged keyboard connections due to worn out pads or the occasional spilled **insert your favorite beverage here**, with nothing but superglue and your garden variety tin foil found in almost any kitchen.

When I saw Rain’s portable hard drive w/ flash reader in our last trip to the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Pampanga, my interest to get one for my Canon 350D grew even more. However, spending another Php2k+ for the HDD case and Php5k for a 2.5″ HDD might seem out of budget consider I [...]

The 2007 Philippine Blog Awards is on! Nominations are open until the 28th.
In just two days, 93 blogs have been nominated. Thousands of Pinoy blogs to go.
As expected, Best Personal Blog has taken the most nominations. Fill up the other categories for topic-oriented blogs.
Special awards go out for the Blogger’s Choice award, Best Blog Design, [...]

Amazing!
A cameraphone helped foil a kidnap attempt at Philippine Tourism Authority Secretary Robert Dean Barbers!
I heard about the kidnap attempt in passing, but the report I picked up was that a news *crew* foiled the attempt. But no, it wasn’t a *crew*, it was a just one man with a cameraphone recording the crime.
The [...]