My fellow Pinoy Tech Blog contributor Karla Redor is featured in the Autodesk Manufacturing Community newsletter. She works with Autodesk Inventor and posts her tips and projects in her Inventor blog.
Congratulations Karla!

Sony’s at it again.
As this report from Infoworld says:
“A line of USB drives sold by Sony installs files in a hidden folder that can be accessed and used by hackers, a Finnish security company charged Monday, raising the specter of a replay of the fiasco that hit Sony’s music arm two years ago when researchers [...]

Engadget recently reports that the iPhone has been unlocked by a six-man team who had been working since launch for an unlocking solution. So will this mean we’ll be seeing the iPhone in the Philippine market anytime soon (the grey market, at least)?
Well, probably, yes. Again, most likely in the grey market. But for all [...]

If you haven’t tried Yahoo! Go 2.0 on your mobile phone, then you could be missing a lot with your mobile internet experience. Yahoo! Go comes with a plethora of integrated web services into your mobile phone.
Here are 5 fun/useful things you could be doing with your 3G enabled phones that can be considered [...]

Recently, our office has been bombarded by calls from headhunters. Funny thing is that it seems to be that they’re calling our developers one by one. And it was practically one after the other. They’ve been declining the offers because they’re happy working with us and yet we still kept getting those calls [...]

Define irony.
Irony is US voting machines being assembled in the Philippines, says this report.
Hence, irony can be defined as the technology making US elections possible comes from the bastion of free and honest election in this side of the world.
ROTFLMAO!

Despite the solid support of the Firefox community and the millions of promotion dollars poured by Google (Firefox + Google Toolbar via AdSense affiliate), Mozilla Firefox is still having huge problems with retaining users.
The Mozilla wiki states that:
In order for Firefox to reach our market share goals, we need to improve our ability to retain [...]

When Microsoft earlier announced it will be phasing out Windows XP by 2008, everyone thought we’re doomed with Vista. What will all that bugs and incompatibilities, it sure does make corporate system administrators crack their heads in frustration.
Even PC manufacturers like Acer are disappointed with Windows Vista. Windows XP is still the best option [...]

Now here’s something you don’t see everyday.

Smart Communications, the Philippines’ biggest mobile phone network, is now dabbling with transporting people across the metropolis. They plan to do this through “Metropass” and a contactless PayPass card.

Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) has forged a partnership with MetroPass Systems, Inc. (MetroPass) ) to jointly develop and implement an electronic payment [...]