The recent 10th Philippine Web Awards concluded with more than its own fair share of controversies. Even before the events night, there were too many issues cropping left and right that made this year’s awards an interesting eye-opener.

Like any other year, contestants have repeatedly questioned the expertise and experience of the panel of judges. That [...]

I got this lead from one of my visitors at Technobiography:
November 15, 2007 – OMI Mobile Solutions conducted its internal live test at MRT North Ave. Station to Taft Ave. Station. Succesfully activated OMI E-Wallet and purchase single journey MRT mobile tickets for SMART Communications and SUN Cellular.
Some notes:
* Not much detail about the live [...]

The PHP Users Group of the Philippines (PHPUGPH) is holding their first ever conference on December 1, 2007 at the Crown Regency Hotel in Manila. The event will start at 9 in the morning and will last till 6 in the evening.
A follow up to their very successful April Meetup, the goal [...]

Most people buy speakers for the power and features; others buy them for the looks. The Saitek iFreedom 2.1 is one wireless speaker that belongs to the latter category. These speakers were not only built for people with mobility in mind, they also make them look good.

Ok, first off, the thing looks like an [...]

Eons ago when I had to wake up at exactly 6am every weekday just so I won’t be late for work, I start every day by opening Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client, which manages three separate e-mail accounts, two of them international and the other intra-company.  I remember how it worked beautifully for us.   Lag times were almost [...]

Abe wrote about how the weakening dollar is bad for probloggers. Likewise, it would be bad for people who earn in dollars: freelancers and contractors, other people who earn online, and the much talked-about case of the OFWs. It also affects outsourcing companies whose contracts are fixed in dollars.
But, it’s good for tech too. The [...]

Multiply Big In The Philippines, Lands Ad Deal – from Web 2.0 news site TechCrunch. The deal is with ABS-CBN.
“Under terms of the agreement, ABS-CBN interactive will sell advertising and mobile services for Multiply’s Filipino users, with the two companies sharing revenues.” What would this possibly mean?

Multiply users can advertise on ABS-CBN properties? On [...]

I’ve been running Apple’s new Leopard for a couple of days now. So far all I can say that it is an impressive upgrade. It’s hard to believe that this is considered just an “incremental” upgrade—from 10.4 to 10.5. I’ve been chronicling my impressions at Macpinoy, but here is what I have [...]

My friend Cha Gascon applied to Google Engineering and flew to Zurich for an interview. This is her story.