OFW’s are up in arms over the release of Memorandum Circular No. 4 by the POEA which inconveniences employers overseas who want to hire Filipino’s directly without going through an agency. [Article's here, here, here and here.]
The said memorandum makes the Filipino Professional less employable in the eyes of foreign employers due to the [...]

Paypal has just sent out notices to all Paypal Philippine members that they can now withdraw their funds into their local banks. This, on top of the existing methods of withdrawing funds thru debit cards (like UCPB’s EON card) and Philippine-based credit cards.
There’s a Php50 transaction fee when taking out amounts below Php7,000 and no [...]

Did you know that Domain Registrars can snap up a domain for 5 days, see if it gets enough monetizable traffic, and release it back within that time-frame and not get charged for it. Apparently it’s a pretty lucrative business for domainers along with Google AdSense for Domains.
I’ve been a victim of this a [...]

Sanford Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi is counting Apple iPhones and noticed 1.4 Million of them are unaccounted for. Despite Steve Jobs’ announcing they’ve already sold some 4 million worldwide (as of Jan 15, 2008), only 2 Million iPhones have been activated by AT&T and several hundred thousands in Europe.
Here’s how he breaks down the numbers:
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Tongits is a new game that runs on Adobe Air and was developed by Rico Zuniga. Listed below are its features:

Drag & Drop Interface. The game feels like the real thing with its intuitive drag & drop interface.
Realistic And Challenging AI. The computers play like live human tongits players.
Innovative Way of Organizing Cards. Just like [...]

Profy (still in alpha release) is a new social blogging platform where it enables one to post a new blog entry (duh!), comment on an entry, subscribe to your friends’ feeds whether they are using Profy or not, add friends from the Profy blogosphere. It does not have categories but it has tags like blogger.com. [...]

MacWorld starts today and as usual Steve Jobs was on stage to deliver the latest from Apple. All that F5 refreshes on liveblogging sites like Engadget and Gizmodo can be compressed in this 60 second video. Yes, the 90-minute keynote in just 60 seconds:

Veronica Velmont of Mahalo Daily did a good job summarizing it for [...]

Nokia Philippines has been alarmed with the increase in the number of cloned phones recently. It’s not only the popular Nokla phones from China but all other variations as well. While a number of consumers tend to buy the cheaper fake versions, others are not really aware that what they are buying are total knock-offs.
Nokia [...]