With the news of another Filipino landing the coveted job as Yahoo! Philippines Online Community Manager, we hooked up with Jonas de los Reyes to get some inside info about his new role over at Yahoo. A former eCommerce Manager at decade-old Yehey, Inc., Jonas is now based in Yahoo’s SEA Singapore office but [...]

Sun Microsystems will hold a 3-day event here in Manila this June 17-19, 2008 called the Sun Tech Days. The global developer conference will focus on exploring cutting-edge technologies including JavaFX, OpenSolaris, JRuby, MySQL database and GlassFish projects.
Tech Days will also feature Ajax and Web 2.0-style frameworks and toolkits, examples of real-world [...]

Having seen a markdown of prices on mp3 players, I decided to buy one. My choice: Creative’s Muvo TXFm, and got the 512mb version which is neither too big or small for my needs.
What I liked about it was its multi-functionality. It serves as an mp3 player, FM radio (with FM recording) and voice [...]

ümobile is the first ad-funded mobile network in Asia. The said mobile network will go live in June 2008. A launch party was held last Monday at Rockwell tent where other PTB bloggers such as Rain Contreras, Anton Diaz, Mike Abundo, and yours truly were present.
For the first 6 months of the service, each subscriber [...]

At the press launch of the Asus Eee PC 900 last Monday, representatives from Asus Philippines announced that suggested retail price for the 2 models of the new 9-inch Asus Eee PC 900 will start at Php24,990.

In a short announcement this afternoon, Globe Telecom reveals it will offer the iPhone in the Philippines this year. No details yet but this short cryptic press release:

Globe, SingTel, Bharti Airtel and Optus to bring iPhone to the region
Manila, 12 May 2008 – Globe, SingTel, Bharti Airtel and Optus today announced that they have [...]

Popular sharing site TorrentSpy closes down after a judgment was handed down in Los Angeles. The site was found guilty of copyright infringement.
The site now host a single page with this open letter to its members:

Service Pack 3 of MS Windows XP went out last April 29, but it wasn’t final yet. It was only available in the Windows Download site.
Today, WinXP SP3 is finally available via the Windows Update. You should be getting alerts by now if you have Automatic Updates enabled on your Windows PCs.
The final build [...]

Yahoo’s shares tumbled by as far as 20% Monday morning after talks with Microsoft ended. The Redmond giant increased it’s bid from the original $31/share back in January to $33. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang reportedly was asking $37; Microsoft walked away from the deal.

It recovered a little bit after end of trading day and [...]

I was reading through one of ZDnet’s blogs that deals on how can Microsoft overcome Vista’s image problem. I noted the following:

Microsoft says it has sold 140 million copies of Vista. There are 2,700 logo’d Vista apps (ten times more than existed at launch). Ninety-six percent of new system runing Vista have all [...]