Reports are out that MSI is going to increase the SRP prices of all MSI Wind U100 to $499 and up. The average increase will hover around $50.

The company has had “no choice” but to increase the price as the raw manufacturing costs for the battery and other notebook materials have increased significantly, according to [...]

Nokia’s fully touchscreen mobile phone which is supposed to be a direct competitor of the iPhone is nicknamed the Nokia Tube. Specs and leaked pictures after the jump.

640 × 360 pixels (16:9 aspect ratio)
Symbian S60 5th ed.
touch screen with haptic feedback
3.2 MP autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics
Dual LED flash
Built-in GPS
140 MB RAM
HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
WiFi [...]

Google today blogged about reaching the 1,000,000,000,000 unique URLs indexed. And how do they crawl all these bazillions of pages everyday?

Barely a day after Google Knol was launched to the public, several pages of knol.google.com are already ranking quite high on Google’s own search results.

It’s a little weird to see the Google domain showing up on Google search results.  This could be the start when Google becomes the content of Google search. Is it possible [...]

The recently launched HP 2133 Mini-note seems to be lagging behind the newer and faster ultraportables from Acer and MSI.
A round-up of the current 9 inch and 10 inch laptops in the Philippine market showed HP’s choice of using Via CPUs instead of the faster Intel Atom broke the deal for most prospective buyers.

Included in [...]

Several independent reports indicate that gray market iPhone 3G has landed in the Philippines. Apparently, there are plenty of them coming in from neighboring Hong Kong.
iPhone 3G Philippines
The price — a cool Php61,500 for the 8GB. The cost includes the mandatory 2-year contract from the HK telco (Hutchison Telecom) reselling the iPhone 2.0 for Apple. [...]

Due to some internal issues, Apple has transmitted a revocation of reseller status to Ynzal Philippines. Letters circulated to Ynzal clients indicate the reasons for this termination:
July 18, 2008
To all our patrons, customers and friends,
We regret to inform you that Ynzal Marketing Corp. will cease to be an Authorized Apple Reseller beginning July 29th. We [...]

On July 6, Smart launched an all-in-one IM service called Uzzap. The service was geared towards teens that’s obviously been hooked up on chatting all the time.
Smart Uzzap offers unlimited chatting from your phone to a PC and vice-versa, allowing additional interconnection features such as email and SMS. The platform is a free software you [...]

The 8th World Cybergames Philippine leg concluded last Sunday at the SM Mall of Asia activity center. Philippine champion gamers were announced to represent the country in the world championships in Germany later this year.

The race is on to hack/unlock the iPhone 2.0 and developers from across the globe are competing to get the jailbreak working.
The iPhone Dev Team has earlier reported that they’re very close to putting out a public release of the iPhone JailBreak 2.0. No final word yet on the accuracy of their target deadline.