The first World GameMaster Tournament here in the Philippines has just concluded last Sunday, Oct 26. 2008 at the new SM Marikina.
For those of you who don’t know, this Asus-sponsored game tournament pits players from all over the country to compete in 3 gaming events, DOTA, Counterstike and Need for Speed: Pro Street.

The team who [...]

Globe Telecom is pushing for the commercial launch of their WiMax service before the end of the 4th quarter of 2008. Globe CEO Gerry Ablaza, Jr. relayed the plans on their latest investor relations report:

Spent the whole day at the Consumer Electronics Live! 2008 yesterday to check out the latest offerings from big tech companies. Check out the list of stuff I took particular interest with.

It didn’t take that long for Smart to finally offer unlimited 3G to it subscribers. A new Smart Bro plan is now being offered for a flat rate of Php1,500 per month.

You got to hand it to Apple for being innovators when it comes to gadgets. When they released their iPod, everybody followed suit trying to beat it with their own version. Same thing with their iPhone, other phone manufacturers are trying to outdo Apple with their own touchscreen phones.

The Macbook Air has been around for [...]

The Blackberry Storm is the first full touch screen phone coming out from RIM. This is in response to the growing demand for touch screen smartphones after the iPhone 3G was first announced. Research in Motion did not hesitate to develop their own version and hopefully this would prevent BB users from switching.

Specs include:
Touch Screen [...]

New owners of Nokia E66 and E71 will be surprised to get 2 months of free WiFi from hundreds of Airborne Access hotspots nationwide. Nokia partnered with AA once again to offer free WiFi to their ESeries phones.

An email from a Mozilla exec is asking for online Filipinos to take this very short survey:
We’re doing a community survey online, both of current Firefox users as well as people who don’t use Firefox. It’s a pretty short survey, 11 questions. We haven’t been able to reach many Filipinos with this survey [...]

The first Consumer Electronics Live will be held this October here in Manila. Slated to happen between October 24 and 26, 2008, CEL Manila will showcase the latest products in the tech industry — from digital imaging, audio/video, computing, home entertainment, mobile, wireless and automotive industry.
The 3-day event will be located at the SMX Convention [...]

It looks like the going trend for netbooks nowadays are bigger SSDs and mobile connectivity. So MSI is also throwing out a fresh batch of Wind netbooks by the end of this quarter.