Island Rose known for selling roses in the Philippines through the web has just released a Facebook application made by Ubersoft that lets you send virtual flowers to a friend/significant other over the web. And if ever you were interested in sending over real flowers, the Facebook app also covers that by letting you purchase [...]

Sony Philippines officially launched the Sony Vaio P, their ultra portable laptop that doesn’t want to be called a netbook. Sony claims the Vaio P belongs to a class of its own and avoids calling it a netbook.

Acer officially announced the newer Acer Aspire One with a 10.1″ display screen. The 1.18 kg netbook is the 2nd generation of portable and affordable laptops that came out the Taiwanese PC manufacturer.

The 10” Aspire One comes with 802.11b/g WiFi and Acer Signal Up technology built-in as standard for easy access to available wireless networks. [...]

Asus recently launched its first entry to the world of all-in-one PC’s, the Eee Top. All-in-one PC’s are those designed after the iMac where everything is built within the monitor.

The Asus Eee Top features a 15.6” Wide Panel touch screen display. Running on its Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor is a Windows XP Home OS [...]

According to Netcraft, their January 2009 survey showed an uncharacteristic drop of 1.23 Million active web sites. Could this be an indicator of the sad state of the world economy? Maybe. Considering that in better times Netcraft’s previous surveys always showed a healthy increase of 1M sites added per month.

This time, it’s for real. Google has succumbed to the pressure of the global financial crisis and announced their first round of lay offs starting with the team that’s doing the hiring — the HR department.
The official Google blog announced the news today:
Given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people [...]

Asus unveiled two new touchscreen netbooks during CES 2009 — the 9-inch Eee PC T91 and the 10-inch Eee PC T101H.

Microsoft made the beta version of Windows 7 available for download over the week-end. However, the deluge of people grabbing a copy overloaded the MS servers. Only 2.5 million activation keys were initially made available.
The download page are now back online and running normal. Here are the direct links to the downloadable ISO files.

Windows 7 [...]

Sony Ericsson has also unveiled its new Cybershot phone (earlier codenamed Kate) as the C510 — an attempt to offer a more affordable version of its Cybershot series.

Sony’s own version of a netbook is somewhat different from the rest of the netbooks we grew to know and love. Officially announced today, the 1.4-lbs Sony Vaio P will try to change the way you look at portables.