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PayPal launches new Seller Protection for eBay Sellers

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

PayPal, an eBay company, yesterday announced that it is launching new protection for its Filipino eBay sellers.

The new coverage will provide protection against unauthorized payments and claims for items not received for eligible items sold on eBay websites.
Sellers will benefit from a new feature which alerts them of potential, high-risk transactions within moments of [...]

HP intros Vivienne Tam Special Edition Mini 1100 Netbook

Friday, April 24th, 2009

HP recently announced three new ultraportables in its netbook line — the HP Mini 2140, HP Mini 1100 and the red Vivienne Tam Special Edition.

Globe Duo: Mobile & Landline in 1 SIM

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Globe has just introduced a new service call Duo Plan 399, an add-on service to Globe Post-Paid accounts which doubles as a landline number.

Microsoft retires Encarta Encyclopedia

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Looks like Wikipedia has finally killed the encyclopedia. Microsoft has just announced that their are discontinuing the Encarta service. On October 31, 2009, MSN Encarta Web sites worldwide will be discontinued, with the exception of Encarta Japan, which will be discontinued on December 31, 2009. Additionally, Microsoft will cease to sell Microsoft Student and Encarta [...]

Mac OS is more vulnerable to exploits than Windows

Friday, March 20th, 2009

According to a recent interview with hacker, Charles Miller, he stated that the Safari is easier to exploit rather than Firefox or IE because it runs on Mac OS.
During the Pwn2Own 2009 hacking competition, Charlie was able to take control of a fully patched Macbook in mere seconds by exploiting a security vulnerability on [...]

Globe Tattoo is no different from Globe Visibility

Monday, March 9th, 2009

This is a bit late but if you’re planning on getting a Globe Broadband Tattoo, don’t get your hopes up that it will give you the 2 Mbps max speed (or even half of it) as advertised. I saw this product in a stall during Microsoft’s Web Ramp Up last Feb. 26. at SMX and [...]

Microsoft’s Developer Showdown is officially open

Friday, February 27th, 2009

If you’ve been to Web Ramp Up last Thursday (2/26) for Microsoft’s Dev Days then you’ve probably heard about the launching of “Best of the Best: Developer Showdown” that is brought to us by Microsoft Philippines and Smart Communication.
This competition encourages local developers to create innovative web and mobile applications using Microsoft’s latest technologies (Visual [...]

Google lays off Googlers, for real

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

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 [...]

Windows 7 Beta ready for Download

Monday, January 12th, 2009

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 [...]

Ikobo Money Transfer returns from the grave

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

In November 7, 2008, Ikobo announced that they will discontinue their money transfer service. They did not give any reason for such but gave people time to withdraw all their money from their accounts. Today, Ikobo announced in an email that they are back and connected with a new bank.
GOOD NEWS: iKobo Money Transfer is [...]

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