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

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]