In a short announcement this afternoon, Globe Telecom reveals it will offer the iPhone in the Philippines this year. No details yet but this short cryptic press release:

Globe, SingTel, Bharti Airtel and Optus to bring iPhone to the region
Manila, 12 May 2008 – Globe, SingTel, Bharti Airtel and Optus today announced that they have [...]

The telegraph service in Thailand has come to an end after being operated for 133 years. Thailand’s telegraph operator CAT Telecom, revealed that the service is coming to an end due to lack of use and a lack of equipment and parts to maintain it.
The telegram was most popular in Thailand around 1985 where more [...]

Two months ago, Paypal’s Chief Information Security Officer recommends everyone who has a Paypal account to avoid using Apple’s Safari browser. They claim that the Safari browser is still way behind in security features compared to latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox.
According to ComputerWorld:

While Smart subscribers can easily hook up to the internet via their 3G mobile phones, Smart has offered a mobile internet plan a few months back.

After a year of sales performance going downhill and plunging stocks, Motorola has decided it’s better off being split into two — Mobile Devices and Broadband & Mobility Solutions.

In an attempt by the Pakistani Government to block a Youtube video in the country, the Pakistan Telecoms has accidentally re-routed Youtube’s IP somewhere else and this has cascaded to other international providers which eventually caused temporary Youtube outage last Sunday.

Sanford Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi is counting Apple iPhones and noticed 1.4 Million of them are unaccounted for. Despite Steve Jobs’ announcing they’ve already sold some 4 million worldwide (as of Jan 15, 2008), only 2 Million iPhones have been activated by AT&T and several hundred thousands in Europe.
Here’s how he breaks down the numbers:
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I’ve spoken before about how I am generally happy with Smart Bro, despite all the complaints. At the end of it all, we can’t deny that Smart Bro truly increased Internet access for the common Filipino, offering broadband at costs previously unmatched by other Internet Service Providers.
Recently, Smart Bro came out with another service [...]

The Philippine Senate has passed Senate Bill No. 1697, called “The Anti-Theft and Robbery of Portable Telecommunication Devices Act of 2007,” prescribing stiffer penalties for gadget theft.
According to the bill, “any person convicted of the crime of theft and robbery of a portable telecommunication device shall be punished by the penalty next higher in degree [...]

This post’s title is a bit misleading–there probably will never be a phone distributed only for Filipinos, there is no such phone as an MC1(yet),  and the phone I will be showing here is just my own design.  In any case the MC1 will have the specifications of the newest cellphone models like the 16 million color display, support for external memory(up to 8GB),  5 Megapixel Camera with 16x [...]