Dec 26, 2005

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Trip Maps using Location Based Services

I used the Smart Communications Location Based Service (LBS) to get the latitude/longitude of a trip I took today. I then plotted it using this Google Maps API map of Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Pampanga. The mobile service is not open to the public, though. Would this be a good service to offer as a value added service? On the parts of the Philippine map in high resolution –...

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Dec 25, 2005

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Workers for Japan: Robots or Filipinos?

Japan’s humanoid robots: Better than people. I picked this up from a Slashdot article. The Japanese want their robots to act more like humans – is it due to less robot phobia, or more fear of outsiders and foreigners? A Filipina nurse is cited as a hypothetical example. Would the Japanese prefer to spend time and effort developing humanoid robots, than let in foreign...

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Dec 25, 2005

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Globe to Globe at P 0.10 per second

Good news for Globe subscribers. Part of Globe’s CELEBRATE, Globe is...

Dec 22, 2005

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DIGG Spy

Attention, DIGG lovers out there. Have you tried DIGG Spy? It’s yet...

Dec 21, 2005

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Writely.com: The Web Word Processor

Picked this up over the last This Week in Tech podcast of Leo Laporte and I...

Dec 20, 2005

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Sun Tipid Calls unlimited to landlin...

A site, suntipidcalls.co.nr, is claiming they can provie unlimited calls to...

Dec 20, 2005

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Gmail for your Mobile Phone

Where is it? I tried accessing Gmail mobile last Saturday. That day, the Gmail...

Dec 19, 2005

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Globe Hulugan Phone Financing Progra...

In a full page ad entitled Globe Responds to the Call of the Countryside...

Dec 18, 2005

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Local company builds Digital Video R...

From the hardware-oriented Linux site LinuxElectrons: Digital Video Recorder...

Dec 17, 2005

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Wikipedia Tambayan

For all the issues surrounding Wikipedia lately, here’s something light....

Dec 17, 2005

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Microsoft and Mozilla: We’ll U...

Lo and behold: Microsoft and Mozilla agree to use the same orange RSS icon....

Dec 16, 2005

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What’s new with Firefox 1.5

I know this is pretty late in the game, but I just love writing about my...

Dec 15, 2005

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Guild Wars MMO for P165 a month

Ragnarok and other local online games may truly be going down with the latest...

Dec 15, 2005

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e-Government Try-out: PhilHealth

I had the need to find out my PhilHealth number. I didn’t have it among my...

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