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Funny how people were tweeting today about how the iPAD is nothing more than a big, big iPhone. With a price tag of $495 for the basic set up, I will tell you now that this new Apple toy is going to be attractive for those who want to play games, watch movies, and yeah, [...]
Excerpt from Yahoo! Philippines news via GMAnews.tv:
It’s the old Filipino practice of bayanihan, expressed in the age of Web 2.0. As strong winds, torrential rains and extensive flooding due to tropical storm “Ondoy” buffeted Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, Filipinos turned to various Internet sites not only for the latest news updates, but [...]
I woke up to this news today: apparently a software bug in Microsoft’s Zune players has caused these MP3 players to stop working.
Here’s one explanation from the Zuneboards forum:
It reads:
After doing some poking around in the source code for the Zune’s clock driver (available free from the Freescale website), I found the root cause of the now-infamous [...]
Read part 4 of the controversial NBN deal special report.
Excerpt:
FORMER chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) Virgilio Peña had agreed that the lack of government capability in evaluating technology projects leads to problems in government procurement, especially those dealing with sophisticated projects in information and communications technology.
Here’s Part 3 of six parts on a special report on the controversial NBN deal.
Excerpt:
ONE of the contentious issues in the National Broadband Network (NBN) project is the supplier contract signed by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) and Chinese supplier ZTE Corp.
In the supply contract, it was noted that the Philippines and [...]
Here’s part of one of a special report on Lozada’s expose on the controversial National Broadband Network deal.
Excerpt:
AND SO THE COURTS HAVE DECIDED.
The Court of Appeals has dismissed the plea for protection of National Broadband Network (NBN) deal witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada Jr. under the writ of amparo, ruling that he was not kidnapped. Let’s [...]
Here’s one of the great vids from the E-heads reunion concert:
Eraserheads perform ‘Alapaap’
More vids found here with additional thoughts from Raimund Marasigan.
News from Soundtrip:
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines — The Eraserheads Reunion Concert was cut short Saturday night after lead singer Ely Buendia was rushed to the Makati Medical Center due to overfatigue.
The concert’s sudden end was announced by Buendia’s sister Lally who went onstage after a 20-minute intermission of the planned 30-song concert.
Raimund Marasigan also came out onstage, [...]
I read this story today and wondered why people still go to malls despite today’s inflation rates and dubious eVAT charges? Anecdotal evidence points to several reasons. One of them is that people go there to cool. Due to lack of public parks to mill around, they would rather go to malls and stay there [...]
Picked this up from Vox Populi:
Apart from the congested traffic during the daily rush hours, a normal sight along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City would be the colorful tricycles that quickly traverse down the streets against monstrous trucks, missing nearby vehicles by mere inches.
But the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has banned tricycles from the [...]
