The AOC Avio Series is available in 19″ and 22″ product variants and it’s pitched for those who are into internet chatting. The Avio series of LCD monitors has a built-in webcam and a microphone where users can initiate or participate in video conferencing without the need for an add-on headset. Read more »
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Since Eraserheads Reunion concert is fast approaching, NoyTee came out with Eraserheads reunion concert shirts based on this teaser poster. The shirts come in three colors namely, red, navy blue and black. I’m actually thinking of ordering the black one. 
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Abe posted an interesting analysis on Why Blogger isn’t that Popular in the Philippines. In fact, I would not really wonder why it’s not that popular. With Friendster dominating the social networking space in the Philippines and with it having a blogging feature (which is powered by TypePad), I won’t have that much of a doubt if Friendster would be the most widely used website by Filipinos for blogging. In fact, there are about 182,000 search results in Google using the search term “blogs.friendster.com“. Please do take note that I applied a filter here to show only results that are in Filipino language. Thus, the results for those who are written in English but owned by a Filipino is not included. Read more »
Well, according to Google Trends data in the Philippines, Friendster.com is still the number one social network in the Philippines. Metrics are based on Google Trends measure of unique visitors for the website (for Philippines region only). Read more »
This graph shows that Twitter.com is still the most widely used microblogging tool in the Philippines (that is as of July 2008 data from Google Trends). However, Plurk.com’s traffic is fast catching up. Read more »
Will you get your iPhone 3G from Globe Telecoms this August 22? The phones are still priced high even if Globe Telecoms already lowered the prices a bit. Even if they lowered the prices a bit, I still won’t get one. But with the demand for 3G + WiFi in one device started to increase and of course the status symbol one could get by just getting the iPhone 3G, I think that a lot of credit cards will be swiped. Let’s just see if practicality will prevail or not.
Looks like we got a new mobile broadband internet player. Well, they aren’t actually a new licensee holder of 3G. Sun Cellular is offering unlimited mobile broadband internet for 999 pesos and the nice thing about that one is that the USB modem charges are waived which leaves me to thinking if they will have a lock-in period of 24 months. 3G coverage will only be available in some parts of Metro Manila.
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