Archive for the ‘Nets, Webs, Infostructure’ Category
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Looks like Liberty is in town. Saw this at the Petron station in Buendia cor. Makati Ave. They call it Wi-Tribe (Pronounced "wye tribe"). And they call it a 4G (4th generation) broadband technology.
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Wi-Tribe is in Town: WiMax wireless ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
"Plug it!", the ad says.
"Magaling!" That's what I can say about Smart Bro's latest Internet connectivity solution.
ANYWHERE BROADBAND!
It's the new SMART BRO PLAN 799 - the plug-it anywhere broadband!
The newest plan from Smart BRO - Plan 799, allows you to surf the net anywhere there's a PC! The Smart BRO ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Got this from a friend through a friend:
http://www.manilagear.com/speedtest/index.html
http://www.speedtest.net/
This would come in handy when testing our internet connection, like what I needed to do when I tried out 3G services of Globe/Smart.
Great work you have here, John/Ching. Keep it up! Thanks for the tip, Michelle!
ka edong
speeding, zipping towards my goals
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Meebo, what does that mean [I wonder what that means].
Meebo is a service, an online service which brings together google chat, yahoo messenger otherwise known as YM, MSN messenger, ICQ, AIM messenger all in one using one log-in. Using only the Internet a web browser and you will be able ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
That's what MyHeritage.com shows me.
Here's a face recognition application which matches your photo with a couple of celebrity look-alikes.
Interesting. A few more months or years down, this technology will be so much more advanced that it could probably find *real* relatives on the net. Maybe find a long lost brother ...
Got ...
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Hi there Edong here. In a previous podcast I talked about murmur in Toronto Canada.
But in this podcast I'd like to talk about stomp in Singapore. Stomp is a community, stomp is a website, stomp is a movement. I don't know what it is exactly but I first heard..read about ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Facebook is so popular here in Canada. My Toronto-based cousin is a newbie on Facebook. She gave in to her curiousity and joined after receiving so many Facebook invites from her Canadian friends.
Friendster isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the Philippines. So how about Pinoys in Canada?
Well, ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Story 1:
My cousin created an email address for his newborn daughter so that they can share some photos of the baby.
A few days after setting up the baby's email address, the baby was receiving SPAM!
How quick these SPAMmers get to our email addresses. Amazing, 'ei?
Story 2:
I used my handset's voicemail ...
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
I wrote previously of a Phishing attempt targetted at BPI Expressonline users. There, I recommended that BPI step up its campaign against philshing, mainly by raising the awareness of their clients.
Looks like they took heed. Today, I got this e-mail from BPI.
from BPI Expressonline Mails 1:02 am (14 hours ago)
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
I got an email disguised as a BPI Express Online official mail. It was a phishing attempt targetted at BPI clients.
E-mail subject: "Confirm Your Account"
Message:
Dear Customer,
BPI Express continue to provide security controls to protect information about you, we believe it is extremely important for you to share in the responsibility for ...
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