Internet

01.23.12

Smart Manic Mondays: Free 25MB of Mobile Internet! Internet, Telecom | Comments Off
Smart Communications brings another promo to all of its subscribers be it in prepaid or in postpaid through Manic Mondays. And since more and more Filipinos are being hooked with social networking sites, activating and giving free credits of mobile internet to users is a fun way to enjoy every Monday! Surely, it's a good way to start the week! You'll never really hate Mondays anymore with Smart's Manic Mondays promo! Upon registration, you'll get 25MB of free mobile internet! That's enough volume of data to send a thousand more tweets, FB posts, and emails! You can now start your week ...
01.21.12

Holy Shit! Philippine org lobbying for a localize version of SOPA/PIPA Internet, Tech News | (1)
It looks like a number of organization in the Philippines like Universal Records, the Philippine Association of the Record Industry, the Motion Picture Anti-Film Piracy Council, the Motion Picture Association, the Business Software Alliance, and the IP Coalition are trying to lobby and pass a local version of the recently-protested SOPA/PIPA in the US. First reported on Techlokal, the supposedly anti-piracy bill that will be passed is an improved version of the United State's SOPA/PIPA and Yugatech has indicated the pros and cons if the said bill ever became a law. Continue Reading...
01.19.12

Video: SOPA/PIPA Explained! Internet, Tech News | (1)
A number of high-profile sites like Google, Wikipedia, CreativeCommons, Wordpress and Vimeo when dark today (an almost complete list here), to send a message that they don't want these 2 bill (SOPA and PIPA) to be pass on January 24, 2012. But what exactly is SOPA and PIPA? Why are tech/internet company do not want this bill to be passed as law? FightfortheFuture.Org posted a video explaining (almost all) the good and bad effects of SOPA/PIPA to the interwebs. FWIW, all internet users should be aware and vigilant about internet censorship, what makes the Internet great is its openness and ...
01.17.12

Internet goes dark on Wednesday, January 18, 2012! Internet, Tech News | (2)
In protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) a handful of web site, including WikiPedia will go "dark" for 24 hours , this is to send a "big message" to the US Government regarding Internet Censorship. SOPA and PIPA have been the talked-about subject lately, specially when GoDaddy express support for the bill then later withdrew it. SOPA and PIPA are 2 bill that are meant to stop online piracy and IP theft but the problem with the bill is that if just one user posted a pirated material online, the web site and service ...
01.02.12

WikiMedia Foundation raises a record-breaking $20 million Internet, Web site | Comments Off
Today will be the last day of the annual fund raising campaign of Wikimedia Foundation and they recently announced that they've raised a record $20 million (USD) from more than 1 million donors. To date, this is the highest donation Wikimedia has ever received, since they started raising funds for the foundation in 2003. Continue Reading...
12.07.11

PayPal ruins Regretsy’s Secret Santa Campaign Internet, Tech News | (1)
PayPal, an online payment system, is now facing cyber bullying after the company froze an account for a Christmas charitable program of Regretsy. After organizing a holiday program online which will allow readers to buy toys for their supported 200 underprivileged children using PayPal's "Donate" payment button, the payments company froze Regretsy's PayPal account saying that the latter misused the payment button. PayPal's "Donate" button should only be used for nonprofit transactions. Continue Reading...
11.30.11

Meet the new and redesigned Google bar Gaming Console, Internet, Knock-Off | (1)
It looks like Google's grand scheme of things is now high-gear. After killing some useless um.. less popular products, Google redesigned the Google bar (it's the black bar that you see at the top when you visit Google.com). The new Google bar is a simplification and unification of all Google products and has deep integration with the Google's crown jewel the Google Search and Google+. Continue Reading...
10.30.11

CBCP launches Undas Online Internet, Website | (1)
Media Office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines just launched the web site Undas Online. A site for Filipinos who will not be able to visit their departed love ones in the cemetery. Continue Reading...
09.28.11

Mozilla Firefox 7.0 is now available for download Internet, Software | (1)
Just 40 days after FF 6.0 was released, Mozilla has yet again released the next version of the Firefox browser the FF 7.0. The update for the Firefox browser appears to be more of a under-the-hood update than changes in the UI. Continue Reading...
09.07.11

Carol Bartz fired by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board! Internet, People, Personal Computing, Tech News | Comments Off
More than 2 weeks ago, Steve Jobs said that he's resigning as Apple's CEO. Now another high-profile tech company is in the news, Yahoo's CEO (ex-CEO) Carol Bartz was fired by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board and what's worst the axing was done over the phone. Continue Reading...

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