Skype recently announced that Skype will now available in the BlackBerry World, in their announcement Skype said that even though it’s just a preview version “you’ll get all the Skype features that people have come to love – such as free video and voice calling, sending instant messages and text messages and calling to landlines and mobiles all over the world at Skype’s low rates.”

The Skype app however will initially be available to BlackBerry Q10 device owner and if you’re an BlackBerry Z10 owner, you may still need to wait until carriers rolls-out the BlackBerry 10.1 update before you can enjoy Skype on your BBZ10 device. Read more…

After a more than a week back in the Philippines and after a 5 days in Singapore here’s what my online life looks like. I was gonna post this right after I published this, but I just thought that performing 3 speed test on the same day means that I’m just posting in a hurry, so I just to be fair and not be biased I performed a number of speed test randomly these past week in different location and time but it looks like the results that I got two years ago, is still the same today.

Anyway, I’m not gonna complain nor gonna comment about my connection, and I’ll just let the speed test results speak for themselves, which you can see after the break. Read more…

It looks like the May 4 Samsung event that I posted is a different event, since Samsung just had an event at the NBC Tent, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. According to Carlo Ople of UNbox.ph who was at the event Samsung was not only busy with the launch event but also busy pre-selling or actually selling the units for Php30,990. Read more…

We can now cross-out (or check) May 21, 2013 as well as E3 on June 2013 from our (unofficial) lists about the next Xbox or what the media is calling the Xbox 720. Since Lawrence “Larry” Hryb a.k.a. Major Nelson who is also the Director of Programming for the Microsoft gaming network Xbox Live has announced on his personal site that Microsoft will be holding a special press event on the Xbox campus that will be available on live global stream on Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com. Read more…

I finally got the answer to my question “Is Multiply Shutting down?” and the answer appears to be a resounding “YES!”.

Multiply will be closing shop after what appears to be an attempt to reinvent the service from a social centric site to a full pledge e-commerce site earlier this month. If you visit the site today, aside from the redesigned site you will also notice this announcement from the company (see image above). Read more…

If you’ve live and been surfing on the Internet as long as I do then you’re probably one of those who enjoyed chatting either on IRC, AOL, Yahoo and the like, now a startup is trying bring group chatting back in our now social and mobile world by releasing the group chat app – Hoozin. Read more…

Globe just posted on the shop section of their web site that they’re now offering a prepaid kit of the Samsung Galaxy S4. Read more…

Last February, Sony officially announced the PlayStation 4 even though the console itself was a no-show and since Sony got their cat out of the box, it’s just a matter of time before we hear some whispers regarding the next Microsoft gaming console the xbox 720. Read more…

If you’re looking for an app that will alert you when an alarm was set-off at your home or office, or turn convert your android device into your personal sound detector, then you may want to checkout AB Dev Labs’ Sentector App – its an android app that will practically turn any android device into your own sound and alarm detector.

In a press release Arthur Bierer, founder of AB Dev Labs, LLC said “Nowadays, more and more people are using mobile applications to simplify their daily lives… Sentector makes it quick and easy for users to automate their home , office or lab environment without a complicated set-up or an expensive cash outlay.” Read more…

It looks like a lot of Tech companies are adopting to what appears to be a flat design, first it was Google with the Chrome logo, then Microsoft followed the news that Apple will bring ‘flat design’ to iOS which will be lead by Jony Ive, now Facebook is also adopting the flat design with its new logo. Read more…