Archive for the 'News' Category
HD Designs: 720p MKV on an Atom netbook
Posted on December 7, 2009 - Filed Under News | 4 Comments
HD DESIGNS
If you’re a netbook owner, you learn to be generally forgiving. After all, these machines were designed to handle low-power tasks, not gaming or video editing. Sometimes, though, you can’t help but try to squeeze the most out of these little computers. For example, how about playing 720p HD content without lags? Most files [...]
Philippine anti-piracy drive to go after downloaders next
Posted on February 17, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
After all the raids on Quiapo and Greenhills shops, and even corporate offices in Makati, the anti-piracy suits are aiming squarely at end-users. The Inquirer has reported that the Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team (PAPT) will be going after those individuals downloading music, movies and software over the Internet, even if they do so for personal use. [...]
64GB SSD drive now available in CD-R King
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
Early this morning, I saw this picture on the front page of CD-R King’s website: a re-branded external 64GB SDD drive, with SATA and USB 2.0 interfaces. It looks like they’re experimenting on putting out affordable solid state disk drives, which is a move I welcome. I haven’t even seen SSDs being offered on [...]
Sun Cellular now offering unlimited 3G for as low as P799 per month
Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under News | 3 Comments
Sun is known for their budget-friendy mobile services, and with their entry into the 3G business, things were bound to get interesting. They have recently upgraded their wireless broadband network to reach speeds of up to 2Mbps, putting them on par with Smart and Globe. Better yet, they are now offering different unlimited 3G plans [...]
Dutch study says that file sharing is good for the economy - no argument here
Posted on February 6, 2009 - Filed Under News | 2 Comments
Torrent users should find this research interesting. The Netherlands government commissioned a study of the social and economic effects of peer-to-peer downloading. The results were published in Ars Technica.
These are some of their findings:
- downloaders buy as much paid content as nondownloaders; for games, downloaders shell out even more
- for music, unpaid downloads can [...]
Free Ebook: Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference
Posted on February 4, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
Why go pirated when you can have a great operating system for free?
For those who have been itching to try Linux, Ubuntu is probably your best bet. It’s a user-friendly Linux OS that doesn’t need any technical know-how to install, thanks to WUBI, which enables you to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows by installing [...]
Finally, a disk encryption standard
Posted on January 30, 2009 - Filed Under Computers, News | Leave a Comment
Wish they figured it out sooner. On Engadget today:
We’ve seen quite a few hardware-encrypted disks hit the scene lately, but to be honest, we’ve always thought they were a risky investment, since all the systems were proprietary — we wouldn’t want to store our encryption-worthy data on a disk that can’t be read at all [...]
Study forecasts explosive growth in netbook shipments
Posted on January 29, 2009 - Filed Under Netbooks, News | Leave a Comment
Various firms have come out with their predictions for the coming year, including the continued strong momentum for netbooks. The most conservative estimate comes from Gartner, which forecasts a mere 8 million unit shipments for 2009. IDC Corp., meanwhile thinks the figure is going to be around the 21 million mark. However, the most optimistic [...]
Amazon’s Top 10 Bestselling Laptops
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Netbooks, News, Notebooks | Leave a Comment
Just a quick check on the current top sellers in Amazon. A few months ago, the Acer Aspire One was on top. Today, Asus has knocked them of the spot with the EEE PC 1000HA. It’s followed by variants of the Samsung NC10, Acer Aspire One, Asus EEE PC 900HA, and the MSI Wind U100. [...]
eTrike: Pinoy public service in the 21st century
Posted on January 23, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
I just wanted to share with you a report I first saw on GMAnews.tv. It was about an innovative project for enriching students’ computer education. We all know how under-funded and ill-equipped our public schools are. Well, five young scholars from Manila decided to do something about it. They’re giving back to the community by [...]
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