Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog:
At the Johannesburg airport, they have two telco stalls which each have cellphones for rent for travellers. Rent ranges from around Php450 down to Php220 per day, not including cellphone load.
One telco had a promo which “rented” out cellphones for FREE!
Full story here...
ka edong
biyahero
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
Napapa-iling ako sa Addict Mobile Blog showing porn MMS photos.
When some people will hear about this, one way they'll treat the issue is to make sweeping conclusions. Something like
MMS is evil, I told you so!
Anak, hwag ka nang mag-cellphone. Baka kung ano pang ma-tanggap mo.
I'm speaking extremes, ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
I had a Skype appointment last night so I searched the streets of Vigan for a decent Internet shop. And the best I could find at that time of the night was a gaming Internet café run by some homeboys where half of the clients were their kabarkadas. 20-ish hard-core ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog:
I caught a test broadcast of GMA network’s new channel, QTV – Quality TV. QTV will soon be available over antenna-TV channel 11. I guess this will be the ka-puso’s counterpart of Studio 23.
Full story here...
ka edong
qt
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
I’ve seen two types of G-Cash ATMs. The first is a big touch screen one, same size as a regular bank ATM.
The second one is a smaller version as seen in the series of photos below. I saw this one at SM Megamall.
It’s about the size of a ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog:
My neighbor’s TV was blaring once again the other night. Thanks to my neighbor’s, I caught a blow-by-blow account of the Pinoy Big Brother proceedings while I tried to get some work done.
I overheard that they were doing an auction of T-shirts designed by Pinoy Big Brother housemates. ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Right before leaving for an e-Banking for the Masses conference in South Africa, I found myself usiyosero-ing a service of BPI in partnership with Globe.
They call it BPI Express Mobile. It is an additional channel of electronic banking by the leading commercial bank in the Philippines.
BPI has Express ...
Posted in m-Commerce | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
And then there’s this thesis which made use of a hamster running in a wheel to charge a cellphone.
A 16-year-old scholar in England just knew the three to four hours his hamster Simon spent each night in his exercise wheel had to be good for something other than keeping his ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, Mobile | 2 Comments »
Monday, October 24th, 2005
I thought it was time to retire Brosia, my Smartphone. But the Internet buys me a little more time and offers a home remedy.
A little backgrounder. I use a dual-SIM. This comes in handy when I want to try out a Globe or G-Cash service. I don’t need to ...
Posted in TechTips | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 24th, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog:
I read an article in a print publication in South Africa: “The Mobile Accessories and Gaming Guide”. It featured a survey in Japan indicating that teenage smoking has dropped. This drop was attributed to teens allotting more of their budget to cellphone expenses, thus cutting down on smoking expenses. ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Update (Dec 14, 2006): Visit the NTC website's "Text 682 (Text NTC) Anti-Phone Theft Service" for more information on how to prevent mobile phone theft.
I had a story on Technobiography (while it was still in Blogger) about NTC's cellphone blocking service. NTC offers to block the cellphone handset ...
Posted in Mobile, TechTips | 122 Comments »
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Read this story from a good friend, Randy. He lost his cellphone to a crook.
Kakainis. May sentimental value yun, I'm sure. Pati nga ako, nase-senti, eh. But, at the end of it all, I just call on Karma to give the crook what he deserves.
And continue to tell ...
Posted in Mobile, TechTips | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
I had spent the whole day communing with the wildlife in the Milwane game reserve, Swaziland.
Now dusk has set in and the lightning and thunder in the horizon threaten to rain down this walk back to Sondzela backpackers.
Then it starts to rain. I muster a slight jog with my ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog:
There’s a “pre-accidental plan” of P100,000 automatically included in the 1 year premium. This means that if you die due to anything that has to do with your cellphone (e.g. nasagasaan ka habang nag-te-text, nasaksak ka dahil nakipag-agawan ka sa snatcher etc.), you will get P100,000.
Details here ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
I’m on a plane 12000 meters above sea level and I’m in the middle of a media glut.
Within reach of my fingertips, I have access to more than 250 movies, tv shows, music albums, games, language lessons, documentaries and audio books to view and listen to. I have access ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
I have this grey, hard plastic attache-case-style folder bag. Some people get fooled by the looks of this folder bag of mine.
Just like last night when I had a meeting. My colleague wanted to give me softcopies of some documents. He handed me his iPod with its USB cable and ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
I took Brosia, my SmartPhone, to South Africa. Brosia kept me company in a variety of ways.
• E-mail. Brosia let me moblog by drafting e-mails, articles, poems or just plain take notes of names, places, expenses etc. One Swazi young man approached and asked me why I kept typing on ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog:
Cellphone companies create the phones and their functions, we users find appropriate uses for the phones.
Details here ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
I loved the interaction I had with the South African locals when I would blurt out broken phrases of their language. It never failed to bring a smile to their faces. They appreciate that I am trying to communicate through their language, and not force them to communicate in English. ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Hi there!
I've compiled a lot of stories while I was in Joburg and offline. In the coming days, you'll find many of these stories here in Technobiography. Some of them will be at Biyahe!, my travel blog.
Keep coming back for stories about topics such as:
wildlife, travel, appropriate cellular ...
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