Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
There's a good discussion on Pinoy.Tech.Blog about Globe to Globe at P0.10 per second
Here's my 1 centavo's worth of insights:
Hi guys,
nice discussion here. cool lang tayo ha ;-) .
I don't see the promo resulting in network congestion. In fact, the promo promotes responsible use of the network: "make ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, ICT Industry, Mobile | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog, I write about Gmail for your mobile phone. Here's an update...
I noticed a handful of other countries in the sign-up page drop-down list. There were only around a dozen countries in the list. I was pleased to see Google had put the Philippines in their shortlist of countries ...
Posted in Mobile | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 16th, 2005
My current interest is finding audio books that I could listen to during my commute from work to home in the afternoons.
So far, I’ve found a couple of sites with free audio books. But many of them contain the classics – books that have been declared public domain and ...
Posted in Mobile, TechTips | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 16th, 2005
Meet BrosIaPod! Brosia is my Smart Phone, also known in the Philippines as a “Smart Amazing Phone”, formal model name HTC Tanager.
I’ve been using Brosia for about a year and half. (More about Brosia on Technobiography Archive).
And lately, I’ve revived one of her functions: I’ve been listening to ...
Posted in Mobile | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
I tried to observe the telco industry in Sydney while I was there.
Here are a few things I found out or observed during my tech usiyosero escapades:
• Sydney has around 5 major mobile telcos
• Some telcos use GSM, and one (Orange) uses CDMA
• SMS and calls are exchanged seamlessly between GSM and ...
Posted in Mobile, Wireless | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
It was the finals night of Australian Idol when Maya and I were at Circular Quay (pronounced quay as in "key" and not "kway").
We bumped into these folks peddling a promotion of one of the Australian telcos. The promo is:
You get for free an HP Photosmart 335 Printer ...
Posted in Gadgets, Mobile, Wireless | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog, I describe the most jologs G-Cash partner I've seen.
It's so obscure that I couldn't even remember the company's name! But, it's all good.
ka edong
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
Posted in Mobile, m-Commerce | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
Andre asked on Pinoy.Tech.Blog:
is there a mobile search that uses location based tracking to give you the nearest locations of what your looking for?
I did a search for location based services in the Philippines and found this service by e-yellow pages:
Through Smart zed Establishment Finder (which makes use of ...
Posted in Mobile, TechTips | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog, I write about Smart Money simplifying their service. Nothing official yet, just heard it through the grapevine.
Last week, I wrote about G-Cash transactions via the SIM Tool Kit (STK). There’s more I gather from the grapevine and it's about Smart Money.
Smart Money, I hear, is busy enhancing their ...
Posted in Mobile, m-Commerce | No Comments »
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog, I write about G-Cash turning to the SIM Tool Kit (STK) to conduct transactions.
There's more to come on Tuesday next week.
kitakits,
ka edong
emkonomist
Posted in Mobile, m-Commerce | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 24th, 2005
I've been using Chikka messenger a lot this year. I normally don't use it when I'm in Manila. I don't bother.
But when I'm travelling, Chikka keeps me connected with textmates back at home.
I use Chikka's JavaLite. It's an online browser-run version or Chikka messenger. That way, I don't ...
Posted in Mobile | 38 Comments »
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog, I share an exchange I had with a gentleman from Geneva regarding mobile services on a global scale.
Currently, I can think of three mobile services that generally work globally across different countries and different mobile networks: IDD calls, International SMS and International MMS.
But aside from these, ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, Mobile, m-Commerce | No Comments »
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
Posted in Mobile | No 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
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 ...
Posted in Blogging, Mobile | 1 Comment »
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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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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