Gift to the Wife: 47LG50 HDTV

Yep, along with some Addidas apparel and my mom’s bag, today I bought for my lovely wife here dream TV – a high-defintion TV with display capability of 1080p. The model? It’s a 47LG50, yes it’s from LG. Bought it today at Futureshop. They have it on sale! If you’re going to buy this kind of TV in the Philippines get your Php 120,000+ ready coz it is really constly in manila. Here...

Sun Microsystems Buys Mysql AB!

Jonathan Schwartz’ (Chief Executive Officer and President of Sun Microsystems) announced yesterday from his blog that Sun has acquired Mysql AB, the company behind the widest used open sourced database platform, Mysql. It was reported that the open source database was bought for approximately $1 billion. A price suitable for Mysql. Imagine all the Mysql users out there! Imagine your WordPress blog running...

Asus Eee PC for Eli?

I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about Asus’ cute little notebook called the Eee PC. I even have an office mate who bought one couple of weeks ago. Though I heard there’s a pink one, she bought the white cute little one. There are lots of hacks and programs and things you can do with the Eee PC. But let’s talk about the hardware and specs… All the units have a 900MHz Intel Celeron...

Smart Bro… Anywhere Broadband?

Smart Communications recently launched their Smart Bro Plug It. Now you can bring your internet connection anywhere you go… (Sure, sure.) Anywhere Broadband is their tag line and is what they claim. I say, change to Anywhere Internet. Since this technology uses 3G, I think this broadband thing will only be available for those places with 3G signal. Take our home town for example, video (3G) call is not...

Ford and Microsoft… SYNC’d

This is the next best thing to KITT, (Knight Industries Two Thousand), that speaking car David Hasselhoff drove in the now defunct TV series ‘Knight Rider’. America’s car company, Ford and America’s technology leader, Microsoft, when they join forces all things are possible. Here are some of the cool things that the new Ford cars (released Fall 2007) can do with the power of Microsoft:...