Philippines, iPhone 5 First Asian Stopover

Considering the Philippines market economy today by its purchasing power, Apple is considering the country be one of their starting point in Asia to have the much awaited iPhone 5. It is expected that by next week the said phone will be available in the United States. In an interview with the chief wireless advisor of Smart Communication Inc, Orlando Vea, he said in the Asian Carriers’ Conference (ACC), that Apple is looking for possibility that it may enter country first ahead of any in Asia. “Hopefully we are the first in Asia,” Vea said. He explained that the Philippines' high consumption of social media such as Facebook and Twitter make it a "digital literate country" that is well positioned to become an initial market for the iPhone...

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Discounted Lenovo Mobile Phones

Lenovo Philippines has just announced in their Facebook page that they will be having a 5 days special discounted prices on their units. Beginning on July 18 up to 22, some of their selected models will undergo a slash price in their TriNoma branch. So what are waiting for? Let us visit their store on the said date...

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Plastic Waste Turns Into Fuel

The long wait is over, a Filipino inventor in the person of Jayme Navarro has just found the solution of one the world's worst problem with regards to plastic. Converting plastic materials into diesel, kerosene and gasoline. The said invention had an approved patent. It will not only the Filipino community will benefit but also the whole world....

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Nokia Pureview 808: Beating the Odds

 It seems that Nokia is now again ready to join the bandwagon of producing quality phones that will capture the world market and wake-up from a profound sleep.  A powerful smartphone model has just uncovered today, the Nokia Pureview 808. Packed with superior features like the 41-megapixel sensor Carl Zeiss lens combined with PureView imaging technology and Full HD video. Good enough to beat iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S III which only have 8-megapixel camera. This phone is design for photo enthusiasts. Capturing image even the smallest detail of an object. You can even zoom the camera up to 4x. A great alternative to bulk DSLR camera. Another thing that can be consider as a state of the art phone, is the 4-inch AMOLED...

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Nokia Asha Phones to uncover follow-up models

Following the released of their trademark line "Asha" phones 300, 303, and 200, Nokia will again unveil three (3) latest models hoping to regain the top status which were snatched by high-end mobile phone manufacturers like Blackberry, Apple and Samsung. These smartphones will be name as Nokia Asha 305, 306, and 311 respectively. All they come with 3-inches touch screen but will have different capabilities and features. Asha 311: 3.0” scratch resistant, capacitive glass screen  Polarised display filters for better usability in direct sunlight  WLAN  3.2 MP camera  1GHz processor  Music Player, FM Radio and Internet Radio  Plug and Play, easy PC connection and file transfer  HSPA connectivity  Nokia...

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Bringing Back the Heirloom Rice

Tinawon variety Heirloom rice maybe forgotten. Just like our forefathers, it was been kept from the past and today's generation might don't even know about how they looks like, their name, their history of how they fed the past generations. Who might even know about Makonting, Balatinao, Kadiling, Paskaren, Mayoc, Potaw, Kalias, Knchot, Bongkitan, Dayong, Gal-ong, Lamadya, Kabal, Sing-itan, Lasbakan, Saba, Saboli, Makanining, Talangkay, Kumbisyon, Salili, Kwalti-an, Balasyaw, Ipugao, Palgay, Lalay, Babantinya and others? On how these sturdy rice varieties dwell in the summit of rice terraces in Cordillera. Their time may have gone now. And high-breed variety replaced their name. From the seat of the 8th Wonder of the World, the preservation...

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The Road to Organic Farming

Filipinos are getting conscious about their health. The rise of different incurable diseases among humans maybe the one problem why our farmers are shifting from the "known technology" and getting back to organic farming. Using organic farming, farmers will lessen the use of chemical-based pesticides in their plants. It will also diminish the cost of capital expenditures and turn these budgets into profit. - - - - - - - - - - - Kalinga drafts 5-year organic agriculture roadmap By Larry T. Lopez TABUK, Kalinga, Feb. 24 (PIA) – Kalinga agriculture authorities and stakeholders have organized a three-day workshop to draft the province’s five-year agriculture roadmap for 2012 to 2016. Rice Program Coordinator Joe Casibang of the Office of...

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Wood: New Technology of Mobile Phone

A London-based university student is set to launch the world's first smartphone made out of wood aimed at the high-end fashionable set. ...

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Agriculture and Population Together

As the population grows, the demand for foods multiply also. There are large amount of mouth to feed yet our country still can't produce sufficiency. Philippines rely on importation. Our country still the top imported of rice in the world. - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2020 vision looks forward to farming 10 years hence http://www.malaya.com.ph/02242012/agri1.html IN the next decade, at least P50 billion to P60 billion in public expenditure is needed each year to modernize Philippine agriculture and fisheries. Up to 2006, the annual appropriations to the Department of Agricutlure was only about P18 billion to P20 billion. It has since more than doubled to P54 billion. Thus, the lack of fund has ceased to be a real constraint. Hence,...

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iPhone 5 will be release on September or October 2012

Like its predecessor iPhone 4S which was launched in October 2011 and even the earlier versions of the Apple phones that were also unveiled around the month of June or July, most expectators are keep on watching the release of the latest version of iPhone 5. According to an article which was posted from Macotakara, Apple is planning to launch the most awaited generation of iPhone, now they will be naming this gadget as iPhone 5 to keep the sequence in numbering. According to Asian reliable source, next iPhone will be released in September or October , and this cycle seems to be kept for years.” – Macotakara Photo from http://www.iphone5reviewed.c...

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Vodafone Will Soon Be Serving The Philippines

Vodafone has expressed its intention to cater the emerging market of the Philippines in terms of telephone services. Through their Twitter account using an account name of VodafonePH, they have twitted a message indicating: “We are coming soon!” They have also successfully set-up some accounts in major social networking sites like Youtube and Facebook claiming the name as “Vodafone Philippines”. There are speculations from internet users that Vodafone has registered the domain address http://www.vodafone.ph. Vodafone was the second world's largest telephone company today in terms of subscriber quantity. Some rumors that is circulating in the internet, Vodafone will be in partner with the San Miguel Corporation (SMC), the Philippines' leading...

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Pinterest, the Most Driving Traffic Referral Site

Why having a Pinterest account is a big deal? Because Pinterest has become more active in driving more traffic referral into a site. Despite its being novice with a period of 2 years existence in the social networking arena, Pinterest has now a share of 3.6 percent among its rival, just next to Twitter. As of January 2012, the service of Pinterest has overtake Google +, Reddit, Youtube and Linkedin. The progress of Pinterest is a live explanation of this blog because when I opened Philippine Technology, I immediately integrates this with Pinterest. And I saw some traffics of unique visitors linking my site. The service enables users to create online bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for popular categories such as home decor, food and...

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Ecwid, The Free E-commerce Widget for Webpage

I was looking for an organic items in Facebook when it happen also that I encountered this site name Ecwid via an online shopping store. They are using the service that Ecwid offer to the users. At first, I thought this was a kind of paid services that whenever you use it you have pay for annually.The best thing about this service, it's available for free. Easy to set-up and you don't need to go to other sites just to check your online store. It can be directly install to your Facebook account and let your friends of your friends buy your products.No transaction fees. No setup fees. Forever free plan.No hosting requiredAll stores are hosted on our secure Amazon servers. So, you don't need to have hosting and purchase an SSL certificate to...

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The Biggest OLED TV Will Soon Be Unveil

It seems that OLED (organic light-emitting diode)gadgets are now reigning the market. After the successful introduction into mobile phones, they are also OLED in televisions. Yes, it was confirmed that LG, a Korean manufacturer had said that televisions using OLED technology will soon be at the market on the second half of 2012. The TV set has a 55-inch display screen. During the CES 2012 this pencil-thin Smart TV-enabled prototype was exhibited to salivate the public and possibly for marketing purposes also. An OLED TV has a brighter and thinner screen of 4mm, the lifescan is also longer compare to an ordinary one. With the birth of OLED, LCD TV's are now an epic. With regards to the price, LG has not yet disclose. VMCRKAMVB8F6...

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Filipinos Are Craving For OLED Phone Blackberry Empathy

OLED among mobile phones will be the future technology. This was after Kiking Tang and Daniel Yoon had successful created a phone and naming it as Empathy. A concept project sponsored by the RIM Technology at the Art Center College of Design. What makes this phone different from the others is the capacity to read and understand the emotions of the owner. It will collect the emotional data and analyze it using the biometrics ring that is attach on the phone. So there are no feelings that you can hide into it, whether you're sad or happy. When we say OLED, basically it has the screen that turns transparent when not using and it will become opaque when functioning. Daniel, the designer had describe the phone as: It is of course touch...

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NBI Website, Nowhere to Find

As of the moment when this article is written, the official website of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) of the Philippines was still down for accessing the main page. It is suspected that a local hacking group was the culprit. A couple of days ago, some websites in America were attacked by hackers.From the Facebook page of the Anonymous #OccupyPhilippines, the group have posted some links and photos of the NBI hacked website. Even PrivateX who was responsible on the recent attacked website of National Commission for Culture and the Arts has commented on the said post.It is still not verified if this incident has in connection from the following attacked of different website all over the world. The NBI has not yet restored their website...

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LG X3: The War of Quad Core Processor Phones

It seems that the technology of mobile phones are also running as fast as the computers. The boundary are limitless now. The more you upgrade the higher you take your part in the market. 2011 was the year of the dual-core phones. Just this early part of 2012, the HTC Edge/Endeavor and maybe the Samsung Galaxy S III will pioneering the release of the ultra-fast quad-core processor. And another will also be joining the race, the LG X3. X3 will have a powerful chipset of Tegra 3 by nVidia. Luckily, Pocketnow has come-up with the soon-to-launch image of LG X3 Smartphone. This phone will be having a 4.7-inch touch screen, an 8 megapixel rear facing camera, a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera and 16GB internal storage and microSD expansion. Aside...

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Photo Editing Site, Picnik will be Closing

Recently, I have noticed that some of the products of Google are syndicated with the online photo editing site, Picnik. It's a bit peculiar for me but beneficial because I would not be opening Adobe Photoshop just to give judgement to my images for uploading online.Officially, this coming April 19, 2012 the integration of Picnik will take effect after they joined the search engine powerhouse Google in 2010.Still, after the said merge, Picnik will continuously cater live photo editing in a more improved and awsome way. This will also opening another door because Google+ will be using Picnik.Premium members of the said site will also be receiving their membership fee refund or money back in full amou...

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The Power of Electric Bike

Before the rampant distribution of Chinese electric bikes in the country, Innovatronix had pioneering the introduction of this kind of transportation. Aside from being an environment-friendly compare to having a motorbike this can be an alternate way in exercising.In 1987, Ramon Castillo, a former senior engineer at Intel, left the manufacturing firm of computer components and integrated circuits, to put up Innovatronix, Inc. It is a fitting acronym for a company promising to engage in "innovative electronics" with Castillo as the engineer and one technician. For the first two years of operations, the company relied on projects from Intel, then to Motorola, Telefunken and later on to companies in other industries, like manufacturing and packaging.The...

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