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Yahoo! Project Purple and the concluding head fakes
Came from the Project Purple launch yesterday, an event by Yahoo! and handled by Ogilvy (cat’s out of the bag — Ogilvy now handles Yahoo! Philippines — Gratz!). In a nutshell, the event, hosted by Patty Laurel was a below the line approach to showcase Yahoo! properties, announce tie ups, and showcase local community members…
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UNESCO replies to the Philippine Book Blockade; Book Tax Lifted!
UPDATE: The tax on book imports has been liften! Hurrah! Congratulations book warriors! MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo ordered yesterday the Department of Finance to scrap the taxes imposed on imported books and reading material. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said the directive was prompted by a torrent of criticism on the move of the Bureau…
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#bookblockade — well, many thanks to David Archuleta’s media clout
Here it is. A series of unrelated events can lead to a change agent for the Philippines. If not transformative, at least it will be very informational to bloggers and news agencies around the world on the plight of the great book blockade. Thanks to David Archuleta’s appearance in Eat Bulaga, the Philippines is now…
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Prepare yourselves: ABS-CBN upgrading to full HD viewing
See that camera above? Well, ABS-CBN now has 24 of these for their studios. Soon, our favorite telenovelas will be viewable in full HD! From the press release which was sent by Sony: ABS-CBN Philippines, Asia’s first commercial television broadcaster, has just announced its intention to acquire 24 Sony HDC-1400R HD portable studio cameras. ABS-CBN…
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Espele Sales: “Books are non educational” (Updated)
UPDATE II: Marvic Leonen, Dean of UP Law School is going to be filing a legal case and needs all the evidence he can get. If you have a receipt from the post office or customs, which proves that they asked you to pay tax for books imported from abroad, please gather them up and…
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Samsung OMNIA HD Hands On: It’s a Nokia 5800!
Disclaimer: The unit that I procured isn’t a final test unit. Thus there are several software glitches that are being worked through (i.e the browser). To be fair, this review will concentrate more on the look and feel of the device including the integration of S60 as the user interface of choice. But yeah. I…
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iBlog 5 Live Stream
Watch live video from Ask Janette on Justin.tv Happy Saturday folks. See you at iBlog 5. If by chance you can’t make it, you can still view the live stream c/o Janette. 🙂
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T9 Nav: Future of Mobile Search
Amidst the flair of big name brands like Samsung, LG, and Nokia are the more invisible ingredients to the dish. These are the small things you barely notice when you buy a phone — smaller even than the Carl Zeiss lens you see on your camera. Take T9 for instance. T9, that little mode you…
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Denise Laurel on the cover of that magazine I work for
Here’s the clean cover for May 2009. Every month towards UNO’s new direction makes me proud to work for this magazine.
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Chuck Norris Bring on the Pain in Sandbox for P50.00
After signing up for the online portal, you can link your phone with your account and spend your load credits as currency to download songs and games. I was more interested in the latter. Lo and behold, Sandbox carries a heavyweight inventory, a lot of which are from Gameloft. And we all know that’s not…
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