Blogs

Do CDMA Phones Work in the Philippines?

CDMA or Code division multiple access is a channel access method used by various communication companies. It has significant data transfer rate and is very efficient in handling frequency resources not like GSM, which go “network busy” when data traffic is high. CDMA networks are also believed to be more secure than GSM. Philippines’ communication technology is one of the world’s most advanced and sophisticated for being one of the few countries who first launch 3G technology and WiMax networks and one of the firsts to implement mobile commerce and mobile payment systems. However, the country doesn’t seem to be open ... Read more

February 13, 2012: Trending Today

Time stamp is based on GMT+8:00 (Manila and Singapore) time zone. Trending Today: Whitney Houston remained as most tweeted until noon today while #GRAMMYs is making a great wave, from fans’ anticipation of the Grammy 2012 Awards to the red carpet show and the declaration of winners. S.F.C is also talked and I am sorry I didn’t spend time to find out why. Others mistakenly thought it as Southern Fried Chicken. The lady who won 2 Grammys in just two minutes and got a total 6, Taylor Swift (T. Swift), jumped to the top of the trending list. On Yahoo!, ... Read more

Vodafone will soon be in the Philippines

How true that, in addition to Globe, PLDT’s Smart and Sun Cellular, and Bayan Telecommunications, Vodafone will be powering our mobile devices soon? Will CDMA Networks be expanded? BayanTel is the only Philippine provider that offers CDMA under its license agreement with Verizon Wireless. The world’s second largest telcommunication company (after China Mobile) in terms of the number of subscribers (estimated to be at 333 Million) is gearing up for a launch in the Philippines. Though no official announcement has been made, but it is not a sin to anticipate. Vodaphone Philippines account setup on twitter Vodafone Philippines Facebook Account ... Read more

Link Exchange is not Good for Your Site or Blog

Why? Engaging in link exchange will create too much outbound links on your site. Outbound links or outcoming links are links or URLs found on your blog or website that when clicked lead to another site. Outbound links are usually URLs you collect from link exchange, blog referral banners or widgets, image and html links, and even the webpages you cite on your articles.  Note that too much outbound links decreases the authority of your website.  So what will happen? If you are really willing to build your site and get more traffic or visitors, you must establish higher content ... Read more

CloudFlare Keeps Your Website Running When Your Host Server is Down

With all this time, I wasn’t aware of CloudFlare. I was curious as to where a friend’s blog is hosted because I found it loading fast so I checked his who.is records. I found out that he’s name servers (NS) are set to CloudFlare name servers and then I got this question – Is there such a host? Curiosity also leads me to CloudFlare website. CloudFlare is CDN (Content Delivery Network) company that will help  improve access to the data (website data) it caches by increasing the access bandwidth and redundancy. CloudFlare protects your website data from potential cyber attacks (from hackers suspicious visitors) and spamming. ... Read more

February 12, 2012: Trending Today

Freedom Wall time stamp is based on GMT+8:00 (Manila, Singapore) time zone. Starting February 12, 2012, Freedom Wall will be peeking worldwide trends or the most talked about topic in twitter and the most searched information in Yahoo!. Posted screenshots are randomly taken at anytime of the day covered. On the pilot launch of Freedom Wall’s Trending Today, the sad news about the death of Whitney Houston is the hottest topic on the cyberspace. Twitter trends changes from time to time but “R.I.P Whitney Houston”  is the mainstay on the list. Whitney’s song, I will always love you, is also making ... Read more

Whitney Houston is Dead at 48

The singer-superstar, queen of pop music, multi-grammy award-winner, and Bodyguard star, Whitney Houston died recently and that is according to the singer’s publicist, Kristen Foster. There is no information released about the cause and the location of her death. The sad news is trending in twitter worldwide. Houston, whose career peaked in the middle of the 80’s and 90’s, was a recipient of 415 career awards which includes, two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards. Her second self-titled album (“Whitney”) debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts, the first female album to achieve ... Read more

Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City (PAGCOR City) 2012 Updates

(Updated: July 2012) Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City Manila, also called Bagong Nayong Pilipino Manila Bay Tourism City or simply PAGCOR City, is a Las Vegas-like, multi-billion dollar entertainment development at the 100-hectare reclaimed land in Parañaque City, an area south of Mall of Asia. The master plan was shown to the public early 2007 which was initiated by the former PAGCOR Chairman Efraim Geniuno. The US$20B project initially includes a 665-m (2,182-ft) tall PAGCOR Observatory Tower, believed to become the second tallest structure is the world after Burj Khalifa; a breathtaking Manila Eye, Philippine version of London Eye; a ... Read more

“GDrive”: Google Cloud Drive is Coming Soon

Cloud storage, a virtual storage, is the hottest thing in the storage trends. Without using any hard drive, which is prone to physical damage and thieves, you can store your files and share it with your peers anywhere and anytime provided you have an access to the internet. Dropbox and Box.net are the famous names in the cloud data storage services. Amazon has Cloud Drive, Apple has iCloud, Microsoft has Skydrive and finally, Google will have “GDrive”. Google, the company with the most internet-connected servers in the word, will be offering a cloud storage. This will add to the cloud-like ... Read more