Category: TechNews

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

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

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

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

A cellphone with a built-in project was a just dream few years ago. Now, it is completely a reality when Samsung Electronics released Samsung Galaxy Beam. The phone was announced two years ago as Samsung I8520 Halo and was released last July 2010 in Singapore under a carrier contract with Starhub. Worldwide release was August of the same with its Singapore release, however, it is not making a big wave on the market maybe because of poor publicity. The phone is already available yet rarely seen on the market stands, and only few individuals are aware of such phone. In ... Read more

Imagining to talk to your Android phone? Don’t worry, it is no longer an imagination this time. If iPhone users can talk to their phone, request the phone to remind their users of a certain task, ask for a nearby coffee shop, or even to simply update their Facebook, Android users can do it too. iPhone’s Siri is really a sophisticated Apple technology which is bundled to the newly released iPhone 4S. Android, on the other hand, has Skyvi which was develop after the great success and positive feedback of Siri. Skyvi (unfair to say copycat), through voice command, will ... Read more

BBM is exclusive for Blackberry mobile devices and many individuals are buying Blackberry because of such service and a much cheaper data plans of course. Globe Telecom offers PhP599 for an unlimited data connection for Blackberry (BBMax) users while 400-peso higher or Plan999 is available for an unlimited data service for iOS and Android apps (SUPERSURF).But there are many techies out there that choose Android devices and iPhone instead of Blackberry and this may give the idea of the developers to create an app that will allow users across platforms to connect with each other called eBuddy XMS. Like BBM, ... Read more

I am a technical writer, and MS Word is one of the tools I am using in my job. Since I don’t always bring a laptop with me, I look for an Android app which I can use for my HTC in case there are urgent edits or revisions in my work. I tried Polaris Office, but, aside from the bulk in app size which cannot be moved to SD storage, it has limited editing features and does not support PowerPoint. So I uninstalled the app. I tried looking for similar app and then I found Documents To Go, but ... Read more

Now you may ask; “Is it possible?”, the answer is; the hell yes. But before we start discussing on such possibility let us start understanding 3D technology first. 3D imaging or stereoscopy is a photography technique that presents two 2D offset images combined to give us a 3D perception. 3D films, on the other hand, is presented by two superimposed motion pictures (taken on different perspective) projected onto the same screen through different polarizing filters. 3D glasses are also polarizing filters with left and right filters oriented differently (clockwise and counterclockwise circular polarization). Each filter passes only the light which ... Read more