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[Media Release] HTC Country Manager Mark Sergio officially announced today that the HTC Magic™, the first Android-powered mobile phone in the Philippines, will be available exclusively through SMART Gold, the postpaid brand of leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART). SMART and HTC Corporation will be launching HTC Magic™ very soon. The HTC Magic™ [...]

Good news to Flash-crazy Webmasters:  Google now indexes Web content found inside Adobe Flash® files! Until recently, search engines’ crawlers were not able to "see" Flash content — text inside Flash movies, Flash menu links, etc. Ergo, Web sites built with Flash did very poorly in search engine rankings. Well, that’s about to change now. [...]

When TechCrunch, ZDNet and other notable online publications and blogs trash a company or an individual, techies and people who spend a lot of time on the Internet will invariably take notice. But when it’s the venerable The New York Times that does the lambasting, virtually nobody will miss it. In a recent article in [...]

I don’t know how many of you know this, but Google has always had an unofficial corporate motto: Don’t be evil. It was pronounced in 2001 by Paul Buchheit, creator of Google’s Gmail (but who has now left to found his own Internet venture). At that time, Google was still this idealistic group of young [...]

PLDT seems to be blocking Google and other search engines, so that they can offer their own search product with advertisements.

In a recent article at TechCrunch.com, it was reported that the Japanese government is considering a move to crack down on file sharing (read: Torrent or Kazaa). In Japan, the most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) network for the distribution of computer files is Winny. In simple terms, “P2P” is defined as the combined connectivity and bandwidth [...]

Updated: 27 June 2007 From the 29th of June 2007, Google Philippines Country Consultant, Aileen Apolo, will be in Davao City for a series of seminars. The Google Davao Roadshow will be for the benefit of owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well as college students and faculty members. Aileen will also meet [...]

Yesterday Aileen Apolo, country consultant of Google Philippines met up with SEO professionals in Davao. (This was her second meet-up with them, the first being in November last year.) Aileen’s talk focused on Google AdWords. Simply put, it is an online service by which advertisers can promote and market their products / services via Google’s [...]

Right before the Davao Bloggers Party #1, Janette Toral, ever a huge supporter of Davao I.T., came back to Davao for another DigitalFilipino Club eyeball. There are currently only 6 members in Davao — but hopefully more will join us. This club is the country’s only e-commerce and technopreneurship private organization.