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Philippine Floods: How Twitter and Facebook, Google Maps Helped

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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So far, 240 reported dead and hundreds of thousands of evacuees have been documented in the aftermath of Ketsana (Ondoy), a tropical storm that barely registered as a Typhoon. The Philippine government, by some accounts, have been slow to react, undermanned and under-equipped. Contrast that to individual Filipinos, like a 49-year-old judge who miraculously saved [...]

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$99 Jointech Jpro Laptop-Jl7100 Rocks Internet Explorer and Beats OLPC in Pricing

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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  Jointech has done what One Laptop Per Child has promised but failed to do - mass-produce a laptop that will retail for $100 or below. At $99, Jointech’s Jpro Jl7100, is one cheap mini notebook or netbook. Though reading the Jl7100 specs make you think of a smartphone instead of a laptop, $99 retail is [...]

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Aigo MID PP860 Priced

Thursday, July 24, 2008

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Aigo’s mobile Internet device or MID has been officially priced, so we can expect it out in the market in a while. Is this the first MID out in the market? If so, the Aigo got itself a coup here. It’s priced affordably for such a groundbreaking device. It combines power from an 800MHz Atom [...]

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Mustek DV300t Camera PMP

Sunday, February 3, 2008

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Mustek has released some very interesting convergence-minded devices in the past with. The DV300t qualifies as one (the makers are calling it a 6-in-1) but only in the superficial aesthetic sense. The 3.1 megapixel camera has no optical zoom. This is an interpolated resolution from a VGA CMOS lens that captures near-NTSC or PAL [...]

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Amtek U560 UMPC Has Nice Video Playing Skillz

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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What’s the difference again of a UMPC and a MID? This is what Intel has to say. But according to Amtek’s new U560 UMPC, absolutely nothing. The device is a slider of the SideKick variety and is powered by an 800MHz processor, which can be reduced for battery optimization as Steve/Chippy found out in [...]

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China PMP Brings Back Real Trackwheel

Thursday, November 29, 2007

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  The M42410 from HK Power International Trading comes with an interesting control design throwback: a moving trackwheel, akin to the ones used in the first generation of iPods (before they replaced it with the touch-sensitive version that is currently in use). Some people actually liked the older type better, believe it or not. Anyway, the device [...]

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China PMP Does Solar Power, can Charge Other Devices too

Monday, November 12, 2007

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The MS3588 from HK Power is quite an interesting device. Not only does it offer solar and DC charging, it also allows use as a charger for other electronic devices. Oh, and it supports AVI videos (QVGA resolution, 25fps), MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WAV, AMR and ADPCM audio files, and JPEG, GIF and BMP [...]

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Nintendo DS Gets FM Add-On

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

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Want to listen to FM music on your favorite portable gaming console? The NDS Lite FM Radio Converter is available on this site for only $14. True to its name, NDS Lite only weights 19.5gms and measures 7.2 x 57.1 x 12.33mm. It covers 87.5MHz to 108MHz FM frequencies and does not need an [...]

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PMP Report Says Market Will Grow to 117 Million Units in 2007

Friday, April 13, 2007

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Forecast from Reasearch and Markets paint a rosy picture of the portable media player industry with the addition of an industry report in China. Global PMP sales will likely reach 117 million units this year and is predicted to be in the area of 162 million units in 2009. The reasons for the growth put [...]

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