Entries from March 2008

The Internet is for sale

March 25th, 2008 · 16 Comments

Do you have a spare P350,000? The Internet, apparently, is for sale for that amount.
I regularly read the classified ads section of Sun.Star Cebu, the paper I work for. At any given day, you’d have people selling anything from pets, houses, power tools to second-hand vehicles to adult toys (under Various Items, together with [...]

Tags: Odd · cebu news

PLDT Landline Plus goes prepaid: Turn any GSM phone into a portable “landline”

March 13th, 2008 · 52 Comments

PLDT will launch this weekend prepaid plans for its Landline Plus service. The service, previously available only on monthly postpaid plans, gives consumers “fixed-wireless telephone lines.”
Calls to these wireless handsets, within a provincial area, are considered local connections and aren’t charged by the minute. The Landline Plus user is only charged by the minute for [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile

Escribitionism with Twitter and Fring

March 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I never thought that I’d be enjoying it but here I am, using Twitter regularly for the past week. Twitter is a micro-blogging service that has become all the rage among tech-savvy folk and many connectivity addicts since last year.
With the service, you can write short (140 characters) updates about yourself and have these [...]

Tags: Blogs · Free services · Highlights · Mobile · Personal · free software