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Curated Kindle reading
Delivereads is an interesting service for the Kindle—it sends out articles curated by “Web-addicted insider, investor and entrepreneur” Dave Pell. Pell said he thought about the service after he got a Kindle. “My friends got together and bought me a Kindle because they worried I was spending too much time on the web and not…
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Smart launches low-cost Android tablet
SMART today announced the offering of a 7-inch Android 2.2 powered tablet bundled with its Smart Bro package. The company said the offering will further “democratize” Internet access in the country. The ZTE V9 was launched last week with a suggested retail price of P12,795. “The ZTE V9 is an affordable way for our subscribers…
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Student team uses mobile tech to speed up dengue detection, wins Smart Sweep grand prize
A student project that uses telecommunications technology to speed up the detection of dengue cases won the grand prize in last Wednesday’s 7th Smart Wireless Engineering and Education Program (Sweep) Innovation and Excellence Awards in the SMX Convention Center at the SM Mall of Asia. The student team from Bulacan State University (BSU) automated and…
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Ditching paper planners for Google Calendar-Android combo
EACH November, I’d eagerly start my annual search for the next year’s planner. It is a circuitous process that almost always ends the same way each year—I’d drool over one planner after the other, go on coffee binges to collect stickers for a free diary, and end up buying a Moleskine. I’ve been regularly trying and…
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Have phone, will travel
IN the early morning of Feb. 5, I guided an experienced taxi driver to a nondescript and obscure hotel in Makati using Google Maps, GPS and my Android phone. It was something almost right out of the movies—we were getting a real time rendering of where we were on the map (indicated by a moving…