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Ateneo de Manila University project wins Smart Sweep Innovation and Excellence Award
A STUDENT project that uses social networking, short message service (SMS) and Smart Communications Inc.’s money transfer to gather relief goods for communities hit by disasters won this year’s Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (Smart Sweep) Innovation and Excellence Award. The student team from Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) won P500,000 for themselves and P500,000…
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5th Smart Sweep Innovation and Excellence Award: Notes from the sidelines
(This is for my column on Tuesday, March 17) BY THE TIME this column gets printed, we’d have known whether a group of students from the University of San Carlos (USC) made Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (Sweep) history by being the first Cebu team to win the Innovation and Excellence Award. We’d have known…
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2 weeks with the Nokia E71
I’ve been asked to review the Nokia E71. Nokia Philippines lent me a review unit for two weeks. The E71 is part of Nokia’s Eseries, a line of smartphones for business use. The phone’s features can make any heavy mobile user drool: wi-fi and high-speed mobile Internet connectivity, easy e-mail setup through Nokia’s service, integrated…
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Nokia launches 5800 in Cebu
Nokia formally launched in Cebu last week its latest model in the XpressMusic product line, the Nokia 5800. The XpressMusic line is Nokia’s answer to Sony Ericsson’s Walkman phones, devices that are designed for music playing. The features of the Nokia 5800 are formidable—it comes with all the features you’d expect from a modern phone…
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Manny Pacquiao tops RP searches in Google News
Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao hogged local searches in Google News, according to the Google Zeitgeist 2008, the latest of of the web giant’s annual report of popular search terms. Pacquiao, who recently defeated Oscar de la Hoya, is on the top three search terms, including one that appeared to be a misspelling of his name,…