If you have the budget and you want to purchase a gadget what will you prefer? A Laptop or a Digital Camera?Here is the Specs of the Sony Vaio Z Series: Up to 2.53GHz Intel® Core 2 Duo1066Mhz Front Side Bus Speed3MB - 6MB L2 Cache10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-TIntegrated V.92/V.90 Modem (RJ-11)Wireless LAN: Intel® WiFi Link 5100AGNUp to 320GB hard disk drive availableUp to 4GB DDR3 SDRAMSDTM/Memory Stick DuoTM card slotsMicrosoft® Windows Vista®13.1″ LED backlit displayBuilt-in DVD-RW drive or Blu-ray Disc RW drive6-hour battery life, weighs 3.42 lbsBefore, SONY introduced VAIO as Video Audio Integrated Operation. “Now we are re-introducing the VAIO as the Visual Audio Intelligent Organizer. We want it to be also known for how it easily becomes part of one’s lifestyle,” according to Mr. Nosaka the company’s Senior Sales Manager in the PhilippinesThe Sony VAIO Z has a suggested retail price of P109, 990.  ==========================================  Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video Camera Specs:  3 MP picture quality

4.1 mm, f/2.8, fixed focus lens

2.4 in. LCD display

128 MB internal memory

SD/SDHC card expansion slot(up to 32GB)

HD60: 720p at 60 fps - 16:9 video capture(max)

JPEG picture format, MOV format for video

USB 2.0 (high speed); component output; AV output

uses (2) AA batteries   

By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 22:09:00 01/22/2008

MANILA, Philippines — The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has issued a newer set of draft rules for voice over Internet Prototocl (VoIP) services to promote more competition in the country.

The latest draft rules, a copy of which was obtained by INQUIRER.net, outlined additional policies that were set to “clarify and supplement” previous rules on access charges.

VoIP providers are still required to enter interconnection agreements with at least one public switched telephone networks (PSTN), which in turn, will take care of routing calls to and from other networks, the new draft rules said.

The VoIP providers are also required to pay so-called “transmit charges” of not more than P0.25 per minute. The same transmit charges apply to VoIP providers accessing mobile phone networks, the rules said.

The new rules, however, stressed that access charges for VoIP calls originating from or terminating to a telephone network will not exceed the cost of regular national long distance calls.

Access charges from or those terminating to a PSTN will not exceed P1.00 per minute, while those originating to and terminating from a mobile network will not go beyond P1.50 per minute.

VoIP providers using existing broadband Internet networks will not be required to enter commercial agreements with any network provider, the rules said.

The NTC is set to hold a public hearing on the new draft rules soon, NTC Deputy Commissioner Jorge Sarmiento said.

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080122-114098/NTC-issues-latest-draft-rules-on-VoIP

MANILA, Philippines–LISTED conglomerate Ayala Corp. is spending bulk of its capital expenditures this year on its telecommunications arm Globe Telecom Inc. and property unit Ayala Land Inc.Ayala chief finance officer Rufino Luis Manotok said that while the company has yet to consolidate its capital expenditures for 2008, the Ayala group was expected to spend more this year.

For one, the Ayala Group is setting aside P16 billion for capital spending on ALI this year.

Ayala Land chief finance officer Jaime Ysmael said the company was likely to spend more than P16 billion this year, mainly for its residential projects, with some going to shopping centers and office buildings catering to business process outsourcing firms and the building of the merged stock trading floors at the Fort Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City.

Early last year, Ayala president and chief operating officer Fernando Zobel de Ayala said the Ayala group has allocated P47 billion in capital expenditures in 2007, higher than the P42 billion spent in 2006.

Elizabeth Sanchez-Lacson

Source: http://business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=112099

Nokia Philippines has been alarmed with the increase in the number of cloned phones recently. It’s not only the popular Nokla phones from China but all other variations as well. While a number of consumers tend to buy the cheaper fake versions, others are not really aware that what they are buying are total knock-offs.Nokia sent us these tips to share with our readers.

Top 3 Things to Take Note to Know if your Nokia Phone is legit or not:

1. Warranty

Nokia mobile phones bought in the Nokia Store or from its authorized dealers have a blue 12-month limited warranty sticker from Nokia Care slapped on the top or side parts of the phone’s box. Read more…

Biometrics is a term that used in describing a time keeping machine that is used most of the companies. when you are confused with the meaning of biometrics here I explain it later because when you search on the world wide web its meaning you can find this:

“Biometrics refers to two very different fields of study and application. The first, which is the older and is used in biological studies, including forestry, is the collection, synthesis, analysis and management of quantitative data on biological communities such as forests. Biometrics in reference to biological sciences has been studied and applied for several generations and is somewhat simply viewed as “biological statistics.”

More recently and incongruently, the term’s meaning has been broadened to include the study of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. “

But from here the meaning of biometrics is different if you talk up computer terms. Biometrics are devices used for timekeeping that are connected to the computer or sometimes they are stand alone. This is a kind of timekeeping that uses fingerprint scanner or a card (cards that are able to read and write by a card reader) Meaning you can log-in or out even without the computer itself. Biometric devices has the capability to store log coming from the employees. Then from time to time you can download all of them and put it to a payroll system that is commonly used by any companies.

Source: Talk to Discuss

Nowadays, we can’t hide that lots of technological devices and machines are extremely growing especially with it comes to Cellular Phones, PSP’s, Laptops and other gadgets. We Filipino (accept it because this is true) are very fond of buying second hand items and cheaper one and affordable even if that the quality of the product is not so high… Thats the way of a Filipino buyers. And another was we love to be update and always on trend not in passion only but also in technology. Look around when you are walking on the avenue of Ayala or even in Cubao, even a tricycle or jeepney driver has his own cellphone or even one of the sidewalks vendor where you bought your cellphone case. We even sell our items just to buy something new and of course the latest.

This is what the Pinoy Technology was, and because of this manners of us in terms of buying and selling some of pinoy webmaster created an online buy and sell website for those buyers and sellers to do transactions and business. TipidPc and TipidCp are the examples of what I am talking.