No installation needed. Just sign up, and pay P499 (that’s a cute P500) for monthly dues and less than P200 for the monthly handset installment payments.
It’s still a cellular phone because it takes advantage of SMART/PLDT cell sites. But the phone won’t fit inside your pocket since it looks like a regular home phone minus the wires. You also have the landline area codes like 074 for Baguio / Benguet / Mountain Province instead of the 0918- / 0919- / 0920- / etc prefixes.
That means cheaper calls. I’m thinking I …

Google starts testing its shipping business by introducing Google Paper. Your GMail copy via snail mail. Later, Google will be offering to ship the goods you ordered via Google Checkout. Sigh, I still want my Google Gulp. But all you get are ads at the back of your paper mail or the full color photos (on photo paper). No free drink on a bottle with a brim that can analyze your saliva and tell you what kind of person you are with matching AdSense.

Sad part: Service is offered in …

Bloggers even want a plug-in maker shot (a bloody joke, lad).
You now have WordFeed FeedWordpress (here), Elliot Back’s Autoblog (here) and WP o’ Matic (here). Whether you call them blog syndication plugins, atom/rss aggregators or scrapers or whatever, they can handle the job easily for free and you magnet automatic rabid feedback from the bloggers who own the feeds, too!
I tried FeedWordpress just to see how it works and viola! a hate mail arrives. I didn’t even know my test blog address but somehow, Technorati was quick.
I mean, people …

The Gapminder is a glimpse of how Google’s version of Powerpoint would look like. It’s going to be much better if you are looking into the Spreadsheets + Presently (if that’s how it’s going to be named) angle. Imagine that as of now you can gather info from the web and plug it in to Spreadsheets. From there, you can transform this data into visual form. This is where Gapminder comes in. I’d be guessing Google Maps would also be part of the picture.

Ang galeng! More at Google Blog here.

Now that YouTube is Google, the rest would have to make their own. The rest will be focusing on copyright protection and revenue sharing. Something like the old way of doing business.
The new venture, which doesn’t have a name yet, will also allow users to download movies and TV shows to own and play back whenever they want. At first, however, the focus will be on showing video streams of hit shows – with ads – such as NBC’s “Heroes” and Fox’s “24.” Fox is owned by News Corp.
The online …