November 2008 - TechPinas

Five Things You Should Consider When Buying HDTV

Bang and Olufsen Beovision8 LCD HDTV photo from www.techgadgets.in Iris L, a TechPinas friend, emailed us this note earlier: Hi TechPina...

Intel Atom N270 vs. Intel Atom 330 ( Atom Core Duo )

Yesterday, we received a question from rhk111 of Pinoyexchange, which goes: A lot of netbooks nowadays are using the Intel Atom N270 1.6 Gh...

LG Launches KP500 touch

LG Electronics Philippines officially launched its latest touch phone, KP500, yesterday morning at the Glorietta Tent. Aint that Sleek?! ...

Acer Aspire One - PcCorner price update - Just Php11, 995!!

Good news for the patient ones who kept their 13th month pay - untouched and sealed - under the pillow. PCCorner , one of the leading note...

Sony Ericsson Releases Xperia X1 in the Philippines - Featured Video, Nov. 28, 08

Looks solid, right? As you can see, Xperia X1 has QWERTY keyboard -- What you can't see here is that it has a 3.2 MegaPixel camera at ...

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic "Tube" Specs and Demo Videos

Nokia 5800 XM aka TUBE panels via GeekCellulars A Section of The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Phone Press Release via Nokia.com Innovative &#...

Asus to Launch First Ever 'Net-Desktop' Computer

And it looks hot! Asus, the manufacturer of the well-received Eeepc netbooks, has recently released several test units of its latest PC p...

Featured Video of the Day - Nov. 17, 08: 10 Features of Google Chrome

Google Chrome beta has been out for a while now -- but few users have been maximizing its potential. TechPinas features this video to h...

Fedora 10 Flies!

Good news for all Linux fans! Just 6 months after the release of Fedora 9, Fedora-Project and Red Hat launches Fedora 10. Fedora 10 scre...

Featured Video of the Day - Nov. 26, 08 - Macbook Air Spoof revisited

Yup, this is quite old but we think it is still interesting to discuss: In 2002, Toshiba released Portege 2000. Portege 2000 photo fr...

Vector vs. Raster

A TechPinas reader just sent us an email asking, " What is the different between Vector and Raster images? " OK, we could go all...

YouTube goes Widescreen

photo from www.stuffwelike.com Hmm... Trailing Yahoo Videos? Youtube has apparently set all videos to widescreen -- yup, the default, s...

MSI U120 News Update

We mentioned in our previous post that MSI hasn't released any photo of Wind U120, well apparently, they have -- exclusive to a few blog...

MSI Strikes Back - rather softly?

Last Friday, MSI announced the release of the next iteration of its Wind Netbook Series, the 3lbs-er U120. It follows the well received U100...

Apple Launches iPhone 2.2 Software

Just in time for Yuletide, as if a Christmas present, Apple released iPhone 2.2 Software last Thursday. Truly an upgrade from 2.1 released j...

3 Filipino Robot WizKids win at Japan Olympiad

TechPinas wants to share this good news with you: Grade 6 student Joseph Aldrin Chua and Grade 5 students Eldrich Chua and Dominique Sy, f...

Intel Atom Benchmarks - 1.6 Ghz Silverthorne

$6 - $8 USD (roughly Php500) Intel Atom has been the favored processor of many UMPCs (or Netbooks) these recent years. And since UMPCs are ...

HP Launches new 10-inch screen Netbook

Just months after the release of Mininote 2133 -- yup, the one that kinda looks like a small Macbook pro with its anodized aluminum case, HP...

HP Launches the First Tablet Notebook with Multi-Touch Screen

The multi-touch feature has gone a long way since it hit bigtime with Apple Macbooks' touchpads ~ Multi-touch? Remember? The two fing...

Neo Releases New Netbook

The largest Filipino owned and managed PC manufacturing firm, Neo Philippines, has just released its newest Netbook: The Neo Vivid V1190. ...

How To Change Gmail Theme

Tired of the boring white look of your Gmail inbox? Why not change its theme? I don't know exactly how long it's been around, bu...

Yahoo CEO to Step Down

In the midst of a series of Yahoo! employee lay-offs (1,000 in February and 1,430 just this October), Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang decides to step ...

Apple Launches New Macbook

We all know that Apple has a knack for releasing new generations of their products that just make the older ones look, well, really old. Not...

Welcome To TechPinas! Meet Mark Milan Macanas, The Man Who Created TP

Hello! Welcome to TechPinas ! TechPinas is the Philippine Technology Blog. "TP" aims to chronicle the latest tec...