Acer Timeline 1810tz vs. Asus UL20A on Mar 18, 2010 in Personal Computing Asus’ 12-inch CULV and Acer’s 11.6-inch Timeline notebooks are two of the most interesting models in the ULV category as they both offer portability and long battery life of netbooks but the processing power of laptops. So we looked close...
Viliv S5 Premium 3G in the flesh! on Mar 17, 2010 in Mobile Personal Computing First time I ever heard of the Viliv MID was right around CES last year and never really expected it would be introduced here in the Philippines. So it was a bit of a surprise when I was contacted by their distributor, CosmoTech, to check out their V...
Wi-Tribe doubles up bandwidth to 6GB on Mar 16, 2010 in Telecoms Had a talk over the phone with one of Wi-Tribe’s representatives last Saturday and we discussed about the 3GB monthly bandwidth allocation which we reported last month. They said that they’ve considered the merits and clarified a number o...
GCash, Boku to do Mobile Payments on FB on Mar 16, 2010 in Mobile Telecoms Web 2.0 In a press conference today, Globe and Boku explained their deal to provide a mobile payment platform for GCash users using Paymo. This means you can now buy virtual goods on FarmVille, make your stalls in Restaurant City more spiffy or top up your c...
Asus UL20 Review on Mar 15, 2010 in Personal Computing Asus’ premium ultraportable notebooks fall under the UL (ultra-light) series and the Asus UL20 is the smallest and lightest of the lot at 12.1 inches. The the thin and light notebook comes in a silver, brushed-metal finish with black glossy be...
YugaTech Giveaway Winners Round 2! on Mar 14, 2010 in Contests Congratulations to everyone who joined. It’s been fun looking at all the entries submitted. So here are our best submissions and dozens of other lucky winners. Check out if your photos are on the list of winners below. To those who blogged abou...
Asus MS236 LCD Monitor gets slim & stylish on Mar 14, 2010 in TV and Display Asus’ new LCD monitors are getting slim and stylish, starting with the MS series. We got this 23.6-inch Asus MS236 LCD monitor to test out and play with. It’s so slim at just 16.5mm and wighs only under 4kg. It’s got a glossy, pian...
The Sony Bloggie HD has arrived on Mar 13, 2010 in Photography So the Sony Bloggie HD that we won during the amazing race event we had with Sony in Boracay has arrived. This is one of the first few units available and should be out in stores this month. So, what comes out of the box? The Bloggie, 4GB memory sti...
Are you still addicted to FarmVille? on Mar 12, 2010 in Freewares Web 2.0 On Facebook, FarmVille is the top game this year with over 26 Million active users, 3 times biggest than the second most active, Cafe World. Last December, I asked readers how long they’d think Facebook becomes old, and a lot of the responses p...
How laptop battery life is computed? on Mar 11, 2010 in Personal Computing For some time now, claims of more than 10 hours of battery life on netbooks are often times unbelievable and not really achievable in real world tests. So, where do these numbers come from? We look at one possible computation. Laptops and netbooks co...
