Will Sony launch the PS3 in RP? November 22, 2006
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It looks like Sony is contemplating to launch the most awaited game console of the year in the country. The day I released my review of the PS3 in the Technews Section of the Manila Bulletin (www.mb.com.ph), I received a call from Sony asking me about the readers’ feedback. I told them that at around 8:00 AM, Technews Lab has already received at least 20 calls asking us to allow them to try the PS3 and mind you, most of the callers are working professionals meaning, they have money to buy the unit if they want to.
I bought my unit for US$480.00 that’s roughly PHP24,000.00. We heard that there are stores in Greenhills that sell the PS3 for PHP44,000.00 and there were buyers according to store owners that we have interviewed. Some stores even clip the review to show it to their clients.
What’s good with the PS3 is that you don’t only buy a game console. The non-gaming functions according to our source in Hongkong has become the selling point of the PS3.
Logitech makes germ-killing keyboard and mouse November 21, 2006
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The Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 3200 Laser, a wireless keyboard-and-mouse combination is coated with silver-based AgION™ antimicrobial compound, providing protection to prevent the growth of a broad range of bacteria, mold and mildew.
AgION antimicrobial compound is an inorganic antimicrobial that uses silver as the active ingredient. Samsung’s Silver Nano Technology in their devices also uses silver to kill germs and other harmful bacteria.
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Parasitic cellphone
Motorola has applied with the US Patent and Trademark Office an “invention that relates to the field of communicating low battery notifications for communications devices and more particularly relates to techniques for communicating low battery notifications to specified recipients.” Simply put, the company has come up with an idea that could keep consumers in contact with family members and friends even if the battery has gone flat.
Most phones now have Bluetooth connectivity for short range wireless links, which requires very minimal power than a normal call. When this new system senses that the phone’s battery is running low it disables all unnecessary features and blocks in-coming calls. It will then switch the phone’s Bluetooth transceiver to discovery mode and searches for compatible “proxy” phones nearby.
With the permission of the phone’s owner nearby it can then send a warning text message, via Bluetooth, to everyone on a pre-arranged emergency list. This lets them know that they can still get in touch, but only by texting. Again, with the permission of its owner, the proxy phone relays any incoming text messages via the normal cellphone network and passes them on via Bluetooth.
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India’s new outsourcing business
After turning to Indians to answer customer-service calls, CNN reported that many westerners are now turning to them to carry their babies. And like call centers where they only pay a fraction of what they would pay at home, it is also very easy to find surrogate mother in India and the cost of “renting her womb to carry the fertilized egg is a fraction of what it would be back home” the report said.
This is one ourtsourcing business that I hope the Philippines would not follow.
