Manila’s largest electric company, Meralco, will be launching its own broadband internet over power lines service this quarter.
Power line communication or broadband over power lines (BPL) technology transmits data through electric power lines. The subscriber will only need a BPL modem and plug it directly into a power outlet. Hopefully, as long as there’s a [...]
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Meralco internet
July 15th, 2009 - Tech & OnlineFTTH in Manila?
July 7th, 2009 - Tech & OnlineThe metro is about to experience a major internet upgrade, telecom giants PLDT and Globe are all set to open up their respective fibre-to-the home (FTTH) broadband network architectures.
As usual, both companies will (first) introduce the high-speed internet packages to top-tier residences and business areas. To name a few, this includes the Fort Bonifacio Global [...]
Sun Broadband Wireless
January 14th, 2009 - Tech & OnlinePHP799 a month for an unlimited wireless connection up to 2Mbps speeds? It’s using 3.5G, and comes with a USB modem.
New Internet Plans
October 8th, 2008 - Tech & OnlineResidential broadband internet offerings in Manila just got better. New plans, new speeds and new prices.
BitTorrent helps TV shows
July 4th, 2008 - AV, Tech & OnlineIt seems that not only musicians but also TV show producers are jumping into the download bandwagon. Not that they fully agree with it, but they consider it helpful.
Some interesting read
June 20th, 2008 - Tech & Online1. The secret of Bill Gates’ success
“They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together. They did not understand how to go around the world.”
2. Clone cell cancer ‘cure’ hailed
US researchers, reports the New England Journal of Medicine, took cancer-fighting immune cells, made [...]
Google Is Home To Everyone
June 6th, 2008 - Tech & OnlineWhen the word Internet comes to your mind, the first thing you would think of is probably Google. This fast gained a reputation for being the best search engine on the Internet. Though this is the most popular feature that the company has, they power a lot of other sites. This would include sites such [...]
Invasion of the Blogs
May 19th, 2008 - Tech & OnlineLemmings are cute, but dumb. If you tell them to jump off a cliff, they will. Just like the people who start blogs because everyone is doing it. Guess what happens after a little while? The blogs die.
Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool
May 17th, 2008 - Business & Finance, Tech & OnlineBlogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the said page. What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and [...]
Broadband report 2008
May 5th, 2008 - Tech & OnlineThe recently-released broadband report from Information Technology and Innovation Foundation showed significant info and comparison between different countries in terms of broadband speed, access and subscription costs. Countries from Asia and Scandinavia took the top spots.
Webpage sizes are not getting smaller
April 30th, 2008 - Tech & OnlineThe size of the average web page has more than tripled since 2003. From 2003 to 2008 the average web page grew from 93.7K to over 312K (see Figure 1), some 233% (Domenech et al. 2007, Flinn & Betcher 2008). During the same five-year period, the number of objects in the average web page nearly [...]
How To Behave On An Internet Forum
April 11th, 2008 - Tech & OnlineRespect the admin, ban the trolls and avoid off-topic posts? let’s see…
Vishing Attacks
February 20th, 2008 - Lounge, Tech & OnlineOur friendly neighbourhood Internet Patrol posted an FBI-issued warning regarding rampant Vishing Attacks around the world.
