Following the announcement that the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition has become part of the Nexus line as the Galaxy S4 Nexus for sporting a vanilla or raw version of Android Jellybean, local online gadget store Widget City has slashed down the price of the Google Nexus 4. Though the main listing page still shows [...]
by jhay on April 28, 2013
True to their promise, PC giant Hewlett-Packard has finally made available their latest attempt at getting a slice of the lucrative tablet market – the HP Slate 7. First announced in February, the 7-inch tablet sports an ARM A9 Dual Core chip running at 1.6Ghz and has Beats Audio to boot. This is HP’s first [...]
by jhay on March 29, 2013
I can’t recall exactly when it started, but about 3 weeks ago, I noticed that whenever I watched a video on YouTube it would be littered with yellow snowy pixels all over. The annoying snowy pixels were present only in Chrome but not when I used Firefox. This was the first time I encountered such [...]
by jhay on March 11, 2013
A few days ago, my wife and I saw again Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol on HBO. She was so hooked into it, she wanted to watch the earlier three films. While watching Ghost Protocol, she asked me why wasn’t I fond of the Mission Impossible franchise? In all honesty, I told her that for [...]
by jhay on February 22, 2013
Call it an internet meme or not, this little exercise is a lot of fun to do mainly because you get to go down memory lane again and look back at all the previous mobile phones you have owned or used in the past. It may reveal how old you are, but it will show [...]
On the proposed taxation of online shopping
December 31, 2012There’s a recent uproar online about the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s announcement that it plans to collect taxes from online retailers soon. For those who are unfamiliar with the issue, a few background info: The increasing reach of the Internet has sustained the spread of online businesses particularly retail trade. Online sellers or retailers are [...]