Thursday, December 4, 2003
Normally, this would be a listing of holidays in the Philippines in the year 2004. Unfortunately, most of these holidays fall on either Saturday or Good Friday. [more]
Posted by Manuel [Philippine Holidays 2004]
A friend of mine is despairing because his Hotmail account keeps getting a lot of spam. I suggested he just stick with his Yahoo address and junk his Hotmail address. Now we get this bit of news. [more]
Posted by Manuel [Hotmail Gets Anti-Spam Makeover]
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Bandwidth Theft happens wittingly or unwittingly when someone displays on their web site an image found on your web site. It is theft because you pay for the data transferred, but another web site "benefits" because they can spruce up their web page with your image file... for free. This practice is also called hotlinking. [more]
Posted by Manuel [Bandwidth Theft]
Monday, December 1, 2003
Digitel seen spending $260M for 2004 telecom expansion -- "We expect about 250 million dollars in (capital expenditure) for wireless. Hopefully we'll get it below that, but that is the working number for the wireless business. For fixed line, it's minimal. Maybe 10 million to 12 million dollars, Digitel president and chief executive Lance Gokongwei told reporters in a recent interview."
Sounds exciting... but what about our old cellphone numbers? Updating phonebooks and texting all our friends about our new number can be quite a hassle. [more]
Posted by Manuel [Digitel seen spending $260M for 2004 telecom expansion]
Sometimes, if you try to send or receive POP3 email using Microsoft Outlook 2002, you'll get a number of error messages. [more]
Posted by Manuel [Outlook 2002 and POP3 Email Problems]