Microsoft Fails With Windows 8?

By ALLAN D. FRANCISCO  Boy, aren’t we glad that it was finally over. Now, perhaps we can settle back to doing whatever it was we were doing before these candidates had the temerity to ask us for our endorsement. The gall these gents and ladies had, thinking we would be stupid enough to send them to Congress, provincial capitals, and city halls and be among our new set of masters. Incoming... 

Gamers Are Not Having Fun

By Allan D. Francisco  Today is judgment day. Months, even years, of preparation and yearning for an elective position in the government by today’s candidates shall either bear fruit or remind them there are other things to do on this planet. Incoming search terms:xbox 720 what\s it look like (7)xbox 720 (3)gamestop news (2)xbox (2)xbox 720 no blu ray (2) Read More »

BlackBerry’s Rollercoaster Ride

Manila, Philippines – Not a day passes that we do not hear a lot of Canadian smart phone maker Black Berry. Since the company’s launched of its mobile phones it has hoped would reverse its long series of misfortunes and bad decisions, we have been bombarded with news and constant updates. Incoming search terms:blackberry flash (2)blackberry in the news (2)blackberry q10 price... 

Smartphones Outsell Feature Phones, Finally

By Allan D. Francisco Manila, Philippines – It’s that season once again. It’s that time of the year when parents feel like a huge load is taken off their shoulders. After all, another year of mostly budget-draining school days is over. For the luckier ones, parents of children about to finish their college education, it would mean the end of term papers, exams, field... 

It’s An Exciting Time For Tablet Lovers

By ALLAN D. FRANCISCO Manila, Philippines – Last week’s Mobile World Congress must have sent tabu laphiles (tablet lovers, for the Latinand Greek-challenged) to a place equivalent to Shangri-la, Nirvana, and oasis rolled into one. The Barcelona tech show just became the launching pad for some of the best and most impressive tablets. Outside the iOS realm, some pundits are... 

Nokia Covers All The Bases

Manila, Philippines – I have nothing against computer games. I think these virtual forms of entertainment, which comes in varying degrees of gruesomeness and violence, are one of the tech industry’s growth drivers. You know, the way pornography has been driving growth and popularity of several technologies. Remember Betamax, VHS, VCD, and DVD? All these media formats have... 

More People Used Google, But Less Often In 2012

By Allan D. Francisco Manila, Philippines – Market research firm ComScore recently released its report “2013 U.S. Digital Future in Focus.” Although the study is U.S.-centric, there are data and trends that are quite probably also applicable to other markets including this bundle of islands we call home. Incoming search terms:less people using google (1) Read More »

Fewer Cellphones Sold In 2012

By Allan D. Francisco Manila, Philippines – By now, everybody should have shaken off their post-Valentine’s blues. This corner sincerely hopes none of my half-a-dozen readers did anything stupid during the day for lovers. And if you did, well, I guess it’s rather too late to be regretful about it. Incoming search terms:STAR MOBILE CELLPHONE (1) Read More »

Microsoft, Symantec Kick Some Bots

By Allan D. Francisco Manila, Philippines – Unlike the other market research firms, Canalys classifies tablet computers as personal computers or PCs, seeing them as of the same feather as desktops, laptops, and netbooks. As they say, to each his own. And if Canalys wants to see tablets as PCs, nobody can tell the company not to. For some market observers, however, this route taken... 

When The Tablet Market Grows

Manila, Philippines – Of course, the world is getting more frightening by the minute. As Stevie Wonder tells us in his song “Used to Be,” there are too many great wars in little places. And day by day, we are bombarded with media reports of people getting killed, maimed, or orphaned, sometimes on a wholesale basis.  Read More »