Philippine cellco U Mobile just launched the first ad-supported cellular service in Asia. That means everything about the service — voice, SMS, MMS, GPRS, 3G — is (at least partly) paid for by advertisers.
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You must be 15-35 to sign up. That seems to be the demographic most desired by Philippine mobile advertisers.
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Heh. I figured Facebook’s data portability “initiative” was nothing more than panicked lip service. Today they’ve banned Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API.
Here’s the funny part: they say it’s because Google Friend Connect “redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge.” Ha! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
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Sigh. I knew all that competitive coolness over the weekend couldn’t last. Now towards the end of the week, we’re stuck with people either buying, salvaging, or raiding stuff.
Comcast buys Plaxo. Pathetic. This is an ISP with a bad reputation buying a social network with a bad reputation in a lame attempt to look “cool”. […]
Valleywag is holding a contest to rank the top 10 workspaces in tech. Candidates include wealthy giants like Google and plucky startups like Digg.
Personally, I prefer my tech workspace: my bedroom. Commute consists of rolling out of bed. Traffic consists of finding my flip-flops.
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Think texting is cheap? Think again. The University of Leicester’s Dr. Nigel Bannister points out that the cost of SMS is, quite literally, astronomical.
“The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that.
“The maximum size for a text message […]
Screw Microsoft Surface. It’s nothing but a big-ass table. Here’s how to make your own multitouch pad for $50. Software and hardware updates here.
Tags: Hardware, multitouch
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Mere days after the announcements of MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect, Google comes out with a lighter but wider social network data portability initiative. Last night at the Googleplex saw the announcement of Google Friend Connect, a set of widgets that lets any site plug itself into its readers’ social graphs on multiple social […]
One of the most annoying things about maintaining a social network profile is having to manually repost updates from that profile to other services you use. Most of these social networks just don’t want to share, doing everything they can to lock their users into their little information silos.
Just as I was tediously retyping a […]
I just had a crazy thought.
Microsoft now has $47.5 billion it couldn’t use to buy Yahoo. Electronic Arts bid only $2 billion for Take-Two Interactive.
Microsoft paid Take-Two $50 million — half the game’s development budget — for Xbox 360 exclusive downloadable content in Grand Theft Auto IV. GTA4 is a smash hit that will probably […]
As Take-Two Interactive’s Grand Theft Auto IV rakes in $500 million in its opening week, kicking Iron Man’s ass five times over, what will happen to Electronic Arts’ takeover bid?
Tags: EA, Gaming, GTA4, Take-Two
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