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Written on May 13, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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In a complaint filed by AMD to the European Commission, Intel was found in violation of anti-trust rules in Europe. The EU demands that Intel stop its unethical business practices and pay a fine of $1.145 billion. Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for [...]
Written on May 1, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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Apple will open a high-profile store on the ground floor of the future Philippine Stock Exchange high-rise office buildiing in Manila suburb, according to the Web site of an engineering company hired to perform sustainability studies for the high-rise project. According to the CB Engineers Web site, the Apple store will be the anchor tenant [...]
Written on April 7, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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Globe Telecom has launched a new cellphone-and-landline-in-one service called the Plan Duo Subscription. Here’s how it works: 1. Subscription to DUO Service is •399/30days on top of a Globe Plan. 2. Once you are subscribed to Duo, you will be given your Duo Landline number. Now, your mobile phone and SIM will have two (2) [...]
Written on March 26, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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Dell Philippines has sold its Pasay call center to Teleperformance for an undisclosed amount, in a bid to “increase the efficiency of its business and provide better value for customers.’’ The sale will transfer the management of Dell’s consumer tech-support business in the Philippines to Teleperformance. “The agreement allows us to continue providing tech-support for [...]
Written on March 24, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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The Nokia Mosh is shutting down. Its service that makes it easy for people to post and share content with others. They will now focus on their Ovi Store. The Ovi Store will consolidate the best experiences from the current content services including Download!, MOSH and WidSets to a single channel, and expands upon Ovi [...]
Written on March 11, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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In a press launch this earlier today, Canon Philippines announced they have opened an online store for local customers called Canon eShop. Canon will be selling a number of items in their eShop which includes digital cameras and lenses, printers, inks, videocams and scanners. While there are a lot of stores in Metro Manila that [...]
Written on March 2, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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The top tech companies is the US based on the average salaries they gave their engineers/developers and Google came out on top. Here’s the list of the campanies and their average employee salary: Google – $106,666 Synopsys – $118,908 Broadcom – $115,093 Xilinx – $114,996 Yahoo – $114,280 KLA-Tencor – $110,227 Sun Microsystems – $118,358 [...]
Written on February 28, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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Globe’s Visibility prepaid kit is now down by Php605, its just Php1,895 now from the previous Php2,500 price a couple months ago. The prepaid kit gets you the 3G USB dongle, a USB cable and 1.5 hours of free 3G internet. Globe apparently listened to its customers about the charging scheme and is now doing [...]
Written on January 25, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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INTEL ANNOUNCED it will shut five manufacturing facilities, affecting the jobs of 5,000 to 6,000 employees. The plants to be closed include three overseas production lines and two silicon wafer fabs within the US. The offshore facilities are two assembly test operations in Penang, Malaysia and another in Cavite, Phillipines. The US factories are Fab [...]
Written on January 16, 2009 by Pinoy NetBooks
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Carol Bartz, Autodesk’s former executive chairman, has replaced Jerry Yang as Yahoo’s chief executive. “She is the exact combination of seasoned technology executive and savvy leader that the board was looking for, and we are thrilled to have attracted such a world-class talent to Yahoo,” Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement Tuesday. “The [...]