Technology

Yahoo! Mail Beta: Better (surely) but Good Enough?

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

First week of Yahoo! Mail Beta’s release months (or had it been years?) ago, from the old look and feel, I switched to it immediately. Just as quick as I did, I switched back.
Yahoo! Mail Beta was a pain to use, especially if you weren’t on (non-encumbered) broadband. Being a Filipino college student back then, […]

Help Save Energy with Google’s Blackle.com

Friday, August 10th, 2007

“If Google had a black screen, taking in[to] account the huge number of page views [the site generates], according to calculations, 750 megawatts per hour per year will be saved.”
Google, in a display of environmental awareness and social responsibility, launched <www.Blackle.com>, an exact replica of <www.Google.com> with a black (instead of white) backdrop. Spread the […]

(Update) Role-playing Madness

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Amazing. INSEAD, the premier french business school, uses Second Life, a virtual second world built especially for the MMORPG fanatics and others of the sort, as a playing ground for business students in a new online MBA track!
The Economist (online) reports:
Is this for real?
In a novel twist on the idea of the online course, […]

Apple’s iPhone: Buzz gone Bust?

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Some juicy news and reviews on Apple’s iPhone (words from the naysayers and the praisemongers):
CNNMoney: One buyer’s tale of woe
C|Net: “As an iPod, it shines” but…
PCMag: “The best portable media player ever” but…
WSJ’s Walt Mossberg: the iPhone “a Breakthrough Hand-held Computer”
New York Times: iPhone matches *most of its* hype
More from the happy people of […]