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UK Broadband Advances to 24 Mbps

UK Broadband Advances to 24 Mbps

Marck V. September 27, 2005 0

The 24 Mbps broadband service is worth Ł24 (US $42.84) per month, and here are the benefits:Three (3) times faster than the closes competitor in the UK Allows 1.3 Mbps upstream, about 5 five times

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Combat Robots

Combat Robots

Marck V. September 25, 2005 1

I’ve just read the online edition of The Korea Times and there’s one article about Seoul building front-line combat robots. I thought, “This is insanity.” Robots in battles along with human soldiers? It sounds

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Ending Microsoft’s Cowboy Spaghetti Code

Ending Microsoft’s Cowboy Spaghetti Code

Marck V. September 25, 2005 0

Having studied Total Quality Management this quarter, I’m aware that Microsoft is notorious for not implementing the processes that would produce the best quality output. Problems could be always patched over anyway. Microsoft’s softwares,

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WiMax Trial

WiMax Trial

Marck V. September 23, 2005 0

WiMax is coming to town. Inter Corp., announced on Thursday that it expected to implement trials of wireless broadband technology WiMax in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines by year-end. WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability

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Xerox 914

Xerox 914

Marck V. September 12, 2005 0

Trivia: September marks the 46th anniversary of Xerox 914, the first automatic office copier to use ordinary paper. Well, I stumbled upon this information while I am doing a research on Xerox Inc. at

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TV 2.0, Bluray and HD-DVD

TV 2.0, Bluray and HD-DVD

Marck V. September 10, 2005 0

Don’t you know there are six new ways to watch? Wired.com has an article about TV 2.0 and it talks about the differences among internet TV, P2PTV, HDTV, IPTV, Streaming video and Cell phone

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8GB Miniature Hard Disk

8GB Miniature Hard Disk

Marck V. September 6, 2005 0

This is a really cool product, codename Mikey. It is Hitachi’s latest Microdrive model 3K8. I’m sure there’s a sizeable market for Mikey specially in mp3 players (like iPod), digital cameras and other

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Free SkypeOut Day!

Free SkypeOut Day!

Marck V. July 20, 2005 1

Finally, after missing the first free SkypeOut day I’ll be anticipating this one and grab it! You should know what Skype is by now. So, here’s how you can get the free 10 minutes

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Fleeting Moments with Dell Servers

Fleeting Moments with Dell Servers

Marck V. July 16, 2005 1

It’s not goodbye yet… there’s a high possibility that we will purchase these Dell PowerEdge servers again. For now, they were refunded and I really feel bad that we have to let them go. Here

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Adobe CS2 Seminar in Manila

Adobe CS2 Seminar in Manila

Marck V. July 14, 2005 2

I attended the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Seminar today, Thursday 14 Jul 2005 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. It’s theme was “Everything but the idea” … I believe they use that phrase in CS2

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PHP 4.4.0 Released

PHP 4.4.0 Released

Marck V. July 11, 2005 0

The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 4.4.0. This is a maintenance release that addresses a serious memory corruption problem within PHP concerning references. If references were used

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Clustering and Load Balancing Hell Ride

Clustering and Load Balancing Hell Ride

Marck V. July 10, 2005 1

First and foremost, I don’t like to mention company name(s) or person related to this resolved issue because it was already settled. This is the reason why I was not able to update my

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