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Manila, Philippines, September 25, 2008 – We’ve learned over the last ten years at Google that great ideas can come from anywhere. For that reason, Google is announcing as part of its tenth birthday celebration Project 10^100 (pronounced Project 10 to the 100th), a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

Philippines – September 17, 2008 – Google Inc. today launched Google News in the Philippines, providing 24 million Filipino Internet users the latest local news from more than 4,500 English-language sources, including a wide range of Philippines news outlets. The Philippines is the first country in Southeast Asia to get its own local edition of [...]

Manila, 17 September 2008–Five leading brands are making significant
progress in greening their electronics products, Greenpeace’s latest
Guide to Greener Electronics released today reveals (1).
Nokia regains the lead, ranking seven points out of ten (2). Its
table-topping score is due to improved take-back practice in India (3).
“Most of the brands are responding to the more stringent chemical and
e-waste [...]

Frankly, I cannot imagine a post-Firefox browser that does not have the capability to run add-ons or extensions.

Wired magazine has the lowdown on how Google Chrome came to be. Titled “Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web,” the story offers an inside view of Chrome’s genesis and why Google has just re-ignited the browser wars.

All in all, Chrome is a very promising browser. The key to its success, I think, is the availability of plugins and add-ons that would extend its functionality. (Chrome was released only today so there aren’t any plugins or add-ons yet.) Google Chrome should give Firefox and IE a run for their money.

iPhone will soon be available in the Philippines, thanks to Globe Telecom and its partner, SingTel. In a short statement on Monday, Globe said “Globe, SingTel, Bharti Airtel and Optus today announced that they have signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to the Philippines, Singapore, India, and Australia later this year. More information will be released at a later date.”

This, of course, is great news to Filipinos who’ve been holding their breaths since iPhone’s launch.

LOS ANGELES - Sharon Sarmiento knew it was time to unplug when she realized she was blogging in her dreams and hearing imaginary instant messages.
For Ariel Meadow Stallings, it was the hours lost while surfing the Internet that left her feeling like she had been in a drunken blackout.
Both women are part of a new [...]

As it turns out, when you deactivate your Facebook account, Facebook does not delete your account, as other social-networking sites do. As this article in the New York Times points out, once you sign up with Facebook, you may have a lifetime contract with it. Creepy.
I deactivated my Facebook account months ago. After reading the [...]

One of my favorite tech bloggers, Jeremy Wagstaff, has this interesting take on Facebook, specifically why anyone who values his or her privacy should stay away from the popular social-networking site.

In my previous post, I laid out my reasons for abandoning Facebook, no matter that I have more friends there than in the other social-networking [...]