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Many of us will surely text many if not all of our friends, greeting them a happy new year. An SMS message will cost us P1.00. If we greet 100.00, we will be spending P100.00 (not counting those that are sent twice--network bug). Well this is the perfect time that we avail of those promos. What I will share is from Globe and Smart networks only. For Smart subscribers, you may want to avail of the all-text promos: ALLTEXT 20 P20 = 100 texts SMART to SMART / Talk 'N Text & 10 texts to other networks Text AT20 to 2827 Promo runs until March 31, 2009. Per DTI-NCR Permit No. 5310, Series of 2008. ALLTEXT 40 P40 = 200 texts SMART to SMART / Talk 'N Text & 20 texts to other networks Text AT40 to 2827 Promo runs until March 31, 2009. Per DTI-NCR Permit No. 5347, Series of 2008. ALLTEXT 50 P50 = 300 texts SMART to SMART / Talk 'N Text & 30 texts to other networks Text AT50 to 2827 ********************************************************************** For Globe Subscrib...

It's been a few days since I started using the Edimax BR-6204WLG wireless router. Features were great. I got the computers connected to the Internet with very less effort. I got my laptop connected wirelessly, and I got the security of the router tightened so that my neighbors won't be able to connect unless they had my permission. There was one problem though: PORT FORWARDING. I just can't get it to work. The setup was fairly simple. I specified the IP address of the local computer that serves as my web server, and specified port 80. I then tried to access it using the public ip address but I get a page load error: the server is taking too long to respond. I'm using Apache web server. I thought it was the firewall I had so I disabled it and tried to access the webserver again but with no luck. I then tried a different web server which was Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS). Dang! it still didn't work. I added this local ip to the router's demi...

TechRepublic just posted the 10 most influential leaders in business technology in 2008. Here is a summary: 10. Bill Gates, Microsoft 9. Mark Templeton, Citrix 8. Steve Jobs, Apple 7. Safra Catz, Oracle 6. Eric Schmidt, Google 5. Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com 4. Anne Mulcahy, Xerox 3. Craig Barrett, Intel 2. John Chambers, Cisco 1. Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard