The Philippine Department of Education has a Laptop for Teachers (LT4T) program, where teachers can avail of laptops from Acer and Neo for half the price. The computers, according to the Inquirer.net, will be “installed with several learning management tools, such as record books for students and teaching aids for fundamental subjects like mathematics, science and English.”

To top that, Microsoft will donate $7 for each laptop purchase. This, of course, also includes the Windows Operating System. However, it is not sure if it will include office productivity suite or other tools from Microsoft that cost an arm and a leg (and your soul!). Read the rest of this entry »

Apple released iPhone firmware 2.0.2 for both first gen iPhone and iPhone 3G to fix some outstanding bugs. However, the major fix comes for the iPhone 3G with a full modem update. This is supposed to fix the dropping calls and other issues with 3G connectivity.

iPhone Dev team also released pwnage 2.0.3.1 addressing the jailbreak fix for the new firmware. So if you prefer your iPhone jailbroken, then use this at your own risk.

For the meantime, my first-gen iPhone has been jailbroken to support Qik for full video streaming but my 3G is in its original firmware.