Palm® TX Handheld

Introducing the Palm® TX handheld. With built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® technology, this is the wireless device you've been waiting for. Browse the web and check email from your office, campus, or a home Wi-Fi network—and places like airports, cafes, and hotels1. Carry your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files2 and get more done anywhere. Web pages, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, and videos come to life on a large colour screen that rotates from landscape to portrait mode. Have time to unwind? The Palm TX handheld even lets you listen to MP3s3 and read eBooks. It's anything but business as usual.

Stay connected with Wi-Fi technology.1
Use the built-in Blazer® web browser to get driving directions, check stock quotes, or read the latest news1. With Wi-Fi technology, you're on top of it all when you're away from your desk. At work, tap into your corporate network and download an email attachment while waiting for a meeting. At home, keep up with work after hours by checking email over your own Wi-Fi network2. At a café, access your company's web-based sales application over a nice, hot latte1.

Large screen. Rich colours. Big news.
With a large, 320x480 colour screen, the Palm® TX handheld is big news. View web pages in all their glory in landscape mode. Then flip to portrait for your schedule and Word documents. The stunning display shines with support for more than 65,000 colours, bringing everything from video clips to vacation photos to life.

Email on the go.3
With the VersaMail® email client, you can check your corporate or campus email3—and thanks to easy preconfigured settings—personal accounts like Yahoo!, too. Download, read, and edit a Word or Excel report on the fly. Or send a photo of your son's first soccer goal. And since the Palm TX handheld works with Outlook, you can synchronise email on your device with the email on your computer4. That goes for your contacts, calendar, tasks, and memos, too. Or, synchronise your corporate Microsoft Exchange email and calendar with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®. Either way it's a breeze.

Take your work with you.
The Palm TX handheld comes with Documents To Go®, which lets you view, edit, and create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatible files and be more productive wherever you are5. Download a Word document at the airport. Rehearse your big presentation in a coffee shop. Or open an Excel spreadsheet at your hotel.

128MB6 of non-volatile, flash memory.
There's more than enough room to hold your calendar, contacts, applications, and even your spreadsheets and presentations. Not to mention fun stuff like photos, tunes, and video clips. And because it's flash memory, the information on your handheld is protected—even if you forget to recharge and the power runs down.

Carry music7, photos & videos in your pocket8.
Thanks to the included Pocket Tunes™ media player, you can listen to MP3s and podcasts9 right on your Palm TX handheld. Create and edit playlists, shuffle songs, navigate by album artist or genre, and even listen to songs while using another application. The Palm TX handheld is great for digital photos10 and video clips, too. Create photo slide shows complete with cool transitions. Or watch a clip of a movie trailer. You can even pop in an SD card from a digital camera to show off your photos on the stunning colour display.

Unplug with Bluetooth® wireless technology.
These days it seems like Bluetooth technology is everywhere. Connect with a compatible mobile phone for web, email, and text messages11. Synchronise with your computer without wires getting in the way12. Even dial your compatible mobile phone13 right from Contacts on your Palm TX handheld.

Expand your possibilities.
Great accessories like a portable, folding keyboard make working on your business documents even easier. Need driving directions? Whatever you're into, you'll find a software application you can use among the thousands made for the Palm OS®14. The built-in expansion card slot accepts MultiMediaCard, SD and SDIO formats, so you can do things like read eBooks, play games, or plug in a language translator. It grows as your needs do, too. Add a 2GB expansion card and take even more songs, videos, and documents wherever you go.

Sleek design in new steel blue.
The design is classic. The colour is brand new. The Palm TX handheld is so lightweight and compact, it's easy to carry and always be prepared. And it fits easily into a pocket or purse, complete with its new, protective micro-fiber flip cover. Of course, in that cool new colour, you'll probably want to show it off instead.

For more info, click here: http://www.palm.com/ph/

Central Visayas Among RP's Major IT Markets

Central Visayas is among the regions identified as major markets for information technology products and services. Carolyn Andaya, IBM Philippines country manager for cross industry sector, said the company recently commissioned a marketing study. The study showed that six areas outside Metro manila accounts for 53 percent of IT spending.

Four of the six areas, including Central Visayas, are found in Southern Philippines. The three other areas are Western Visayas, Davao and Northern Mindanao, Andaya said. For this reason, she said, IBM Philippines is focusing on expanding its market reach to the areas concerned.

"Cebu is hub for the Visayas-Mindanao area. Part of our commitment is increased focus on these areas," Andaya pointed out. Abraham Thomas, vice president for global small medium business for IBM ASEAN/South ASia, noted that Cebu's economy is growing, as evidenced by a lot of construction activities here. Thomas said that IBM would like to take part in the economic growth by offering hardware and business solutions that would help businesses here become more efficient and productive.

He said that small and medium businesses (SMB), which numbers 500,000 worldwide, provide the IT industry an estimated US$380 billion market opportunity. For IBM, Thomas said, SMB is the largest single market opportunity, accounting for more than 20 percent of the company's total revenue in 2003 and 2004. In the Philippines, small and medium businesses account for US$551 million of market potential or 74 percent of total market opportunity, he added.

A report by IDC showed that 80 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) come from small and medium businesses, which in turn provide 70 percent of total jobs generated, Andaya said. IBM is also focusing on the growth areas such as banking, wholesale and retail sectors, and electronics sector, she said. Another area of growth is in IT sector, particularly the business process outsourcing (BPO) and the call centers, Andaya said.

According to Thomas, IBM's marketing focus is on two fronts, industry and geographical view. While the customer has choices of various products, he said, IBM offers value-for-money through its end-to-end products and the after sales service available to customers through the 100 service centers nationwide.

Cebu has a parts center that would allow quick replacement for damaged parts, Andaya said. Aside from this, she said, Cebu has several service engineers that would take care of the client's after-sales service requirements.

Cebu Daily News 25-February-2006

Epson Stylus C43SX

Epson brings you great performance and value for your home printing needs again! Featuring print speed up to a remarkable 12.0 ppm for black text, and resolution of 2880dpi, the Epson Stylus C43SX/UX is the indisputable choice for superior print quality and performance at an affordable cost. Ideal for the home user, it is super value quality and speed!

Superior Photo Finish and Crisp Black Text
Unique built-in photo-colour printing capabilities
Print resolution of up to 2880 optimised dpi
New red eye reduction Photo-editing function in Epson
PhotoQuicker 3.4
Supports EXIF Print

Amazing Print Speed
Up to 12.0 ppm for black text printing
Up to 5.4 ppm for colour text printing
Faster ink firing frequency and bi-directional printing

Intelligent Printer Driver
Interactive labels make printing intuitive
It makes printing efficient, simple and hassle-free
Provide easy and fun printing

Ergonomic and User-Friendly
Intellidge ink cartridges ensure accurate ink level display and help you save on printing costs
Parallel port interface for Epson Stylus C43SX
USB port interface for Epson Stylus C43UX

Super Value for Your Home Printing
Affordable solution for home printing needs
Simple to understand and easy to use

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Why It's Difficult To Learn English

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally
insane.

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another? Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

Welcome

Hello Philippines, hello world... Welcome to the Informatics Computer Institute SM City Cebu Branch...

This blog aims to promote Informatics to the world... See the events, know the people, tour the place through me, Cornelius as I take you with me in my journey through the computer world... I will feature events as they unfold like the sportsfest, the acquaintance party, christmas party among other things. Get to know the staff, students, faculty members and administrators of Informatics. Explore the place, access the hardware and be familiar with the software of the school.

Enjoy, learn and travel with me through the kaleidoscope of colors not just from the four corners of the classroom but through space and time as we go trekking throughout my stay in Informatics...

This is a tribute to Informatics, who has taught me a lot about life in general.