BREAKING: It's official - Globe Telecom is the official carrier of iPhone in the Philippines

Globe Telecom will be the first official carrier of the Apple iPhone in the Philippines, according to various sources around the Internet. Globe Telecom will offer the Apple iPhone in the Philippines along with a few other Asian carriers for the very first time as soon as September, according to sources.

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. is actually the one who got exclusive rights to market Apple's iPhone here in Asia, but because Globe Telecom is one of its mobile associates, the Philippines can get in on the cake.

And also according to a one-sentence statement released by Globe Telecom Today,

"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."

They say more information will be released at a later date. But that's all fine, and what's important is that the Philippines will now get official Apple iPhone support! Rejoice!

Read [Reuters] and [Inquirer]

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Chuck Norris is the iPhone killer, has a Twitter account

We all know that Google is the ultimate "answer machine" available to everyone (for free, nonetheless) right now, but what happens when Google itself has a question? Simple - they "norris" it. And that's according to famous action movie star and six-time undefeated World Professional MiddleWeight Karate Champion, Chuck Norris. Also according to him:

• He has a 5G iPhone
• He knows the last digit of Pi
• He gets his toast out of the toaster with a fork
• He lost his virginity before his dad did
• He is the iPhone killer
  

Find out more shocking truths about him through his Twitter account. Yes, you can follow Chuck Norris on Twitter. Go on!

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Nokia's first official iPhone killer to be called iPerformer?

Talk about bad product names. I know Nokia's probably not the most creative company when it comes to naming new products (the reason why their handsets have stale, numeric codenames - e.g. N95, N800, 6220 Classic) but to name what will probably your best mobile phone ever the "iPerformer" is just mad nuts! Mad nuts, I tell you! Don't tell me you can't do at least half as good as iDog, Nokia?

Read [Engadget]

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What can you do in 30 minutes?

I'm giving myself less than 30 minutes to decide what I'll do next for today.

I can do another quick tech news update on Gadgetell, although my knack for perfecting the dimensions in embedded photos keep me from writing my posts in under 20 minutes.

And I don't want to do a half-assed post on a blog where I'm paid to contribute the latest tech news. So far, I haven't been able to break any mobile phone news either, and my report about the Nokia E71 coming out today yesterday hasn't seem to have come true yet as well. So what's a boy to do?

I think I'll just casually re-read my feeds again until my time is up. It's less straining, and hopefully will lead me to more breaking tech news for me to write later. Staska is going to kill me if I don't produce any more earth-shaking news about cellphones. So for this 30 minutes, all that I'm going to do, is wait. Wait until it's over.

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What Yahoo! can do to ease the pain of losing $44 billion USD

Yahoo! is clearly lacking insight with regards to online advertising and correctly monetizing its web sites. Or at least its arch-rival Google is far better off than they are.

Thinking of what's next after losing the Microsoft-Yahoo deal merger (thank God), they could find other ways to maximize their profits - e. g. optimize online advertising in their assets (Flickr, for example).

A quick run-down of usage statistics puts Flickr along the lines of being worth $4 billion USD. And that's easily 10% of what Microsoft could have offered them as a one time payment. Trying to drive a profit from their most popular web sites is really a no-brainer. So what's keeping Yahoo!?

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