I'm here at Starbucks Theatermall in GSC [Greenhills Shopping Center] passing my time and enjoying free WiFi courtesy of EYP [E-Yellow Pages]. I'm glad that we're finally getting more and more WiFi hotspots in Manila. A few years back WiFi was barely existent in public places or if they were they were commercial deployments like Globe WIZ or AirborneAccess.net. So ATM I'm enjoying my ritual tall Coffee of the day, some smokes, and free net access. I guess we had to catch up sometime.
So which is it? Nokia (NOK) and Microsoft (MSFT) announced a partnership today. Both lumbering companies have been in some trouble with their smartphone divisions. Both have been loosing market share to Apple, Android and Blackberry in recent years. WindowsMobile (previously PocketPC and currently WindowsPhone) once the dominant mobile OS, yes folks before the iPhone came into power Microsoft slowly but surely killed of it’s main competitor palm OS, which was acquired by hp last year and is now barely a sliver of a shadow of it’s former former former self. Just this week hp/palm unveiled 2 new smartphones the palm Pre 3 and Veer, as well as their entry into the tablet space with the TouchPad. hp being one of the top computer manufacturers at the moment has the resources to use and spread webOS like a creamy peanut butter across all markets they are in. By being one of MSFT’s biggest customers now suddenly not using Windows7 (still MSFT’s tablet OS of choice) and churning out comp...
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