The X700 is Panasonic's first GSM Symbian smart phone. It is also one of the first Symbian devices that comes in a clamshell design. It looks very similar to Panasonic's earlier X70 model. Technews asked an ordinary user to test the unit as we would like to hear the personal experience of a typical user without delving into technical details. - Editor

When it comes to music Filipinos are digging it; be it radio cassette players of the 80s, to the stereo components of the 90s, and the MP3 players of the 21st Century. Listening to all types of music has always been and always will be a common pastime for the common Noypi.

When my sons were still toddlers, we made sure that we always had audiotapes of children's songs and plenty of toys in the car to entertain them on long trips. Not that they're of school age and are tired of hearing children's songs and prefer pop music, they either tell us stories (some true, some a product of their overly active imagination), play games on our cellphones (which I do not tolerate because it drains the phone's battery), or they sleep (which I prefer because they could get overly talkative that an otherwise pleasant conversation would end up in a fight).

The National Computer Center (www.ncc.gov.ph) posted in its website the State of Web Presence of National Government Agencies (NGAs) as of December 31, 2004. The NCC said that of the 375 total NGAs studied, 99.5% or 373 have websites while 0.5% or 2 have no websites.

In the future, cell phone users will be able to leave messages anywhere in the form of what might be termed electronic post-its. They will be able to post virtual messages referring to a specific location wherever they are needed.

(Reuters) - Federal regulators warn that the Internet is the thriving frontier for identity theft, but 72 percent of the thefts of personal information for scams last year was done offline, a new report says.

We've all heard the phrase, “Separation of Church and State”, that old precept that calls for the division of all matters pertaining to religion and government. It's been invoked time and again whenever one seems to be stepping on the foot of the other.

Do you have the ability to build and manage your own business someday? Or manage a company and become its CEO and make it successful? Some of you may answer yes provided that you have the capital and are given the proper opportunity. Becoming a leader is no joke. It requires a lot of skills, good personal traits and, most of all, a lot of experience.

Nokia announced the expansion of its family of network security platforms with the addition of Nokia IP260 and Nokia IP265. The two new security platforms are designed to address the low-cost needs of small enterprises and remote or branch offices and their future growth requirements. The Nokia IP260 and Nokia IP265 provide improved return on investment by offering the features of larger Nokia systems in a small, compact, half-width 1RU rack mounted platform. The new offerings combine competitive pricing, performance and management capabilities to deliver some of the most robust and reliable security platforms on the market today.

Do you guys remember the excitement of the Philippine preliminaries for Ragnarok World Championships 2004 at Folk Arts last year? Yep, despite the heat, 7 guilds battled it out for the chance to represent us in Korea for the first-ever RWC.