Vince tech updates

This is part 12 of the 15 people from the Wilson Lee Flores article in Philippine Star.

Helen Yuchengco Dee

CEO Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) and Malayan Insurance Group

This is also a good read about the Yuchengco family.

Related> RCBC Bank Robbery in Cabuyao Laguna (Photos)

GADGETS

She does not want to lug around too many gadgets. She is using a Nokia e90 because she finds the keyboard useful. Besides, e90 would be good for surfing the net and checking mails as well as making calls and taking photos. What more can you ask for in such a small device?

This is part 11 of the 15 people from the Wilson Lee Flores article in Philippine Star.

Jon Ramon Aboitiz

President and CEO of Aboitiz & Co. and Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc.. He descends from a Spanish-origin family in Cebu with roots tracing back to the Basque minority in northern Spain.

He now holds various positions in the Aboitiz Group, including chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Davao Light & Power Co., Inc., chairman of Veco and Aboitiz Jebsen Bulk Transport Corp., and director of Hapag-Lloyed Phils., Cotabato Ice Plant Inc. and Bukidnon Hydropower Corp.

Aboitiz is also involved in alleviating poverty through education initiatives as trustee of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc., the Aboitiz Group Foundation Inc. and the Association of Philippine Foundations. He is a member of the Board of Advisors, Washington Sycip Policy Forum at the Asian Institute of Management.

GADGETS

He disclosed specific models, which I appreciated because unlike some of the tycoons, they just would say a generic brand and that’s it. For example, some would say “iPod”. We know it’s from Apple but it has tons of models. Anyway, we should respect their opinions.

Mr. Aboitiz uses the ff:

BlackBerry 8800 specifications

Nokia E61 specifications

IBM Thinkpad x61 specifications

This is part 10 of the 15 people from the Wilson Lee Flores article in Philippine Star.

Manny Villar

a Filipino businessman and politician, currently the President of the Senate — the third highest ranking official of the Philippines. Also, a self-made billionaire of Vista Land.

GADGETS

He uses an iPhone for it’s touch screen and big memory. Although he has an iPod touch, he also uses his iPhone for his favorite songs. 2 birds in one gadget kind of thing. keep in touch and unwind.

Since his iPhone get flooded with calls, he also has an iPod touch and an apple laptop to store important files. He said that he always upgrades gadgets to make sure he has the most efficient one.

He also carries around a Sony Digital Camera.

This is part 9 of the 15 people from the Wilson Lee Flores article in Philippine Star.

Sharon Tan

The low-key daughter of Philippine Airlines Chairman Lucio Tan. Sharon owns RFID research institute and is also a part-owner of Royal Elastics Footwaear.

RFID Tag

GADGETS

She uses a Nokia Communicator and a Macbook. The Nokia Communicator wasn’t specified but I am pretty sure it won’t be the old 9110, 9210 or the 9210i. It would be pretty much one of the newer ones like the Nokia 9300, 9300i, 9500 or the e90.

Her Macbook is for her to store music, audio books, seminars and photographs and used to transfer it to her iPod.

Her past laptop was an IBM thinkpad. She said that she chose the white laptop (Macbook) because her old one was a black colored lappy which she used for 5 years. Not bad!

Also, she purchased a Nikon d40 DSLR just last year and used it to take snapshots on her travel to Dubai, Las Vegas and Africa.

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Zimbabwe began issuing $50,000,000 bank note back in April as inflation rates topped 164,900%.

Their central bank just introduced a higher-value bill. The $100,000,000,000 bill to curb the inflation rates that have sky-rocketed at 2,000,000%

Photo: A vendor arranges eggs on a new 100 billion Zimbabwean dollar note in Harare July 22, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

A 500 billion Yugoslav dinar banknote circa 1993, the largest nominal value ever officially printed in Yugoslavia, the final result of hyperinflation. Photo courtesy of National Bank of Serbia

It is getting pretty popular now! Blogging? no! Blogging was popular way back!

Celebrity personal blogs are sprouting!

In fact, I’ve searched for and guaranteed that these personal celebrities are blogging themselves and not just some trying hard copy cat!

Here are some of what I found:

Ramon Bautista

Precious Adona

Kjwan Band

So there you go, I would just update this alternately.

A day for Philippine Celebrity bloggers and another for well-known people’s gadgets blog.

Ang bagal nanaman. For the past few days, I’ve only been utilizing the GPRS speed of my Globe Visibility. Any other people experiencing the same problems? grrrr…. this takes precious time!

This is part 8 of the 15 people from the Wilson Lee Flores article in Philippine Star.

Fernando Zobel de Ayala

Chairman of Ayala Land and Ayala International Pte. Limited.

GADGETS

The two Ayala’s, Don Fernando and Don Jaime loves the Macbook Pro as both of them are using it.

Don Fernando uses a Palm Treo Centro as his mobile phone

This is part 7 of the 15 people from the Wilson Lee Flores article in Philippine Star.

Jaime Augusto de Ayala II

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II is the Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, the holding company of one of the largest and most respected business groups in the Philippines. Ayala Corporation has subsidiaries and affiliates in real estate development, telecommunications, banking and financial services, electronics manufacturing, water distribution, and automotive dealerships.

GADGETS

Also the chairman of Globe Telecoms, he uses:

A Nokie e90

An unspecified unit from Blackberry and…

A Macbook Pro

This is part 6 of the 15 people from the Wilson Lee Flores article in Philippine Star.

Dr. Washington Sycip

87 year old founder of SGV (SyCip Gorres Velayo) group and AIM (Asian Institute of Management). SGV is one of Asia’s biggest auditing firm.

GADGETS

He prefers to use two unspecified old Nokia mobile phones which he uses locally and the other one, abroad. He usually travels around over half the year on business.

iPod Nano

You wouldn’t even thought that he’d be enjoying his slack travel time using his iPod Nano. He just makes sure no time is put to waste maybe.