The Philippine Online Chronicles

Social networking site MySpace is losing executives and losing them fast. As TechCrunch points out though, that’s not really the biggest issue. The company has been hiring people to fill positions vacated by the recent resignations in the company’s mid-level management structure. The problem is the quality of the people leaving.  MySpace is continuously losing their best people, the ones who were there when MySpace was still king of the social networking hill. The site has been on some sort of a downward slide, with unique visitor and page view numbers going down while Facebook’s are shooting up. It is still unclear what the company intends to do to fight back against the Facebook and Twitter onslaught. Should it be cut off from News Corp.? Probably.

To the skies now, and it seems as if United Airlines thinks video-chatting in-flight is a no-no. A tech journalist was chatting with his wife during a United flight when a flight attendant informed him that he should disconnect the video stream for security reasons. He was told that the camera could be used to send information to terrorists, which could put the plane and the passengers in danger of an attack. Apparently, devices that could communicate with the ground are illegal. If that’s the case, then in-flight wi-fi should be illegal, right? Very smart, United Airlines. Very smart.

Back on the ground, some analysts predict that the end of the e-book reader is near, thanks to the advent of tablets like the iPad, the Joojoo, the Streak, and many more. The folks over at Wired think otherwise though. They believe there will still be a market for cheaper, e-ink readers even with full-color alternatives well on their way to the market. They also believe that the market for e-book readers is totally different from that for the tablets. It will be interesting to see how e-book readers like the Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook perform in terms of sales after most of the new tablets are announced.

On to some tips now: Switched has a great article about how to speed up your computer. They explain what RAM is, how it works, and why more of it makes your computer run faster than ever. Of course, if you’re reading this, you probably know all of that already. Still, if you want a refresher or if you really are totally clueless, the guide is a very good read.

Finally, we’ve said before that batteries hinder most if not all of the great handheld devices that we have today. Most smartphones for instance barely last a whole day with moderate use. As for the upcoming crop of tablets, it is even worse. Until battery technology catches up, we all have to find ways to extend the battery lives of our devices, because, let’s face it, we can’t always be near a power source. In that regard, Yahoo has collected some great battery-saving tips that could help extract the last ounce of power out of our devices’ batteries.

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