Gates to Leave Microsoft

Bill Gates announces plans to leave Microsoft in two years...



...leaving this guy in charge.

XBox Live Anywhere Mobile Screenshots

At E3 2006, Microsoft announced a crossplatform competitor to successful intergame chat and documentation service Xfire: Xbox Live Anywhere.



Check out screenshots of the mobile version from BREW 2006.

JC Quits Mobius

At least Microsoft has 3,000 well-trained employee bloggers to sub for Scoble.

Philippine game publisher Mobius has no one to sub for local gaming guru blogger John Cuneta.

Filipinos Test Friendster Ads

Five million of Friendster's 21 million users are Filipino (in fact, Filipinos made up half their user base last year), so I'm not surprised Friendster Ads are initially available only to Filipinos.

Viva Hot Babes: Sheree and Alyssa

Philippine entertainment company Viva maintains a group of beautiful women appropriately called the Viva Hot Babes.

Here's Sheree Bautista, an original Viva Hot Babe who can sing...



...and here's Alyssa Alano, a new Viva Hot Babe who can't.



This is why I prefer the originals.

PC Mag Blogging Intro

This month's PC Magazine Philippines features a great introduction to blogging.



Disclosure: I wrote it.

Waka Laka for Anakin!

In the tradition of Waka Laka for Osaka, and in anticipation of New Worlds 4, I give you...



Waka Laka for Anakin!

Maria Ozawa's Water Bottle

Just because it's hot in the Philippines right now...



I want to be Maria Ozawa's water bottle. She's already lapping up my Google juice.

New WGA is Spyware

Too bad Scoble just quit. Now Microsoft has no one credible and relatable to address the WGA spyware scandal.

So these are the guys who'll "keep Google honest"?

(Via Eric Tiongson.)

US WWII Vet Fulfills Lifelong Dream to Be a Filipino

While too many Filipinos want to be Americans, American WWII veteran Charles William Mosser just got his lifelong dream: to be a Filipino.



He isn't here to rape and pillage, either: he distributes books to schoolkids, and has planted four million trees (with eleven million more on the way).

It’s not that I don’t like being American, I just like being Filipino better. Having American blood myself, I know what he means. Happy Republic Day, everyone.

Scoble's Gates and Ballmer Interview Clips

In honor of Robert Scoble's leaving Microsoft, I give you clips of his interviews with Steve Ballmer...



...and Bill Gates.



Ballmer on blogging: If people need to be trained or understand better, we can always do that. Exactly.

Scoble Leaving Microsoft

If I told you the world's greatest tech blogger quit working for the world's richest tech mogul, to work on a small startup built on emerging tech, you'd think I was crazy, right?



Wrong. Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft for PodTech.

Too bad Microsoft Philippines never got to know him.