One of the things that people usually find out about themselves in college is that accomplishing what you set out to accomplish is not easy. In fact it can be terrifyingly frustrating. So when David Allen created his methodology called ‘Getting Things Done’, it became an instant hit. After publishing a book in 2002, the man has been doing seminars, giving talks, and generally living the good life. His methods have been especially popular with IT professionals, which has inevitably led to software implementations of the GTD methodology.

International market research firm IDC reveals that, in the second quarter of this year, the most voracious consumer of Personal Computers, or PCs, was China, ahead of the next largest consumer, the US. This is indeed a pathbreaking technology milestone for China. IDCs results also project that by 2012, China will soon overtake the US in PC imports, as it is estimated to import 85.2 million PCs in comparison to 76.6 million by American consumers.

The Philippines is all set to get a new Government Broadband Network (GBN) provided if all goes well with a project proposal to be headed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Mario Montejo.

The Worldwide home automation technology market is witnessing remarkable growth thanks to the demand for home automation and security systems that improve the efficiency of all kinds of homes. Home automation technologies not only simplify living, but also increase energy efficiency and secure lives. One of the widely used home automation and control systems is lighting, which results in significant energy savings.

Korea has been a major hub for sophisticated electronic gadget manufacturing for several decades now. More recently, led by such giant makers such as LG and Samsung, this nation has played a significant role of responsibility in the micro-revolutions happening in the Smartphone/mobile markets, and these same makers are now all set to create another seismic wave with their own tablet versions.

After the internet, mobile technology likely has the fastest technology adoption rate. A recent research study by leading analysts Gfk Asia supported this fact. The market research giant’s report showed a surprising growth in the mobile industry in Vietnam, despite the rising inflation there. Though there was a drastic cut in spending, even on food, the mobile industry surprisingly showed a continued to growth of 27 percent in unit sales and 21 percent value gain in both feature phones as well as smartphones.

Wireless communications has revolutionized the way the world conducts business, does commerce, or interacts with other people, even when they are on the move and without the wires and cables that have characterized the communications systems of old. Some of the problems with wireless communications, however, are the unwanted fluctuations, disruptions, interference, and other unstable transmitted signals that can be categorized as noise.

In some shocking news last month, Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism scrapped regulations that essentially prevented mobile games from being sold in the country. While iPhones and Android phones are both very popular in Korea, the games sections of the App Store and the Android Market were eerily empty. This was doubly strange since Korea was, and still is, the land where computer gaming has been taken to a whole new level.

A few months ago the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) investigated both Apple Inc. and Google to confirm rumors that the iPhone and Android operating systems were keeping a record of their users’ geographic locations in unsecured text files. Now, on August 3rd, the KCC has come to a conclusion with its investigations and slapped Apple with a 3 million fine.