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By: Paolo G. Montecillo Philippine Daily Inquirer 10:59 pm | Tuesday, December 20th, 2011    MANILA, Philippines—Dominant mobile network Smart Communications is taking a second look at wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology, often seen only in malls or coffee shops, as a way to connect more households across the country to the Internet. Smart, a wholly owned subsidiary of

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By: Matikas Santos INQUIRER.net 5:37 pm | Thursday, December 29th, 2011 The new Ultrabook computers will be the new mainstream laptop computer. MANILA, Philippines – As 2011 ends, an international computer microchip manufacturer is driving forward into 2012 in preparation for an era of being “always connected.” In Intel Microelectronics Philippines Inc.’s recent

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Sunday, 18 December 2011 17:21 Daniel Gulati WHEN Facebook was founded in 2004, it began with a seemingly innocuous mission: to connect friends. Some 800 million users later, the social network has taken over most aspects of our lives, and is fast becoming the dominant communication platform of the future. But this new world of ubiquitous connectivity has a dark side:

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By: Paolo G. Montecillo Philippine Daily Inquirer   4:50 pm | Saturday, December 24th, 2011 Mike Walsh, 34, author of ‘Futuretainment,’ used to date model Georgina Wilson. For the average Filipino, the most interesting thing about Mike Walsh could be that he used to date model Georgina Wilson. But for Walsh, that relationship is a thing of the past. As a self-proclaimed

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By Helen M. Flores (The Philippine Star) Updated December 10, 2011 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines - The National Computer Center (NCC) has launched the country’s first Digital Certification Center which is aimed at promoting and protecting electronic transactions. Denis Villorente, NCC officer-in-charge, said the center is an integral component of the

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Agence France-Presse 7:03 am | Friday, December 9th, 2011   SAN FRANCISCO—Twitter on Thursday began rolling out overhauled pages crafted to boost the appeal of the message-sharing service to worldwide users. “At the very core there are fewer places you have to click and less you have to learn,” Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said as he and other

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Associated Press 7:23 pm | Thursday, December 8th, 2011    VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has illuminated a huge Christmas tree lighting display in Umbria by tapping on a tablet computer from the comfort of the Vatican. Benedict brought the “tree” to life Wednesday with a Sony Tablet S, thanks to a wireless connection with the local electric grid. In reality the “tree,” billed

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By: Matikas Santos INQUIRER.net 9:43 pm | Thursday, December 1st, 2011     May Rivera Moreno, Windows business group lead shares the values of using genuine software. MANILA, Philippines—Microsoft, together with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), called on the public and the business sector to use only genuine software in their computers in

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By: Gibbs Cadiz Philippine Daily Inquirer 1:28 am | Sunday, November 27th, 2011 “Who wants a stylus?” Steve Jobs asked an adoring throng in 2007 while unveiling the iPhone. “You have to get them and put them away and you lose them— yuck! Nobody wants a stylus.” And with that, the accessory that had defined a generation of early smartphones from Palms to Nokias and Motorolas

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Agence France-Presse 2:30 am | Wednesday, November 23rd, 201   FREE S.M.S. SERVICE Indian entrepreneur and Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia speaks during a press conference to announce the launch of his latest venture Jaxtrsms in Mumbai on November 22, 2011. Bhatia's Jaxtrsms is a cross platform open texting application, letting users send unlimited

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Saturday, 12 November 2011 17:33 Manolito Tayag, Todd Wagner and Joe Hughes / Accenture     WE should all now be somewhere between “aware” and “immersed” in the sharing and consumption of vast amounts of information about friends, acquaintances or indeed complete strangers that is social media. According to ComScore, Social networking on the

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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:52 Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times IT seems you can surf the Internet and check your e-mail from virtually anywhere these days—in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, airport terminals and airplane cabins.    More places are making it easier to turn on your laptop or tablet computer and connect to the Internet through free public Wi-Fi hot

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By SAMUEL MEDENILLA November 15, 2011, 12:36pm   MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is considering implementing a paperless transaction to intensify its campaign to increase its membership. PhilHealth President and CEO Eduardo Banzon said during the 12th National Forum on Health Research for Action Monday at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Manila,

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By: Abigail L. Ho Philippine Daily Inquirer 3:11 am | Sunday, November 13th, 2011    The large number of Filipinos overseas has made the Philippines one of the most tech-savvy countries in Asia, with a significant part of the population using different technology tools to keep in touch with family members abroad. According to a survey conducted by software giant Microsoft,

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Agence France-Presse 12:50 pm | Sunday, November 13th, 2011 HONOLULU – Broader adoption of the Internet will keep governments on their toes as wired-up citizens exercise their new found power to check rights abuses, Google chief Eric Schmidt said on Saturday. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, speaks to delegates of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit Saturday

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By: Paolo G. Montecillo Philippine Daily Inquirer 2:15 pm | Friday, November 11th, 2011    MANILA, Philippines–The King is dead. Long live the King. Or so it would seem in the vibrant telecommunications market in Southeast Asia—now ruled by the Google Android smart phone operating system (OS). Results of the latest study by international market research firm GfK showed that

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11/06/2011 | 08:40 AM In a bid to enhance sharing on its upcoming social network, Google has integrated its video-sharing site YouTube and its Chrome browser more deeply into Google+. Vic Gundotra, Google's senior vice president for engineering, said YouTube and Chrome are now more accessible from the Google+ network. "It's no secret that YouTube is filled with tons of great content (from

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November 4, 2011, 1:18am MANILA, Philippines — To quickly deploy high speed mobile broadband services nationwide, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has to date fired up over 1,200 High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+) base stations in 120 cities and municipalities throughout the Philippines. HSPA+ is a next-generation network technology that can deliver aggregate speeds of up to

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By: Charlie A. Agatep Contributor Philippine Daily Inquirer 10:03 pm | Saturday, November 5th, 2011 STEVE Jobs (left) and John Sculley during their honeymoon days. Twenty years ago, in the spring of 1985, I went to Serramonte Plaza in Daly City to shop for the new Macintosh Plus. As advertised in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Macintosh Plus cost $2,600 and was a big

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11/05/2011 | 05:07 PM A senator called Saturday for the swift passage of a bill creating a Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to meet global broadband targets set by the United Nations.   Sen. Edgardo Angara said the UN Broadband Commission on Digital Development had set four new “ambitious but achievable” targets for both developed and developing

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11/04/2011 | 08:28 PM The Supreme Court has recently held that the search by the government of an employee’s office computer in connection with an investigation into work-related misconduct does not violate the employee’s constitutional right to privacy. In a 33-page decision penned by Justice Martin S. Villarama Jr., the Court denied the petition for review on certiorari of Briccio “

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Agence France-Presse 7:21 am | Friday, November 4th, 2011    AP file photo SAN FRANCISCO—Google announced Thursday a major adjustment to its search engine to bake more freshness into results. “Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing fruit on a hot summer’s day, are best when they’re fresh,” Google fellow Amit Singhal said in a blog post.

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Posted on October 31, 2011 10:25:53 PM WITH TODAY’S fast-paced lifestyle, the need to keep up with the latest puts quite a lot of pressure on today’s youth. This desire to be at the forefront of what is trendy and what is hip -- from wearing the hottest fashions to owning the newest gadgets -- has become a top priority for a lot of teenagers. Where technology

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Posted on October 31, 2011 10:36:34 PM HONG KONG -- For the seven million citizens of Hong Kong, living comfortably in one of the world’s most densely populated cities is difficult enough, but dying presents its own set of challenges.   A German company has come up with touch screens for memorial databases for people whose ashes were scattered at sea. Around 43,700 people

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Tuesday, 01 November 2011 16:14 Mike Swift / San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, California—Google Inc. has been described as functional, powerful, scary, speedy and fun. But beautiful? Hardly ever. New CEO Larry Page is trying to change all that, cribbing a note from one of his business role models and competitors, the late Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. Almost immediately

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Agence France-Presse 10:18 am | Tuesday, November 1st, 2011   WASHINGTON – A Wikipedia-style website launched on Monday which provides information about the journalists behind the bylines. News Transparency is a creation of Ira Stoll, the founder of another website called FutureOfCapitalism.com and the former managing editor of the now defunct New York Sun. In a statement on its

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The Consumer By: Linda B. Bolido Philippine Daily Inquirer 1:33 am | Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 If you are a postpaid mobile phone client and you get a message saying you are going to get a discount in your monthly bill, don’t start thanking God yet for your good fortune. Check with your network to make sure the message is legitimate. I got this message recently on my mobile

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Agence France-Presse 5:08 am | Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011   SAN FRANCISCO—Google on Tuesday unveiled a new look for its free email service, inviting users to switch if they like what they see. “We’re excited to finally share Gmail’s new look with you,” Google user experience designer Jason Cornwell said in a blog post. “We’ll be bringing these changes to everyone soon,” he

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by Rose Eclarinal, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau Posted at 11/01/2011 11:25 AM | Updated as of 11/01/2011 11:25 AM   LONDON - After long, arduous eight years of self-funded research and project, Elma Arboleras received a reward she did not expect. Her invention dubbed as the iBUS won a gold medal for the consumer category at the British Invention Show. The BIS is on its 11th year of bringing

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Monday, 31 October 2011 19:40 Sara Susanne D. Fabunan / Correspondent    TO enable Filipinos who in one way or another cannot visit their dear departed on November 1, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has launched a web site—www.undasonline.com—through which they request a Mass for their loved-ones.   The web

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Saturday, 21 August 2010 18:13 Rizal Raoul Reyes / Correspondent  Google Chrome, Google’s web browser, is gaining popularity among Internet users in the Philippines, according to a recent statement by Google Philippines. In media statement, the company said Chrome has overtaken other browsers to be the second most used browser in the country with 21.88-percent share of the

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Sunday, 30 October 2011 15:50 James Barton & Brian Message THE sale of recorded music has taken a huge battering over the last decade. As a result, it no longer makes sense to judge an artist’s commercial viability based on record sales alone—especially when there’s a whole new generation of fans questioning the need to pay for recorded music in the first place.   And

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By: Tessa R. Salazar Philippine Daily Inquirer 11:01 pm | Tuesday, October 25th, 2011  CAR TRADE SHOW. A Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada on Nov. 4, 2010 showed attendees visiting the General Motors booth to look inside a 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06X track concept car. This year, the Philippines is a participant in the

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By: Daxim L. Lucas Philippine Daily Inquirer   12:19 am | Monday, October 31st, 2011 Mobile phone users can expect lower and more affordable rates for their short messaging service (SMS) with the approval by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of a reduction in the interconnection charge for text messaging. Through Memorandum Circular No. 02-10-2011 issued on Oct.

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Posted on October 27, 2011 10:55:47 PM THE HOUSE of Representatives has approved on second reading a bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in a bid to develop the ICT sector amid the growth of the business process outsourcing industry. Under House Bill (HB) 4667, the new agency will take over the

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Posted on October 27, 2011 10:55:24 PM CUSTOMERS of distribution utility Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) favor prepaid electricity as it is easier to manage the household budget, the company said in a statement yesterday. “Prepaid and buying ‘tingi’ or sachet is ingrained in the Filipino lifestyle. Many wage earners receive daily or weekly pay, so they

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By: Matikas Santos INQUIRER.net 6:23 pm | Friday, October 28th, 2011 Seagate's newest storage device, the GoFlex Satellite, features WiFi connectivity for up to three users to stream multimedia content. MANILA, Philippines — Why stop at a thousand songs in your pocket when you can put the entire multimedia library of your computer in your pocket? Seagate, worldwide

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By Mary Ann LL. Reyes (The Philippine Star) Updated October 27, 2011 12:00 AM Manuel V. Pangilinan and Lance Gokongwei MANILA, Philippines - One of the country’s most celebrated and contested business deals finally survived its biggest hurdle after the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) gave

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1:18 am | Tuesday, October 25th, 2011  Steve Jobs WASHINGTON—Apple Inc. cofounder Steve Jobs revolutionized multiple industries with his cutting-edge products but he was not the world’s best manager, according to biographer Walter Isaacson. Jobs changed the course of personal computing during two stints at Apple and then brought a revolution to the mobile market, but the inspiring

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By: Paolo G. Montecillo Philippine Daily Inquirer 9:29 pm | Sunday, October 23rd, 2011    Consumers around the world can expect more powerful smartphones and other mobile devices that use up less power to reach the shelves in the years ahead, said Qualcomm, an American telecommunications research and development firm. As a result, mobile Internet use will grow by leaps and

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By: Raquel P. Gomez Philippine Daily Inquirer 9:30 pm | Sunday, October 23rd, 2011    Pentax has entered the mirrorless interchangeable lens market with its Pentax Q camera, which the Japanese camera maker claims to be the “world’s smallest and lightest interchangeable lens camera system.” Boasting of 12.4 megapixels and full HD movie recording, the Pentax Q camera is smaller

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By: Eugene Araneta Philippine Daily Inquirer 9:31 pm | Sunday, October 23rd, 2011  Huawei MediaPad Creating simple technological devices that will enrich consumers’ lives is the focus of Huawei Device Co. The company recently gave members of the press a sneak preview of the MediaPad, which it touted to be the world’s smartest, slimmest and lightest tablet. The Huawei MediaPad is a

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6:20 pm | Saturday, October 22nd, 2011   0 share1  1 SEATTLE, Wa.— Bayani Store, Inc. (“BayaniStore.com”) announces the launch of its new online store BayaniStore.com which shows all overseas Filipinos (more than 11 million worldwide) that technology has finally streamlined the traditional balikbayan box business.

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Pinoy Kasi By: Michael L. Tan Philippine Daily Inquirer 9:53 pm | Thursday, October 20th, 2011  I WOKE up extra early, 4 a.m. instead of 5 a.m. to do this column, and to do some last-minute packing for a trip. The list of stuff to bring included my Kindle, Amazon’s e-book reading device. I’ve been using the Kindle for two years now and appreciate it much more when I have

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10/20/2011 | 08:15 A Shortly after unveiling the latest flavor of its Android OS for mobile devices, search giant Google is introducing new mobile search and ad formats. Mobile ads senior product manager Surojit Chatterjee said the new formats help connect people and businesses in "new, useful and relevant ways." "We’re bringing the worlds of search and apps together with mobile

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10/19/2011 | 05:01 PM Search giant Google upgraded this week the presentation tool in its Google Docs productivity suite, beefing it up with faster collaboration and more than 50 new features. In a blog post, software engineer Steven Saviano said the latest updates round up the suite of overhauled tools in Google Docs. Updated earlier were document, spreadsheet and drawing editors. “

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10/15/2011 | 01:41 PM Cloud-based services in health care continued to gain momentum in Taiwan, after a hospital teamed up with a telecom giant there to offer a cloud-based service allowing patients to access medical records and get treatment advice via their mobile devices. Show Chwan Health Care System and telecom giant Chunghwa Telecom aim to help the hospital reduce costs while

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Dante M. Velasco Ph.D. Contributor Philippine Daily Inquirer   7:21 pm | Saturday, October 15th, 2011   I was writing a speech for a top public official, and it occurred to me that I would illustrate his subject with the value of inventors and inventions to society – and so I looked for a few examples. My first example was Thomas Edison,

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Inday Espina-Varona, ABS-CBN News Posted at 10/14/2011 6:32 PM | Updated as of 10/14/2011 6:32 PM   New media and the democratization of the Internet gives “marginalized” people a new battleground and potential parity with state-controlled or influenced media in the realm of hearts and minds. Digital media, however, is also under siege by interest groups and

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Agence France-Presse 9:07 pm | Friday, October 14th, 2011   AP VIENNA–Internet search engine Google insisted Friday it was not stealing business from the print media even if it has become an increasingly important source of news on the Web.   “We are not making money on the back of newspapers,” Stefan Tweraser, head of Google Germany, told a media industry conference in

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By: Julie M. Aurelio Philippine Daily Inquirer 2:57 am | Friday, October 14th, 2011 The proud father laid his eyes on his newborn twins for the first time. It was a scene of pure joy, except that he’s at the Quezon City Jail (QCJ), where paralegal officers kept watch behind his back, and the babies appeared on the computer screen, their images streamed live via

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Agence France-Presse 7:24 am | Friday, October 14th, 2011  SAN FRANCISCO—Google co-founder and chief executive Larry Page on Thursday said that its online social networking challenge to Facebook is growing fast and has topped 40 million users. “People are flocking to Google+ at an incredible rate and we are just getting started,” Page said during an earnings conference call.

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By GENALYN D. KABILING October 13, 2011, 5:53pm   MANILA, Philippines — Do you have a question for President Aquino? You have a rare chance to ask the country’s leader via YouTube next month. President Aquino will be live on YouTube on November 4 to answer the questions submitted by the people on the video-sharing website, Malacañang announced Thursday. The President was unable to

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By CZARINA NICOLE O. ONG October 13, 2011, 7:23pm   MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) — Quezon City Jail launched Thursday the "Electronic Dalaw" (e-Dalaw) program to help inmates contact their friends or relatives without leaving the jail. The Quezon City Jail has provided five computers, with software application Skype, enabling inmates to make

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Saturday, 08 October 2011 17:40 Los Angeles Times BEIJING—Xiong Mingjian is often crushed into a corner during his tedious subway commutes, but passing the time has been easy since he bought a nifty new cell phone. The 27-year-old store clerk surfs the Internet and taps away at games on his Motorola Defy, one of an increasing number of popular high-end mobile phones

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Roberta Cowan, Reuters 10/10/2011 | 12:21 PM AMSTERDAM - Members of the Dutch Senate, or upper house of parliament, won't strain their backs or weigh down their bike panniers by carrying stacks of printed documents from work anymore, since they are all now expected to work on their Apple iPads. When members of the Senate returned from the summer recess two weeks ago, they were told they

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Eugene Araneta Philippine Daily Inquirer 7:02 pm | Sunday, October 9th, 2011  Canon, the world leader in digital imaging, recently came out with new PIXMA photo printers: E500, MG8270, MG5370 and MP287. These printers come with pleasant aesthetic designs, user-friendly and creative features, and Canon’s trademark image quality. The PIXMA E500 is the most cost-efficient printer, according

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Raquel P. Gomez Philippine Daily Inquirer 7:03 pm | Sunday, October 9th, 2011 Mirrorless compact cameras with interchangeable lenses are gaining ground among enthusiasts, prompting Japanese camera maker Olympus to produce more of the kind. Olympus recently came out with an improved line of PEN cameras, or small cameras with interchangeable lens based on Micro Four Thirds System. The

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Thursday, 06 October 2011 21:21 The BusinessMirror Editorial TO say that social media are all about community building is rather simplistic. Sure, it’s true, at the most basic level, Facebook, Twitter or any other of the so many interactive, Web-based communications we have right now congregate people online in ways that were not possible before. In the not-so-distant

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Associated Press 1:14 am | Thursday, October 6th, 2011    NEW YORK— As her grandfather sat pleasantly perplexed at her wedding, Lauren Barnes reached into the recesses of her strapless white gown, whipped out her iPhone and accepted her groom’s Facebook relationship change to “married.” “Nothing’s official,” she said, “until it’s Facebook official!” In today’s $78-

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Steve Jobs, who built the world’s most valuable technology company by creating devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionized the computer, music and mobile-phone industries, died. He was 56. Jobs, who resigned as Apple Inc. (AAPL) chief executive officer on Aug. 24, 2011, passed away today, the Cupertino, California-based company said. He was diagnosed in 2003 with a

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Reuters Posted at 10/05/2011 3:23 PM | Updated as of 10/05/2011 3:36 PM NEW DELHI, India - India unwraps what has been dubbed the world's cheapest tablet computer on Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 to expand digital access in the Asian giant that lags peers such as China and Brazil in connectivity. The government says the device, called Aakash, which means

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October 5, 2011, 2:48pm MANILA, Philippines — On its 66th year of service, Victory Liner – one of the largest and most trusted bus companies in the country – has come up with another innovation to make long-distance traveling even more fun and convenient. Victory Liner passengers can now continue surfing the Internet while onboard the Victory Liner buses, because the company provides free

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Agence France-Presse 1:17 pm | Friday, September 30th, 2011 Mark Zuckerberg. AP file photo WASHINGTON – Facebook on Friday begins rolling out its biggest ever shake-up, in a move observers say will not only profoundly alter how its 800 million users interact with the site, but will keep them coming back for decades to come. The new “Timeline,” revealed

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By: Paolo G. Montecillo Philippine Daily Inquirer 11:31 pm | Saturday, October 1st, 2011  The internet has become such a ubiquitous part of everyday life that virtually no one ever cares to really wonder how it works. People have a vague idea of what the Internet is: A massive collection of computers around the world that send data to each other over phone lines. People visualize

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10/01/2011 | 06:23 PM Wireless online services expanded to outdoor public areas in Taipei as the city launched Friday the second phase of its free public-area wireless services. Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin kicked off the service Friday in a ceremony marking the formation of a 4G wireless city in Taipei, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported. Hau made the announcement along with Global

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Tuesday, 27 September 2011 17:00 Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO—Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said its new features create “frictionless sharing.”   But they are causing friction with some users and consumer groups. Facebook unveiled last week services that make it easier for its 800 million users to share more information about themselves and

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Agence France-Presse 10:26 am | Tuesday, September 27th, 2011    Logo taken from HTTP://WWW.THUMBLR.COM SAN FRANCISCO—Tumblr on Monday announced a fresh round of funding that poured $85 million into the fast-growing online service for sharing pictures, videos, written musings and other digital snippets. Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners led the investment round,

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By: Charles E. Buban Philippine Daily Inquirer 7:43 pm | Sunday, September 25th, 2011  For this writer who started working with a monochrome cathode ray tube computer monitor—also known as the green screen—a color CRT device would be a welcome replacement even though it soon could become obsolete itself due to advancements in display technology. Devices that utilize light emitting diodes

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By: Paolo G. Montecillo Philippine Daily Inquirer 7:41 pm | Sunday, September 25th, 2011 To keep up with evolving computer viruses, top consumer information technology security companies are now relying more and more on “cloud” technology that can deliver real-time protection for clients. Recently, Kaspersky Labs unveiled its new Internet Security application for 2012. The company said

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By: Paolo G. Montecillo Philippine Daily Inquirer 1:05 am | Monday, September 26th, 2011  Internet use in the country has been rising since the start of the year, driven by the ever-increasing affordability of smartphones and data usage rates, leading carrier Smart Communications Inc. reported. In a statement over the weekend, Smart said the amount of data transmitted on its mobile

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By Helen Flores (The Philippine Star)  Updated September 24, 2011 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) launched yesterday the “Juan Time” campaign that aims to promote time-consciousness among Filipinos. “With Juan Time, Filipino time will come to mean on time and no longer late,” Science Secretary Mario Montejo

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by Jojo Malig, abs-cbnNEWS.com Posted at 09/23/2011 10:36 PM | Updated as of 09/24/2011 6:16 AM   MANILA, Philippines - The premise is simple -- make government information open to public scrutiny. President Benigno Aquino is confident that the Philippines' participation in the international Open Government Partnership (OGP) will empower citizens as it will give them better access to

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By Rachel King | September 22, 2011, 10:39am PDT Summary: Facebook’s new Timeline redesign of the profile page gives users more control and a chance to look back on everything they’ve ever published on the social network. If you’ve ever wanted to go way back on your Facebook profile to find a really old post from 2006, now you can much easier than clicking on a link at the bottom

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By Rachel King | September 23, 2011, 3:00am PDT Summary: Facebook is taking over our lives, one status message from one app at a time. If you thought Facebook was everywhere before, brace yourself. We’re just scratching the surface of where the social networking is going: world domination. On Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the next wave of Facebook’s Open Graph platform, which

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Chrystia Freeland, Reuters 09/23/2011 | 06:44 PM Get ready for the global brain. That was the grand finale of a presentation on the next generation of the Internet I heard last week from Yuri Milner. G8 leaders had a preview of Milner's predictions a few months earlier, when he was among the technology savants invited to brief the world's most powerful politicians in Deauville, France.

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JM TUAZON, GMA News 09/22/2011 | 04:32 PM In a revealing study that cements the role of new technologies in people's lives today, it was revealed that Internet now ranks along the same level as air, food and water as basic necessities for millenials. According to the 2011 Cisco Connected World technology report released Wednesday, four of every five individuals aged 18 to 20 years old

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09/22/2011 | 04:50 PM Smartphone users with more than one Gmail account got a boost from Google, which rolled out this week a new multiple sign-in feature for Gmail for mobile. Mobile software engineer Dominic Leung said the new features for Gmail in the mobile browser aim to make Gmail users more productive while on the go. “Just like on your desktop, you can now to sign into multiple

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Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:37   Janet I. Tu / The Seattle Times  SEATTLE—The next version of Windows is being billed as a radical reinvention of Microsoft Corp.’s flagship operating system—the most extensive overhaul since Windows 95.  But just as important, it comes at a time when the market has evolved, with computers and mobile computing devices being used in ways vastly

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abs-cbnNEWS.com Posted at 09/21/2011 2:52 AM | Updated as of 09/21/2011 11:03 AM MANILA, Philippines – Officials of the National Bureau of Investigation-Intellectual Property Rights Division (NBI-IPRD) conducted a raid at the AMA Computer College, Inc. along the South Luzon Expressway (SLEx) on Tuesday. Autodesk Systems, Inc. and Adobe Systems, Inc., through Federis and Associates Law

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Agence France-Presse 1:12 am | Wednesday, September 21st, 2011  SAN FRANCISCO—Google opened its Google+ social network to the world on Tuesday, dropping the need for an invitation to join the Internet giant’s rival to Facebook. “For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, and during that time we’ve listened and learned a great deal,” Google senior vice president of engineering

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Agence France-Presse 8:07 am | Tuesday, September 20th, 2011     SAN FRANCISCO—Google opened its smartphone wallet to the public on Monday. Shops taking part in the program began letting people pay for purchases with taps of Nexus S 4G smartphones from Sprint. “With Google Wallet, you can tap, pay and save using your phone and near

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Monday, September 19, 2011 SMART Broadband, Inc. (Smart Bro) has increased the maximum speeds of its portable products by as much as 70 percent. Smart Bro Starter Plug-It users can now experience speeds of up to 3.6Mbps (up from 2.0Mbps) while Power Plug-It and Pocket WiFi users can experience speeds of up to 5Mbps (up from 3.6Mbps) at no extra cost, the company said in a press statement.

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By: Raquel P. Gomez Philippine Daily Inquirer 10:14 pm | Sunday, September 18th, 2011    INTEL INNOVATIONS Intel CEO Paul Otellini, holds up a Google Android phone running on an Intel chip during the keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. AP Photo/Paul Sakuma SAN FRANCISCO—A Windows PC desktop powered by a solar cell

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09/17/2011 | 08:59 PM Adoption of open source software by government agencies, business and other sectors bodes well for pending legislation on open source, according to Representative Sigfrido R. Tinga, chairman of the House committee on information and communication technology (ICT). Tinga, told GMA News Online Saturday at the Software Freedom Day program at the University of Santo

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No post-PC era vs Pro post-PC era Opening Statements Post-PC era is bunk Zack Whittaker: This just in: The PC is not dead. I'll concede that the mouse is making its way to the scrap heap---along with the USB flash drive and DVDs. However, the QWERTY-keyboard reigns as the all-mighty technology. No tablet, iPad or smartphone can take the

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Published : Monday, September 12, 2011 00:00 GLOBE DUO, one of the biggest breakthrough services of Globe Telecom, has recently expanded its coverage to 13 more areas in the country to serve and benefit more subscribers. The service is now available in the provinces of Pampanga, Isabela, Ilocos Sur, Zambales, Nueva Vizcaya, Palawan, Marinduque, Oriental Mindoro, Southern Leyte, Eastern

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By Jess Diaz (The Philippine Star) Updated September 15, 2011 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines - The Aquino administration will have to wait until 2013 before it can start setting up a national broadband network, House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman said yesterday. “If there are no funds in the 2012 budget for it, then they have to include the

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Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:00 The BusinessMirror Editorial REMEMBER the Government Telephone System in the 1960s and 1970s that was so egregiously inefficient that you invariably got only busy tones trying to reach another number and perhaps wanted to smash the useless handset to smithereens out of sheer frustration? Sen. Joker Arroyo recently cited the case of GTS and

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Agence France-Presse 11:43 am | Wednesday, September 14th, 2011    FACEBOOK AFTER DEATH. Photo taken on Jan. 3, 2011 shows the homepage of social networking giant Facebook. Talk has surfaced on what happens to one’s Facebook account when one dies and legal experts are vague on the fate of digital rights to online accounts after death. AFP WASHINGTON–When you die, does your

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Published : Tuesday, September 13, 2011 00:00 Written by : Jessa Bayrante Parrying the increasing number of oppositions to the new government broadband network, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) secretary Mario Montejo said in a statement on Monday that the proposed project would enhance efficiency in government operations and will not turn into another ZTE scandal. Montejo

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By Alma Buelva (The Philippine Star) Updated September 12, 2011 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines - If you still don’t know what Angry Birds is all about, then by all means do NOT install it on your phone, tablet and computer unless you’re ready to give up hours of your life to this purely addicting video game about

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 By: Daxim L. Lucas Philippine Daily Inquirer 3:21 am | Tuesday, September 13th, 2011    AFP file photo Filipino consumers are changing the way they receive information. And they are changing fast. The most recent study of media research firm Synovate reveals that almost half of the consumers—regardless of age, gender, location and social class—have already migrated to

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By: Raquel P. Gomez Philippine Daily Inquirer 10:22 pm | Sunday, September 11th, 2011 TABLETS’ NEXT LEVEL Models explain functions of tablet accessories during the opening day of Computex computer expo in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 31, 2011. Asus’ new Eee Pad Transformer is now the closest thing in function to a real PC notebook. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) Google’s Android OS,

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Saturday, 03 September 2011 17:35 Rizal Raoul Reyes / Correspondent  IF you are in Makati and want a place that can provide a good solitude for your mind, the Union Church of Manila (UCM) library in Rada Street in Legazpi Village, Makati City, is the place to be. On its own, it has become an intellectual oasis right in the heart of the financial district of Makati City.

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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 22:18   Armin Amio / Companies and Technology Editor  JUST like anywhere in the world, it appears that human life in the Philippines is now being mirrored online. Nearly half of urban-based Filipinos are turning to the Internet for information, communication and entertainment. This, thanks to the lower acquisition cost of Internet-capable devices such as

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Saturday, 03 September 2011 17:43   Brad Stone & Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg News    IT’s hot and crowded in the Shatang Internet Café in China’s southern coastal city of Shenzhen, where some 300 young factory workers sit amid flickering lights and discarded cigarette packs. At one computer, Zhou Qingqing chats with her

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Sunday, 28th August 2011 at 10:41 pm by Mat Bettinson Uses MacTaggart lecture to criticise UK tech slide Google Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt took to the podium to give the media industry's MacTaggart Lecture in which he criticised the British education and blamed it for the "throwing away your great computing heritage." Schmidt expressed his dismay at learning that

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Aug 29, 2011 1:00 AM EDT How did Steve Jobs become a wizard among muggles? And what will Apple do without its willful inspiration at the helm?  If ever there was a showman who knew how to end on a high note—leaving his awed and adoring audience begging for

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Posted on August 29, 2011 08:52:14 PM TOKYO -- Fifteen years ago, a growing sense of isolation due to old age prompted Kayoko Okawa, then 66, to knock on the door of a local volunteer center and timidly ask if it was possible for someone her age to start an online community for seniors. The energetic 81-year-old is now president of the “Computer Grandmas

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