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[NEWS RELEASE] Reaffirms Its Commitment to the premier city and hub of Mindanao IBM kicked off its centenary celebrations in the Mindanao Region last 21 July 2011 with an IBM Comes To You (ICTY) event for clients and business partners in Davao City, as part of the company’s commitment to help bring smarter business and [...]

On my last bloggers conference, I got my biggest surprise yet when the organizers handed out a Samsung Galaxy Tab to each invited participant (there were about 16 of us). It’s my first Android-powered gadget, so I’m pretty stoked about it. The operating system is clearly designed for mobile in all kinds of awesome. But, [...]

Today’s growth in mobile device usage in the country has spawned new ways of accomplishing tasks. For example, mobile users now read news on their tablets or send messages via their smart phones. With the ease in communications afforded by mobile devices, users have also come to demand more conveniences in other ways. HP is [...]

Last week it was their new line of Ink Advantage printers. This week, HP launched in Davao City their new family of notebooks and desktops, as well as high-performance thin clients. The world’s #1 technology company in terms of PC sales in 2010 also opened yesterday its new HP Concept Store at the Gaisano Mall [...]

Even amid public outcries against the move by telecommunications operators to impose an access limit to broadband Internet in the Philippines, Globe Telecom has proceeded with their broadband cap anyway. Their public-relations spin on it goes by the name “fair use policy”.

Hewlett-Packard (Phils.) launched in Davao City last 7 April 2011 a new line of value-for-money printers that are designed primarily for the home-use market. In total, six new models have been introduced: from the basic HP Deskjet Ink Advantage K109a, to the advanced HP Officejet Advantage 4500 All-in-One Printer, of which SME companies could very [...]

Combination of Hard Drive Companies Will Create Industry’s Broadest Product Portfolio and a Significant Pool of Resources for Innovation IRVINE, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif. – Mar. 7, 2011 – Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) and Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT / TSE:6501) announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby WD will acquire [...]

I have now almost completely abandoned Yahoo! and all of its services. I’d stopped using their “search engine” a long, long, long time ago, and their Web-based email service is but a distant memory to me. I don’t use Yahoo Messenger either, except when I’m online on Nimbuzz, where I’d enrolled my Yahoo! account and [...]

I’m very proud of the fact that Filipino netizens were instrumental in getting the NTC to remove the provision for a broadband cap in a recent draft memorandum order — thanks in no small measure to the vigilance of Tonyo Cruz, Noemi Dado, Cocoy Dayao and others. We deserve a pat on the back… but [...]

There is an issue brewing involving the country’s Internet service providers and the government, and it’s something that we, Filipino netizens, should see through to its resolution. It’s about the proposed bandwidth cap that the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is trying to push. Ok, to be fair to the NTC, the draft Memorandum Order is [...]