All posts by Jilian Mendoza

Enjoy Philippines, a franchise of Enjoy China Holdings which offers a VIP privilege program has just launched their mobile application dubbed as “Enjoy VIP PH” that allows its members to enjoy discounts and privileges by simply flashing their smartphone at partner merchants. Enjoy VIP PH mobile app is available in all major mobile platforms such [...]

For the average social networking enthusiast, staying connected is an all-important thing. But can you imagine how so much more important and urgent it is to stay connected for people whose career and daily lives depend on it? Take the case of Patricia Prieto, model and owner of personal style blog titled Paradigma, which has [...]

Redmond software maker Microsoft is scheduled to host Windows Phone 8 launch event is just over a week away. Retail giant Best Buy and United States’ biggest wireless carrier AT&T have begun releasing the suggested retail pricing for the Windows Phone 8 running Nokia and HTC high-end flagship smartphones, pricing the Lumia 920 and HTC [...]

Smart Communications, Inc. and its subsidiary Smart Hub, Inc. piloted a mobile device that will allow merchants and professionals to accept MasterCard payments even when they are on the go. Manila, Philippines – During Smart’s sale event last weekend, the said local carrier has done trial-and-error of a new mobile credit card reader. This new [...]

So now that Globe Telecom launched its 4G LTE service offering dubbed as “Tattoo Black” and it is now available in the Philippines, we are now looking at the price and maximum peak speed versus Smart Communications’ LTE. LTE or Long Term Evolution is arguably the fastest wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones [...]

Mountain View-based search giant Google has just acquired VirusTotal, a free online-based security service that analyzes suspicious files and Uniform resource locators or simply URLs, for an undisclosed amount. According to VirusTotal’s blog post, the two companies had been partners for quite some time to facilitates the quick detection of viruses, trojans, and all kinds [...]

Manila, Philippines – Local handset phone maker Cherry Mobile has recently unveiled through their official Facebook fanpage the “Social on-the-go!” sale, where you can purchase the Cherry Mobile W3 “Like Phone” for only Php2,999. That’s a Php700 discount from its original suggested retail price of Php3,699. The Cherry Mobile W3 is the first cellular device [...]

Google’s 7-inch inexpensive computing tablet has just started shipping out last week but the Philippine-based PC retailer VillMan has already got their units and is already offering the said slate an a slightly higher price tag. When the Mountain View search giant Google introduced their flagship tablet PC at this year’s Google I/O which was [...]

It is time for the UAAP (University Athletic Association of the Philippines) Season again, so we are seeing brands of some companies taking advantage of this event to co-brand their products. Aside from the Brazilian slipper’s UAAP Havaianas Limited Edition, the latest one we’ve seen is the GGlobe Tattoo U-Sticks. The Globe UAAP Tattoo sticks [...]

A couple of months ago we reported that LG Philippines will be offering the Optimus 4X HD here in the Philippines and is slated for July launch. And now, LG Mobile Philippines has sent us an email via their PR that their quad-core Android running flagship smartphone, the Optimus 4X HD, is scheduled to release [...]

Manila, Philippines – Launched today is the mid-range smartphone from Taiwanese mobile maker HTC, just a couple of months after they the said company announced the cheapest amongst the One series, the One V along side with the flagship smartphone One X – the first ever quad-core handset in the Philippines. HTC Philippines unveiled three [...]

Ben Rudolph, the PC guy and Microsoft evangelist you see in all those “Smoked by Windows Phone” commercial campaigns, has just uploaded a video to the official Windows Phone YouTube channel and published it to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5/7.8 page where he demos the Windows Phone 7.8 mobile platform’s new Start Screen on a Nokia [...]