Smart offers unlimited LTE for 2 years on new iPad plans
Smart's iPad plan owners will enjoy guaranteed unlimited LTE connection for the duration of their two-year lock-in period.
Facebook’s value slides by $10 billion; outlook unclear
Investors wiped $10 billion off the value of Facebook Inc on Friday, taking the recently listed shares to a new low, after the social network offered no forecast and analysts said mobile investments would put future earnings under pressure.
For ASUS, device transformation is key as it touts new tablet-notebook hybrids
Coming from its roots in the motherboard business, Taiwanese electronics brand ASUS sure knows a thing or two about transformation as its two-decade-long business now finds it manufacturing PCs and tablet devices for consumers.
Hackers could haunt global air traffic control – researcher
Air traffic control software used around the world could be exploited by hackers to unleash squadrons of ghost planes to befuddle those entrusted to keep the skies safe, a security researcher said Thursday.
Samsung sold 50.5 million smartphones in 2nd quarter, almost twice what Apple sold: report
Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s top smartphone maker, sold 50.5 million smartphones in the second quarter, stretching its lead over rival Apple Inc, a report by a research firm showed.
Twitter explains new mystery outage
A freak double failure in its data centers took Twitter down for around an hour Thursday, leaving millions without updates from friends, celebrities and news providers a day ahead of the Olympics.
Despite public cloud outages, DataOne bullish about local cloud offering
Recent incidents displaying the pitfalls of public cloud computing is not stopping DataOne, a young cloud provider based in the Philippines, from being optimistic about the prospects of the local cloud market.
Google unveils ultrafast Internet/TV in US city
Google Inc made its foray into the market for bundled Internet and television services on Thursday, promising access speeds more than 100 times faster than those of traditional U.S. cable and telecommunications companies.
Twitter suffers from service outage, again
Popular social networking site Twitter was rendered inaccessible for over an hour early Friday due to undisclosed reasons.
China smartphone maker Xiaomi hits nearly $1 billion in first half sales
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Technology said it racked up 6.1 billion yuan ($955 million) in revenue in the first half of this year with sales of more than 3 million devices, tapping rapid growth that is fostering domestic brands and is set to make China the world’s biggest smartphone market this year.
Nokia scraps new mass-market phone software: sources
Struggling Finnish cellphone maker Nokia has scrapped a software project which it had hoped would compete with mass-market Google Android phones.
Hacking experts find new ways to attack Android phones
Hacking experts on Wednesday demonstrated ways to attack Android smartphones using methods they said work on virtually all such devices in use today, despite recent efforts by search engine giant Google to boost protection.
In unprecedented move, Apple to speak at conference about iOS security
Apple is set to take yet another interesting turn as the company plans to speak at one of the major information security conferences in the world to talk about technologies that protect its iOS mobile platform from external threats.
Cyber defenders urged to go on offensive
Computer security champions on Wednesday were urged to hunt down and eliminate hackers, spies, terrorists and other online evildoers to prevent devastating Internet Age attacks.
Apple releases ‘Mountain Lion’ Mac software
Apple Inc released the latest version of the operating software for its MacIntosh computers on Wednesday, touting new features such as better integration with the “iCloud” Internet storage service and gaming.
New York Times drops BlackBerry app
BlackBerry users can no longer use the official New York Times app to read news stories over their devices, in a fresh blow to Research In Motion, the maker of the smartphone once considered an essential tool for business professionals.
Nintendo Q1 loss lower than expected, keeps annual forecast
Nintendo Co Ltd <7974.OS>, the world’s No.1 games console maker, reported a first-quarter loss that was half of what analysts had expected due to cost-cutting and new software titles.
Top 5 Philippine-branded mobile devices of Q1 2013
We sifted through what seems to be a huge pile of those launched — but not necessarily available — in the first quarter of this year and came up with five that have tickled our fancy.
