Philippines bags first Cannes Mobile Grand Prix for Smart TXTBKS campaign
Dubbed the Smart TXTBKS campaign, condensed textbooks and workbooks used by students into 160-character messages that were then inserted in Smart SIM cards and distributed to several public schools in the Philippines.
Sun Cellular expands Good Choices for users with Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra
Mobile phone operator Sun Cellular continues to provide more Good Choices to its users as it introduces the Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra, the thinnest smartphone in the market to date.
IP-Converge opens credit card facility for cloud services on the go
The online payment facility, coupled with IP-Converge’s self-service cloud portal, makes cloud.com.ph the Philippines’ closest alternative to Amazon cloud services.
Tech giants, media marketing groups support local digital marketing certification program
Digital marketer E-Learning Edge has garnered support from top digital organizations, which prompted the company to evolve into the Institute of International Digital Marketing (IIDM), offering certification courses.
NEWSBYTES.PH | Asia-Pacific PC market posts double-digit decline for first time in Q1
Preliminary results from research firm IDC showed that the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market declined 8 percent sequentially and 13 percent year-on-year in 2013 Q1 to reach 26.4 million units, coming in lower than IDC’s initial forecasts.
Blackstone ends pursuit of Dell: sources
New York-based Blackstone pulled out just a month after it first launched a challenge to the billionaire’s attempt to take private the PC maker he founded.
AMD results beat expectations in declining PC market
Advanced Micro Devices Inc forecast current-quarter revenue above Wall Street’s expectations as it rushes to find new markets to offset its declining core business of PC chips.
Samsung says considers Hynix chips for its mobile products
A supply deal would be a boost to SK Hynix, which relies heavily on Apple Inc as a customer for its mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips.
Sun Cellular, MyPhone team-up to bring the most affordable SunDroid Rush
Sun Cellular continues its busy streak in providing the best deals in town with its Sundroid Rush series.
Autodesk Inc. raises design game with latest software portfolio
The 2014 Design and Creation Suite that will arm design professionals worldwide with the solutions to create, simulate and visualize its design concepts in the most efficient and effective manner.
Dell introduces industry’s first automated workstation software
Dell Precision Performance Optimizer (DPPO) is the industry’s first software that automatically configures Dell Precision workstation settings to maximize performance of engineering, design and digital content creation applications.
Oracle launches data center to cater demand from cloud customers
The enterprise software company said that the data center will provide their customers and partners subscription based, self service access to Oracle’s Fusion Applications.
Samsung estimates Q1 operating profit of $7.7 billion
Samsung, the world’s largest technology firm by revenue, was giving earnings guidance before official results are made available later this month.
HP shares sink after Goldman Sachs downgrade to ‘sell’
HP, in the midst of a restructuring that Chief Executive Meg Whitman has said will take years, is also struggling with intense competition in its servers and storage hardware division, the investment bank said in a research note.
FROM THE EXECUTIVE | Shifting IT investment from infrastructure to innovation
Cloud computing’s enormous business value is convincing a rapidly growing number of CEOs and CIOs to join the cloud revolution.
EMC catches windfall from mainstream status of virtualization in PH
EMC shared that local companies are slowly laying the foundation by virtualizing their server infrastructures, contributing to its mainstream adoption in the Philippines.
Dell powers learning and discovery facility of The Mind Museum
The Mind Museum set out to establish itself as the first world-class science museum in the Philippines and a haven for learning and discovery.
