A THIEF spoiled the first Sinulog of Smart social media senior supervisor Abbie Real. Real was in Cebu Friday to attend the launching of an electronic guidebook on Cebu and the data tagging of the province’s heritage and tourism sites using QR code. When Smart staff members were preparing for the photo at the Heritage [...]

Beware of geeks bearing gifts. A man in New York City has reportedly caught his wife cheating using the Find My Friends app of the iPhone 4S he gave her. Find My Friends uses global positioning system (GPS) to let people share their locations with friends. The locations of people are indicated by a tooltip [...]

In the US, 89 percent of those with smartphones use it throughout the day, according to a study published last April by Google. The study, based on interviews of 5,013 American adults who identified themselves as users of smartphones, said the device has become a consumer’s “always-on companion” and 93 percent use it at home, [...]

YOU know QR or quick response codes have gone mainstream when they appear in the ample bottoms of Britain’s female beach volleyball champions. The codes, when scanned with mobile phones, direct users to a betting website. The Daily Mail reported that Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin have been paid a “substantial” figure to have the [...]

Productivity blog Lifehacker links to a great service by Boxmeup, a website that allows you to create virtual containers that you can use to track stuff in boxes and other bulk storage systems. It uses for labels QR codes, bar codes that can be scanned by most smartphones today. The service is really useful for [...]

I wrote this column in Google Docs, the Internet search giant’s free online office suite. I thumb-typed a rough outline on an Android device—a Samsung Galaxy Tab—before I finished the first draft on my favorite desktop, which runs Ubuntu Linux, and edited the final piece in my office PC, which runs Windows XP. All the [...]