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Cloudfone wants everyone to own a smartphone
THE ebullience of Chico Pasion and Francis Capati of Phoneco was palpable in Friday’s launch in Cebu of the company’s Cloudfone Android line. “We will kill feature phones!” “We don’t need feature phones!” “We want people to throw away their phones and update to a new one!” Pasion, national sales manager of Phoneco, said they…
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Innovation, disruption in media
Last Thursday, Newsweek announced it was ending its print publication on Dec. 31 and going all-digital starting next year. The digital publication, which will be named Newsweek Global, “will be a single, worldwide edition targeted for a highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context,” Newsweek and The…
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Great-looking note-taking app for iPhone offered for free download
If you love old-school paper notebooks like Moleskine and use an iPhone, install Meernotes. The beautifully-designed app allows you to take down notes on your phone on an interface that mimics a paper notebook. It’s easy to use — you just tap on the screen and then type your notes. Meernotes also allows you to…
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Smart makes country’s first LTE voice call, SMS
Smart Communications, Inc. conducted the country’s first long-term evolution (LTE) voice calls and SMS in Cebu last Tuesday. PLDT-Smart Technology head Rolando Peña described the development as historic and said it was a “major step forward for Smart and the Philippine mobile industry.” LTE is a telecommunication standard for high-speed data transfer. Being a standard…
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Inbox zero
IT took two long weekends but I finally got to inbox zero and that state of bliss you find yourself in after having processed all pending e-mails and seeing an empty inbox. Like many people, I felt that I’ve lost control of my e-mail. My inbox was full of messages that needed to be replied…