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Smart LTE now dual-frequency
SMART Communications, Inc. has made its LTE service dual-frequency by deploying its 1800 megahertz (MHz) band during the Asian Carriers’ Conference (ACC). Smart LTE now runs on the 2100 MHz and 1800 MHz bands, said PLDT and Smart Network and IP Systems head Rolando Peña. He said Smart is the first telecommunications company in the…
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Going mobile
In the recent Olympics, smartphones and tablets took a more central role in providing people more information about the games, Google said in a report. Google said there were times when more searches were “performed on tablets and smartphones than on computers.” The search giant said they’ve been seeing “large spikes in global mobile search…
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Lapu-Lapu mayor offers State Of The City Address e-book for download via phone scanning
Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza will be giving her State Of The City Address in Hoops Dome in Lapu-Lapu City this morning. What’s different about her speech today — from her previous ones and from the speeches local government executives have been giving and will be giving this month — is its digital twist —…
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Nexus and disruption
A Filipino company launched in Cebu last week two dual-SIM phones with one that can, arguably, be called a smartphone, in a non-snobbish sense that it is a touchscreen phone that can connect to the Internet. Starmobile’s FeatureSmart T601i costs just P3,290. Starmobile president Michael Chen said that although their phones are priced low, these…
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This column is still written by a human
THE Agence France Presse (AFP) published an interesting article last week about the use of algorithms to write news articles. The AFP article, which was written by a human, discussed how a group of new companies use algorithms or mathematical procedures run on computers to turn large volumes of numeric data into articles. A pioneer…