Mellisa Tolentino
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3 Reasons Yahoo + Others Want Mobile Video to Be Deeply Integrated in Our Everyday Interactions
Yahoo! is far from finished with its acquisitions as it tries to solidify its mobile web and consumer service model to survive this painful time of restructuring. Yesterday, it was reported that Yahoo is offering $30-$40 million to acquire Xobni, maker of address book apps and plugins. Xobni, which is “inbox” spelled backwards, is said ...
Xperia Z Set to Arrive Stateside: Rumors of Bigger, Fatter Brother Are Leaked
If something works, lets make it work bigger and better than ever before. At least, this is the idea that some smartphone manufacturers seem to be embracing. Samsung keeps launching iteration after iteration of the Galaxy S4, HTC is said to be launching a One mini, and now, Sony has joined in with the fun ...
HP’s Executive Shakeup to Take on Lenovo in China
The PC may be on its deathbed in the US, but China is still a lucrative market for a broad range of devices, including the personal computer. It’s in China Hewlett-Packard is focusing its PC and printing business, resulting in a high level shakeup at the company. Today HP announced changes in its executive lineup in ...
Industrial Strength Data : GE Moves Aviation + Energy Machines to the Cloud
“Industrial Strength” – these two words are usually seen on cleaning products that can literally dissolve off the tips of your fingers. With the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet playing a huge role in our future, GE is bringing a new meaning to the term “industrial strength,” and the only danger to your ...
Outsmart Smartphone Thieves – Should Apple Take Responsibility for Phone Security?
Most people consider their smartphones the most important thing in their lives. It holds all their contacts, memories in photos and videos, and even other personal accounts such as bank or credit card details. So when someone loses their smartphone, they aren’t only losing a device, they’re losing a huge chunk of their life. In ...
3 Things Instagram Video Needs to Kill Vine at the Roots
Facebook is set to hold a press event on June 20, Thursday, and rumors are abundant as to what the social giant is set to unfold on that day. Earlier reports suggest that Facebook will be launching a news Reader of its own, just in time to replace the service being axed by Google. It’s ...
A Timeline: Wiretapping’s Checkered Past, NSAgate, PRISM and Whistleblower Edward Snowden
The National Security Agency and the US government in general is being bombarded with criticism regarding NSAgate. When news of the NSA’s data mining operations surfaced, not many news outlets or people were altogether surprised–having suspected something had been going on all along–however, the extent thereof and the type have been veiled in so much ...
Office 365 Finally Lands on iPhone, Skips the iPad
Microsoft has finally landed on the iPhone. The company has released its Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers. Yup, that’s the whole title of the app, a bit mouthful, but it gets right to the point. First off, before you go celebrating that Microsoft Office is in iOS, there’s a catch, the app is useless ...
Could Yahoo’s Latest Buyouts Get Lost in the Shuffle?
Yahoo!’s shopping spree is far from over. If you think its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr is the grand finale, you are mistaken. That was just a warm up. Yahoo made two acquisitions in just one day. It started off with GhostBird Software, creators of iOS photography apps KitCam and PhotoForge2. The announcement was made ...
NSAgate: 3 Spy-Free Alternatives for Email, Browsing + Social Media
Whether you care about the government spying on you or not, it’s real and it’s happening. The NSA says that PRISM’s all about keeping you safe from potential terrorist attacks, but nevertheless it’s not quite right that people’s privacy counts for nothing. Are we supposed to just sit back and let them do this? Just ...