Mellisa Tolentino

Mellisa Tolentino started at SiliconANGLE covering the mobile and social scene. Over the years, her scope expanded to Bitcoin as well as the Internet of Things. SiliconANGLE gave Mellisa her break in writing and it has been an adventure ever since. She’s from the sunny country of Philippines where people always greet you with the warmest smile. If she’s not busy writing, she loves reading, watching TV series and movies, but what she enjoys the most is playing or just chilling on the couch with with her three dogs Ceecee, Ginger, and Rocky.

Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

As Gorilla Glass Trends in Ultrabooks, Asus Hopes to Boost PC Sales

Asus announced a number of products at Computex 2013 in Taiwan this week, and it seems like Asus now has a product to meet any of your smart-device needs. To start, there’s a six-inch phablet, the FonePad Note, a revamped version of the Nexus 7 – Memo Pad HD7, a new Transformer Pad Infinity with ...

Complete User Guide for #WWDC 2013

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference will be in full swing come June 10 and the event will last until the 14th at the Moscone West in San Francisco, California. If you were one of the lucky ones who were able to grab a ticket as soon as it went on sale, good for you!  The ...

What Does Vine for Android have on iOS? ZOOM

Fandroids rejoice! Twitter has finally released the Android version of Vine, it’s popular mobile app that let’s users take and share six-second video clips. It may not be a huge deal for most Android users, but socially-inclined Fandroids will surely say otherwise. When Twitter launched Vine earlier this year it garnered a lot of attention, ...

Samsung, Asus and Acer All Unveil New “Mini” Tablets

Three tech companies unveiled new tablets today that they hope will add another nail into the PC industry’s coffin. Samsung unveiled two new variants of its popular Galaxy Tab 3, an 8-inch  and a 10.1-inch model, whilst Asus popped out a new Nexus 7 with rear camera, plus the latest iteration of its flagship Transformer ...

The Big, Big Data Universe : Planets Healthcare, Finance + Beyond

Big Data is clearly involved in every aspect of our lives, whether we know it or not.  Its underlying technology is making its way into more commercial applications, helping to make our lives better and determining how processes can be optimized to improve business services, products and advertising. Based on Wikibon’s Big Data Vendor Revenue ...

3 Things You Probably Love (or Hate) About the iOS 7 Redesign

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is all set for June 10-14 in San Francisco and talks about its new iOS is abundant. It was previously reported that Apple Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Jony Ive have redesigned the iOS to sport a flat look and a more black and white color theme. Codenamed Innsbruck, iOS ...

3 Things We Learned About EMC’s Growing Federation at #EMC World 2013

EMC is no longer just a storage company on its own.  It has expanded to become a federation of companies in the EMC family, including VMware and the newly launched Pivotal and ViPR initiatives. As EMC President and COO David Goulden describes it, a federation is different from a conglomerate in the sense that it’s about ...

Brad Paubel: “IT Needs to Innovate, Cut Cost and Automate”

Brad Paubel, IT Practitioner with Maritz, specializes in end-user management dealing with the IT touch-point to the business, dropped by at theCube at the recently concluded ServiceNow Knowledge 13 event with show host Jeff Frick to discuss how his company is utilizing ServiceNow, and how it has helped transform Maritz in to what it is ...

How Target Uses ServiceNow to Promote Mobility Amongst Employees

ServiceNow’s Global User Conference, Knowledge13, is almost concluding in Las Vegas, Nevada. theCube, SiliconANGLE’s premier video production, is at the event with Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick to extract the signal from the noise. One of the highlights of the annual event is the Innovation of the Year Award where ServiceNow customers present ...

If Mt. Gox Can Change Public Opinion, Bitcoin Market Wins

Bitcoin used to be a currency you could use almost anonymously, and that has been one of its greatest assets.  Unfortunately, with the Department of Justice’s take down of Liberty Reserve, MT.Gox, the most used Bitcoin exchange market, changed its policy and will now require valid identification for transactions. The government is concerned that exchange ...