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

HTC One Already Cloned Before Its Official Reveal

In less than an hour, the world would get to see what HTC’s next smartphone would look like.  But it looks like french blog site Nowhere Else beat HTC to the punch as it showed images of the HTC One, formerly referred to as the M7, in all its glory. The HTC One is shown ...

China May Have More Smart Devices, but It’s Not the Fastest Growing Market

There is no doubt that the iOS and Android platforms are the most used mobile operating systems today.  But did you know that China now has more Android and iOS users compared to the US? Flurry Analytics released its latest report regarding smart device activity and revealed that of the 2.4 billion anonymous, aggregated application ...

Samsung Galaxy SIV Coming March 14

In today’s mobile news roundup: Samsung to announce next Galaxy on March 14; Fujitsu unveils a smartphone for the “older generation”; and Ubuntu puts out a tablet teaser. Samsung to announce next Galaxy on March 14 According to the latest reports, Samsung will be revealing a set of new Galaxy devices on March 14.  One ...

Spam Me Not! Ways to Block Spam Texts and Annoyng Calls

We’ve all been through this ordeal, we’re waiting for a very important text, but when the phone beeps, you’re greeted with a very annoying message.  It can be anything from someone telling you won a prize from a famous brand, or a message that contains a web link about a racy photo or a new ...

PS4 Controller Features Touchscreen and Move Strip

Sony is hosting an event on February 20, 2013 in New York as 6PM EST. Aside from a tweet and a cryptic video, nothing much has been said about the event but PlayStation fans are hoping to see the next generation game console at the event. It has been more than six years since the ...

Single-License Office 2013 Will Drive Users to Google Docs: Breaking Analysis

Microsoft recently changed its Office Home and Student 2013 end-user licensing agreement.  Instead of being able to install the retail version of the Office 2013 to another PC, in case the one where you originally installed it breaks down or gets stolen, you need to purchase another Office 2013 to use on a new or ...

Is It Cold In Here, Or Are You Just Trying to Steal My Android Data?

In today’s mobile news roundup: FROST allows access to locked Android smartphone data; Samsung to compete with Nokia in emerging markets; LG unveils Optimus G Pro; and Apple’s ad laced weekend. FROST allows access to locked Android smartphone data Researchers Tilo Mueller and Michael Spreitzenbarth at Erlangen University in Germany discovered that PIN or pattern ...

Skype Rolls Out Video Messages, Welcomes Windows Messenger Live Users

Skype is rolling out a new feature that would allow people to leave video messages for their offline contacts. The feature is rolling out to iOS, Android and Mac users today, but ironically Skype’s new video messaging is not yet available for Windows users.  Though it’s not yet available for Windows, users can still receive the video ...

Steam Now Avilable on Linux

Valve, the video game developer and distribution company, announced that Steam, the leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games with over 50 million accounts around the world and over 2,000 titles offered, is now available for Linux clients. “This project was confirmed last year by Valve,” says SiliconANGLE contributing editor Kyt Dotson, ...

Dropbox IPO Is a “Good Move” as Consumer Cloud Eyes the Enterprise

Earlier this week cloud storage service provider, Dropbox, unveiled its first comprehensive upgrade directed at corporate users.  Dropbox has already been embraced by consumers, but it has yet to fully infiltrate the enterprise sector.  Many cloud services that started out with consumer products are shifting to the enterprise space, where many employees have been using ...