Mellisa Tolentino
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#OpDarknet: Anonymous’ Battle Against Child Pornography
Innocent children around the globe fall victim to predators when they are featured in pornography. Some are forced into it, some are unaware, and some are victims of their own parents who want to make some money by brandishing them on the web to be feasted on by strangers from all parts of the world. ...
PageOnce Sets Out for Mobile Payments Domination
Pageonce, the popular daily finance service for mobile devices, today launched a mobile bill pay service that gives consumers remote control over when and how they pay their bills. Pageonce lets users view all their bills and pay from any account, all in one simple app anytime, anywhere. The award-winning Pageonce Money & Bills already ...
The Government Goes Internally Social with IBM’s SmartCloud
IBM is pushing for unification through the cloud. They just announced the Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities which aims to provide a general view of information across city departments and agencies through real-time communication and collaboration. Also, IBM is unleashing the full potential of their SmartCloud, an enterprise-class, secure managed cloud services platform that brings the best of public ...
One Study Claims that Cellphone Use Has No Link in Cancer
For over a decade, debates and studies regarding the role of cellphone use in cancer or tumor occurrence had been scrutinized, feared and even doubted. And with mobile users multiplying by the thousands as mobile manufacturers produce millions of these devices, you can’t help but wonder if these devices, the ones you use everyday and ...
WIREDoo This! MC Hammer Gets In Touch with Search
Yeah, I know it’s a cheesy title but I just can’t get MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” out of my head since I read about his new project. And yes, it’s still playing over and over in my head as I’m writing this piece. So what has MC Hammer been up to? At the ...
RIM BlackBerry DevCon Highlights: From BBX To Fanboys
Last week, Research in Motion suffered a humiliating service outage that sent users to make fun of them on social networks. The three-day service outage caused some businesses to lose money and because of this, even investors are not confident about RIM’s future. After services were restored, RIM offered free premium apps for subscribers, free ...
Steve Jobs’ Dying Wish: “I am going to destroy Android.”
Apple Inc. has been battling mobile manufacturers who use Android as their operating system. Apple already took Motorola Mobility, Samsung, HTC and others to court–though Samsung might have taken the greatest hit from Apple. The wrath of Apple grows roots from Steve Jobs himself. According the Associated Press who got a copy of the authorized ...
IBM’s Vision of a Unified City through Big Data
Do you still remember the launch of CityOne, IBM’s first Smarter Planet interactive simulation with real-world business, environmental, and logistical problems for smarter cities and industries? Remember how a player has a view of everything happening around the city? How cool would that be if that happened in real life? IBM aims to turn this ...
AT&T Q3: Cancellations down, subscribers up, free iPhone 3G with plan working
AT&T, one of the largest networks to date, just had their conference call this morning. The conference call was started off by CFO John Stevens but later on CEO Ralph De La Vega took center stage. AT&T passed one million subscribers and experienced a 2.1 million increase in total wireless subscribers. But sales fell by 0.3% ...
Google+ to Amp Up Offerings: “We do not Believe in Over-Sharing”
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s senior vice president in charge of Google+ Vic Gundotra talked about the future of Google+. Gundotra talked about how Google+ is different from Facebook in Twitter in so many ways. First off, they want people not only to use Google+ but also other Google services. The ...