Mellisa Tolentino
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Kindle Fire Built Around Amazon’s Media Market Strengths
To start off, this is not about comparing the Amazon Kindle Fire to other products out in the market, nor is it about its physical capacities either. This is a look as to what the Kindle Fire is packing and not what it’s lacking, specifically as it pertains to the media side of the mobile ...
Skype for Android Gets Ads Too, Update Supports More Devices
Recently, Skype released an update for their PC, Mac, and iOS users. And now, before Android consumers get all frantic and jealous, Skype released version 2.5 for Android gadgets as well. First, let’s get the negativities out of the way. Yes, it also has the new ad platform that everyone is whining about. And not ...
Anonymous Causes Worldwide Chaos
Anonymous, the collective group of hackers known for infiltrating websites of known companies and personalities, once again made an effort to be heard, and to be taken seriously. AnonAustria, the Austrian counterpart of Anonymous, recently released 25,000 police names, dates of birth and home addresses as a form of protest against draft legislation that would ...
Spotify Goes Up, Piracy Goes Down by 25% in Sweden
Though Spotify isn’t getting rave reviews with their recent Facebook partnership, it seems like they’re on the good side of the whole music industry. Piracy has always been a pain in the ass of everyone in the music and movie industry, as their revenue surplus continues to decline and people continue to keep buying bootleg ...
Google Expands Datacenters, Startup Funds Worldwide
Aside from opening up their social network Google+ to the public, the web giant is expanding not only to homes but also across two continents through start-ups and new data centers. From North America… Google placed an initial $75 million investment in a new fund operated by Clean Power Finance, a start-up company backed by Google ...
Samsung Furthers Diversification Beyond Android
Over the past few weeks since Google announced their Motorola Mobility acquisition, Samsung had been busy slowly distancing itself from Google and the Android platform. Samsung started weaning with the launch of three smartphones that run on the Bada platform. It was followed by the launch of the Samsung tablet powered by Windows 8 at Microsoft’s BUILD Conference. ...
iPhone 5 Could Be Biggest Mobile Launch to Date
After months of speculation, Apple finally broke their silence. Apple sent out e-mails to select reporters inviting them to an event at their Cupertino headquarters on October 4th at 10 A.M. PT. The message of the said e-mail contained “Let’s talk iPhone.” The news is a big development surrounding heightening expectations around the next iPhone, which ...
Apple vs. the Mobile World
As Apple readies for their big event on October 4th, it seems like others are trying to rain on their parade as patent infringement issues are still brewing up all around them. Quick recap: Samsung and Apple are battling court cases all over the globe from the US, in Europe, Australia and Asia. And now, ...
Facebook’s Security In Question for Offsite Activity Tracking
Facebook’s security and their users’ privacy had been in question since the very beginning. And those issues were only aggravated with each major Facebook update, especially the auto photo-tagging feature that came out earlier this year. Since then, some users got vigilant, scrutinizing every aspect of the social network. A few days ago, Nik Cubrilovic, ...
Spotify-Facebook Partnership Angers Users
At the recent f8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced the integration of Spotify, the online music streaming service, with users’ Facebook account. Though the feature hasn’t rolled out to everyone yet, the Facebook-Spotify partnership already has a dislike button on their fan page. Aside from being able to see your friends’ Spotify activities and sharing tunes ...