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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 to be revealed August 9
MANILA, Philippines – Samsung has published an online video announcing the reveal date of its next Note phablet, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9: August 9.The video mostly shows close-ups of the Note's...
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Apple and Samsung settle lengthy iPhone patent battle
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Apple and Samsung have ended a years-long patent battle over copied iPhone design with an undisclosed settlement, according to a US court filing Wednesday, June 27, US time. The...
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Instagram Lite launches for data-conscious photo takers
MANILA, Philippines – Instagram launched a much more streamlined version of its app on the Google Play Store on Wednesday, June 27. The app, called Instagram Lite, comes in at 573 kilobytes, around...
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Florida marketing firm Exactis leaks info of 340 million people, businesses
MANILA, Philippines – Exactis, a marketing firm operating from Palm Coast, Florida, left the personal information of around 340 million people and businesses exposed in a database on a publicly...
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Filipino-owned food delivery app, Delivery Guy, launched
MANILA, Philippines – A new food delivery service was launched in the Philippines, Thursday, June 28, joining what's becoming a busy market that includes players such as Grab, Honestbee, and Foodpanda....
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Facebook boosts ad transparency as it braces for Brazil, U.S. elections
CALIFORNIA, USA – Facebook announced new steps Thursday, June 28, US time, to let people see who is behind ads and other content on the leading social network as it braced for elections in the US and...
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Credit card fraud: what you need to know
If you are the owner of a credit or a debit card, there is a non-negligible chance that you may be subject to fraud, like millions of other people around the world.Starting in the 1980s, there has been...
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California, home of Silicon Valley, ramps up online privacy law
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – California on Thursday, June 28, US time, passed a strict new law aimed at protecting people's privacy online, a move that promised to shift the terrain on which internet firms...
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Honda stops development of Asimo humanoid robot
MANILA, Philippines – Japanese car maker Honda has retired its famous robot, ASIMO, Nikkei Asian Review reported Thursday, June 28.Asimo, short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, was first shown...
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Huawei Matebook X Pro to launch in PH
SHENZHEN, China – President for marketing and sales service of the Huawei Consumer Business Group, Jim Xu, said that the company’s Matebook laptops are coming to the Philippine market, releasing as...
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Thousands of Swedes are inserting microchips into themselves – here's why
Thousands of people in Sweden have inserted microchips, which can function as contactless credit cards, key cards, and even rail cards, into their bodies. Once the chip is underneath your skin, there...
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The Exactis data leak and 4 more things in cybersecurity this week
We hope everyone's having a safe day online!This week's roundup of cybersecurity news includes a story on marketing firm Exactis, which left the personal information of around 340 million people...
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Duterte Year 2: The broadband picture
Internet in the Philippines has remained, more or less, the same from a year ago. Speeds have seen a slight increase, but relative to the rest of the world, the country remains in the lower tier. In...
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Github code repository for Gentoo Linux hacked
MANILA, Philippines – The Gentoo Linux distribution's Github repository was hacked last June 28, with the attackers modifying the code there. Github is a repository for all sorts of source code...
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Upcoming SD cards to have 128TB storage capacity, 985MBps transfer speed
MANILA, Philippines – US-based standards body SD Association (SDA) announced two new, exciting technologies for those who need massive SD card capacities and fast transfer speeds: SD Express and SD...
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Data privacy 101: What’s a data protection officer?
We live in an era when personal data is so valuable that many business models and economies are now actually built around its collection and use. To prevent or at least discourage abuse, governments...
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Bug temporarily unblocked Facebook and Messenger users
MANILA, Philippines - Facebook disclosed a bug that randomly unblocked people from a user’s blocked list in a blog post published last Monday.Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, wrote to let...
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Samsung Messages bug randomly sending photos to contacts – reports
MANILA, Philippines - In a time of data leaks and privacy breaches, nothing is more unsettling than finding out that your photos are being shared to your contacts without your permission. This is...
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HTC to lay off 1,500 employees
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan's struggling smartphone maker HTC announced Tuesday, July 3, it would slash 1,500 jobs, around a fifth of its total workforce, in the biggest staff cull in three years following...
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Sky lowers unlimited 5Mbps fiber plan to P999 monthly
MANILA, Philippines – Broadband service provider Sky decreased the monthly subscription rate for its unlimited 5Mbps fiber broadband plan from P1,299 monthly to P999 monthly. Sky calls it "the lowest...
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