HELSINKI—Nokia on Thursday unveiled its two cheapest cellphones to date aimed at attracting users in the low-end market as it fights increasing competition from Asian manufacturers. The Nokia 100 and 101—priced $30 (€20) and $35 (€25) respectively—will be available in the third and fourth quarters of the year. The launch comes a day after Nokia [...]
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) will likely yield to Globe Telecom’s demand that its rival, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), be stripped of some of its allegedly “excess” radio frequencies before it is allowed to take over Digitel Telecommunications Phil. NTC, the state telecom regulator, has to greenlight PLDT’s bid to acquire Digitel’s operations [...]
Some 8.7 million different species exist on Earth, though a tiny amount of those have actually been discovered and catalogued, researchers said Tuesday.
Businesses today face the challenge of getting access to the right set of tools and support to boost crucial operations through cloud computing technologies.
Even Pacman’s vaunted star power was no match against Steve Jobs and the world’s biggest company.
The Philippine Stock Exchange seeks to widen the domestic investor base by introducing a new platform that will allow stock brokers to offer online trading services without heavy investment in infrastructure.
MINNEAPOLIS— Recording industry attorneys are appealing a recent ruling that reduced the amount of money a Minnesota woman must pay for willfully violating the copyrights of 24 songs. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis ruled last month that the $1.5 million penalty imposed by a jury was unreasonable, and that Jammie Thomas-Rasset of Brainerd should instead [...]
Hollywood studio Miramax on Monday began making some of its films available for online viewing as rentals at social networking powerhouse Facebook.
SYDNEY, Australia – Australian scientists gazing billions of years back in time with powerful radio telescopes on Monday warned that the universe’s lights — the stars — were quite literally running out of gas. Robert Braun, astronomy and space chief at Australia’s government science agency Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), said about one-third [...]
As if it has just awakened from a deep slumber and in a hurry to make up for lost time, Sony Ericsson has been very aggressive in releasing new mobile phone models, mostly Android-based, since early this year. In the Philippines, for instance, it is scheduled to launch six handset models in the next three [...]
People are only just starting to understand new technological trends such as virtualization and cloud computing, when along comes a phenomenon called “Big Data.” That trend doesn’t really focus on burgeoning content or data encouraged by all those cloud activities. Big Data is all about tools and processes that allow organizations to manage and analyze [...]
This is one headphone you should be very cautious of when wearing in public. Why? Because it draws attention like a pair of glittering 60-carat diamond earrings or a red multimillion-peso convertible sports car. As the wearer, you can’t ignore its hefty size and certainly the thick extra cushy faux-leather paddings. Indeed, there’s nothing low-profile [...]
Technology is now part of everyday life. So it comes as no surprise to hear that classrooms will soon be retooled to reflect advances in technology. Recently, Dell came out with what it called “Connected Classrooms,” doing away with blackboards, chalk, charts and other teaching aids traditionally used to mold young minds. Dell envisions 30 [...]
