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Portability: Keeping your mobile number (First of two parts)

Some 60 million of the country’s 100 or so million citizens own mobile phones, and about half that number of mobile phone users are smartphone owners. You could say the country called the “text and selfie capital” of the world is a place...

The Digital Pinoy and Argomall

The archipelagic nature of the Philippines, its terrain and its climate pose a challenge to delivering items purchased over Argomall’s website, chief Argonaut Karel Holub said. Yet he sees a promising online shopping market in the Philippines, one that has not yet reached...

Life enhancers: carrots, coconuts and sweet potatoes

Choose your food wisely and add years to your life,” authors Charlotte Hilton Andersen and Jenn Sinrich wrote in Reader’s Digest. And among the list of anti-aging foods are three of the most common, easily sourced food in the country.  Carrot There’s an old Polish saying that...

iPhone Xs and Xs Max, now available in Power Mac Center

Power Mac Center, the premier Apple partner in the country, recently welcomed the arrival of iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, and Apple Watch Series 4 with a midnight launch party at its flagship store in Greenbelt 3. Customers in line were given starter...

Touring America’s oldest city

A few days after I arrived in Florida, my sister, Marilou T. Eplite, told me during our dinner: “We will be going to St. Augustine tomorrow.” It is, she added, the oldest city in North America.  Really? I thought to myself. I did some research...

Security just got ‘smarter’

In the digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) is technology that has begun to revolutionize how we live, work and play. AI is offering businesses the prospect of increased productivity and innovation, while at the same time also enabling society to help solve some...

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Villa Escudero: Of fascinating delights and hidden acts of kindness

When you look through a website or magazine at the parts of Villa Escudero—riding on buses pulled by carabaos, eating your food with your...

India election body struggles with scale of fake information

BHIMTAL, India (AP) — When India's Election Commission announced last month that its code of conduct would have to be followed by social media...

Fruitas goes cashless with GCash

  After making department store and convenience store purchases a breeze using cashless payments, Globe announced that its mobile wallet payment platform GCash is now...

Education chief leads Brigada Eskwela sa Biliran

BILIRAN– Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones stressed the significance of regaining normalcy in education in Biliran after Tropical Storm Urduja hit Eastern Visayas. Recognizing the...