The National Privacy Commission (NPC) will hold a meeting on Thursday, September 1, with local telecommunication operators (telcos) to discuss about a possible data leak. Representatives of Smart, Globe, DITO, as well as the National Telecommunications Commission will meet tomorrow to explain the barrage of text messages that many mobile users are experiencing right now. […]
After creating much noise on the internet, the whole Twitter debacle has finally come to a sound conclusion. Despite the owners’ initial defensive maneuvers against a takeover, Elon Musk has officially bought the Twitter application for a hefty sum of 44 billion USD or whereabouts. He then took to the platform to voice out some […]
After Congress approves the SIM Registration Act, the Senate approved the said bill, voting 21-0-0 on the third and final reading. Known as SB 2395, the proposed SIM Card Registration Act will require all mobile phone users to register their SIM cards with their respective telco providers. Failure to do so would mean having their […]
As the country has to deal with the surge of scammers and cybercrime incidents, PLDT and Smart revealed their latest efforts towards thwarting them. This includes PLDT blocking at least 15,000 suspicious mobile numbers and at least 60 web domains that are directly involved with the job offering SMS scam. To recap, this scam involves […]
Facebook claims they’ve been spamming the platform Facebook today has announced they have banned Twinmark Media Enterprises, the entity behind several big Facebook pages in the Philippines, from their platform for repeatedly violating the social media platform’s misrepresentation and spam policies. Facebook removed around 220 pages, 73 accounts plus 29 Instagram accounts related to the […]
The Bank of the Philippine Islands’ advisory on updated client information has generated quite a stir online, and rightly so, since there was a lot of confusion on how many people the advisory affected. The bank has since sent a statement via Facebook that clarifies the advisory, saying that only a “limited number” of individuals are […]
Meet the Best Smartphone Under 5k? In a market currently being dominated by low-cost octa-core devices, you would probably dismiss the Cherry Mobile One if you will just base the value of the device on it’s specifications. However after using this phone as our primary device for well over a month we can say without […]
Here’s the awesome new features of Android 5.0 Lollipop that we can’t wait to use So Google finally announced that Android 5.0 is Android Lollipop. The company said that the update is probably their biggest ever, and are implementing tons of new changes and features for the Android OS. Aside from the pretty looking material […]
After the NTC issued a letter to Globe asking them to explain the multiple complaints brought about by the recent strict enforcement of their Fair Use Policy, we now have official statements from both telcos about the issue. Globe: We’ll Work Closely with NTC on Fair Use Policy Implementation Globe underwent a massive network modernization […]
Uniliever was gracious enough to give us some gift packs of their Dove +Men Care products to share with the Unbox community. So in the spirit of Unbox generosity we’re raffling them away! Each gift pack contains the Body Wash, Body Bar, and Deo Spray (around Php550 in total value). Mechanics below: Before anything else, […]