Affordable 18:9 display phones, anyone? Following the reveal of the Huawei Nova 2 Lite, it is just right to compare this new model to the ASUS ZenFone Max M1, a model that was silently unveiled at MWC 2018 together with the ZenFone 5 family. Both the Nova 2 Lite and ZenFone Max M1 have near-identical […]
The options are now on the table China Telecom has two options available to it if it ever wants to push through with its investment in the Philippines: become the third telco player or partner up with the two current telcos Globe or PLDT. This is what Department of Information and Communications Technology Eliseo Rio […]
He wants all phones sold via postpaid and prepaid lines to be open line Senator Sherwin Gatchalian wants to ban the practice of locking phones to one particular network, and ensure all phones sold by any telco capable of being used on whatever network they desire. “Every mobile user should have the right to switch […]
It’s yet another setback for the firm After Huawei’s plans to start selling their phones in the US via telco AT&T fell through at the last minute, the Chinese firm has received another setback in their plans to penetrate the country. US representative Mike Conaway (R-Texas) has just introduced a bill dubbed “Defending US Government […]
What Do You Guys Think? Two weeks ago the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) had a dialogue with Taxi operators here in the Philippines. This came after the madness which was the temporary suspension and massive fine of Uber. That dialogue bore fruit as revealed by LTFRB Chairman Martin Delgra III yesterday during […]
The divide grows between the LTFRB and Uber The Land Transportation, Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) isn’t mincing words when they said that Uber lied to senators about the insurance coverage of their passengers during the recent Senate hearing to discuss the future of TNVs. Speaking about Uber’s supposed 100% insurance coverage for its passengers, LTFRB […]
We review the ROG GX800! Insanely-specc’d notebooks with even crazier prices is fast becoming the norm nowadays. When ASUS released their twin-GPU packing, liquid-cooled ROG GX700 last year, we honestly thought it would be a one-off product, released to show off the company’s technical prowess to the public and their competitors. But here we are in […]
The Fight Against Fake News Rages On Like Hulkamania did in the 80’s, fake news sites have been increasingly running wild on us in the past several years; prompting Google and Facebook to create ways to tag fallacious websites in order for people to take the content written there with a grain of salt or […]
Is this Enough? Facebook’s anti Fake News features have started to make their way here in the Philippines. One of them is an education prompt which appears at the top of the News Feed. Upon clicking, it opens up to a quick article on how to find out if an article is “fake”. We definitely […]
What will it take to fix this mess? Everybody knows that the internet in the Philippines sucks. It’s an oft repeated adage that our internet is slow, expensive and ridiculously unreliable. While I’m one of the few people that enjoy relatively fast, first world internet at home, the minute I step out of the door, all […]
Welp. It was inevitable. About a week ago, we reported that Instagram Stories users had surpassed the number of users on SnapChat and has prompted them to begin introducing ads in between your friends photos and short clips. Facebook introduced a similar feature to their Messenger app, along with its new layout, and it seems […]
According to National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba, the Duterte government will be investing in broadband infrastructure for 2017. “This is the first time that our administration will do this kind of thing. We’ll have a broadband owned and put up by the government,” Cordoba told the Philippines News Agency. The NTC Commissioner said […]