January 23, 2012
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
Research In Motion Co-CEO’s Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis just stepped down and the board has named COO Thorsten Heins as the new CEO and President of the company. Mike also stepped down as Chairman and will serve instead as Vice-Chairman of the Board. Jim will still be director of the company (but in a [...]
December 21, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
As a blogger on technology, new media, and trends I always try to explore as many gadget ecosystems as possible. I’ve been immersed in the world of Apple and iOS for the last few years so I decided to get find out what Android had to offer. I’ve tried several Android handsets including the Smart [...]
January 16, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
I can still remember getting my first BlackBerry 2 years ago. It was the BlackBerry Bold 9000. It just launched here in the Philippines and I picked it as my “free” handset from my Smart Infinity postpaid plan. I remember marveling at the gorgeous and classy design of the phone. I slept late that night [...]
January 8, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
Gadgets are being churned out by companies at an alarming rate. It was just a few months ago when Steve Jobs announced the iPad and we’re now being swarmed by different kinds of tablets, smart phones, and other mobile devices offered by great companies like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Microsoft, Motorola, ASUS, HTC, and Research In [...]
January 6, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 is currently on-going in the US right now. Global tech companies are all trying to raise awareness and hype for their new products coming this year. It wasn’t actually a surprise that the main focus for this year’s event would be on smart phones and especially tablets given the [...]
December 12, 2010
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Posted by: Dodge Ronquillo
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Name: Dodge Ronquillo
Email: dodgeronquillo113@gmail.com
Site: http://dodgepodge.wordpress.com
About: Dodge Ronquillo is currently working as a Business Development Specialist for a local online game publisher. Aside from being a corporate dude, he's also a part time physically active guy and a budding entrepreneur. Oh, and don't let the corporate look fool you, that only happens once in a while, as needed. Read more about him at http://www.dodgepodge.wordpress.com.See Authors Posts (12)
The Blackberry Curve 9300 (3G) is an awesome experience in a pretty basic phone. It is RIM’s newest entry level Blackberry, so it only works to impress those who have not been “Berried”. After trying this out for a week I can now say that I have been “Berried”. The Good I don’t like having [...]
December 2, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 still isn’t available here in the Philippines but I heard that some of the telcos will start selling it starting December. As most of you guys know I got my hands on a review unit and I’ve been heavily using the Torch as my primary phone over the long weekend. Allow [...]
November 27, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
I’m currently testing out RIM’s new BlackBerry Torch 9800 and so far his handset has really impressed me. The new BlackBerry 6 Operating System is miles better than the previous BlackBerry OS. One of the main features of the new OS 6 is the Social Feeds application. It’s basically a unified alerts system for various [...]
November 20, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
After Research In Motion (RIM) launched the BlackBerry Torch 9800 I’ve been getting messages asking me if it’s better than the iPhone 4. I obviously can’t say because I don’t own a BlackBerry Torch 9800 nor have I ever had the time to play around with one for more than a few minutes. What I [...]
October 28, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced the global launch of their newest smart phone: the BlackBerry Bold 9780. Based on the pictures and videos available, the 9780 looks like a more elegant and classier version of the BlackBerry Bold 9700. It also packs new features and the most noticeable is the change of operating systems. [...]
July 13, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
As most of you know I’m a huge fan of BlackBerry smartphones. I usually answer e-mail on-the-go and this allows be to get back to clients faster. However, I noticed one major issue that I haven’t really thought about until a few days ago that I wanted to share with everyone. Mobile e-mail solutions are [...]
June 28, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
A few days ago we officially launched the Apple Manila blog for Filipino fans of Apple products. Today we’re launching a new blog – BlackBerry Manila! I’m a huge fan of RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones and I literally cannot live with my BlackBerry Bold since it helps me get things done faster especially since I’m on-the-go [...]
June 15, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently complained on his profile about the iPhone 3GS (I don’t know why he couldn’t wait for the iPhone 4 though). In his status update, Zuckerberg said that “I got four chargers so I can keep it charged everywhere I go and a land line so I can actually make phone [...]
June 10, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
I’ve been seeing more Filipinos using BlackBerry smart phones in the past few weeks. I’ve been itching to see some sort of mobile phone study where we actually get to see the market share of Apple, RIM, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and the rest of the mobile phone manufacturers in the country. Anyway, I’ve been [...]
June 9, 2010
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Posted by: Carlo Ople
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Name: Carlo Ople
Email: oplecarlo@gmail.com
Site: http://newmedia.com.ph
About: Carlo is the founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst Interactive Marketing Inc., a digital marketing agency. He's handled varied clients from politicians, SME's, to multinationals. Prior to Catalyst, Carlo was the Digital Marketing Manager of Friendster and he was also the Casual Games Division Marketing Head for Level Up Philippines.See Authors Posts (852)
I got an e-mail from the PR firm handling RIM’s BlackBerry yesterday and I was really fascinated with the news. They recently uploaded two free themes that were localized and Filipino themed. This is in celebration of our upcoming independence day on June 12. The first theme is called “Philippines Pride” which uses images of [...]