December 22, 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)
A report came out yesterday talking about the different prices of LTE (4G) in different countries all over the world. This is relevant news for us since SMART is working on rolling out their LTE service in 2012 (or 2013, nobody really knows). We’re currently part of the beta test and to say that this [...]
December 21, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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 [...]
November 27, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Ever since MVP’s speech during the Ad Congress I’ve wanted to break down some of his major points. I’ve been wanting to do this commentary for the longest time now but I’ve been really busy with work, family, and Unbox. Now that I’m sick at home though I have all the time do work on [...]
November 7, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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 posted a story saying that international group Akamai pegged the average Filipino internet speed at 1.2 Mbps. This already raised a lot of eyebrows because people felt it was much lower. However it looks like the 1.2 Mbps peg is still low. Senator Allan Peter Cayetano just said that the [...]
October 25, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Smart unveiled their logo during the BEP concert here in Manila. It think it’s a fitting place to do so because the band and the event represents everything that the new logo tries to communicate. The old logo of Smart felt and looked very corporate, stiff, and traditional. Those are the characteristics that you shouldn’t [...]
October 9, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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 was checking the SMART website because I’m going through the different phones they’re offering for postpaid for my office/professional line. One banner caught my eye though. They posted a simple tribute to Steve Jobs via a banner on their rotating header. They also put another banner with his “crazy rebels” quote at the lower [...]
October 8, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
SMART has 2 HSPA+ products out in the market today – the Smart Bro Rocket Plug-it and the Smart Bro Rocket WiFi plus. Both run on a prepaid model. To use you’ll have to pay Php200 for every 180MB of usage. I was definitely perplexed with the rates because I know I wouldn’t be able [...]
October 1, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage in New York to present the three new Kindles: Kindle Touch, Kindle, and Kindle Fire. What got everybody’s attention though was the very low price point for these products. The non-touch Kindle sells for just $79 while the Kindle Fire Tablet goes for $199. [...]
August 12, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Credit card fraud is very much real here in the Philippines. A lot of us think that this is an issue that’s far away in the US where a lot of people use credit cards but there are unscrupulous individuals and groups here in Manila that try their best to steal your identity so they [...]
August 2, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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 think it’s safe to say that the world is getting flooded with choices for smartphones. A few months ago RIM announced they would be releasing 7 new phones with the BlackBerry 7 OS this year. Today HTC just revealed they are going to unveil 8 new phones in the third quarter. Apple is also [...]
July 31, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Smart is all set to launch their HSPA+ network with the new Smart Bro Rocket Plug-it. This new product is their response to Globe’s Tonino Lamborghini Tattoo Stick. The Smart Bro Rocket Plug-it’s entry to the market puts Smart ahead since they will now be able to offer both HSPA+ and LTE. HSPA+ Prepaid Kits! [...]
July 23, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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 National Telecommunications Commission is finally doing something about the numerous complaints of consumers about slow broadband speeds here in the Philippines. Hopefully within August Telcos will now have to put the guaranteed minimum speed of their internet services in their marketing collaterals. Now the focus won’t be on the ridiculous “Up to speeds” anymore. [...]
June 23, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Telcos in the Philippines have been heralding the arrival of super fast internet via 4G since 2 years ago. We were able to test Smart’s LTE (Evolution) service in Boracay and Dusit Hotel where we saw up to 40mbps. I’ve been testing the Globe 4G Tattoo Tonino Lambogrhini Stick over the last few days and [...]
June 3, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was pawned big time by Walt Mossberg during the D Conference held on June 2, 2011. Narayen said that Adobe Flash was a huge success being adopted by over 130 million mobile devices by the end of the year. This was countered by Mossberg when he said that he hasn’t tested [...]
June 3, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Microsoft recently previewed Windows 8 to the world. It’s a radically new OS that unifies the tablet, phone, and desktop/laptop. Instead of the traditional desktop icons and the legendary lower left hand corner “Start” button, Microsoft adapted the “Tiles” look and functionality from their Windows 7 Mobile OS. From the initial peek, we can say [...]
May 25, 2011
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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)
Why go to the beach just to go online? A friend asked me this after I told her I went to Boracay to check out the new Smart Evolution LTE internet connection. The internet and the beach didn’t used to get along. But I haven’t seen them get along as well as fish and chips [...]
March 29, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Digitel’s parent company, JG Summit Holdings, disclosed yesterday to the PSE that they’re going to give up 51.55% in Digitel to PLDT. The deal will be share-swap and JG Summit Holdings will acquire 12.8% in PLDT shares. Total equity value of the entire transaction a whopping P74.1 Billion. This is definitely one of the most [...]
February 25, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Starting this week we’ll be posting weekly tech recaps. Basically we’ll be posting links to articles in the realm of gadgets and technology that we believe will be interesting for everyone here. We’re calling this “Tech Friday Updates”. For this week the big news really is all about Apple. Next week they’ll be announcing the [...]
February 16, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
HTC announced two Android powered phones with a built-in Facebook button in the hardware during the Mobile World Congress 2011. The two phones are the HTC Salsa and the HTC Chacha. The difference is that the Salsa has no keyboard while the Chacha has one. So what does the Facebook button do? According to HTC [...]
February 14, 2011
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Posted by: Carlo OplecloseAuthor: Carlo Ople
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)
Smart Communications recently announced a new Android 2.2 Froyo OS powered smartphone that they will push in the Philippines called the Netphone. A lot of people started asking if Smart actually built this thing from the ground up or did they just purchase the hardware license so they can rebrand it similar to the PLDT [...]
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