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The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) launched a major new report at its Global Summit in Manila today, to help the sector’s stakeholders understand how cyber resilience is shaping the Travel & Tourism sector and plan for a safer and more robust future.

More than two years into the pandemic, organizations in the Philippines are now slowly going back to their offices. With Metro Manila and most parts of the country now on Alert Level 1 the most lenient restrictions set by the authorities amid the current health crisis, companies are starting to require their employees to return to offices using hybrid work arrangements.

Kingston FURY, a division of Kingston Technology, a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, continues its stride of connecting gamers to their passion with the inauguration of the world’s first Kingston FURY Gaming Lab at its APAC office in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. Demonstrating Kingston’s commitment in creating a comprehensive gaming ecosystem. The new Kingston FURY Gaming Lab integrates compelling gaming solutions and technology by bringing visitors an immersive experience that links Kingston FURY’s memory and storage solutions with real-life applications.

A medical student’s best friend is often caffeine as training to be a physician entails long study hours and overnight call duties. This habit of drinking coffee for energy boosts led to the launch of digital coffee shop start-up MD Brews; it started with Abbygale Lumanglas who read transcriptions and studied presentations with a cup of coffee always by her side. Lumanglas and her partner, Gabriel Jorge Habunal, aptly coined the name of their caffeine haven “MD Brews” a mix of the title “Doctor of Medicine” and the process that produces a delightful beverage. Today, they also share their joy through cloud logistics partner LOCAD who reliably and efficiently delivers little bags of caffeine, coffee syrup, and other home barista necessities to their customers’ doorsteps.

It’s no secret that today’s generation desires a phone that can handle anything. A high quality camera, fast refresh rate and connection, wide-screen display, long battery life, and stellar device performance are the boxes to tick when scouting for a new device. Luckily the new motorola edge 30 pro guarantees these and more to meet what users need.

Over the past few months, LG Philippines has been collecting entries for the first ever local iteration of the LG Ambassador Challenge. The initiative, which was started with Korea Friends of Hope International, is a first in the Philippines and affirms LG’s commitment to help deliver sustainable growth to local communities in the country. After reviewing all the entries, LG selected ‘Ride for Hope’ by Bahay Aruga and ‘Roof for Siargao’ by Red Charity Gala. 

Elon Musk will buy Twitter for $44 billion.

The Philippine Ports Authority’s (PPA) nearly P900 million Trusted Operator Program-Container Registry and Monitoring System (TOP-CRMS) and Empty Container Storage Shared Service Facility (ECSSSF) will empower the logistics industry, particularly Customs brokers and truckers, to work more efficiently.

Summer paydays are exciting because this is when you can fully plan out upcoming vacations and get-togethers. It’s also the perfect time to check out the best online deals to complete your essentials and upgrade your lifestyle.

The global live video streaming market already reached an estimated US$43B in 2020 and is projected to grow at the rate of 28.1% per year — estimated to be worth US$247B by 2027. In Southeast Asia alone, there are more than 1.4 million social media conversations around livestream shopping since 2021 — a 213% jump from the 2020 data.

Thinking of a unique way to promote your presidential bet? CHERRY made it a lot easier for you. Stand out and go all out with the Cherry Ion (Limited Edition) – Presidential Collection. This collection showcases the logos of five different presidential aspirants: Senator Ping Lacson, Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos, Mayor Isko Moreno, Senator Manny Pacquiao, and Vice President Leni Robredo. 

Leading on-demand delivery platform Lalamove has partnered with PayMaya to introduce a new option for users to top-up their Lalamove wallets via the mobile app.

It has definitely been a whirlwind journey for three-year-old tech brand realme. Clinching the top spot in the local Canalys and IDC smartphone sell-in rankings for 2021, the brand continues to prove its strength in the industry as it aims to become the tech and lifestyle companion of every Filipino.

Self-hosting your online services is gaining ground, albeit not as fast as it should, as a way to protect your data from being exploited by other companies, or by the likes of Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Tiktok and Twitter. Personally, I do have some services that I self-host, whilst others, like Medium and Micro.blog, are paid for. Part of my self-hosting requires servers at home and on the cloud. Maintaining different servers, across different providers, require a lot of inter-network communications. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to have different servers, on different networks, on a single wide area network for easier inter-network communications? Well, I stumbled upon Tailscale, a VPN service, built on top of WireGuard, that creates your own wide area network (a mesh network really, according to their documentation), which includes even servers behind firewalls.

Summer is here and our cooling products will be overworked for sure! And guess what? XTREME Appliances is not done with their exciting deals and discounts!

Actress, entrepreneur, influencer and cook Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo chose to endorse global European appliance brand Beko because its values are aligned with her own. As Beko’s first ambassador in the Philippines, Judy Ann embodies the brand’s drive and purpose to inspire people to live healthy and sustainable lifestyles.

While other telcos are one-upping each other for better, faster mobile services, NOW Telecom is on its own “war” in a bid to become a legitimate player in the business.

So this “b” and “8” character difference raises the presumption that the system code WAS tampered with. Comelec’s reaction was to issue a certification here, saying there was a typo, and it even had an attachment from their vendor Pro V&V supporting this position.