BlackBerry AppAlert: Goal Mobile

BlackBerry smartphone users will be able to keep track of every update from this summer’s football World Cup, with a free application available for BlackBerry smartphones.

Goal Mobile, from Goal.com and Handmark, delivers everything you need to know about the World Cup, as well as football in general.

It will come in especially handy for BlackBerry users in South East Asia when many of the games will be played at inconvenient hours due to the time difference, making it tricky to watch games live on TV.

 

Kaspersky Lab reaches an agreement with Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that it has reached an agreement for a technical partnership with Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro.

“It is a great honour for us to commence a partnership with the team, world famous for its race history and huge success,” Eugene Kaspersky CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab said. “Ferrari and Kaspersky Lab share many values, such as the constant research for excellence, technological innovation and love for competition in our respective businesses.”

 

Sony Philippines mounts its first ever 3-Day BIG Sale!

Stretch your muscles, gear up, grab your wallets, rush out the door and head off to the first and biggest Sony 3-Day BIG Sale Event!

This coming May 28-30, 2010, from 10am to 9pm, at the MegaTent Events Place along Meralco Avenue in Pasig City you will be able to get the opportunity to own brand new Sony products with up to 50% discount!

 

Symantec Threat Bulletin: Search Engine Results Continue to be Poisoned

Search engine results poisoned with links to fake antivirus software have been a constant problem for Internet users. However, it is an effective way for cyber attackers to infect users’ machines.

According to Symantec’s Report on Rogue Security Software, the culprits of these “toxic” search results are typically scam perpetrators who use a range of black hat search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to poison search engine results and increase the ranking of their scam websites on search engine indexes. A rogue security software program is a misleading application that pretends to be legitimate security software, but provides the user with little or no protection. In some cases, it actually facilitates the installation of malicious code that it claims to protect against.

 

Symantec Honours Partners at the Philippines Partner Awards 2010 Ceremony

Symantec Corp. announced the eleven winners of the Symantec Philippines Partner Awards 2010 at an appreciation ceremony last May 5, 2010. The Philippines Partner Awards recognise partners for their innovative delivery of Symantec solutions and services to customers, as well as their commitment and dedication to promoting the Symantec brand in the Philippines.

The award winners were selected based on their overall performance in revenue, sales and technical specialisations and certifications, as well as competitive wins.

 

EASTERN Communications support the Automated Election System Watch (“AES Watch”) to ensure clean and honest elections

Eastern Communications and AES Watch will focus primarily on the reporting of incidences related to the automated polls that the whole country will experience for the first time on Monday, May 10. AES Watch (Automated Election System Watch) is a voluntary, independent and nonpartisan aggrupation of concerned groups and individuals monitoring the 2010 elections in the Philippines.

AES Watch uses the Ushahidi crowdsourcing information software to monitor the Philippine elections – the same platform deployed by monitoring groups for elections in India last year and in Sudan this year. EASTERN meanwhile will utilize its tier 2 Data Center and reliable and fast connectivity to support the data management and transmission requirements of the platform.

 

D-Link begins shipping Windows 7 compatible routers

D-Link, the end-to-end computer networking solutions provider for consumers and businesses, announced that it has began shipping its first routers that are compatible with the new Windows 7 operating system.

The high performance DSL-2740B Wireless N ADSL router is one of the first routers to earn the ‘Compatible with Windows 7’ logo and provides consumers with a quality user experience together with a seamless and high speed wireless connection.

 

HP Philippines Appoints New General Manager to Lead Imaging & Printing Group

HP announced that Armando Pascual has been appointed the General Manager of the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) in the Philippines effective May 3, 2010.

In his position, Pascual is responsible for IPG sales, marketing, consumer support and category management activities in the Philippines.

 

Globe and RIM introduce the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone in exciting new colors

Globe Telecom and Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone in two exciting new colors – ruby red and white. The new smartphones are expected to be available from Globe starting May 8.

The user-friendly BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a powerful multimedia and social-networking tool that customers in the Philippines have come to love. It features a full QWERTY keyboard that makes typing quick and easy. It also features dedicated media keys, which are smoothly integrated along the top of the handset giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.

 

Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia Debuts

Microsoft and Nokia launched the first application from their alliance around mobile productivity, Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia devices. This new unified communications client connects directly with a company’s communications systems to streamline mobile collaboration. Owners of a number of Symbian based Nokia Eseries smartphones can download the English version today from Nokia’s Ovi Store, the easiest place to get content on their Nokia device.

“Our alliance with Nokia aims to bring the Office productivity experience to the millions of people using Nokia smartphones around the world,” says Kirt Debique, General Manager at Microsoft. “With the arrival of Communicator Mobile for Nokia today, we have a great start to fulfilling our joint vision.”