
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announced that students from the Philippines bested 12 other finalists from various countries in the recently concluded regional preliminary round of the Kaspersky Lab Asia Pacific and Middle East, Africa (MEA) Cup2012, an annual event that brings together students and young professionals from around the world in a collaborative environment to present and discuss issues relating to cybercrime.
The research papers presented by team leaders 21-year old Joshua Arvin Lat and 19-year old Ranyel Bryan Maliwanag won the first and second prizes, respectively, at the conference held on March 14 to 16 at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), a leading university in Asia in professional education and research.
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Tags: Anti-virus, contest, Joshua Arvin Lat, Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Lab’s student conference, Ranyel Bryan Maliwanag

Would you like your own composition to be featured in millions of Nokia phones around the world?
You now have the chance as Nokia, the global leader in mobile communicaitons, launches Regional Ringtones, Designed by You, a regional crowdsourcing competition for people to create ringtones that are relevant to their specific regions.
Nokia believes in the importance of a thriving local music culture while providing locally relevant content to its customers around the world. Nokia prides itself on maintaining this principle and drive over the years, and now Nokia is empowering everyone to have a shot at creating these ringtones for themselves, and giving participants a unique opportunity to have their work featured on millions of Nokia handsets.
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Tags: Audio Draft, contest, music, Nokia, Nokia ringtones, Regional Ringtones Designed by You, ringtones

Show your love for the QWERTY this time by dancing! With Nokia’s “Do the QWERTY” Facebook promo, Nokianatics get a chance to win the new Nokia Asha 302 by doing their own version of the ‘Do the QWERTY’ Dance as shown in the Nokia TVC.
The contest is open to all Nokianatics with a Facebook account. All you have to do is make a short video of yourself or your friends showing your own Do the QWERTY Dance based on the TVC. Your video should be 30 to 90 seconds long only and must be in MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, or 3GP format.
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Tags: Asha 302, contest, Nokia, Nokia Asha, qwerty, QWERTY Dance promo

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) now have the chance to avail of the latest software for free as Microsoft Philippines rolls out a promo from February 6 to March 31, 2012, open to all Philippine-registered SMEs whose operations run on 5-249 computers.
Interested participants must register at www.itworks.ph, complete all requested information and upload a one- to two-minute video stating their company name, nature of business and why their business needs an upgrade (I.e. Outdated software, manual operations, etc.). Contestants should then share their videos with as many people as possible.
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Tags: contest, IT Works, microsoft philippines, office 2010, Small Business Server Essentials, SME's, Windows 7

Do you have a unique app idea waiting to be developed? Join the Xtreme Java: National Inter-School Mobile App Development Challenge and have your creations published on Nokia mobile phones and win your share of cash and prizes worth P150,000!
Xtreme Java is a mobile app development competition among universities and colleges in the Philippines organized by De La Salle University, in collaboration with Nokia. It allows college-level students, in teams of 2-3 members with 1 mentor, to develop and publish their own utility game and location-based applications and receive great prizes.
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Tags: competition, contest, De La Salle University, Java, Java ME, mobile app, Nokia, Nokia Store, Xtreme Java App
Microsoft, in partnership with Warner Studio Southeast Asia, is giving away tickets to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 only with Windows Live.
To join, participants must visit the contest webpage http://harrypotter.savesocialenergy.com/ and register with their name, age, contact number, country of residence and enter their Hotmail/MSN/Live e-mail address to receive an e-mail confirming the submission of their entries.
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Tags: contest, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, microsoft, movie premier, promo, Windows Live