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Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 3 for Business and Surface Pro 7 for Business in the Philippines

New Surface for Business device line-up will offer enterprise and education institution customers unparalleled versatility, greater performance, enterprise-grade security and modern management Microsoft today announced that Surface Pro 7 for Business and Surface Laptop 3 for Business are now available in the Philippines for enterprise and education institution customers via Surface Authorized Commercial Resellers Phil-Data Business Systems, Inc., Nexus Technologies Inc., Accent Micro Technologies Inc., Advance Solutions Inc., and ePLDT Inc. at a starting price of PHP 72,990.00 (VAT ex). Microsoft Surface for Business products are especially designed to fit into the modern workplace. From light and agile devices that presents users the ability to work independently almost anywhere, to devices that can help the most of virtual meetings, Surface has a solution designed for every worker’s needs. Designed with mobile productivity at its core, the latest Surface for Business line-up will f

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MSI Launches New Laptops for Business Professionals in the Philippines

MSI enters the business laptop space with its new Business and Productivity lineup MSI, a world leader in producing high performance and innovative laptops, unveils its latest roster of laptops in the Philippine market: The "Business & Productivity" notebooks: The Summit, Prestige, and Modern series. These new offerings are MSI’s response to the changing and growing need for machines that balance the power and value MSI is known for with the daily requirements of its customers. It is also MSI’s attempt to cater to the overwhelming shift to remote work and distance learning caused by the pandemic. Each series is designed and engineered to meet differing requirements and needs of various users – from business professionals and students to creative artists and content creators – while staying true to the brand’s highly-regarded build and design qualities. “Leveraging on our gaming DNA, MSI’s new Business and Productivity laptops reflect years of research and development, customer feedb

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Kingston Ships Double Versatility, Dual-Interface DataTraveler Duo USB Flash Drive

Dual Connector Accommodates USB Type-A and Type-C® Ports Sturdy and Reliable Dual Slider with Capless Design Kingston Technology, a world leader of memory products and technology solutions, today announces the addition of the DataTraveler® Duo to its family of double versatility, dual-interface USB flash drives. DataTraveler Duo provides ultimate flexibility for users with newer and legacy devices. DataTraveler Duo features dual USB connectors that work with both standard USB Type-A and USB Type-C ports to easily share files between laptops, desktops and mobile devices. The dual-interface drive is also ideal as extra storage with 32GB and 64GB capacities. The USB 3.2 Gen 1 speeds allow users to easily access and transfer documents, photos, videos, music and more. Dual sliding caps protect the connectors when not in use. DT Duo is the latest addition to the Duo family of plug-and-play drives that complement mobile needs: DataTraveler microDuo 3C (DTDUO3C): Dual interface that

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Jabra launches compact true wireless ANC solutions with new Elite 85t earbuds 

Jabra’s latest addition to its award-winning compact true wireless earbuds portfolio hits the Philippine market this 2020 holiday season with the Jabra Elite 85t. One of the smallest earbuds that offers Advanced Active Noise Cancellation (ANC)TM, the Elite 85t is built on Jabra’s innovative track record and does not compromise on discreet design, the user’s comfort, the overall quality of calls or music experience. “At Jabra we engineer products for purpose and today we are proud to show that our commitment to ANC is no exception. Our users today are looking for great things in small packages, so we are thrilled to offer the Jabra Elite 85t which sports our best-in-class ANC in a very compact and sleek design,” states René Svendsen-Tune, CEO at Jabra. “We are also excited to take our current Jabra users on the ANC journey with us with a free upgrade from their existing Elite 75t products – leading the charge as the first global brand to execute this over-the-air update. For us, ANC

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MediaTek Announces New MT8192 and MT8195 Chipsets Designed for Next Generation of Chromebooks

New chipsets to power premium and mainstream Chromebooks and enhance computing experiences MediaTek today unveiled its MT8192 and MT8195 chipsets for the next generation of Chromebooks. With the 7nm MT8192 for mainstream devices and the 6nm MT8195 for premium devices, brands can design powerful, sleek and lightweight Chromebooks that deliver longer battery life and incredible computing experiences from video conferencing and streaming video to cloud gaming and AI-powered applications. “Chromebooks are seeing an unprecedented surge in popularity as more people work remotely and take online classes. MediaTek already powers some of the most popular Chromebooks on the market, and will continue to improve and drive user experiences forward with our new chipsets,” said Jerry Yu, Corporate Senior Vice President at MediaTek. “The MT8192 and MT8195 give brands more features to design powerful Chromebooks with innovative form factors that can flip, fold or detach, are slim and lightweight, and

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NVIDIA Powers Vast Majority of TOP500 Supercomputers, Wins #1 GREEN500

The latest TOP500 list shows that NVIDIA’s GPUs and networking are increasingly being used to accelerate the world’s fastest supercomputers. Nearly 70 percent of the systems, including 8 of the top 10, are powered by NVIDIA technology. NVIDIA’s own Selene supercomputer -- powered with new NVIDIA DGX A100 640GB systems and NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand -- ranks as the world’s fifth fastest supercomputer. On the accompanying GREEN500 list, which measures the energy efficiency of the TOP500 systems, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD took first place. More details in the blog post by NVIDIA titled Changing Times: How the World’s TOP500 Supercomputers Don’t Just Have to Be Fast, But Smart The world’s fastest supercomputers aren’t just faster than ever. They’re smarter and support a greater variety of workloads, too. Nearly 70 percent of the machines, including eight of the top 10, on the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, released today at SC20, are powered by NVIDIA technol

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NVIDIA Advances AI and Supercomputing at SC20

NVIDIA announced at the SC20 supercomputing conference new products that deliver unmatched speed and performance for AI and scientific breakthroughs. They include: NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU - New NVIDIA data centre GPU features twice the memory and over 2 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth to help researchers unlock the next wave of AI and scientific breakthroughs. NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and NVIDIA DGX A100 640GB - The world’s first petascale workgroup server for AI and data science that plugs in anywhere, DGX Station A100 packs four of the new A100 80GB GPUs. See what’s inside in the video available here. GPU memory capacity doubles in the new DGX A100 640GB -- the world’s most advanced AI platform -- to tackle the largest data centre AI, HPC and data science workloads with eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs per system. NVIDIA Mellanox 400G InfiniBand - Seventh generation of Mellanox InfiniBand doubles data throughput with NDR 400Gb/s and adds new NVIDIA In-Network Computing engines to prov

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Kingston Launches New DataTraveler USB Drives in Philippines

Kingston Technology, a world leader of memory products and technology solutions, today announced the launch of two Type-A USB drives: the high-performance DataTraveler Kyson and value-driven DataTraveler Exodia. Both drives feature fashionable new looks and practical functionalities to fulfill the on-the-go storage needs. DataTraveler Kyson is a high-performance Type-A USB flash drive for professional and business use, featuring extremely fast transfer speed of up to 200MB/s read and 60MB/s write1 which allows for quick file transfers, and up to 256GB capacity for extra data storage. With stylish and durable metal casing and key ring loop, which makes it easy to carry on-the-go, while the capless design saves you the trouble of losing a cap. DataTraveler Exodia is a value-driven Type-A USB flash drive for light users, featuring USB 3.2 Gen 1 performance (up to 10x faster than USB 2.0) and up to 256GB capacity. With lightweight design and colorful key ring loop by capacity, it is idea

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What happens when free Google Photos storage is no longer free?

Just this Wednesday, Google Photos announced it will stop offering free unlimited storage for high-quality photos on June 1, 2021. Photos uploaded after the date will be counted towards the 15GB Drive cap. If the account is inactive or exceed the 15GB limitation for two years, Google may delete the photos after warning. Users will either need to pay for a recurring fee or look for an alternative if they run out of room. As such change of policy projected to affect more than 1 billion users worldwide, many may start to wonder what they are ought to do with their existing or any other photos that are taken going forward. Several remedies are available in the market at the moment, such as shifting towards other cloud storage services that offer freemium models, or simply upgrading google storage plan. Though most of the tier-1 public cloud storage vendors such as OneDrive, Amazon Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud offer certain amount of free storage space, none of them exceeds Google’s whopping

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Globe network performance pulls up in Opensignal latest report

Working from home, homeschooling, and by large, the effect of staying at home during the pandemic has resulted in an increase in mobile apps and mobile games usage among Filipinos. This amounts to more time spent online and on mobile devices, thus increasing demand for telcos to deliver consistent network improvements. Globe has been working in parallel to meet the needs of its customers. According to the Philippines Mobile Network Experience November 2020 report[1] by Opensignal, Globe leads the market in Voice App Experience, also jointly winning in Games Experience. Overall, Globe has been consistently improving data experience since 2017 [2]. The telco has also pushed past the 80% 4G availability score, improving by 14.5 percentage points. According to the report[1], customers in Metro Manila spend almost 90% of their time connected to 4G services, and have reported their highest average overall download speeds at 10.3 Mbps. Given the difficult circumstances and the operator’s

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