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Eastern Communications's rebranding campaign feted

Eastern Communications took home a Quill for their Our Strong Connection Campaign at the recently concluded 16th Philippine Quill Awards at the Marriott Grand Ballroom. Its entry, Eastern Communications’ Our Strong Connection – The Internal Campaign of Eastern Communications Re-branding received an Award of Merit in the Communication Management Division under Internal Communication Category. Organized by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), the Philippine Quill Awards recognizes communication agencies and companies for achieving the highest Global Standard for business communication practices and setting the standards of excellence. Eastern Communications relaunched its brand through the “Our Strong Connection” campaign last year. The campaign’s clarion call was to “bring back the human connection in the business of communications technology” and highlighted its unique brand of “high tech and high touch” service. High tech and high touch is Eastern Commun

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HP fights fake with free Customer Delivery Inspection

With the continuous proliferation of counterfeit products and supplies such as ink and toners cartridges in the market, HP Philippines further endeavors to help protect businesses against using possible fake products by offering free Customer Delivery Inspection (CDI). The HP Customer Delivery Inspections are onsite examination of large or medium-sized deliveries of printing supplies which are suspected to contain counterfeits. The checks are conducted by HP anti-counterfeiting and fraud experts, upon the request of customers. The inspections are meant to protect business operations from the impacts of using poor quality fake printing products and supplies such as substandard print-outs, stalled printing jobs and damaged printers which can interrupt workflow and incur additional costs. HP customers who notice suspicious bids in tenders or believe a delivery to contain suspicious products can request for an examination by filling out a Customer Delivery Inspection request form and em

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Microsoft's Inspire 2018 opens doors for business growth

Organizations around the world are undergoing transformation fueled by cloud, artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and the Internet of Things. These technologies are helping businesses and society reach new heights – retail is becoming more personal, banking is becoming more seamless, and healthcare is becoming more predictive and preventive. At the heart of these incredible stories of transformation – and more – are Microsoft partners. The Microsoft partner ecosystem is a group of hundreds of thousands of organizations driving positive, global impact. Building everything from line-of-business apps to industry-specific solutions on Dynamics 365 to gaming experiences, these companies are a natural extension of the team at Microsoft, delivering cutting-edge technology to millions of customers. Microsoft sees its partner’s success as its own and is squarely focused on delivering a true, two-way partnership with its partner network. In this year’s Inspire 2018, Microsoft announced new

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BFF Talks links arts, business, and eco conservation

Meet Niccolo Jose and Jen Horn. One is an artist and woodworker; the other, a community engagement consultant and staunch proponent for sustainable lifestyle. Together, they are forest conservation advocates and certified BFFs of the Best Friends of the Forest Movement (BFF Movement). Faced with the combined threats of land development, logging activities, and mining projects in areas such as Palawan, Sierra Madre, Samar and Leyte, and Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental, the BFF Movement was launched last March 2018, to gather a community of young, action-oriented environmentalists, travelers, social entrepreneurs, and artists who aim to inspire people to be advocates of forest conservation and protection. The Movement held its very first BFF Talks entitled Creation, Conservation, and Communities, with the BFFs, Niccolo and Jen, exploring their roles as creators in promoting and empowering environmental efforts. Delving into this theme as the BFF representing the Arts & Culture passion p

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NZXT announces acquisition of software firm Forge

NZXT announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based Forge, a pioneer in creating tools for capturing and sharing PC gameplay. Both companies were founded with the goal of developing the PC as the most immersive, most social gaming platform. Under the terms of the acquisition which closed on July 3, 2018, Forge’s staff is joining the NZXT team in a variety of engineering and management roles. Johnny Hou, NZXT’s founder, will continue in his current role as President and CEO. Jared Kim, founder of Forge, will assume the role of Vice President, Software at NZXT. Financial details of the deal are not available. A vision for the future NZXT has long been a proponent of the “smart PC” – a hardware platform driven by integrated software that removes the friction from building, managing, and using a PC. Setting up a gaming PC for optimal performance—everything from cooling to overclocking—has long been done manually, with knowledge gained through experience or study (or both).  With the ad

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Synology intros Active Backup and SRS in PH

Synology today introduced to the Philippine market its newest products that are primarily targeted toward SMBs and SMEs: the Active Backup Suite and Synology Replacement Service (SRS). Active Backup for Business Described as a complete business backup solution, the Active Backup Suite is comprised of Active Backup for Business, and Active Backup for G Suite and Office 365. The Active Backup for Business provides protection for various workloads from PCs, Windows and Linux servers, and virtual machines through one centralized console on a single Synology NAS. It supports incremental backup, global deduplication, and versatile ways of data restoration. Integrated with Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), Active Backup for Business enables users to replicate a production environment for a temporary disaster site. Meanwhile, the Active Backup for G Suite allows businesses to control and protect corporate data stored on the G Suite by backing up and centralizing it to Synology NAS, w

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IDC sees rise in AI adoption among ASEAN countries

A recent survey conducted by leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC titled IDC Asia/Pacific Enterprise Cognitive/AI highlights that AI adoption in the region is on the rise. Current AI adoption rates stand at 14% across Southeast Asia as compared to just eight percent last year, marking a clear move by companies to embed some form of AI/cognitive intelligence into their operations. Discovery of better business insights has become the most important adoption driver according to more than half (52%) of respondents, moving from third most important in 2017, revealing a maturity in the way the region is harnessing AI to enhance their business. Other top drivers this year are enhanced process automation (51%) and improved productivity (42%). With 24.6% of organizations in Indonesia adopting AI, the country leads the pack in terms of adoption. It is important to note that bimodal distribution is observed in Indonesia. While the country has the highest adoption rates amongst ASEAN

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Work mingles with life at List Sotheby's The Office in BGC

Emerging from a former military base located in the heart of Metro Manila, Bonifacio Global City (BGC) today is a bustling hub of multinational corporations, luxury residential towers, and posh retail strips. These developments helped in appreciating the value of the entire property, which is now one of the most expensive in the Philippines. Adding to the wide portfolio of workspaces in BGC, List Sotheby's International Realty Philippines, one of the largest workspace solutions providers in the country and a subsidiary of the entity behind one of the oldest luxury auction houses in the world, recently introduced The Office. "The workspace industry is fast growing in the Philippines and with The Office in our portfolio, we are able to provide more and better options to our clientele. This allows us to provide our clients with cost-efficient solutions right in the heart of the growing financial capital of Metro Manila - BGC. With the cost of office space in the area continuously climbi

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EasyDebit successfully completes EMV migration

Irish International fintech company, Fexco has successfully completed migration to EMV - Europay, Mastercard, and Visa - processing in the Philippines for its EasyDebit microATM solution ahead of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas deadline. The transition to EMV processing comes amidst industry-wide challenges on the migration from the less secured Magstripe (magnetic stripe) technology to the global industry standard of EMV chip technology. EMV ensures the safer and more secure processing of card transactions reducing the prevalence of fraud for card present transactions. EasyDebit has been at the fore of this industry change as one of first platforms to provide full EMV transaction activation on all of its terminals providing safe and secure banking to Filipinos across the country. EasyDebit is a ‘plug and play’ solution requiring minimal installation for merchants who simply download the EasyDebit Mobile App. EasyDebit is available in over 450 locations across the Philippines throug

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Globe, Nexmo ally to bring new voice solutions to SEA

Globe Labs, the innovative developer community of Globe Telecom, in partnership with Nexmo (part of Vonage (NYSE:VG), a global business cloud communications leader, have teamed up to deliver powerful voice solutions to the Philippine market and the rest of Southeast Asia. These readily-available and highly-reliable voice solutions will enable businesses and enterprises to boost operational efficiency and customer support functions; increase their customer engagement and loyalty with automated, contextual and personalized messaging; and, ultimately deliver much better business results. Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform, connects with more than 1600 carriers worldwide. Nexmo is also integrated with Vonage's global network which terminates 15 billion minutes of global voice traffic and more than 5 billion API calls annually. The combination of a vast carrier network and powerful APIs provides a high quality programmable voice experience. “We’re excited to partner with Globe Labs to offer

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