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By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service online correspondent BARCELONA, Spain (Eagle News) — Top executives from leading brands that drive the growth of the digital age led by Google, YouTube, Twitter, Jukin Media and Gleam Futures acknowledge mobile as the primary platform that has been fuelling the social video phenomenon. In the “Social Video Phenomenon” track of the Mobile, Media, Innovation and Experience Summit at the Mobile World Congress held last February 24, 2016 […]
by Natsuko FUKUE Fujimi, Japan (AFP) — Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors. Though just a drill, the intensity of the Brittany spaniel in scouring the mound of broken concrete highlights the key role of sniffer dogs in saving lives when buildings collapse, such as in earthquakes or explosions. Ten-year-old Gonta helped search for […]
NASA released a new photo on Thursday (March 3) showing a chain of snow-capped mountains stretching across the dark section on Pluto known as Cthulhu Regio. Scientists believe the bright material highlighted on the image may be primarily methane, which has condensed as ice onto the peaks from Pluto’s atmosphere, NASA’s website said. The compositional data was obtained using the Ralph/Multispectal Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. The […]
BEIJING, CHINA (Reuters) — China will put a second space laboratory in orbit in the third quarter of this year, part of the country’s plan to have a permanent manned space station in service around 2022, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday (February 29). Advancing China’s space programme is a priority for Beijing, with President Xi Jinping calling for the country to establish itself as a space power. Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 2 is expected to […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (February 29) – Filipinos are using social media platforms 53 hours a week, which means a whole 11 hours more than the global average of 42 hours and that’s the reason why the Philippines was named as the “Social Media Capital of the World”. But what makes the title more amazing is the fact that, according to Ookla, the world’s leading Internet speed testing company that ranks and index the download speed of […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (February 26) – We Filipinos are one of the most hard-working, intelligent, and creative ethnicities in the world. The Philippines had won a lot of awards because of its talented people. There’s a lot of Pinoy inventors that were recognized for their outstanding creative minds. To pay tribute to the Filipino creativity, here are some of the locally-made inventions that have made a noise in recent years: The SALt lamp The vision of […]
By Robert Capistrano BARCELONA, Spain (Eagle News) — “Mobile is Everything” and the Mobile World Congress 2016 has everything you could ever imagine you would want on full display. Here are three of the coolest gadgets I found at the largest gathering of mobile phone companies from all over the world: Samsung Galaxy S7 Samsung continues to up its efforts to over take the mobile world with the latest weapon ofit’s arsenal, the Galaxy S7 […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service online correspondent BARCELONA, Spain (Eagle News) — Eagle Broadcasting Corporation, one of the major broadcasting companies in the Philippines, joins the Mobile World Congress 2016, the world’s biggest and most influential mobile event held in Barcelona, Spain which opened last February 22, 2016. With this year’s theme, “Mobile is Everything”, the world’s movers and shakers in the mobile society gathered to address the challenges facing the industry in […]
By Robert Capistrano BARCELONA, Spain (Eagle News)– The newly revealed battle cry of the mobile industry, ‘Mobile is Everything’ has been splattered everywhere at the Mobile World Congress with its official start onFebruary 22, 2016. The Mobile industry operators, developers and internet companies present at the biggest, showiest annual event of the mobile world prove just that to the estimated 100,000 visitors. On Day 1, as expected, the mobiles fought […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Apple is battling the US government over unlocking devices in at least 10 cases in addition to its high-profile dispute involving the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino attackers, court documents show. The existence of other court fights supports Apple’s argument that the legal case in California is about more than a single iPhone. Apple provided a list of cases where it is opposing the US Justice Department’s requests in a […]
BARCELONA, Spain (CCTV/Reuters) — The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 opened its doors on Monday in Barcelona, Spain. It is estimated that more than 95,000 people will attend the four-day event, which is the world’s biggest mobile trade show for the global wireless industry. At the fair, mobile giant Samsung launched its latest product the Galaxy S7, while Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei unveiled the Matebook, declaring its entry into the laptop market. ZTE, another […]
by Daniel SILVA / Erwan LUCAS BARACELONA, Spain (AFP) — South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and LG unveiled Sunday new smartphones with better cameras and turned to virtual reality to boost interest in their headsets at a time of slowing sales. Samsung launched two versions of its flagship phone, the flat screen Galaxy S7 and the curved screen Galaxy S7 edge, with cameras that can take better pictures under low-light conditions. The company, the […]
