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Andrew Matthews, author of the popular self-help and inspirational books “Being Happy”, “Follow Your Heart” and “Happiness Now”, was in Manila last week, treating his fans to a talk and book-signing session at the National Bookstore branch at Glorietta 5.

Author Andrew Matthews gamely poses with this blogger after signing a copy of his book.

Matthews’ fans are a mix of young and old, men and women, students, professionals and retirees. Among those in attendance at last week’s event was a grandmother who brought her 20-year old copy of “Being Happy” which he had asked Matthews to sign. Continue reading

SmartBro last weekend held its B Free! Day event at the Mega Tent in Pasig City, enticing students from member-schools of NCAA and the UAAP to get free SmartBro USB dongles just by submitting their validated school IDs and a photocopies of them.

The specially-designed ZTE MF627 dongles bore logos and insignia of the NCAA and UAAP schools, their mascots and the name of their teams.

Here is the design for the UP Fighting Maroons:

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Asus launched its latest P7P55D Series motherboards in the Philippines at a press conference last week in Makati City.

Top officials of Asus took pride in explaining the main features of their new motherboards — Intel P55 Express chipset and support for the latest LGA 1156 socket for Intel Core i7/Core i5 processors — as well as its Hybrid Technology composed of Hybrid Processor, Hybrid Phase, and Hybrid OS. The end goal is “to give users intelligent performance enhancement, active cooling, and rapid online access”. Continue reading

SM Manila (photo courtesy of SM Prime Holdings)

Free WIFI is now available to all mall-goers, shoppers and diners in SM City Manila.

The free WIFI service was launched Aug. 31 with bloggers trying out and testing the really fast and really free internet service. No passwords needed!  SM City Manila thus has joined other SM Supermalls in Metro Manila and elsewhere which offer free WIFI. Continue reading

I arrived in Los Angeles on June 1 but wasn’t able to go around until days later. My uncle whisked me away to San Diego, that’s why.

Los Angeles is home to the University of Southern California and its Annenberg School of Communication where the Beyond Broadcast 2009 conference was held from June 3 to 5. I spoke at the opening plenary session, sharing the Philippine experience on mobile activism. Continue reading

Yes, folks. The PLCPD is inviting bloggers to join the 5th PopDev Media Awards this year.

Up for grabs are citations for best blog, best photo blog (single post) and best photo essay. Continue reading

Red Ribbon celebrates its 30th anniversary this year with, among others, a new cake that would surely be a hit: Cookies and Cream with Oreo.

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