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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Artist Playground’s Second Season Set to Open with “Happiness is a Pearl” on June 9


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What Can You Do For Love ?????

Happiness is a Pearl,” an original play penned by Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Hall of Famer Rody Vera is all set to open on June 9 at the 1701 The Little Room Upstairs located at Landsdale Tower, Mother Ignacia St. corner Timog Avenue, Quezon City.

The play shall run until July 3, 2016 with 7 pm shows from Wednesday – Friday; 3 pm and 7 pm shows every Saturday and Sunday.

As the opening production for the second season of Artist Playground, “Happiness is a Pearl” revolves around three characters ---Kenji, a male courtesan; Maria, a poor Pinay Japayuki; and Mari, a wife who falls in love with Kenji.

Before becoming a prostitute in a club in Kabukicho, Tokyo, Mari was married to a wealthy businessman. But Mari’s billionaire husband soon leaves her when she becomes attached to a male gigolo named Kenji, who has a pearl stitched under the skin of his penis. However, Kenji sets his eyes on a poverty-stricken Filipina entertainer named Maria. Intertwined by fate and struggles, how will Kenji, Maria, and Mari find the true meaning of love and happiness ?

“Happiness is a Pearl” will be directed by Paul Jake Paule, an esteemed actor, director and Aliw Awards nominee. 

SAP Expands Its Internet of Things Offerings and Partner Ecosystem


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 SAP HYPERLINK recently unveiled new offerings for customers and partners on the comprehensive SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). With a focus on the “things to outcome” part of the IoT journey, SAP can help capture the real value of the IoT by connecting “things” to the enterprise to provide better insights and proactive actions giving customers the outcomes they want. This announcement was made at IoT World 2016 being held May 10–12 in Santa Clara, California.

“SAP is helping customers map their journeys through digital transformation, and the IoT has the potential to drive the largest segment of growth in new business value,” said Ryan Poggi, Managind Director for SAP in the Philippines. “We offer the right solution infrastructure and are committed to building the strongest, most comprehensive ecosystem for the IoT in the industry. Our robust platform and line-of-business and industry applications for the IoT enable customers to improve their operational efficiency and transform their business models.”


SAP Brings Business Value to Customers Through Their IoT Journey


“At EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) the ability to access and analyze large amounts of data quickly, with high accuracy across a globalized and digitalized world, is critical, and we needed a truly innovative approach to stay ahead,” said Matthias Beier, CIO, EDF Renewable Energy. “We have a constant need to perform machine data analysis along with geolocation mapping and transactional data from SAP. The powerful analytics capabilities of SAP HANA with operational data in the OSIsoft PI System make meeting these business needs possible by delivering an inventive IoT platform enabling better analytics and decision-making capabilities across our organization.”

The data available from smart, connected devices represents an enormous opportunity but also places new demands on the capabilities of an enterprise platform. SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT provides a comprehensive set of capabilities that extends the SAP HANA platform and SAP HANA Vora™ software to address the needs of IoT applications, while providing the flexibility to address different solution and architecture patterns.

Customers can use these offerings from SAP and supported partner solutions to build and expand upon their existing investments in SAP HANA to cover their growing IoT-driven demands in the area of edge computing, connectivity management, device management, mobile enablement, dashboarding, analytics and predictive computing. Solutions like the Siemens MindSphere are already productive and operating on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. SAP is supporting OpenStack as the cloud infrastructure and Cloud Foundry as the open source framework for SAP HANA Cloud Platform. 


The new IoT offerings from SAP include:

       The IoT foundation bundle for SAP HANA provides a set of critical capabilities for IoT data management. Smart data streaming allows for data filtering, aggregation and correlation at scale. In combination with the IoT intelligent edge processing bundle, remote data synchronization guarantees data consistency between the edge database and the platform database. Dynamic tiering is the tool to manage multitier database storage according to the value of the data to lower cost in Big Data scenarios. SAP HANA Vora transforms Big Data analysis with an in-memory computing engine for Hadoop. Also included in the bundle is the IoT SIM management connector for SAP HANA, which allows cellular IoT device connectivity management with a user interface based on the SAP Fiori® user experience (UX).

       The IoT intelligent edge processing bundle for SAP HANA delivers a compelling set of technologies that run at the edge of the network to complement the IoT foundation for SAP HANA. These capabilities consist of a “streaming lite” component, the edge database and sync client, and SAP® Plant Connectivity software.

Dell and SAP Bring Business to the Edge

Dell and SAP are also collaborating on models designed to help address the industry’s biggest operational challenges, such as business continuity, overall equipment effectiveness, maintenance costs and return on assets. Dell and SAP have long been close partners, and collaborating on the IoT is a natural next step. By combining Dell’s intelligent Edge Gateway 5000 with SAP solutions for the IoT, customers can extend their digital core to the edge to gain cost-effective, real-time insights enabling their digital transformation.


SAP and Hitachi Plan to Create Innovative, Industry-Focused IoT Solutions

Strengthened by their combined IT and OT expertise and powerful respective technologies, SAP and Hitachi announced an expanded global collaboration to create and customize industry-specific IoT solutions for a range of applications, particularly around the areas of smart manufacturing, smart city, transportation and logistics. The companies expect these solutions will drive digital transformation and connected intelligence for organizations across the globe, helping customers realize the transformative power of their data.


SAP Partners Offer Options for IoT Data Consumption

Under its existing partnership, OSIsoft prepares and delivers analytics- and application-ready industrial operations data for SAP HANA. With IoT SIM management capabilities from SAP, customers can now interface SIM-based connectivity management solutions such as the Vodafone Managed IoT Connectivity Platform or Cisco Jasper.

For more information on SAP solutions for the IoT, visit SAP at standHYPERLINK "https://iotworldevent.com/company/sap-2/" HYPERLINK "https://iotworldevent.com/company/sap-2/"#303 at IoT World, or listen to SAP’s THYPERLINK "https://iotworldevent.com/2016-speakers/"anja Rueckert and Nayaki Nayyar.

For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.


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DICT to Improve Internet Experience and Help Usher in Digital Economy for PH


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The creation of a Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) would help elevate local state of internet and usher in the country to become a digital economy.

“The Philippines is in urgent need of an agency that will drive the country’s ICT development and help steer the country to realize its full potential as a digital economy where homes, businesses and individuals have access to fast and reliable data connectivity. We are hopeful that enhancing ICT development in the country, by creating DICT, would enable more business organizations to work more efficiently, maximize productivity and contribute to sustaining the country’s economic growth,” Globe General Counsel Froilan Castelo said.

The creation of the DICT is expected to provide an appropriate policy framework for ICT development in the country and at the same time promote continuity of such policies. A policy framework for ICT development is expected to enable telecommunication providers to improve the quality of their services including internet connectivity, Castelo said.

Castelo pointed out that Globe, for instance, has embarked on another nationwide infrastructure program to build on its network infrastructure and enhance the country's internet experience.

However, the company has been facing difficulties in building more cell sites and in establishing right-of-ways as it is currently in the process of expanding capacity expansion for both its mobile and wireline networks using different technologies including 3G, LTE and Wi-Fi. The creation of DICT and formulation of a policy framework for ICT development would help expedite the deployment of ICT infrastructure such as cell sites and fiber optics.

Miss Bikini Philippines 2016 Grand Coronation Winners


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Congratulations to the winners of the Miss Bikini Philippines 2016 pageant of Slimmers World International. The grand coronation night was held at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila on May 20, 2016.

2nd Runner Up - Candidate #25 - Ivy Tapic
1st Runner Up - Candidate #7 - Regine Anillo
Miss Bikini Philippines 2016 - Candidate #24 - Christine Opiaza

Special Awards:

Miss Personality to Candidate #24 Christine Opiaza
Miss Internet Most Popular to Candidate #27 Maribel Aga
Miss Congeniality to Candidate #10 Trixie Ong
Miss Best in Creative Posing to Candidate #24 Christine Opiaza
Miss Photogenic to Candidate #15 Angelica Nillo
Miss Best in Long Gown to Candidate #17 Hayan Hamoc
Miss Client's Choice Award or Darling of the Clients to Candidate #13 Mary Grace CastilloMiss Miss Great Skin to Candidate #3 Clarise Perez

I must say that the judges are in harmony with the choice of the many as witnessed from the media presentation held a few days ago at the Diamond Hotel in Manila. Candidate #24 has always been a favorite both online and offline. Candidate #25 is equally a crowd favorite as she is also among the best looking ladies of this year's Miss Bikini Philippines.

Friday, May 20, 2016

Globe Mobile Data Sustains Growth Momentum



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Above photo shows Globe President & CEO Ernest Cu (right) talks about the company’s remarkable financial performance in the first three months of the year supported by gains across data-related segments and steady customer uptake at a recent analyst briefing Shown with him are Globe Chief Commercial Officer Albert de Larrazabal (center) and Globe Acting Chief Finance Officer Rizza Maniego-Eala (left).

Globe Telecom’s mobile data revenues continued to underpin growth in the first three months of the year amid continuing demand for data services and popularity of data-driven products and applications as more and more consumers adopt a digital lifestyle. This is reflective of the company’s strategy to expand its mobile data footprint by continuously enhancing network capacities.

Mobile data revenues in the first quarter soared 62%, reaching P9.1 billion compared with P5.6 billion reported in the year-earlier period. When lumped with the company’s home broadband and corporate data revenues of P3.5 billion and P2.3 billion, respectively, the company’s total data revenues now represent 50% of its total service revenues, up from 36% in the year-earlier period. The company’s mobile data revenues also accounted for 40% of total mobile service revenues in the first quarter of 2016, compared with 26% contribution in the first quarter of 2015.

Globe President & CEO Ernest Cu said mobile data growth has drawn support from the company’s market-relevant data offers, availability of low-priced data capable devices and a strong and reliable data network. “We believe that the Globe brand is extremely strong in its positioning as the smartphone network of choice and the data growth is reflective of that. As the strategy is to continue to be aggressive in the market, we continue to make investments to enhance our wireless network so we have more capacity on the ground. We expect to see mobile data business to continue growing,” said Cu.

A steady growth in the company’s mobile customers, reaching 57.3 million at the end of the first quarter from 48.4 million in the year-earlier period also provided support for mobile data, Cu said. The company’s mobile revenues totaled P23.1 billion in the first quarter of the year, up 7% from P21.6 billion a year earlier. This supported consolidated revenues to reach P29.9 billion, a 14% jump from P26.2 billion in the year-earlier period. Net profit stood P4.3 billion, a 3% increase from P4.2 billion a year earlier.

Following a successful network modernization program that saw mobile data exploding in the Philippines, Globe has embarked on another nationwide infrastructure program to enhance the country's internet experience involving, among others, capacity expansion for its mobile network using different technologies including 3G, LTE and even Wi-Fi.

Mobile data explosion in the country, amid steady growth in smartphone penetration, requires more bandwidth than traditional voice and text messaging services. However, the total number of unique cell sites in the country is disproportionate against burgeoning data traffic. The Philippines, an archipelago, currently has about 17,000 cell sites. Comparing this to Vietnam, which has similar population density although in a contiguous land area, has 55,000 cell sites.

The marked increase in data traffic coupled with the lack of cell sites prompted Globe to call for support from local government units to help make the current condition conducive to build more cell sites and reduce the existing infrastructure gap. By building more sites, telco service providers will be able to provide better internet experience for its customers. Cu has emphasized that construction of additional cell sites addresses the need for additional bandwidth necessary in transmitting enormous amount of data. Today, building a cell site involves about 25 permits with at least 8 months lead time. LGU assistance can help reduce the lead time if not facilitate less permits. Aside from cell sites, another area that needs improvement is the harmonization of spectrum. Spectrum is needed for increased bandwidth especially for mobile data use.

As part of its effort to improve the internet experience of its customers, Globe has embarked on an initiative of creating an internet super highway nationwide. Specifically, the company plans to deploy fiber optics in 20,000 barangays by 2020, aimed at providing ultra-fast internet access to around 2 million homes nationwide. A pilot roll out of fiber broadband technology is already ongoing in Binondo, Manila, which when completed will provide world-class internet experience with speeds of up to 1Gbps by July 2016.

Pending the completion of an internet super highway, Globe deployed ultra-fast Wi-Fi connection with speeds of up to 100 Mbps in various Ayala malls namely Serendra, Glorietta, Trinoma, Ayala Center Cebu, Alabang Town Center, Marquee Mall, Market! Market!, UP Town Center, Harbor Point, Centrio, Fairview Terraces and Greenbelt.

Benzoyl Peroxide is the Best Acne Treatment


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Your Pambansang Blogger ng Pilipinas is convinced that Proactiv acne solution works as advertised. The secret ingredient to this miracle against acne? It's Benzoyl Peroxide (BPO) - the smart choice for acne medication!

Benzoyl Peroxide has been known to be a compound that fights acne from getting worse. What most people are afraid of are the misconceptions that surrounds it, such as, “your skin gets addicted to it” and more popularly, “quitting its application will make acne faster and with a vengeance”.

These are just some of the reasons why people tend to shy away from a relatively cheaper and effective way in treating acne. The only probable and logical reason to avoid BPO is having an allergic reaction to it.

To better understand why people should have it as an option for acne treatment, an understanding on how it works, what it does, and how to use it properly, should take away all the misconceptions that surrounds BPO.

Acne happens when a pore blocked by excess keratin, sebum, and dead skin cells comes in contact with bacteria which cause the inflammation. What BPO does is that it breaks down into benzoic acid and oxygen, and the oxygen acts as a free radical destroying the cells that blocks the pores along with the bacteria growing on it.

During the early stages of acne formation, BPO is known to be effective in preventing these outbreaks on the skin. The BPO scare however, comes from its misuse. Having too much of it on the skin, making sure that the acne-causing bacteria is eliminated from the surface, gives the skin unnecessary stress than protection. That stress leaves the skin more vulnerable to more acne outbreaks after quitting from BPO treatment. Using BPO the right way, meaning more strategically, on skin could help drastically minimize the formation of acne and prevent future outbreaks.

8 Best Online Shopping Apps for Android


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What can be more interesting for a shopaholic that he or she gets some luxurious ways to choose the targeting product? Well this is true that the online shopping tactics are polishing everyone’s lives in aesthetic ways. Utilizing these services, people are saving their times and hence also the effort. Such shopping strategies are assisting in multitasking and hence people can do shopping as well as other tasks. Now there are some names that have brought shopping applications for the Android platform that is even a more efficient purchase approach. Following are the few essential titles.

1. Lazada


Headquartered in Singapore, Lazada Group has its own name in the world of online shopping. It was founded by Rocket Internet in 2011 and has operated sites in various countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. Its mobile application for Android is highly interactive and user-friendly. It allows to access millions of products to be purchased via application.

2. Zalora

Zalora is another name having the parent organization called Rocket Internet. It is also well-known in the prime countries of Asia like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines and Vietnam and even in Australia and New Zealand. It usually focuses in the commodities of fashion products for women, men and kids. The application permits to pick up various brands and hence perform the secure payment procedure.

3. Kaymu

Kaymu is the online marketplace that is represented in more than 30 countries. With the services of customer to customer and business to customer, this platform serves a huge audience. By using the mobile app, users can view the products in detail and explore the quality images for better purchase.

4. Ensogo

Launched in 2010, Ensogo is not an ordinary shopping portal but it proposes number of discount deals on hotel accommodation, beauty treatments, spas services and restaurants. Its mobile app has colorful interface with explicit information regarding the special offers.

5. OLX


With the presence in more than 90 countries, Olx is one of the biggest free advertising website. The Android application is for accessing the ads of goods and also to sell them. From home apparels to bikes, everything can be bought and sold in just few clicks.

6. Ebay


The multinational corporation called EBay, founded in 1995, serves number of nations including Philippines. The application has captivating design and is quite easy for even the first time users. Searching sellers, tracking packages and leaving feedback are essential functionalities of this app.

7. MetroDeal

MetroDeal is quite a popular title in Philippines. From travel deals to shopping tactics, MetroDeal is the finest. Its app has the smooth design with the detailed information of unbeatable travel deals and lowest prices on available gadgets.

8. Shopee

Shopee is an imaginative platform for shopaholics of Philippines. From cosmetics to apparels, customers are allowed to get excited and enjoy the reasonable deals. Free browsing of listings and live chats are possible by this mobile app.



If you really want to relish some exclusive Android application designs and want to make the purchase more effortless then this list will surely assist you.

Get a Trip fro Two to Maldives from Shopback.ph


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REFER 200 FRIENDS TO USE SHOPBACK and you AUTOMATICALLY GET A TRIP FOR 2 TO MALDIVES! (So long as you are the first 5 to reach the 200 target anytime from 6 June to 6 July, 2016). 

Note that THIS IS NOT A RAFFLE, once you reach your target, you get the dream vacation for FREE.

So what do you need to do?

Simply refer 200 friends to sign up through your exclusive Sign Up Page (which we will specially create for you) and shop online from Lazada, ZALORA, iTrueMart, Agoda and 300 other online stores via ShopBack (they just need to go to ShopBack first and click the online shop where they want to make a purchase from).

So what are you waiting for? Register now by 29 May 2016 and start telling your friends about ShopBack and drink a Mojito by the pristine beaches of MALDIVES since here in ShopBack, it's SUMMER 4EVER!

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Mapúa – IEEE Week 2016: Inclusive Growth Driven by Innovation


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The Mapúa Institute of Technology Student Branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (Mapúa – IEEE) will be hosting once again the Mapúa-IEEE Week with the theme Inclusive Growth Driven by Innovation. Inclusive Growth has been a major issue for the present Philippine Economy. The IEEE’s core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. Being a student branch of the IEEE, it is our mission for this year to promote innovation in our pursuit of inclusive growth as a nation.

The Mapúa-IEEE Week composes of activities such as Quiz Bee, Debate Championship, Workshop, Seminars and the 13th annual Project Design Competition

This week-long activity invites all the students, instructors and professors coming from the Philippine Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Student Branches specifically from De La Salle University – Manila (DLSU), University of the Philippines – Diliman (UP), University of Santo Tomas (UST), University of the East – Caloocan (UE) and Mapúa Institute of Technology – Manila (MIT) which will be the Host – School of the said event. The Mapúa-IEEE Week helps all the students, instructors, and professors coming from IEEE Philippine Section Student Branches to interact with other schools regarding the advancement of technology, technological innovation, research, and growth of skill and knowledge in technical – related professions.

The organizers of Mapúa - IEEE Week will be the officers of the Mapúa – IEEE which composes of committees to be manpowered by the respective staffs of each committee. The activites of the whole week will be as follows:

· Monday / Tuesday: Mapúa – IEEE Technical Seminars and Workshops
· Wednesday: Mapúa – IEEE Debate Championship
· Thursday: Mapúa – IEEE Quiz Bee
· Friday: Mapúa – IEEE 13th Annual Project Design Competition

The opening ceremony of the Mapúa-IEEE Week will be held on Monday to be followed by the Mapúa – IEEE Technical Seminars and Workshops The Mapúa – IEEE 13th Annual Project Design Competition will have its Exhibit of Posters for the entries of the participants which will be displayed at the North Circle.

Event Title: "IEEE Week 2016: Inclusive Growth Driven by Innovation"
Event Date: May 23-27, 2016
Event Location: North Circle, Mapùa Institute of Technology, Intramuros, Manila
Contact Person: Bien Carlo Halili
Contact Details: 0917 247 1038 (Mobile)

CHED@22: Sustaining and Advancing the Gains


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In celebration of the Commission on Higher Education’s 22nd Founding Anniversary, two events were held to recognize exceptional and high performing higher education institutions (HEIs) and academic programs.

CHED@22 kicks off with a flag-raising ceremony and opening of the State Universities and Colleges Products and Innovations Fair. Above photo shows (L-R) CHED Chairperson Patricia B. Licuanan, CHED Commissioners Alex B. Brillantes, Ruperto S. Sangalang, Minella C. Alarcon and Maria Cynthia Rose B. Bautista. 
 
Autonomous and Deregulated status were conferred on 75 private HEIs nationwide. To achieve this distinction, institutions should have an established track record of exceptional program performance and institutional quality, demonstrated mature internal quality assurance systems as shown in their high proportion of accredited programs, garnered Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development, attained international accreditation and certification, among others.

CHED Chairperson Patricia B. Licuanan underscored that “the long-term goal is to have a critical mass of Autonomous and Deregulated HEIs that have established their internal quality assurance systems and are capable of self-regulation.” The 75 HEIs represent 4% of the total 1,708 private institutions in the country. The target is to reach at least 10%. The CHED Chair also urged HEI officials to use the benefits of their status “wisely and well” and to aspire and work for constant improvement, which is a sign of maturity and quality.

Centers of Excellence (CoEs) and Centers of Development (CoDs) were awarded in various disciplines. A total of 432 Centers nationwide were recognized, 199 Centers of Excellence and 233 Centers of Development from 139 HEIs.

Center of Excellence is a distinction granted by CHED to an institution which demonstrates exemplary performance in its teaching, research and extension function, while, Center of Development is granted to an institution with the potential to provide excellent education as evidenced by above average performance in the three areas. 
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