Seagate Technology with the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), evolves to bring data to life

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New Branding, Ad Campaign and Innovative Partnership with Getty Images Demonstrate How Data is Alive and Shaping Human Experience Around the Globe

Seagate creates space for the human experience by innovating how data is stored, shared and used. 

SEAGATE EVOLVES TO BRING DATA TO LIFE FOR CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES THROUGH RAPIDLY EXPANDING TECHNOLOGY AND SOLUTIONS PORTFOLIO 

Seagate Technology is using the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to unveil a dramatic and contemporary rebranding of the company that reflects how its rapidly expanding solutions portfolio is helping consumers, businesses and partners create, preserve and share their most precious content and data. The new brand underscores how Seagate’s extensive product solution portfolio extends the company’s deep expertise in data storage components into flash, systems and solutions for an even broader set of customers and partners.

The focus of the new Seagate brand is the “Living Logo”, which will showcase data as a living, vibrant thing that powers human invention, culture and advances. Through a partnership with Getty Images, Seagate will be able to use the logo on its website to tell an infinite number of visual stories about topics such as technology pioneers and breakthroughs in human history.

The Living Logo itself represents new patent-pending software technology and will be the focus of a national awareness campaign backed by Seagate’s largest marketing investment ever. 

"The new Seagate brand is a powerful representation of the total commitment that Seagate is making to help businesses and consumers realize the full potential of ‘living’ data,” said Steve Luczo, Seagate’s chairman and chief executive officer. “We are refreshing the look and feel of our company and we are redefining the relationships we have with our consumers, businesses and partners. The campaign will help reinforce our unique position in the marketplace – offering a wide variety of component technology, as well as complete solutions, that give our customers total flexibility in how they manage and access all of their content and data.” 

The Living Logo was developed in partnership with creative agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. In addition to award-winning visual content from Getty Images, Seagate will enable consumers and businesses to view living data from social networks like Facebook, Twitter and other sources in the coming months.

Seagate’s new products announced at CES reflect the new company brand, including cutting-edge new consumer products like the world’s thinnest portable hard drive at 7mm thick to personal cloud solutions that enable people to easily access music, videos and documents at home no matter where in the world they are. 

Seagate’s new brand and “Living Logo” rollout began in January 4, 2015 online and will continue throughout the year. 

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Lenovo opens its 3rd Lenovo Mobile Exclusive Store in Davao

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One of the fastest growing smartphone manufacturers globally, Lenovo opens its third Lenovo Mobile Exclusive Store (LMES) in Davao City.

The newly opened store, which is the third LMES in Davao City alone, is operated by Banana Telecommunications Inc., located at the 3rd floor, Gaisano Mall, Tagum, Davao. The first concept store opened in October last year in Gaisano Mall, Davao and the second store opened middle of this year in Abreeza Mall, Davao.

"Davao continues to be Mindanao's top economy, with a sustained growth in its gross regional domestic product (GRDP) since 2012. We are proud that Lenovo has been one of the first brands to tap this robust market, in lieu with our strong commitment to providing Filipinos powerful smartphones as we strengthen Lenovo's presence in the Mindanao Region," Michael Ngan, Country General Manager of Lenovo Philippines, recognizes the increasing demand for smartphones all over the country since 2011. 

The National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) confirms that Davao has landed the fourth in the country in terms of the Philippines' gross domestic product, having 3.5% share. It remains to be one of the richest cities in the Philippines outside of Metro Cebu and Metro Manila. Named by the Foreign Direct Magazine as the 10th "Asian City of the Future," Davao City has been the center of trade, businesses and economic activities in the region, with a lot of investments continuously pouring in.

The demand for affordable smartphones has been increasing because of mobile data and social networking. Based on a report by Tigercub Digital, Internet access grew by over 500% since 2008. Smartphone penetration is expected to hit at 50% next year due to the availability of the Internet according OnDemand Research.

Lenovo Mobile Country Head, Dino Romano said, "The Philippines is an important market for Lenovo because we have seen a significant and steady increase in local smartphone shipments. Through the continuous expansion of our LMES in the country, we are reaching out to Philippine consumers, especially the younger segment of the population, whose lifestyle demands for high-performing and reliable mobile devices.”

The concept store houses a wide range of Lenovo smartphones to address the needs of the region. The Lenovo Vibe Series is currently the brand's top-of-the-line products for executives doing business in Davao. The Lenovo DOIt applications namely SYNCit, SHAREit, SECUREit, SNAPit and SEEit are the perfect complement to Lenovo smartphones that allow users to perform several tasks efficiently and easily.

Meanwhile, the Lenovo A Series are a wide range of products powered by dual and quad core processors running on Android Jellybean 2.0 for the budget-conscious consumers who would like to own a smartphone or for the youth, who wants to be connected 24/7.

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So Fresh, The Best of 2014

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2014: A YEAR OF FRESH HITS

Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music joined forces to cook up the year’s freshest hits compilation release so aptly entitled So Fresh, The Best of 2014, clamping up 20 big-shot songs including Billboard Hot 100 #1s such as Miley Cyrus, Meghan Trainor, John Legend, Pharrell Williams and MAGIC! Now it couldn’t get any fresher than that!

Running for more than 70 minutes, the CD packs in 20 speaker juices including new-world hotness anthem “All About That Bass” from 2014 breakthrough artist Meghan Trainor, as well as girl-power collaborations “Problem” by Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea, “Black Widow” by Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora, and the Jessie J- Ariana Grande-Nicki Minaj airwave buster “Bang Bang”. Numbering in more of the dance floor hits, it also features tracks from DJs Calvin Harris with “Summer” and Avicii with EDM-country crossover “Hey Brother”, plus certified dance tracks “Wild Wild Love” (Pitbull feat. G.R.L.), “Do What U Want” (Lady Gaga feat. R. Kelly) and “This Is How We Do” (Katy Perry).

Male musers won’t get disappointed as bands like MAGIC! reel in household staple “Rude” and Maroon 5 with “Maps”. Pop prince Justin Timberlake is also featured with “Not A Bad Thing”, and newcomer Sam Smith with “I’m Not The Only One” from his first album that came out this year. Boybands are also in line as “Story Of My Life” by One Direction and “She Looks So Perfect” by 5 Seconds of Summer are counted on the track list.

So Fresh throws down every now and then too with slow tunes spread all throughout: the overtly heated “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus, the comeback classic of John Legend “All of Me”, and Begin Again movie theme “Lost Stars” by Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.

Instant classics such as “Happy (from Despicable Me 2)” by Pharrell Williams and “Love Never Felt So Good”, a posthumous virtual duet by pop legend Michael Jackson with Justin Timberlake, raise the bar for other concurrent various artist releases.

By and large, the bravado of So Fresh is in its qualitative AND quantitative collection. This 20-track assembly is massive enough to stir up anticipation on what could be a really, really good year ahead in music...and what could be a very, very good compilation franchise.

The complete and sequential tracklist of So Fresh:

1. Meghan Trainor – “All About That Bass” (Clean Version)

2. Maroon 5 – “Maps”

3. Pharrell Williams – “Happy (from Despicable Me 2)”

4. Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea – “Problem”

5. MAGIC! – “Rude”

6. Jessie J feat. Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj – “Bang Bang”

7. Calvin Harris – “Summer”

8. Avicii – “Hey Brother”

9. Pitbull feat. G.R.L. – “Wild Wild Love”

10. Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora – “Black Widow” (Clean Edit)

11. Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball” (Clean Version)

12. Sam Smith – “I’m Not The Only One” (Radio Edit)

13. Justin Timberlake – “Not A Bad Thing” (Clean Version)

14. Katy Perry – “This Is How We Do”

15. Michael Jackson feat. Justin Timberlake – “Love Never Felt So Good”

16. Lady Gaga feat. R Kelly – “Do What U Want” (Edited)

17. One Direction – “Story of My Life”

18. 5 Seconds of Summer – “She Looks So Perfect”

19. John Legend – “All Of Me”

20. Adam Levine – “Lost Stars” (Album Version)

So Fresh is available in major record stores nationwide starting last December 2014, under Ivory Music & Video. Get two bonus tracks when you get it on digital! 

Additional tracks “Turn Down For That” by DJ Snake & Lil Jon and “Love Runs Out” by One Republic come with downloads of the album off iTunes.

Visit IVORY Music & Video’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ivorymusicandvideophilippines for the latest news and updates on your favorite local and international artists!

#ShareYourVibe with Globe FREE Facebook & FREE Viber

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Starting 2015 with a bang! This New Year 2015 is off to a great start for Globe subscribers!

Globe the leading telecommunications network in the Philippines has just announced that they are bringing back FREE Facebook to all their subscribers starting January 13, 2015 and will last for an entire month.

#ShareYourVibe starting January 13! FREE Facebook and FREE Viber from Globe!

Watch the official announcement video below by Peter Bithos, Chief Operating Advisor of Globe Telecom.

And here is the Message from Peter Bithos, Chief Operating Advisor, Globe Telecom

 Happy New Year! Enjoy the world of Globe! It’s time to #ShareYourVibe! See you guys! 

Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA Philippines 2015 presented by Alaska program will tip-off in Manila this January

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The Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA Philippines 2015 presented by Alaska program will tip-off in Manila with a coaches clinic on January 24 followed by an open clinic on January 25. A second coaches clinic and open clinic will be held in Bacolod on January 31 and February 1 respectively. 

Returning for the eighth consecutive year, this year’s program will reach more than 700 schools and communities nationwide.

Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA is the league’s international youth development program that promotes basketball participation, sportsmanship and teamwork, and an active lifestyle among boys and girls. The 2015 Philippine schedule includes school clinics as well as coaching seminars in the lead up to Regional Selection Camps where standout participants will be selected to participate in the National Training Camp in April. The National Training Camp will culminate with the selection of 10 Jr. NBA and 5 Jr. WNBA All-Stars, providing the select campers with a unique NBA experience which they will share with fellow Jr. NBA All-Stars from across Southeast Asia later in the year.

Jr. NBA was introduced in the Philippines in 2007 to 16 public and private schools in Metro Manila. In 2008, the program expanded to more than 200 schools and reached approximately 20,000 students, parents, and coaches across the country. In 2013, the program reached over 500 schools and communities and 70,000 students, parents, and coaches across the country.

Among its noted All-Stars alumni are Kiefer Ravena of the Ateneo Blue Eagles (2007), Carlo Escalambre of the San Sebastian Staglets and Mark Jayven Tallo of the De La Salle Green Archers (2009), Henry Asilum of the UP Fighting Maroons and Kib Montalbo of the De La Salle Green Archers (2010), Dawn Ochea of Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu and Kobe Paras of La Salle Greenhills (2011), Aljun Jay Melecio of De La Salle Zobel Baby Archers (2012) and Ricci Rivero of La Salle Greenhills (2013).

The program remains free and open to players between 10 and 14 years old. Registration is now ongoing through the official Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA website www.jrnba.asia/philippines. Fans can follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jrnbaphilippines and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/nba_philippines. 

 For all things NBA, visit www.nba.com.

The complete Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA Philippines 2015 schedule will be released at a later date.