SM Southmall presents the Christmas centerpiece with The Tale of the Winter Forest

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Christmas is always a special time of the year for all. SM Southmall launch a kick-off this amazing season by sending out an inspiring message of selflessness and kindness that is characteristic of the Christmas season.

SM Southmall, the premier mall of the South metro presents The Tale of the Winter Forest presents The Tale of the Winter Forest.

Feel the spirit of Christmas at the SM Southmall and witness the magical tale of the joy of giving. The launch features the unveiling of the mall’s first Christmas centerpiece with a play production by Stages and a full performance of the Manila String Machine. 

The Tale of the Winter Forest tells a story of two children getting lost in an enchanted forest, where the only way to find the right path is to give up everything. In the forest, they meet a wounded rabbit, a lost cardinal, and a hungry tiger. The children helped the animals, giving up their clothing and food for them. In return, the Winter Fairy appears and shows them the path home. 

In the spirit of the season, SM Southmall started sharing happiness last November 6 and gave special gifts to the children from the SOS Children’s Village. Sos Children's Villages Manila as one of the chosen charities.

This holiday season, there are more other activities in store at SM Southmall.

Share your special Christmas wish with Santa Claus on November 13 & 27 and December 11 & 24. 

Join the Yuletide cheer as we serenade you with your favorite Christmas carols on November 22, 23, 24 & 26. 

Shop ‘til you drop at the Double Weekend Holiday Sale on November 19-20, 26-27. 

Get a chance to win amazing prizes or a brand-new Chevrolet Traxx at the 12 Days of Christmas. 

Other pocket events includes:

SM Cares campaign in Bears of Joy

Lighted Tradition Parol-Making Contes

Smart Vhristmas Exhibit

Vivo Christmas Roadshow

SM Southmall’s Christmas activities are supported by Baskin Robbins and Project Pie.

Truly, SM Southmall satisfies the wishes of its people. 

No matter the season, the occasion or the time of the year, SM Southmall welcomes the community with open arms.

Side A and Freestyle and other top OPM acts to perform at Chaos Night Club, City of Dreams Manila this Novemver

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Music enthusiasts can reminisce and sing along to the classic OPM tunes of the 90’s such as “Forevermore”, “So Many Questions” and “Before I Let You Go”, and enjoy the chartbusters of today’s generation as Side A and Freestyle perform back-to-back at Chaos nightclub in City of Dreams Manila on November 9 at 9 PM.

Side A also returns for another set of their greatest and latest hits on November 30 at 9 PM, this time with True Faith, the group that dominated the 90’s airwaves with the songs “Perfect” and “Huwag Nalang Kaya”.

Completing the line-up of stellar local acts performing every Wednesday at Chaos this November are Southborder with Trifecta playing smooth and soulful R&B on November 16, Barbie Almalbis and Kitchie Nadal bringing a delightfully acoustic affair on November 23.

Chaos nightclub has hosted a bevy of world-class performers including prominent international DJs from a wide spectrum of electronic dance music sub-genres, as well as stellar artists in hip-hop and R&B on weekends. Wednesday nights are currently dedicated to locally-renowned homegrown talents who continue to elevate Original Pinoy Music (OPM) to a whole new level. 

Tickets to see the live band performances every Wednesday at Chaos are at P400 each with one drink. For VIP table reservations, guests can call 0917-8863678 or e-mail chaostablereservations@cod-manila.com.

Flash PH joins Lazada’s annual Online Revolution Sale

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Flash Plus 2, to hit the e-commerce site at the most competitive price Php 6,990.

Another special treat from Flash Plus Philippines—one of Asia’s rising developers of lifestyle and smart devices—is coming your way this yuletide season as it joins the annual Online Revolution Sale of e-commerce giant, Lazada Philippines! This time, Flash offers its signature smartphone, the Flash Plus 2 (3GB), at the price of Php 6,990 for November 11 only.

Now, on its 4th year, the annual online sale will be bigger than ever. It will highlight some of the online shoppers’ most well-loved products from Lazada, including the Flash Plus 2. 

“Flash Plus 2 has received positive reviews from its users as we launched it in the country earlier this year. As a way of giving back to our loyal customers, we tied up with Lazada’s annual product culmination in which they can purchase the Flash Plus 2 (3GB) at a more competitive price for a limited time only,” Sheree Gayas, Flash Philippines’ marketing manager.

The said smartphone boasts its future-forward attributes that bring superior durability, efficiency, and convenience to the users. These include high-definition phone camera, Hi-Fi audio capacity, and fingerprint recognition capabilities, all enclosed in a sleek metal case.

Sleek metal case

Flash Plus 2’s exterior is made more stylish with its aluminum case, which is also crafted to achieve superior durability through several kinds of metal polishing processes. 

The case’s sides are treated with Bead Blasting textures, allowing for a sleek side view. The back panel, on the other hand, is treated with high-density hairline metal drawing processes for excellent grip and added protection against scratching.

HD camera phone

As a camera phone, Flash Plus 2 exhibits the same superior photography DNA, found in all Flash smartphone offerings. With its built-in high definition camera with a 13-megapixel rear lens, Flash Plus 2 allows you to take high definition photos and videos. It also adopts PDAF and contrast focusing features, which are useful for capturing fleeting moments. 

It also makes shooting under dim light much easier with its built-in rear dual color flash lamp, RealTone, and front LED flash with Color Rendering Index.

Fingerprint recognition

Through the smartphone’s fingerprint recognition capability, you can now ensure optimum security and convenience in phone unlocking. This feature has a high accuracy level that responds in half a second. It can also safeguard all your apps and private folders by assigning specific fingerprint to access them. For instance, you can use your thumb to open your Facebook account, index to send an e-mail, among others.

Hi-Fi Audio 

With Flash Plus 2, you can also have an immersive music experience. This is due to its high-fidelity amplifying functionality. It has a quality-retaining earphone acoustics, high sound volume effects, and MIX music production.

These are made possible through the independent AKM4375 audio decoding chip coupled with state-of-the-art IRD sound digital filter, with value-retaining signal output measuring up to high-fidelity acoustic effects.

Flash Plus 2 has two color options—Luna Silver and Venus Gold, which will all be available in Lazada’s Online Revolution Sale.

For more details, please visit the website at http://www.flash3c.com/ph.

Avida 's First Grand Neighbor Day to Celebrate Neighborly Love

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Avida Bridges Friendships Next Door through First Grand Neighbor Day last Saturday, November 5

One of the leading mid-market real estate developers in the country, Avida Land, held the country’s first Avida Neighbor Day on November 5 to commemorate and give back to its growing community of homeowners. The event aimed to highlight the importance of being a good neighbor as a step towards building better, inspired, and united communities.

Avida Residents Enjoy a Day of Fun-filled Activities to Celebrate Neighborly Love

It was a full-afternoon celebration happening simultaneously in 11 participating Avida developments nationwide. It was held across Avida Land communities including Ridgeview Estates NUVALI, Avida Parkway Settings NUVALI, Avida Village Cerise NUVALI, Avida Residences Dasmariñas, Avida Settings Cavite, Avida Village Iloilo, and Avida Village North Point.

Homeowners from various condominium developments also participated in the event including those in Avida Towers BGC 9th Ave, Avida Towers San Lorenzo, Avida Towers Alabang, and Avida Towers Cebu.

“We believe that people need social connections, but what truly gives our lives meaning and happiness is a sense of concern for others. Avida fills this need through the communities we create. We started this event because we wanted our residents and communities to form strong friendships with their neighbors, to be proud to call one another Friends Next Door, and enrich each others’ lives with a sense of trust and security. Every one of us is someone’s neighbor, and so we should always be kind and reach out to others,” said Avida Customer Care and Product Delivery Head Nancy Delegencia. 

The Grand Neighbor Day began with the unveiling of its art installation, a blank canvas with the event logo, where participants were able to let their creative juices flow in coloring and doodling, bringing the installation to life with everyone’s collaborative effort. Residents were also treated to a line-up of food concessionaires and social enterprises from whom they can purchase throughout the day to support their causes and beneficiaries.

To foster a spirit of sharing and cooperation among its residents, Avida started its program with activities planned by their tie-up with the annual Jollibee Maaga ang Pasko. Residents were inspired to give back to less fortunate communities by donating pre-loved toys and books to partner orphanages of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. They were also engaged to sign up as Jolly Family Toy Scouts, volunteering their time and energy to clean, prepare, and distribute these donations. Afterwards, the spirit of sharing continued with neighbors partaking in a neighborly feast with food prepared and shared by everyone in the Neighbors’ Grand Potluck. Afterwards, teams put their game faces on for a relay race, filling the venue with loud cheers and laughter.

To further strengthen the ties between neighbors, Avida prepared a Good Neighbor Pledge for participants to promise to be good neighbors, espousing neighborly values for a kinder, more mindful, and more caring community to achieve a widespread feeling that every day is Neighbor Day. 

The Avida Grand Neighbor Day garnered positive feedback from participants who went home that day with newfound friendships.

“We’d like to thank everyone for actively participating and cooperating with one another during the event. Being a subsidiary of Ayala Land, the Philippines’ leading developer of sustainable estates, it is part of our mission to provide dream communities—not just a home to live in, but a happy, thriving, inspired community—as well as enhance the lives of not only the residents but even the surrounding communities outside of Avida. We hope that our communities continue to nurture and strengthen their relationships not only as neighbors, but as Friends Next Door,” Avida Marketing Head Tess Tatco addressed the homeowners.

About Avida Land

Avida is a residential brand of Ayala Land, the Philippines’ leading developer of sustainable estates, offering complete and fully integrated properties, such as residences, shopping centers, offices, hotels, and leisure developments, that enhance land and enrich lives.

With the five pillars of accessibility, unique features and amenities, quality assurance, stress free buying and relaxing living experience integrated in all its condominium and house and lot properties, Avida has become the developer of choice among the rising middle income segment as it continues to expand its product offerings across the country.

Epson launches the Moverio BT-300 , the world’s lightest OLED binocular see-through smart glasses

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Epson today announced the launch of its latest augmented reality smart glasses, the Moverio BT-300 in Southeast Asia.

The Moverio BT-300 features Epson’s own cutting edge silicon-based OLED (organic light emitting diode) digital display technology, enabling the device to be the lightest see-through binocular smart glasses on the market, and setting the new standard for augmented reality smart eyewear.

Leveraging Epson’s patented optical and precision technologies, Epson’s Moverio BT-300 smart glasses has micro projectors located on each side of the eyeglasses that project transparent overlays of digital content directly in the user’s field of view over the real-world environment.

The Moverio BT-300 bring hands-free operability through a front-facing 5-mega-pixel HD camera and intelligent tracking sensors that detects the dimensions and spatial positioning of objects in relation to each other. A key feature is that users can take HD-quality video and pictures hands-free, bringing new levels of productivity for deploying the device for work-related purposes. The device features an LED to indicate when the camera is recording.

Designed to be worn with ease for use at work or play, the Moverio BT-300 is compact and lightweight, and fits over normal glasses comfortably. It is approximately 20% lighter than its predecessor, the BT-200. Built with a quad core Intel Atom processor and Android OS 5.1, the BT-300 maintains up to six hours of battery life for processing of 3D heavy content.

Augmented reality smart glasses can improve worker efficiency enabling hands-free and real-time display across various industries such as warehouse/logistics, field service, manufacturing, healthcare, travel and hospitality, retail and more. Uses for the Moverio smart glasses include learning and training purposes, remote field service support for complex repair assistance and troubleshooting, managing of inventory and warehousing, guided museum tours and others.

“The Moverio BT-300 continues Epson’s commitment to binocular smart eyewear, real optical see-through overlay, and increased performance. We see potential for growth for industry use in the region. The Moverio has the potential to revolutionise workflow for onsite or remote operations. It adds a new dimension to professionals for improving their efficiency and accuracy at work, enabling workers to share their experience virtually or provide hands-free movement for hands-on work,” said Siew Jin Kiat, Regional General Manager (Southeast Asia), Printers & Visual Instruments Division, Epson Singapore.

Epson is currently working with businesses and independent software vendors to develop applications for use. It has partnered with DJI, a leading maker of drones, to develop applications for the Moverio smart glasses that will enhance safety, productivity, and piloting experience for hobbyists and professionals alike.

Using the optimized DJI Go app for the Epson Moverio BT-300 smart glasses, drone pilots will be able to see crystal clear, transparent first person views (FPV) from the drone camera while simultaneously maintaining line of sight with their aircraft. The Epson/ DJI partnership is timely as businesses look to expand the use of drones for a variety of aerial photography and videography purposes.

The Moverio BT-300 will be available in first quarter of 2017 across Southeast Asia region, in Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The Moverio BT-300 won Best New Wearable Device at the IDTechEx Wearable Europe 2016 Awards in recognition of its usefulness and innovation.

Epson’s Moverio range was first launched in 2011 with the BT-100, supplemented in 2014 with the BT-200, and again in 2016 with the Moverio Pro BT-2000. 

About Epson

Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to connecting people, things and information with its original efficient, compact and precision technologies. With a lineup that ranges from inkjet printers and digital printing systems to 3LCD projectors, smart glasses, sensing systems and industrial robots, the company is focused on driving innovations and exceeding customer expectations in inkjet, visual communications, wearables and robotics.

Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group comprises more than 67,000 employees in 90 companies around the world, and is proud of its contributions to the communities in which it operates and its ongoing efforts to reduce environmental impacts.

http://global.epson.com/

About Epson Southeast Asia

Since 1982, Epson has developed a strong presence across major markets in Southeast Asia. Led by the regional headquarters, Epson Singapore Pte Ltd., Epson Southeast Asia spans an extensive network of 10 countries, and is responsible for delivering and supporting Epson’s cutting-edge consumer and business digital imaging products to the customers of these markets through its comprehensive infrastructure of over 360 service outlets, 10 Epson solution centres and 8 manufacturing facilities.http://www.epson.com.sg

About Epson Philippines

Epson’s corporate presence in the Philippines commenced in 1998. It grew rapidly into a billion peso company in a span of a few years from its establishment due to its client-oriented approach in its business management style by its dedicated and innovative staff members and officers. Epson Philippines has an extensive network of 77 Authorized Service Centers nationwide with more than 200 dealers and more than 800 shops across the Country. For more details, please visit our website (www.epson.com.ph) or our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/EpsonPhilippines).

For product inquiries and technical support, please contact Epson Customer Care at: Metro Manila: (02) 441-9030; Toll Free: 1-800-1069-37766 (PLDT), 1-800-3-0037766 (DIGITEL) or visit the Epson Customer Care website: http://customercare.epson.com.ph