SM Cinema to Host the Philippine Premiere of Vin Diesel's Fast & Furious 6

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Fast & Furious 6 is the sixth installment in the Fast and the Furious film series. The film stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Sung Kang, Chris Bridges, Luke Evans, Gina Carano, and John Ortiz.

SM Cinema, the country’s home of premiere nights, will host the upcoming Fast and Furious 6 premiere which will be held at SM Mall of Asia on May 15, 2013.

The film’s lead action star, Vin Diesel, along with fellow stars Michelle Rodriguez, Gina Carano and Luke Evans, producer Neal H. Moritz, and director Justin Lin will be coming to the Philippines to be part of this exciting movie event.

Fast & Furious 6 continues in the tradition of thrilling fast‐paced car chases, action, and suspense that has made the movie franchise a worldwide sensation. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of all‐stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next continent.

Fast & Furious 6 follows a professional criminal gang led by Dominic Toretto (Diesel) who have retired following their successful heist in Fast Five (2011), but remain wanted fugitives. U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson) offers to clear the group's criminal records and allow them to return home in exchange for helping him to take down a skilled mercenary organization led by Owen Shaw (Evans) and his second in command, Dominic's presumed-dead lover Letty Ortiz (Rodriguez).

The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

The Fast and the Furious 6 (alternatively known as Fast Six) characters. 

Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto: A street racer and fugitive

Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner: A former FBI agent turned criminal. He is in a relationship with Mia Toretto

Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs: A Diplomatic Security Service agent 

Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto: Dominic's sister and the girlfriend of Brian O'Conner

Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce: Brian's childhood friend

Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz: Dominic's former girlfriend who was believed to be dead

Sung Kang as Han Seoul-Oh: A street racer and member of Dominic's crew

Chris Bridges as Tej Parker: Brian's and Roman's friend 

Luke Evans as Owen Shaw: A former SAS Major now leading a heist gang 

Gina Carano as Riley: A member of Hobbs' team 

Gal Gadot as Gisele Yashar: A former Mossad agent turned professional criminal

Joe Taslim as Jah: A cold blooded killer who fights using martial arts and parkour

Clara Paget as Vegh: The character is described as a gun-slinging action woman

Elsa Pataky as Elena Neves

Rita Ora portrays the head girl of a London racing crew

Jin Au-Yeung as Jimmy 

Fast & Furious 6 is a United International Pictures Release through Solar Entertainment Corporation. The film will be released in theaters across the Philippines on May 24, 2013.

“Sale-Seriously Super Sale” from May 17 to 19

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“Sale-Seriously Super Sale” ! This is seriously outrageous sale of phones, computer and gadgets from 25 great Tech Brands up to 70% off!

Indigo Enterprises Inc. is holding a 3-day sale of the latest gadgets, computers, and mobile phones. 

Visit the “Sale-Seriously Super Sale” from May 17 to 19 at Whitespace, in Makati City and get up to 70% off on brands.

The sale is open to all major credit cards. A special offer of 0% for BPI credit cards holder.

Whitespace is located at 2314 Chino Roces Ave. ext. Makati City.

For more information, visit the Sale-riously event page on Facebook.

WD® and SanDisk Brings Fast Flash Memory Technology

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WD® and SanDisk team up to crate innovative solid state hybrid drives. SanDisk Brings Fast Flash Memory Technology to the World’s Thinnest 2.5-inch Solid State Hybrid Drives from WD 

WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company, and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that the two companies are collaborating to introduce hybrid storage devices that feature best-in-class flash memory technology from SanDisk and best-in-class hard drive technology from WD.

SanDisk is supplying a SanDisk iSSD™ storage device for the WD Black™ solid state hybrid drive (SSHD), the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch SSHD solution, which utilizes both WD proprietary hybrid technology and industry standard SATA IO technology. The SanDisk iSSD brings an elegant balance of performance, low power consumption, cost, reliability, and a compact form factor to this SSHD, which will offer ample storage to meet consumers’ growing appetite for digital content as well as flash-enabled speed, data throughput and responsiveness – all within ultra-slim form factors. 

“I am delighted for SanDisk to team up with WD on these exciting new hybrid products,” said Kevin Conley, senior vice president and general manager of client storage solutions at SanDisk. “By combining SanDisk’s unparalleled flash memory expertise and technology with the hard drive know-how of WD, WD Black SSHDs offer outstanding hard drive-like capacity, and the slim form factor and the level of performance that you will only get with flash memory solutions.” 

“Working with SanDisk, WD realized our vision for products that combine the best of both technologies,” said Matt Rutledge, vice president of client computing at WD. “WD’s SSHDs are a significant achievement in the continuing SSHD/flash storage revolution.” 

About WD Black Solid State Hybrid Drives 

WD Black SSHDs use WD hybrid technology that blends responsive, intelligent flash memory technology from SanDisk with high capacity hard drives from WD. This powerful combination greatly improves the PC user experience, enabling both high capacity and a higher level of performance than traditional hard disk drives, including increased speed, instant-on and faster application launching. 

With device volume being a key concern for PC manufacturers who want to design slimmer devices, the WD Black SSHDs are designed to accommodate integration into the market’s thinnest notebooks. The WD Black 5mm SSHD offers 500GB of capacity, while utilizing almost 50 percent less volume than current standard notebook hard drives (which are approximately 9.5mm). The low-profile of the solid state hybrid drive is complemented by the extremely small form factor of the SanDisk iSSD, which is built on 19 nanometer (nm) process technology, the world's smallest and most advanced semiconductor manufacturing process. The WD Black 5mm SSHDs are shipping to OEMs. WD is also currently shipping to OEMs ultra-slim, 7mm and 9.5mm SSHDs for portable devices. 

About WD 

WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD’s leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wd.com. 

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's website (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information. 

About SanDisk 

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, from research and development, product design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for commercial and retail channels. Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory and storage system technologies have provided customers with new and transformational digital experiences. SanDisk's diverse product portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB flash drives and solid state drives (SSD) for the computing market. SanDisk's products are used by consumers and enterprise customers around the world. 

SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.

Sex and the City Actress Sarah Jessica Parker to open SM Store at SM Aura Premier

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It's official! SARAH JESSICA PARKER will open The SM Store 'Aura'!

This is the fashion event of the year! “Sex & The City” star one of the famous international actress and style icons,  Sarah Jessica Parker will visit the Philippines for the opening of SM store Aura in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. The SM Aura Premier shopping mall is part of the Bonifacio Civic Center.

She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. She played the same role in the 2008 feature film based on the show, Sex and the City: The Movie, and in its sequel, Sex and the City 2, which opened last May 26, 2010.

Parker has also appeared in many other films. She will also appear in the season finale of the US television show "Glee" along with AI Jessica Sanchez. Parker also is a member of the Board of Directors for the New York City Ballet and is a UNICEF ambassador.

She has also become the face of many of the world's biggest fashion brands through her work in a variety of advertising campaigns. Parker hosted the MTV Movie Awards year 2000, appearing in fourteen different outfits during the show.

For shoppers, the summer heat continues to rise as Sarah Jessica Parker hits one of the newest malls in town. Save the date! Meet Sarah Jessica Parker at the opening of The SM Store at SM Aura Premier on May 16, 2013.

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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheSMStore 

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Rico Blanco Live on June 12

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Rico Blanco, one of the hottest and most sought after OPM artists today, is set to hold his first ever solo concert !

Catch him live at the Music Museum on Philippine Independence Day, June 12, 2013, and be a part of music history. It’s been five years since this former Rivermaya frontman struck out on his own, and two solo albums later (Your Universe and last year’s Galactik Fiestamatik), he’s hotter than ever and ready to rock the stage in his first full-length solo concert!

A consistent chart-topper, expect Blanco to perform his latest hits, “Amats,” “Burado,” and “Lipat Bahay,” and OPM staples “Your Universe,” “Antukin,” “Posible,” and “Yugto.” Sing along to Blanco-penned Rivermaya favorites “214,” “You’ll Be Safe Here,” “Umaaraw, Umuulan”, “Elesi” and “Awit ng Kabataan” as he performs his compositions as his alter ego Fiesto Bandido in Galactik Fiestamatik style!

Always pushing the musical envelope, this rock chameleon promises a fun, edgy, electrifying performance together with special guests. It’s always a party when Blanco hits the stage—so don’t miss the fiesta!

Rico Blanco Live! is brought to you by Warner Music Philippines, and presented by Smart Communications.

Ticket prices are at Php1,300 (VIP), Php 1,000 (Orchestra), and Php 700 (Balcony).

Tickets are available at smtickets.com (470-2222),

ticketworld.com.ph (891-9999) and 

musicmuseum.com.ph (721-6726).

For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/ricoblancomusic