I got a chance to meet with THIRSTY’s marketing manager a couple of days ago and learned they are currently running a simple contest promoting THIRSTY’s new fruit salad with Nestle yogurt. I thought of sharing this to everyone, particularly those CTB readers with Twitter accounts as you could win 1 of the 3 iPod Shuffles to be given away. If you’re interested of joining, here’s what you need to…

Following the announcement of The New iPad, the Philippines Apple Store has also been updated to reflect the new prices of the iPad 2. Wi-Fi models of the second-generation iPad are now priced Php 5000 less, while the ones with 3G functionality are priced Php 6000 less from their respective original prices as you can see in the matrix below:

I probably have missed writing about the rumors surrounding the third generation Apple iPad, with speculations the Cupertino tech giant will significantly revamp the internal specs of the tablet. Finally, from Apple’s event in San Francisco earlier today, all of these “specs-culation” including that new A5X chipset with quad-core graphics processor, 4G LTE support, the stunning Retina Display, and the new camera capable of recording full 1080p HD videos are…

Apple released today another firmware update (iOS 5.1) for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad which brings several new improvements – the most notable of which is the Japanese language support for Siri. Sounds good news for Japanese users out there as they can now talk to Siri through their native language. Other than that, iOS 5.1 now allow users to delete photos from the Photo Stream and the Camera shortcut…

Opera, the most widely used web browser in feature phones has been beaten for the first time from its throne as the top mobile browser. The Android web browser that is seen to have a rapid growth since its inception a couple of years ago has broken another record — this time leading Opera in the list of StatCounter’s Global Stats. From the most recent monthly report (February, 2012), Android…

As promised, Microsoft finally made Windows 8 Consumer Preview available for public download. Installation files come in ISO image format, so you guys would need to convert the file into another installation media like DVD or bootable USB drive. Windows 8 Consumer Preview is available both in 32 and 64-bit versions, which the latter’s size goes more than 3GB.

ASUS on Friday started rolling out firmware update to the original Eee Pad Transformer tablet (model TF101) initially running Android Honeycomb out of the box. The update, which is none other than the latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich, is now available for download over-the-air (OTA) — presumably for all users across the globe, of course including the Philippines.

Globe Telecom, in partnership with Aegis People Support and Tech Mahindra, announced on Wednesday its new hotline dedicated for Visayan-speaking customers. This new hotline provides customer services for mobile, landline, and broadband products — basically, using the local Visayan language Cebuano, making Globe Telecom the first company in the Philippine telecommunications industry to offer trilingual customer hotline service (in addition to English and Tagalog). The new service uses Globe’s dedicated…

Windows 8 developer preview has been sitting for a while now since Microsoft gave us more sneak peek of its features during the company’s “Build” event last year. This time however, it appears that the Redmond-based software giant will make its next version of Windows available for download to end-users on February 29th, a leap day. According to several reports, Microsoft will release Windows 8 Consumer Preview (or Windows 8…

Finally, Android users will now experience the power of the Chrome browser as Google has already made it available for download in Android Market. Dubbed as Chrome for Android Beta, the browser is still on its first beta stage, hence the name – yet it’s promised to offer a faster mobile web browsing performance than the native browser app on Android.  Features of Chrome for Android Beta include: – Browse…