Author: PhilSTAR Tech Team

The much-awaited iPhone 16 is coming soon for pre-order at the Power Mac Center!

Power Mac Center TriNoma APP is holding exclusive opening promos for its customers, including the following: An “APP Store” stands for Apple Premium Partner, which is the highest classification of stores for official Apple resellers. In the Philippines, PMC or Power Mac Center is the only reseller is authorized to open an APP Store. Hand-in-hand with its official service arm Mobile Care and training arm Basecamp, PMC remains as the only reseller in the Philippines authorized to open APP stores. These are the branches in Power Plant Mall (opened in 2022), Greenbelt 3 (2023), SM Mall of Asia (2023), SM…

Get ready, gamers! Rakion is back and better than ever, and it’s gearing up to launch soon.

Kusho World rocked the world of Web3 during the pandemic as a project founded by an eager teen that quickly turned sour. The NFT project, inspired by anime, garnered a huge following and quickly sold out its collection of anime-inspired NFT avatars. As the months passed, the project tanked in terms of merch deliverables and questionable financial handlings. Months later, Joe Josue of Metasports acquired this project and has since pushed all the right buttons by regaining community trust and launching KUSHO CLASSICS. Kusho World, originally conceived as an anime-inspired NFT project, has officially unraveled the first of a series of initiatives, the…

Amidst the widening digital skills gap that threatens the competitiveness of its workforce, the Digital Marketing Association of the Philippines (DMAP), the country’s center of excellence and innovation in digital marketing, will focus on future-proofing the digital landscape at the ninth Digital Congress (DigiCon) on October 15-16, 2024, in Newport City, Metro Manila.

JBL Philippines has officially launched their Campus Ambassador Program. More than just a typical promo, JBL is on the lookout for talent around Philippine college campuses. If you’re a college student enrolled in SY 2024-2025, you may want to sign up for their special program (link below!). Apply here: https://forms.gle/VNziFJobYx3eVbtp9 The Campus Ambassador Program enables students with public social media accounts to become JBL Ambassadors. Successful applicants will receive JBL gear to feature, student discounts, invites to exclusive events, and access to JBL Sound Fest 2024 — a highly coveted yearly concert featuring the best of the best music in…

Starting September 26, 2024, at 10:00 AM (local time), participating retailers will open pre-orders for two exclusive items to mark PlayStation’s three decades of gaming innovation. Filipino gamers can purchase: PARTIAL LIST: Shop NameAddressTelOpening hoursTOYS R USLevel 1 Robinsons Place Tuguegarao Brgy. Tanza, Tuguegarao City 10am – 9pmTOYS R USLevel 2 Expansion 2, National Highway Taboan, Fatima Village, Tacloban City, Leyte 10am – 9pmTOYS R USLevel 2, Circuit Mall, Brgy. Carmona, Sta. Ana, Makati City 10am – 9pmPC Quickbuys2nd Level, Cyberzone, SM City Cebu, Cebu 6000(0919) 069-812110am – 9pmThinking Tools @ MallC283 2nd Floor, Cyberzone Area, SM City Cebu, NRA, Mabolo Cebu City…

By GRACY CHEN The world of crypto and blockchain has long been dominated by male voices. Globally, women still make up less than 30 percent of the global crypto workforce, and even fewer hold leadership roles. Only 26 percent of cryptocurrency investors are female, just 6 percent of CEOs in the industry are women, and women-led startups capture barely 10 percent of venture funding. The structural gap is undeniable.In the Philippines, the story looks different. Around 9.6 percent of Filipinas own cryptocurrency, around 5.5 million individuals, placing the country second globally in female crypto adoption. Beyond trading, more women are emerging as…

In the past several weeks, many Filipinos have fallen prey to a hacking scam called SMS hijacking. This is when you receive a SMS from a seemingly reliable source like a Globe, Sky Cable, BDO, or a Maya SMS address alias but it’s secretly being “hijacked” by a scammer in the vicinity. This happens through the use of hardware deployed around potential victims that spoof these aliases. In the past, we were always told by banks to only trust SMS that came from authorized senders. But it seems that we can no longer trust this method as the very message…

Just recently, the AMA University campus buzzed with excitement as AMA’s Gen Z Influencers, Cloud 7 stepped into their first day of school.