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Canon Marketing Philippines stages a grand launch of their 32 new products as part of their Image Nation Celebration.
The new offerings spanned across the entire consumer brand portfolio. It included new offerings from PIXMA printers (three single function printers and five multifunction printers), three Canonscan flatbed scanners, four LaserShot Laser Printers, two [...]

Dell Philippines announced a completely new line of Latitude and Dell Precision laptops, ranging from the lightest ultra-portable in the company’s history to the most powerful mobile workstation.
Highlights:
- Sets Business-Class Benchmarks for Weight, Design and Durability
- Breakthrough Battery Life: Up to 19 Hours on a Single Charge
- Previews Dell Latitude ON [...]

Asus will soon introduce the 3G edition of their Eee PC line. Asus Eee PC 901 will feature High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA or 3.75G), with download speeds of up to 7.2Mbps, and upload speeds of 2.2Mbps.
With 3.75G, the Eee PC will be able to deliver on its promise of borderless one-day computing better [...]

Oracle has announced their plans to offer a “database machine” optimized for their products and technologies.
This would be the first time that Oracle would be selling a hardware based offering.  The machine is being manufactured for Oracle by Hewlett Packard.
Oracle said that the machine would help companies fetch information stored on databases more quickly.

The service has been named MySpace Music and it would play the songs for free for the users while they are surfing on the website.
This free music would be supported by online advertising. Users would be able to purchase the songs through MySpace’s partnership with Amazon.
The music through Amazon MP3 store is free from DRM [...]

HP Philippines announced new disk-based backup systems with data deduplication technology that increases disk utilization by up to 50 times to deliver scalable solutions that reduce storage costs and protect business critical data.

HP provides two distinct methods of data deduplication to address the demands of customers of different sizes. For small and midsize (SMB) customers, [...]

Nokia Philippines recently launched two new products – the Nokia 2680 Slide and Nokia 7210 Supernova.

The Nokia 2680 slide is a slim cameraphone that offers a balance of ease of use and entertainment functionality, including an FM radio with recording capability and MP3 ringtones, and core mobile phone features such as an expanded phone book. [...]

Alcatel-Lucent recently introduced the concept of the Dynamic Enterprise to help address the concern on business latency of organizations through its Business Integrated Communications Solutions (BiCS).

Alcatel-Lucent Dynamic Enterprise Communications Framwork helps business to support their people by providing personalized tools for collaboration and access to critical information wherever they are, thransforming their network to provide [...]

Sony unveiled the VAIO TT laptop, “the world’s lightest computer with Blu-ray Disc technology”. Housed in a lightweight carbon-fiber chassis, this new model weighs just 2.87 pounds and is less than 1-inch thin.
The Sony VAIO TT Series ultraportable has a 11.1-inch 1366 x 768 display. The screen features LED backlight and has a 16:9 [...]

Intel has announced the launch of their third generation vPro platform. The company has added several new features including remote management and patching applications.
Intel said that the new platform would now enable the administrators to carry out scheduled tune-ups of PCs. The machines can automatically call for help using the new inbuilt Remote Alert [...]