Tag: smart communications

Time for Globe and Smart to stop giving Filipinos unlimited Facebook access

November 3, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

It’s time. Many Filipinos and their “thought leaders” have been criticising the role social media giant Facebook had supposedly been playing in skewing political chatter. Many argue that it had become a platform for “disinformation” and “fake news”. More importantly — in particular, to the oligarchs who are losing money in their once-profitable media businesses…

Lifestyle, Media, Tech Talk

Filipinos welcome Australia’s Telstra like Jesus’s second coming!

November 2, 2015November 2, 2015 benign0 29 Comments

I switched my entire household’s telecommunication needs to Telstra back in 2007. Today we enjoy about 300 GB of home internet data piped in by cable (not DSL) that is channeled to all our computing and home entertainment devices using a WiFI router provided as part of the package. We also have several mobile devices…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Sponsored Text Messages Allegedly From GraceChiz Spreads (UPDATED)

October 21, 2015October 22, 2015 P. Farol 11 Comments

Tim Tayag and a journalist friend on Facebook received what appears to be a sponsored text message from a telco service provider — the kind that usually alerts you to promos or gives you service notifications. Unlike text blast messages, sponsored text messages don’t display the cellphone number of the receiver. What you get with…

Government, Media, Politics, Society

Rappler.com in bed with SMART in social media promo

September 19, 2012August 7, 2013 benign0 5 Comments

What exactly is the mission of “social news network” organisation Rappler.com? Is it to inform the public? Or is it to make news? I read about the most recent event it organised at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus, “the 7th leg of its “Social Media for Social Change Chat Series” today”,…

Education, Media, Money Talks

Social Media and Big Telco emerge as Filipino heroes

August 9, 2012August 9, 2012 benign0 3 Comments

In another one of its infomercial articles that it would like to pass off to the average sucker as a news “report”, ABS-CBN trumpeted another one of those dubious “achievements” Filipinos owe mainly to their enormous population — our undisputed place in the global scheme of things as the “social media capital of the world”….

Development, Environment, Money Talks, Politics