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ASUS Offers Free League

March 26, 2014 by Larawan@Kape

ASUS Offers Free League of Legends In-Game Items for Graphics Card Buyers

Manila, Philippines (March 25, 2014) – ASUS, in partnership with NVIDIA and Garena, is proud to bring you the “Dominate the Game” League of Legends Bundle Promo. Custom skins and in-game goodies await gamers who buy an ASUS-NVIDIA graphics card from March 25 – April 30, 2014.

Dominate the Game

League of Legends, or colloquially known as LoL, is a multiplayer online battle arena game inspired by the also popular Defense of the Ancients (DotA). It employs a free-to-play scheme and is currently one of the most popular games in the world, even in the competitive gaming scene. In the Philippines, League of Legends is maintained and operated by Garena Philippines.

To avail of this promo, users must buy an ASUS-NVIDIA graphics card on March 25 until April 30, 2014 from ASUS authorized resellers. To claim, endusers must email the scanned proof of purchase, the serial number of the unit, name, contact number, and Garena Account, and send it to events@lol.ph. A representative from Garena will validate the serial numbers and will credit the RP value to the user’s account within ten (10) working days. Below are the valid ASUS VGA and the corresponding bundled skins:

Segment	Model	Bundle Pack
Enthusiast	GTX 690 Series	Rune Page
GTX Titan	Pulsefire Ezreal
GTX 780 Series	Midnight Ahri
Mars 769	Mecha Kha’Zix
GTX 770 Series	Goth Annie
GTX 670
Gaming	GTX 760 Series	Rune Page
GTX 750 Series	Astronautilus
GTX 660 Series	Glacial Malphite
	Arcane Sona
	Goth Annie
Mainstream	GTX 650 Series	Rune Page
GT 640 Series	Astronautilus
	Goth Annie

Engineered for Quality Performance

ASUS-made NVIDIA graphics cards have proven themselves worthy of numerous awards and accolades, both local and international. Each card is a piece of quality engineering, equipped with cool thermal systems ensuring long-lasting performance. Also, ASUS takes care of its customers even after they’ve left the counter, offering a three-year warranty service here in the Philippines.

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About ASUS

ASUS is a worldwide top-three consumer notebook vendor and maker of the world’s best-selling, most award-winning, motherboards. A leading enterprise in the new digital era, ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today’s digital home and office, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktop and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, servers, multimedia devices, wireless solutions, networking devices, tablets and smartphones. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 4,168 awards in 2012 and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with its Eee PC™. ASUS has more than 12,500 employees around the globe with a world-class R&D team of 3,800 engineers. Company revenue for 2012 was approximately US$14 billion.

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Philips Philippines Winning Contributor…

March 26, 2014 by Larawan@Kape

Illac Angelo Ancellotti Diaz

Winning Contributor, MyShelter Foundation

Innovation that Matters to You Campaign by Philips Philippines

Illac Diaz is a former corporate executive who has since gone on to establish several foundations that provide sustainable solutions to societal problems. He is the executive director of MyShelter Foundation, a non-profit organization which has been engaged in improving the lives of many Filipinos through the creation of sustainable solutions for using recycled materials for the building of clinics and classrooms in rural areas.

MyShelter Foundation, was conceived when Illac observed the shortage of classrooms in the provinces while trying to help solve the housing problem in the province of Negros Occidental, the sugar growing capital of the Philippines. By utilizing the endless supply of waste plastic soda bottles at the municipal landfill and local labor, money could be kept within the community and spent on building more cost-effective classrooms. MyShelter Foundation then set up a construction business building upcycled schools, clinics, and community centers. These savings in construction costs could then be channeled by the community to increase teachers’ wages and bring computer technology to schools. Currently, one of the global successes on up-cycling has been the Liter of Light project using a used soda bottle, some bleach, and contact cement to make a cheap DIY daylight through the roof of low income communities around the world

Diaz is a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and finished previously the program Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was recognized as one of the Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum, Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World by the Jaycees International, and is an Ernst and Young Innovation Entrepreneur of the Year. He has returned to the Philippines to apply and disseminate his research in needy communities throughout the country.

About MyShelter Foundation (MSF)

When Typhoon Ondoy hit the Philippines in 2008, it was one of the worst storms on record. This calamity flooded 80% of Manila, leaving many people with no access to basic needs. Working with emergency and humanitarian disaster relief agencies, Diaz launched MSF to design creative solutions to address the needs of those affected by natural disasters. MSF’s mission is to bring sustainable building solutions that are easily replicable, scalable, and locally sourced to the grassroots level, reframing the way people think about solutions to climate change, not as a product of industrialized nations but as a gift that developing countries can share with the rest of the world.

About Liter of Light

MSF’s Liter of Light redesigns solar lighting for the developing world. The simple, two-step solar lighting technology creates local jobs, teaches green skills, and empowers local communities. Liter of (Day) Light is a DIY affordable system that allows the sun’s rays into homes, schools, and public centers. Using recycled plastic soda bottles, 10 milliliters of bleach, and distilled water, the bottle is placed through galvanized steel sheet roofs common to many developing countries. Sunlight refracts through the bottle and bends to light the space below with 55 watts of brightness, saving an average of US $10 in electricity bills a month and 200 kilos of carbon a year. For more information about the Liter of Light, please visit www.aliteroflight.org.

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http://www.philips.com.ph/

Philips Philippines – Delivering Innovation

March 26, 2014 by Larawan@Kape

Delivering innovation that matters to you

“Innovation that matters to You” is a program by Philips Philippines committed to deliver meaningful innovation that will help improve the health and wellness state of Filipinos in a chosen community.

About the Innovation that Matters to You (ITMTY) Campaign by Philips

“At Philips, we believe people should be healthy, live well and enjoy life. We are a technology company that cares about people. We listen, discover and challenge to deliver meaningful innovation. Innovation that Matters to You Campaign by Philips underlines our commitment to deliver meaningful innovation that improves the quality of people’s lives in Asia Pacific. It aims to help build sustainable and livable living and working environments, promote healthy eating habits, active aging and personal- and childcare and establishing affordable and accessible healthcare systems and effective ways to dealing with chronic diseases.

Through the Innovation that Matters to You Campaign, we work together, partner with individuals, communities and other stakeholders to combine insights with expertise, technology with funding, to deliver meaningful innovation that make a real difference in helping people live healthier, happier and more fulfilling lives.”

About Project Yolanda: The ITMTY Campaign by Philips in the Philippines

After witnessing the massive destruction caused by Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) in the Visayas region, Philips decided to refocus its ‘Meaningful Innovations’ program to define and deliver meaningful innovations to affected communities in the Visayas through idea generation and sharing. The outcome of the Philips Innovations campaign will result in a meaningful and sustainable project that will focus on three core issues facing the Visayas today: the need for sustainable infrastructure for displaced families, immediate access to quality healthcare services, and addressing health and nutrition-related concerns.

About The First Meaningful Innovation by Philips in the Philippines:

The Solar Night Light Project by Illac Diaz (MyShelter Foundation)

After careful deliberation and accounting 30% from the public votes, Philips and its partners finally selected the Solar Night Light Project by Illac Diaz as the very first Philips ‘Meaningful Innovation’ to be delivered in Tacloban and Ilo-Ilo.

My Shelter Foundation’s (MSF) Liter of Light project is a two-step, DIY solar lighting project that makes use of recycled plastic soda bottles and a simple circuit board built from readily available parts. MSF will work with Philips on technical improvements to benefit locally displaced Filipino families. Priority areas for deploying the solar night lights will be Tacloban and Ilo-Ilo where bunkhouses were built by the government to serve as temporary homes to more than 200 displaced families.

Philips will be implementing the winning idea within 2014 by working in close coordination with the team of Diaz. The process of testing and piloting the Solar Night Light prototype will start immediately and this prototype is expected to be sampled and appraised for the next six months.

For more information on the “Innovation that Matters to You” program in the Philippines, please visit www.meaningfulinnovation.asia/philippines or www.facebook.com/PhilipsPhilippines.

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Philips Philippines brings its very first

March 26, 2014 by Larawan@Kape

Meaningful Innovation to the Visayas

“Innovations that matter to You” program creates an improved solar lighting solution

with Illac Diaz to light up homes in Tacloban and Ilo-Ilo

Manila, 2014 – Philips Electronics and Lighting Inc. in the Philippines is set to bring to life the very first meaningful innovation with the winning idea by Illac Diaz, geared towards lighting up Yolanda-stricken communities in the Visayas. With over 120 years of innovation heritage, Philips is focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovations.

The awarding ceremony held on 25^th March 2014 brought together the finalists of the ‘Meaningful Innovations’ program and its select panel of experts – World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines (WWF-Philippines) CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board Mr. Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan, Department of Health Assistant Secretary Enrique Tayag and Director for National Center for Health Promotion Dr. Ivanhoe Escartin, and ICANSERVE Foundation Founding President Ms. Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala – who announced the grand winner side-by-side with Philips local executives. From 1,057 entries received, streamlined to the top five entries, Philips and its panel of experts have found a winning idea in Illac Diaz’s Solar Night Light Project, based on its impact, innovativeness, relevance, and feasibility.

“We are glad that thousands of Filipinos showed support for their countrymen by sharing ideas on how innovation can make a difference in the lives of those affected by typhoon Yolanda,” shared Philips Philippines Country Manager Fabia Tetteroo-Bueno. When asked about the process to determine the final winning innovation among the shortlisted ideas, Fabia said Philips with WWF-Philippines, DOH, and ICANSERVE Foundation, went through a series of consultations and fine-tuning with the contributors to determine the winning idea. “All top 5 finalists had great ideas and we wished to be able to implement them all. We had to carefully look into the technical feasibility of each single project with the panelists, technical experts, coupled with the results from the public votes. The team of Illac Diaz had the most feasible idea where Philips expertise can help MyShelter Foundation (MSF) to improve the concept design and together, we can deploy the first range of night lights. It is a project that can revolutionize access to lighting in areas where there are limited or no access to lighting at all. It is more than a product concept – it is a sustainable way of bringing light to off-grid areas in the Philippines.”

Philips and Diaz gave the members of the press a closer look at this innovation, sharing how having lights is critical in helping families in the Visayas on their road to recovery. “Each solar bottle light saves 200 kilos of carbon emissions by preventing burning of fossil fuels that is commonly used by power plants to generate electricity,” shared Diaz. “MSF’s Liter of Light project is a two-step, DIY solar lighting project that makes use of recycled plastic soda bottles and a simple circuit board built from readily available parts. MSF will work with Philips on technical improvements to benefit locally displaced Filipino families.”

Philips and Diaz said during the discussion that priority areas for deploying the solar night lights will be Tacloban and Ilo-Ilo where bunkhouses were built by the government to serve as temporary homes to more than 13,000 displaced families. Both parties shared that they are looking forward to lighting up disaster-hit areas with this new powerful partnership. “We intend to inspire an army of people willing to bring light to affected communities, and Philips and MyShelter Foundation hope to serve as catalysts for this movement,” shared Fabia.

As the ‘Meaningful Innovations’ campaign enters its delivery phase, Philips will be implementing the winning idea within 2014 by working in close coordination with the team of Diaz. The process of testing and piloting the Solar Night Light prototype will start immediately and this prototype is expected to be sampled and appraised for the next six months.

“Imagine how big the impact of night lights is in these bunkhouses they now consider their homes,” said Fabia. “We’re not just lighting up homes – we’re providing hope to more families for starting anew.”

For more information on the “Innovation that Matters to You” program in the Philippines, please visit www.meaningfulinnovation.asia/philippines or www.facebook.com/PhilipsPhilippines.

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About Royal Philips:

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips posted 2013 sales of EUR 23.3 billion and employs approximately 115,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.

‘Meaningful Innovations’ Program by Philips Philippines Winner:

The Solar Night Light Project: Lighting up Yolanda-stricken communities by Illac Diaz, Metro Manila

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COBY Kyros

March 12, 2014 by Larawan@Kape

Greetings from Ivory Music & Video!

Maja Salvador will have a Meet & Greet Session on March 16, 4PM at SM North Edsa for Coby Kyros.

Hope you can help us by sharing the news. Let me know if you guys want to join the event too.

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