How much of the iPhone 5 is manufactured in China

Where is the Apple iPhone 5 made? There has been widespread belief that it's 100 percent "American." 

Sorry to burst your bubble, but 90 percent of the iPhone 5—including the minerals used on its screen, glass cover, and speakers—are mined in China and Inner Mongolia. 

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Websites hacked ahead of anti-pork rally

At least 32 local websites have been defaced early Monday, hours ahead of the massive protest against pork barrel in Luneta.

Visitors of the websites, most of which are hosted under gov.ph, instead saw an alternative screen and a message from hackers protesting the alleged misuse of public funds.

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Nokia's Lumia 1020 sets new photo standard for smartphones and even digital cameras

The Finnish phonemaker's latest device is so good at capturing images that users really will be able to throw their digital cameras and even their HD video cameras away. In fact, it's so good, don't be surprised if professional photographers start using it too.

As widely predicted, the Nokia Lumia 1020 boasts an incredible 41-megapixel image sensor, giving it pretty much professional levels of image capture even in the most dimly lit conditions.

This imaging ability is further helped by a suite of dedicated apps that eliminate judder and camera shake plus a number of mechanical improvements.

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Apple looking at bigger iPhone screens, multiple color

By Clare Jim, Reiji Murai and Poornima Gupta

(Reuters) - Apple Inc is exploring launching iPhones with bigger screens, as well as cheaper models in a range of colors, over the next year, said four people with knowledge of the matter, as it takes a cue from rival Samsung Electronics.

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Unlocked iPhones Now Officially Available in the Philippines

Great news for Apple lovers in the Philippines: today is the day! Finally premium Apple resellers are offering unlocked iPhone 5, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4s — and they’re all official.

This is a great news here in the Philippines. Before today you could buy unlocked iPhones from unauthorized resellers all of which are “grey market” items. 

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IBM puts supercomputer to work on cancer

IBM is putting its Watson supercomputer to work fighting cancer, in what is described as the first commercial program of its kind to use "big data" to help patients with the disease.

The US computing giant last week unveiled its initiative with health insurer WellPoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

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Google Philippines office is now open for business

Search giant Google has set up a local office in the Philippines, a move seen to "change" PH's internet landscape.

Manuel L. Quezon III, Undersecretary for Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning, who represented President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III at the company's launch said he is optimistic that Google Philippines' presence would lead to innovations.

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Amid protests, SC starts tackling legality of Cybercrime Law

Amid protests outside the Supreme Court, the first ever oral argument to be led by Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on the controversial Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 started, with petitioners insisting the law violated the constitutional rights of the public.

The argument was opened by petitioner and Sen. Teofisto "TG" Guingona III who branded the law as a "Cyberdracula... with fangs that instill fear in the hearts of people."

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'Hacktivists' deface Philippine govt websites over cyber law

Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Several government websites, including that of the National Food Authority (NFA), were defaced early yesterday the "hacktivist" group Anonymous Philippines, drawing attention to the cybercrime law.

The hacking took place a day before the Supreme Court holds oral arguments on the CyberCrime Prevention Act of 2012, or Republic Act No. 10175, which Anonymous Philippines said threatened freedom of expression.

The law became controversial because it criminalises online libel, among other things, angering journalists who have been campaigning for the decriminalisation of libel.

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Nokia has already sold 4.4 million Windows phones

Sales figures reveal that there is a place for Microsoft in the smartphone market after all.

A few days after Microsoft CEO gate-crashed the opening keynote speech of the International Consumer Electronics Show to proclaim that Windows Phone 8 is performing well, an unscheduled financial update by Nokia, Microsoft's biggest smartphone partner and maker of the smartphone operating system's flagship handset confirms that phones are flying off the shelf.

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Four of five Pinoys have no Internet at home

The Philippines may boast of being the social networking hub, but nearly four out of five Pinoy adults still have no Internet access at home, results of a new poll showed.

A total of 79 percent of Filipinos reported being offline at home, U.S.-based pollster Gallup found in a survey of 1,000 adults in each of 148 countries globally.

The report put the Philippines among the 100 countries where less than a majority of respondents answered yes when asked the question "Does your home have access to the Internet?"

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Apple tailoring cheaper iPhone model: reports

Reports echoing online Tuesday fueled speculation that Apple is tailoring a low-price version of the iPhone for China and other emerging markets.

DigiTimes.com, which specializes in news about the supply side of the technology industry, cited unnamed sources as saying an iPhone model made with less expensive parts would be rolled out in the second half of this year.

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Global tech industry uneven as mobile surges

The global tech industry has become a tale of two sectors, with mobile devices surging at the expense of older electronics that are struggling, a forecast showed.

A survey presented ahead of the International Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest trade show of its kind, projects modest growth of four percent for the industry expected to generate 2013 sales of $1.1 trillion.

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Goodbye netbooks: Asus and Acer to cease production

Netbooks, the small, low-cost mobile PCs that Steve Jobs famously ridiculed as he unveiled the first iPad back in 2010, are officially no more. The two remaining manufacturers, Asus and Acer have both issued statements claiming that the end of 2012 also marks the end of production for the once much-hyped mini-laptops.

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Samsung Electronics seeks U.S. sales ban on some Ericsson products

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it had filed a complaint against Ericsson with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), requesting a U.S. import ban and sales ban on some of the Swedish telecoms equipment maker's products.

The action taken on Friday by the world's top smartphone maker, which accused Ericsson of breaching seven of its patents, came after Ericsson requested an ITC U.S. import ban on Samsung products and sued the South Korean firm for patent infringement.

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Philippine govt sees nuclear energy a viable option

Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Nuclear energy is back on the Philippine government's list of possible alternatives for power generation in the future, according to the Department of Energy (DOE), as it faces stiff opposition from environmentalists and various militant groups.

Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla stressed that even before he was appointed to his current position, he was already looking at nuclear energy as a possible power source option.

"We're looking at it on a long-term basis. We're counting on [nuclear as an option]. At the same time, we have to look at the technical side, and then recommend later on if studies show that it's good for the country," Petilla said.

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Apple losses bid for US ban on Samsung smartphones

A judge denied Apple's request to ban a set of Samsung smartphones from the US market after a jury found the South Korean electronics titan guilty of patent infringement.

Even though Apple was victorious in the patent case, the iPhone and iPad maker failed to prove that the technology at issue was the driving factor in people's buying decisions, US District Court Judge Lucy Koh said in her ruling.

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New UP monorail coaches arrive

Filipinos had their first glimpse Sunday of a new monorail system to be piloted in the University of the Philippines in Diliman, which is hailed as "the future of mass transport systems made by Filipinos."

Photos of the Automated Guideway Transit System (AGTS) developed by UP and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) made rounds in social networking sites, after it was posted on Facebook by a group called Philippine Railways.

Shown in the photos are two train coaches which have arrived in UP Diliman Sunday, as well as parts of the 465-meter test track elevated at 6.1 meters, running from the campus' C.P. Garcia Avenue to Jacinto Street.

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Life on Mars? Maybe not. NASA rows back on findings

NASA downplayed Wednesday talk of a major discovery by its Martian rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the Red Planet.

Excitement is building over soon-to-be-released results from NASA's Curiosity rover, which is three months into a two-year mission to determine if Mars has ever been capable of supporting microbial life.

Its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments have been sending back information as it hunts for compounds such as methane, as well as hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, that would mean life could once have existed there.

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Smartphones crushing point-and-shoot camera market

The soaring popularity of smartphones is crushing demand for point-and-shoot cameras, threatening the once-vibrant sector as firms scramble to hit back with web-friendly features and boost quality, analysts say.

A sharp drop in sales of digital compact cameras marks them as the latest casualty of smartphones as videogame consoles and portable music players also struggle against the all-in-one features offered by the likes of Apple's iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy.

Just as digital cameras all but destroyed the market for photographic film, the rapid shift to picture-taking smartphones has torn into a camera sector dominated by Japanese firms including Canon, Olympus, Sony and Nikon.

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