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Mellisa Tolentino

Mellisa Tolentino started at SiliconANGLE covering the mobile and social scene. Over the years, her scope expanded to Bitcoin as well as the Internet of Things. SiliconANGLE gave Mellisa her break in writing and it has been an adventure ever since. She’s from the sunny country of Philippines where people always greet you with the warmest smile. If she’s not busy writing, she loves reading, watching TV series and movies, but what she enjoys the most is playing or just chilling on the couch with with her three dogs Ceecee, Ginger, and Rocky.

Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

Day 3 Of the Oracle-Google Trial: A Blank Page Testimony

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Quick Recap: The Oracle-Google intellectual property infringement trial started on Monday, jury members were selected, and CEOs from both sides, Larry Page of Google and Larry Ellison of Oracle, already took the stand but Google’s CEO’s time on the stand was cut …

Nokia Reports Massive Loss, Intel to Release First Smartphone

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Today’s mobile news roundup features Nokia’s interim report and executive shakeup, Samsung’s counterclaim against Apple, Intel’s first smartphone and more. Nokia’s massive loss Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia released their Q1 2012 Interim report which reported massive losses. The company reported an operating loss …

Flashback Malware Mac Attacks Linked to Luckycat Hacker Campaign

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Earlier this month, it was reported that a certain malware is infecting Mac OS X machines. The malware was identified as BackDoor.Flashback.39–a Trojan that targets an unpatched JavaScript codes (CVE-2011-3544, CVE-2008-5353 and CVE-2012-0507) vulnerabilities within Mac OS.  More than 600,000 Macs were …

Spotify Goes Great with Coke, Launches Branded Apps

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Spotify really wants to achieve everywhere access.  Aside from recently launching the Play Button, a widget that people can embed on their sites to share their favorite tunes, the cloud music service unveiled branded apps today. Spotify teamed with AT&T, McDonalds, Intel, …

Some Still Affected by Gmail Outage that Hit 30M Users

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Google suffered an outage in some of their services yesterday that affected almost 10% of their user base, or about 30 million subscribers. Google acknowledge that their service was down and they’re investigating as to what caused the problem. “We’re investigating reports …

Will Apple and Samsung Finally Settle?

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Today’s mobile news roundup features Apple and Samsung’s orders to settle their legal dispute, RIM hoping to gain users in Asia, HTC clearing rumors and more. Apple-Samsung Truce? It looks like Apple and Samsung are both open into settling their patent dispute …

The Larrys Appear in Court: Day 2 of Oracle-Google Trial

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Quick recap:  Oracle is suing Google for illegally using their Javascript patents, which the company acquired when they bought Sun Microsystems in 2009, in developing the Android platform.  Now the two giants face each other in court.  The eight-week trial began on …

Oracle Execs Thought Sun Acquisition Was A Mistake

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Aside from battling it out in court with Google, Oracle is also dealing with another legal matter, this time against Hewlett-Packard. In a recent filing submitted in court before the official trial begins, HP stated that Oracle decided to stop supporting their …

Trapit Gets Yahoo Veteran as Chief Content Officer

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Trapit, the news aggregator from the creators of Siri that launched just last year, gains a Yahoo veteran as their chief content officer. Liz Lufkin served as Yahoo’s VP of frontpage programming for many years before she was ousted last September due …

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