Through crowd-sourcing, electronics firm Royal Philips is soliciting ?innovative ideas? from the public that can improve the quality of lives of survivors in areas devastated by Typhoon Yolanda.
No typhoon can prevent the Filipinos from supporting its boxing champ Manny Pacquiao in his fight against Brandon Rios over the weekend. In fact, even online users from the typhoon-hit province of Leyte searched the most for the keyword ?Manny Pacquiao? according to Google Trends.
The combined hardware and manufacturing cost of Microsoft's new Xbox One amounts to $471, suggesting that Microsoft is subsidizing the cost of the video game console at the time of launch.
A timely mobile app that reconnects families and informs their loved ones of their current location and situation using their phones even without an Internet connection was recently declared winner of the recently concluded AngelHack Davao hackathon.
The Philippine subsidiary of Microsoft introduced recently the newest version of its flagship integrated development platform, Visual Studio 2013, for the development of websites, Web services, consoles, graphical user interface, and applications.
SMK is a known supplier of touch panels, universal remote controls, and IR receivers/blasters for consumer electronic products such as ATM machines, cellphones, copiers, car navigation systems, electronic dictionaries, and other gadgets.
While local telcos Smart Communications and Globe Telecommunications are still doing their share to reestablish communications in the affected areas, local subsidiaries of multinational IT companies are also providing cash donations and deploying their own technologies to help the survivors.
