Features

With Mother’s Day coming up fast, a look at searches conducted on Google.com.ph shows that the Internet is the go-to destination for Pinoys looking for information and gift ideas.

A House resolution has been filed commending the driving force behind the Mind Museum, the first world-class science museum in the country that promotes science learning to the different sectors of Philippine society.

Following the boom of online gaming in the early 2000s, entrepreneurs were quick to open Internet shops. But operating an Internet café is not as easy at it seems.

Today is supposed to be the 18th anniversary of the Philippine Internet, but the occasion passed without anyone noticing it — except perhaps for pioneer IT chronicler Jim Ayson.

Almost a decade after a blueprint for interoperability was presented by the National Computer Center (NCC), the IT systems of various government agencies remain fragmented and unable to talk to each other.

A newly released report has indicated that tier 2 and 3 cities in the Philippines – also dubbed by the government as “Next Wave Cities or NWCs” – have started to mature and are now attracting big-name outsourcing firms which have only previously considered the established IT hubs of Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, and Metro Clark.

The Eisenhower Fellowships announced that Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, chair of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP), has been selected as a 2012 Eisenhower Fellow.

In January of this year, tech giant IBM announced the appointment of Mariels Almeda-Winhoffer as the new president and country general manager for its Philippine operations.