Wireless operator Smart Communications, through its value brand Talk ?N Text, has partnered with Facebook to introduce the Internet.org app, which offers a set of basic mobile internet services without data charges.
The Data Privacy Law, which was approved in August 2012 and hailed by the local ICT industry as a landmark legislation, has yet to take effect since the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) has yet to be drafted and issued by the government.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) recently held a soft launch for the country?s first online marketplace for registered intellectual property (IP) assets of Filipino owners.
Fallen Internet star Yahoo is dissolving its entire editorial team in the Philippines as part of the company?s sweeping restructuring program across Asia and Europe.
Outsourcing giant Accenture has announced the expansion of its footprint in the Philippines with a new delivery center based in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, which is set to become operational in the latter part of 2015.
In an attempt to boost the entrepreneurial skills of science and engineering students in the country, the government has signed an agreement with a non-profit organization to include entrepreneurship subjects in engineering courses.
Kaspersky Lab experts have attributed the spyware as the handiwork of the Equation Group of the NSA -- a threat so great that it surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques, and that has been active for almost two decades.
The MDRU or the Movable and Deployable Resource Unit is capable of providing telephony and Internet connectivity and can run on its own power supply or tap power generators or active power lines. It is a unit that can be quickly deployed to restore communications in communities in the aftermath of a disaster.
Sen. Sonny Angara has filed a bill seeking to create the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), saying the country needs at this point a dedicated agency that will ensure that innovations in ICT would benefit the Filipino people and contribute to nation-building and global competitiveness.
