Filipinos don't need smartphones to send and receive money, get disaster alerts, nor request emergency services, among others. All they need is a feature phone -- that is, a regular handheld -- and trusted, secure, and resilient infrastructure to connect them with the rest of the world.
Sen. Koko Pimentel cited the latest allegations of electoral fraud when a manual counting of votes in the clustered precincts of two barangays in General Tinio, Nueva Ecija "showed a big disparity" with the official results churned out by the PCOS machines.
Liquid-crystal-display television (LCD TV) panels enjoyed unexpected growth in the first half of this year, tied to enthusiastic TV viewing because of the World Cup and other factors that benefited the market, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
Saying that Internet data that travel outside of the country are vulnerable to security risks and contribute to the slowdown in Internet speed, a major cloud computing firm has thrown its full support behind the IP (Internet protocol) peering initiative of the government via the Philippine Open Internet Exchange (PHOpenIX) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
With the US and other mature economies mostly heading in the right direction and a significant commercial PC refresh cycle already underway, improvements in business confidence are set to drive a moderate infrastructure upgrade cycle over the next 12-18 months, while investments in software and services will continue to accelerate.
Called ?ONE Philippines Act?, the bill highlights the role of national government agencies, particularly the Information Communications Technology Office (ICT Office) of the DOST and the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), in creating a new system of providing access to information, which includes IT infrastructure where both the private players and government can invest in.
After triumphing in math contests in South Korea, China, and Hong Kong, the Philippine team this time won a total of 155 medals to place second overall in the medal tally in the 2014 International Mathematics Contest (IMC) in Singapore.
The commercial activation of Globelines? interconnection with PLDT began July 31, allowing landline customers of service providers to realize substantial savings as they no longer have to pay for long distance charges when calling one another.
