Melvin Calimag

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.

Easy Taxi said the promo to all subscribers from all networks, both in Manila and Cebu where it has 3,000 taxi units and 1,000 units, respectively.

The new HTML5-based UI took three years to make as a result of collecting user feedbacks mostly concerning design and usability.

The local office of tech colossus IBM has signed an agreement with Ateneo de Manila University to ?embark on a collaboration to establish Science and Technology and Analytics competency through Research and Development?.

In a move to provide gamers with a less toxic approach to Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (Moba) games, Asiasoft and Level Up are bringing S2 Games? upcoming Moba Strife to Philippine soil.