A group of young Japanese, Filipino, and Indian nationals is set to represent the Philippines at the 2014 Echelon tech start-up competition in Singapore come June this year for their mobile rewards platform which allows users to enjoy ?Libreng Load? (Free Mobile Airtime) for calls, text, and Internet browsing.
Samantha Amante from Colegio San Agustin in Bi?an, Laguna won in the high school division while Jo Dee Salise from Rainbow of Angels Learning Center in Butuan City were declared champions for school year 2013-2014.
Culminating a dramatic six-year period of growth, the global market for professional broadcast equipment and services reached $63 billion in 2013, up 52 percent from $41 billion in 2007.
Unknown to many, the first serious effort to introduce Internet in the Philippines started with discussions held at the National Security Council (NSC) regarding the telecommunications infrastructure in the country. Eventually, the discussions led to the development of a network that initially involved the academe and ultimately branching out to commercial space.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that ?Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft?, its free-to-play digital card game, will available on iPad in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Southeast Asia is up next in the next few days.
PLDT is also currently negotiating with other hardware companies for the manufacture of the units. Chinese tech firm Huawei is currently the sole supplier of the Telpad.
Research findings showed that men tend to search for entertainment, games, and sexual content, while women look for communication and interaction with friends or romantic partners.
Tourists headed to Baguio City can now use their mobile phones as guide to the country's summer capital with the launch of ?Digital Tourism? in the city.
Dr. Rodolfo Villarica, dubbed as one of the ?Fathers of the Philippine Internet?, said that while the Philippines has already benefited immensely from the information that can be obtained online, there?s still a lack the capacity to produce more information as compared to the amount contributed by other countries.
