Sorsogon representative Evelina G. Escudero said an inquiry is in order given the increasing popularity in the country of e-cigarette smoking as a substitute to real cigarettes as well as a means to quit smoking.
Four days after the promulgation of the decision, the Supreme Court finally uploaded in its website the landmark ruling on Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
At the recent EMC Partners? Kick-Off event dubbed, ?The Voice of EMC Philippines,? MSI-ECS took the limelight for winning the 2013 EMC Distributor of the Year award. This is the third straight time that MSI-ECS has bagged the award.
A newly released study commissioned by financial giant Citi has put the Philippines in the group of ?emerging markets? in terms of usage of digital money.
Bitcoin is a digital crypto-currency or a virtual currency in the form of a cryptographic string of characters instead of a printed bill or a minted coin. Bitcoin transactions are fast, taking around only 10 minutes to verify a transaction. It?s also cheap as it liberates users from the need to maintain or pay for processing fees to a credit card company.
A couple of days after the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of online libel as provided for under the Cybercrime Law, three more senators have filed proposals to remove the penalty of imprisonment in libel cases.
A Belgian developer has launched Stepout, a multi-platform application for meeting new people locally, for devices running on iOS and Android, as well as for Windows desktop machines.
The Aquino administration has green-lighted a contactless smartcard fare collection system for Light Rail Transit (LRT) lines 1 and 2, as well as for the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) 3 in Metro Manila.
Malacanang on Tuesday, Feb. 18, said it did not receive any e-mail from Michael Christian Martinez?s mother requesting for financial aid from the government to meet the expense of preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
As netizens weighed in on the landmark decision of the Supreme Court on the Cybercrime Law, the government has given its stamp of approval on the controversial legislation, saying new crimes such as Internet libel and cybersex should be penalized as well.
