Damien Wong, general manager for Asean at Red Hat (below), speaks during the Red Hat Forum at the Makati Shangri-la in Makati City wherein he emphasized that the future is open for many companies, especially with more organizations seeing the benefits of using open source, and are experiencing faster innovation and creating greater business opportunities.
Dominant carrier PLDT is dipping its hands in an area where a slew of technology companies have so far failed to conquer in the past: transforming the ordinary TV into an Internet-enabled device.
While the market's growth rates remain impressive, they're down dramatically compared to the year-over-year rates of the same quarter one year ago (87.1 percent) and indicate a significant slowing of the overall market.
An activist organization of IT professionals has cautioned the public against hastily equating the government?s Open Data initiative as a foolproof representation of the current administration?s transparency.
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago said she will file an amendment to the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill to make it mandatory for the proper government agencies to publish, not only the basic salary but also the allowances and other sources of personal income of all public officials, more particularly, senators like herself.
Cebu representative Gerald Anthony Gullas Jr. has urged Malaca?ang to harness the state-owned People's Television Network (PTV) to provide distant learning programs that would build up the English communication skills of Filipinos.
Analyst firm IDC the Philippines is looking at a healthy ICT spending performance in 2014 due to the rosy outlook in the country?s economic indicators, as well as the vibrant spending from the consumer sector.
