Artificial intelligence (AI) was the overarching theme at Google IO, the tech giant’s flagship event which went digital this year with top company officials making their presentations via YouTube livestream.
The fresh milestone comes just after PLDT and Smart formalized their membership into the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) last month. The latest list of 983 offensive links came from the IWF’s database, which can now be accessed by PLDT and Smart.
As country manager, Simon Calasanz will focus on accelerating acceptance and usage of digital payments, especially for smaller merchants and businesses, while also expanding on Mastercard’s ongoing digital and financial inclusion initiatives in the country.
Accenture announced on Monday, May 17, that it is making a $5-million (about P240-million) pledge to urgently respond to Covid-related challenges in the Philippines and provide free vaccination coverage to eligible dependents of its local employees.
The transformation programs are set to drive sustainability for the two data centers and likewise make them at par with global data center standards and best practices to cater to the demand of the international market.
Two months after making its commercial launch in Visayas and Mindanao, third telco Dito Telecommunity formally landed in Luzon on Monday, May 17, with a vow to battle the country’s telco incumbents.
The program, an extension of Microsoft’s broader Global Skilling Initiative which aims to help people hardest hit by job losses acquire digital skills, will involve 4,000 from the Philippines.
Converge ICT founder and CEO Dennis Anthony Uy said the company is in close coordination with SpaceX but is also talking to a number of satellite broadband providers.
The Social Security System (SSS) has recorded 11,088 online transactions for funeral benefit claims in the first quarter of 2021, up by 13.6% from 9,762 transactions recorded in the second semester of last year.
Under the memorandum of agreement, DepEd Cebu will offer its premises free of rent for the cell sites while Globe will furnish DepEd schools in the province with free broadband and WiFi services.
