A fine arts student form the University of the Philippines was recently declared as the winner in a nationwide arts contest dubbed "DigiPinoy" organized by Globe Telecom venture company AdSpark, an advertising solutions provider for local and global brands.
TrendMicro said the Comelec breach may surpass the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack last 2015 that leaked sensitive personal identifiable information (PII), including fingerprints and social security numbers (SSN) of 20 million US citizens.
Hotel operator Hilton and tech behemoth IBM have announced a collaboration to pilot ?Connie? -- the first Watson-enabled robot concierge in the hospitality industry.
The Cellebrite UFED device "is a fully equipped mobile forensic tool that enables quick and easy data acquisition from more than 8,000 mobile devices, including not only cellphones, but handheld GPS units, tablets and other mobile platforms."
A grizzled IT veteran who was part of the defunct Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and a brainy lawyer-physician have been named as deputy commissioners of the new National Privacy Commission.
Raymond Liboro, assistant secretary of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), has been appointed by Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III as the first commissioner of the newly created National Privacy Commission (NPC).
Asian online grocery firm HappyFresh has announced that will open its fifth office in Asia in the Philippines, which is set to become fully operational in the second quarter of 2016.
The development plan covers the next four years or 2016 to 2020. It was drafted by the e-commerce division of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) about 15 years after the passage of the E-Commerce Law in 2000.
The five new agencies -- the DepEd, the Department of Social Work and Development, the Department of Finance -- Bureau of Local Government Finance (DOF-BLGF), the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), and the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Center -- are the second batch of government agencies to sign agreements with Kalibrr and Bagumbayani.
