The GrabCar app is included in the current free GrabTaxi mobile app itself that is available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry devices. Users can select the GrabCar option to narrow down the search for GrabCar vehicles that provides an authorized private driver.
Intel Philippines chief Calum Chisholm and PR manager Randy Kanapi join Newsbytes.PH editors in an episode of "Newsbytes On Air" at Katropa Radio DWDD 1134 kHz.
SolarWinds, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas, inaugurated its first IT Shared Services site located at the Eco Tower in BGC in Taguig City. The Philippine facility will provide support a wide range of business disciplines such as IT product support, sales, finance, and operations.
Security software company Trend Micro said it advised local firms to migrate to a newer OS even as it informed them that it can provide protection against various threats while they are still in the migrating process.
After making a global announcement that it is dropping the ?Nokia? brand, Microsoft?s new mobile phone division officially held its first mobile phone launch in the Philippines with a new handset still bearing the Nokia name.
In an attempt the cut down the huge number of unsolicited text messages being sent to mobile phone subscribers, Globe Telecom has filed before the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) what is believed to be the first case against text spamming in the country.
The 48-hour hackathon gathered over 90 IT developers, designers, students, data experts, disaster experts, and ordinary citizens under one roof to collaborate in teams and develop locally relevant Web and mobile applications to help solve Disaster Risk Management (DRM) challenges.
The DOST, through the Information and Communications Technology Office (ICT Office), has started a series of start-up workshops this year, which will be held in various cities of Lingayen, Iligan, Tuguegarao, Naga, Dumagete, and General Santos City.
Consumer tech giant Sony conducted its first-ever "silent" concert in the Philippines on Thursday, May 8, with hundreds of attendees trooping to the Rockwell Tent in Makati City wearing headphones.
Presently, Aquino said several government agencies -- Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - focused on the issue of Internet in the country.
