A group of young Japanese, Filipino, and Indian nationals is set to represent the Philippines at the 2014 Echelon tech start-up competition in Singapore come June this year for their mobile rewards platform which allows users to enjoy ?Libreng Load? (Free Mobile Airtime) for calls, text, and Internet browsing.
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.
Dubbed ?Program the Future: The Accenture Technology Campus Challenge?, the new university student competition was launched in December as a venue where IT, computer science, and engineering students can design and develop mobile applications and solutions that can help improve the country?s education system.
The offering means that commuters can order and track a taxi anywhere in Metro Manila through the Easy Taxi mobile application and pay only the taxi meter bill. Normally, passengers pay a fixed booking fee of P70 on top of the regular taxi meter rate.
The app also has a ?Panic? button that users can use when they encounter any danger or feel threatened. If activated, the button sends details of the user?s exact location to a customized list of emergency contacts.
A timely mobile app that reconnects families and informs their loved ones of their current location and situation using their phones even without an Internet connection was recently declared winner of the recently concluded AngelHack Davao hackathon.
The Philippine subsidiary of Microsoft introduced recently the newest version of its flagship integrated development platform, Visual Studio 2013, for the development of websites, Web services, consoles, graphical user interface, and applications.
A lawmaker has filed a bill that seeks to promote a business incubation program in schools to give students the opportunity to start their own businesses and provide them access to technology and financing.
