Department of Science and Technology (DOST) secretary Fortunato de la Pena said he hopes Congress would pass more science-related bills in 2018, particularly those that deal with space development.
DICT officer-in-charge Eliseo Rio Jr. said Globe Telecom and Smart Communications reaped a cash windfall with SMS or text messaging a number of years back but did not invest in building cell towers despite the anticipated massive demand for mobile data.
Globe Telecom issued a statement on Friday, December 15, disputing the assertion by the government that the combined capacity of the country?s telcos is only at 2 Tbps.
Metro Manila office take-up rate is forecast in 2017 to register at an all-time high of 750,000. As of end-November, take-up was at 728,305 square meters.
From out of nowhere, Sen. Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan now has the inside track to become the new secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), multiple sources told Newsbytes.PH.
Most studios are small and medium-scale enterprises and provide employment for 10,000 to 12,000 animators, including indirect workers and suppliers, who have been keeping the industry on the global map for years.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said ride-sharing firm Uber has confirmed with the agency that personal information of Filipinos were among those exposed during a data breach in October 2016.
Removing the telecom industry in the limitation for public services will harness competition and bring in more investments and technology that are certainly geared to improve the state of Internet services in the country, according to Sen. Joel Villanueva.
By increasing the number of incubators, there will be more entrepreneurs, more startups, more jobs, more businesses and, in the long run, have an impact on national economic development.
