With about eight million local users, Israel-based Viber is one of the top -- if not the biggest -- messaging apps in the country. It competes with the likes of China?s WeChat, Korea?s KakaoTalk, US's WhatsApp, and Japan?s Line.
Brainly, a Polish online platform that connects students worldwide, has opened a localized version of its site in an attempt to link up Filipino students to their global counterparts.
Leaders of the intellectual property (IP) community are urging production companies in the country to embrace the digital revolution but create new business models as well that will help curb piracy in the Philippine movie and music industries.
The National Institute of Health (NIH), which is based in the University of the Philippines Manila, has created a Web-based interactive database for influenza which it is currently subjecting in a ?beta test? in coordination with the Department of Health (DOH).
Makati-headquartered FunGuy Studio said its latest project, a free-to-play game titled "Spelltorn Clash Of Fates," has just been launched as a new mobile game by California-based game company Glu Mobile.
Popular US-based company Spotify, which made a splashing debut on Tuesday, April 8, said its online streaming service could help solve music piracy that's been plaguing the Philippines since the advent of the digital revolution.
A proposed legislation has been filed in the House of Representatives calling for the establishment of a Electronic Medical Records Center under the Department of Health (DOH).
Unknown to many, the first serious effort to introduce Internet in the Philippines started with discussions held at the National Security Council (NSC) regarding the telecommunications infrastructure in the country. Eventually, the discussions led to the development of a network that initially involved the academe and ultimately branching out to commercial space.
Dr. Rodolfo Villarica, dubbed as one of the ?Fathers of the Philippine Internet?, said that while the Philippines has already benefited immensely from the information that can be obtained online, there?s still a lack the capacity to produce more information as compared to the amount contributed by other countries.
As the country celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Internet in the Philippines, one of the persons responsible in making that milestone a reality said that while the cost of going online has gone down tremendously over the last two decades, the cost of data access should still go down in order for more Filipinos to have access to the Internet.
