In a period when the country has undergone its mid-term elections in May 2013, the market has not undergone any slowdown in investments. Conversely, it has maximized its potential to be the hotbed for many unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) vendors, driven mainly by several factors behind the impressive growth rates of the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector.
The Intel Education Tablet will not be sold commercially and will only be available to schools, with Davao City getting the first crack on its deployment in the country. While it seems like any ordinary tablet, with only the attached stylus giving it a somewhat unique appearance, the real power of the device lies in its software tools.
The Philippines is on the cusp of becoming one of the world?s leading innovators in the tech industry, particularly in the areas of solutions in the areas of disaster preparedness, healthcare, and social services. But the country needs to produce more patents for new technologies every year.
For the first time since a controversy broke out regarding the legality of the program, Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III spoke out in defense of the Philippine-California Advanced Research Institutes or PCARI Project.
A law that penalizes the pilfering of cable TV and Internet connections is expected to take effect about two weeks from now as the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued on Oct. 16 the legislation?s implementing rules and regulations (IRR).
CCAP president Benedict Hernandez says contact centers in Cebu have temporarily ceased operations to ensure the safety of thousands of employees. In Twitter, Tim Davies, an Australia-based employee of tech giant eBay, said that eBay?s customer support staff in Cebu were evacuated after the earthquake hit the island-province.
The Philippine Software Industry Association says it is supporting and encouraging Filipino software entrepreneurs to create and sell software products that address the so-called four megatrends -- cloud, mobile, social, and Big Data.
The meeting of Pres. Benigno ?Noynoy? Aquino III and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at the recent Asean summit in Brunei appears to have swung the pendulum in favor of the Japanese digital TV standard known as Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial or ISDB-T.
Yvonne Loremia is part of a local team that developed the ?Tudlo Disaster and Emergency App,? which provides a multi-purpose information platform for emergency and disaster situations.
An annual report issued by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has downgraded the Philippines from the 94th ranking last year to 98th this year in the worldwide ICT competitiveness survey.
