The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) to institutionalize its framework of cooperation in curbing counterfeiting and piracy.
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is set launch this month a "disconnected" Internet node in Cebu province that will allow Internet service providers in the Visayas region to exchange Web traffic without the need to connect to Manila or abroad.
After getting flak for her comments in the Iglesia ni Cristo brouhaha, Sen. Grace Poe has turned her attention on the local ICT sector as she filed a resolution calling for a review of existing government infrastructure and investments in ICT sector.
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a measure requiring all public utility and certain types of vehicles to install speed limiter to address the problem of over-speeding.
For the first time since Pres. Benigno Aquino III assumed power, Congress has included a bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) as one of its priorities in its legislative agenda.
The Philippines again displayed its world-class talent as it won the gold medal to become the undefeated champion for four straight years in the recently concluded 4th Asean Plus Three Junior Science Odyssey (APTJSO) held in Tangerang, Indonesia.
Asia Pacific is Twitter?s fastest growing region worldwide and the platform expansion provides additional support for SMBs in Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Anabatic Technologies, which undertook its IPO in the Indonesian Stock Exchange only last July, also recently opened its business offices in Chennai and Bangalore in India.
The top five complaints received for the period are online scams with 366, online libel with 240, online threats with 129, identity theft with 127, and anti-photo and video voyeurism with 89.
The Philippine Startup Roadmap, launched at the recently concluded Geeks on a Beach (GOAB) tech conference in Boracay, is aiming to spawn some 500 startups with an estimated cumulative valuation of $2 billion by 2020.
