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.
All commercial airlines and corporate aircraft are required to install and use "black boxes" to track a number of flight parameters. The flight data recorder (FDR) is designed to record the operating data from an aircraft?s systems, including pressure altitude, airspeed, vertical acceleration, magnetic heading and position of control systems.
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.
Salesforce.com, with more than $3.8 billion in revenue during 2013, climbed two positions to capture the No. 10 slot of the worldwide enterprise software market, and it achieved the highest growth among the top 10 vendors at 33.3 percent.
With the aim of dominating the local IT solutions market, Ayala-owned telco Globe Telecom has created a new business unit called IG or IT-Enabled Services Group.
The persons responsible for hooking up the Philippines to the Internet on March 29, 1994 were feted in an exclusive dinner tribute hosted by Smart Communications at The Conservatory in Manila Peninsula.
US-based business process outsourcing company TDS Global Solutions (TDS) has picked the Philippines as its operating center as part of its rebranding strategy to broaden its foothold in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
The Philippine Internet infrastructure is still a big conundrum two decades after it was first brought online, according to the man who helped get it up and running in the first place.
Twenty years ago today, the Philippines was connected to the global Internet at the ?First Philippine Email Conference? in Cebu. This very title reminds us of what the expectations were at the time and emphasizes how far we?ve come since then.
