The Philippines has earned a new mark in the field of ICT with the latest roll-out of the government's pilot sites for TV White Space (TVWS) technology, now tagged as the most extensive in the region.
Sorsogon representative Evelina G. Escudero said an inquiry is in order given the increasing popularity in the country of e-cigarette smoking as a substitute to real cigarettes as well as a means to quit smoking.
Four days after the promulgation of the decision, the Supreme Court finally uploaded in its website the landmark ruling on Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
A newly released study commissioned by financial giant Citi has put the Philippines in the group of ?emerging markets? in terms of usage of digital money.
Bitcoin is a digital crypto-currency or a virtual currency in the form of a cryptographic string of characters instead of a printed bill or a minted coin. Bitcoin transactions are fast, taking around only 10 minutes to verify a transaction. It?s also cheap as it liberates users from the need to maintain or pay for processing fees to a credit card company.
A couple of days after the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of online libel as provided for under the Cybercrime Law, three more senators have filed proposals to remove the penalty of imprisonment in libel cases.
The Aquino administration has green-lighted a contactless smartcard fare collection system for Light Rail Transit (LRT) lines 1 and 2, as well as for the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) 3 in Metro Manila.
Malacanang on Tuesday, Feb. 18, said it did not receive any e-mail from Michael Christian Martinez?s mother requesting for financial aid from the government to meet the expense of preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
As netizens weighed in on the landmark decision of the Supreme Court on the Cybercrime Law, the government has given its stamp of approval on the controversial legislation, saying new crimes such as Internet libel and cybersex should be penalized as well.
The flagship Diliman campus of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) recently opened the first smart classroom in the country courtesy of a P10-million grant by Korean technology titan Samsung.
