Trend Micro said fake Facebook pages are proliferating asking for donations via PayPal, which end up in the hands of would-be scammers rather than the hands of legitimate charities.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said it is providing additional satellite terminals for both voice and high-speed data to the World Health Organization (WHO) to support its humanitarian work in the Philippines for the Typhoon Yolanda crisis.
The digital gap in the region, also considered as the inequality of income, education and knowledge, has been widened as a result of uneven technological development, said UN officials.
The mobile ATM is co-located in the PLDT office in the downtown area of the city. The fast deployment and activation was made possible through the cooperation of Landbank, Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP), PLDT, Smart and the Philippine Disaster Recovery Foundation's HelpPH, the global campaign for donations via text.
The country?s telephone operators ? Bayan Telecommunications, Globe Telecom, and Smart Communications ? have put their manpower and telecom infrastructure in hyper mode to assist subscribers who have been severely affected by monster Typhoon Yolanda.
Following the outpouring of international aid for the Philippines in the wake of Super Typhoon Yolanda, the Aquino administration on Sunday, Nov. 17, announced the launch of the Foreign Aid Transparency Hub (FAiTH), a Web-based initiative that will allow the public to monitor the status of foreign assistance to the country.
"Nowcasting" is an activity which the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) defines as ?the detailed description of the current weather along with forecasts obtained by extrapolation from the current time to six hours ahead. In this time range, it is possible to forecast small-scale features such as meso-cyclones, thunderstorms and tornadoes with reasonable accuracy.
According to Department of Justice secretary Leila M. De Lima, the suspect was identified as Rodel Plasabas with the aliases "Reaper", "anonymousbutuan" and "Anon Reaper" who was arrested Wednesday by NBI operatives in Butuan City.
PLDT's opposition threatens to delay Globe's acquisition of the Lopez-owned telco and launch another drawn-out battle at the NTC, similar to what happened when PLDT walloped Sun Cellular-operated Digitel Philippines a few years back.
