To help the country's local government units (LGUs) and the private sector respond immediately to public safety and emergency situations, PLDT launched on Tuesday, Jan. 31, its integrated Smart SOS Dispatch service.
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian noted admissions made during the committee hearing last week that the NTC has been hard put at imposing drastic penalties against telcos which fail to deliver satisfactory services to consumers.
The very first assessment of competencies of college students in the Philippines majoring in information technology courses showed that over 50% of those who took the test lack basic entry-level programming skills that meet globally acceptable standards.
Earlier, Project Noah executive director Mahar Lagmay lamented the alleged scrapping of the program due to lack of funds. But the DOST clarified that as a research project, it has reached its end and must now be turned over to Pagasa for institutional implementation.
IDC said it expects digital transformation (DX) to attain macroeconomic scale over the next three to four years, changing the way organizations operate and reshaping the global economy and calls this as the dawn of the ?DX Economy?.
DOST secretary Fortunato dela Pe?a left the door open for another extension of the project, but pointed out that if this happens, it should fall under Pagasa.
Silicon Valley's top executives, including India-born CEOs -- Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella -- condemned US President Donald Trump's immigration ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, voicing concern that the move could directly hit their own staffers and stop bringing great talent to the US.
This is according to Canon Philippines president and CEO Lim Kok Hin, who made the statement during a recent media event celebrating the company?s 20th anniversary in the country.
At a conference in Macau late last year, Steve Brazier, president and CEO of technology market analyst Canalys, made a bold prediction ? that countries would eventually disallow humans driving on the road.
