DOST secretary Fortunato De la Pena said that under the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP), 45,000 MSMEs have been provided with technological assistance with an average productivity improvement of 38 percent that created 227,000 jobs.
The government is set to announce a "provisional" third telco on November 7 barring any decision from the courts, according to Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) acting secretary Eliseo M. Rio Jr.
Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, a lawyer who has made a name for herself as a fierce advocate of ICT for countryside development, made a surprise announcement on Tuesday, October 16, that she is running as a mayoralty candidate in Bacolod City.
Almost three-fourths of non-cabled homes in Metro Manila are now watching television via digital terrestrial television (DTT), driven primarily by the robust sales of ABS-CBN TVplus that has already sold 6.1 million units as of October 10 since its launch in 2015.
"Road to 20 by 2020" is a multi-stakeholder campaign aimed to prepare financial institutions for their own digital disruption through the Digital Transformation Accelerator Program (DTAP).
Major activities in the nanosatellite engineering track include the development of cube satellites. Two cubesats are aimed to be developed and launched into space near the end of the program.
The NPC directed Facebook to implement identity theft insurance or credit monitoring service for free to affected Filipino users or establish a dedicated helpdesk to provide assistance in identity restoration and other related matters.
The anti-trust watchdog said the non-compliance of both companies has prejudiced its review process and impeded their ability to impose remedies for the benefit of the riding public.
After declining unit-shipment volumes in 2017, global TV shipments are forecast to grow 3.6 percent year-over-year in 2018, with additional 1.4 percent growth in 2019, according to a new report from analyst firm IHS Markit.
