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Questionable professional conduct can happen in any department, and IT is no exception. Follow these tips to cut down on the abuse of power which can sometimes occur in the technology field. By Scott Matteson | Dec 13, 2017 As a huge Marvel film buff, I was always tickled by the comment made by Black…

By CNN Philippines, Nov 3, 2017 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, November 3) — The Philippines performed poorly on the speed and availability of long-term evolution (LTE) connection in the country, according to mobile network research firm OpenSignal.

By Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), Nov 3, 2017 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines ranked close to the bottom in terms of long term evolution (LTE) availability and speed, according to research firm OpenSignal. OpenSignal’s The State of LTE November 2017 report showed the Philippines placed 69th out of 77 countries in terms of LTE…

By Boo Chanco (The Philippine Star), Oct 25, 2017 A few weeks after the lawyer secretary of DICT was replaced by a telecommunications technocrat, things started moving on our age old problem of slow internet. Last Monday, I shared the diagnosis of the problem made by DICT OIC Sec. Eliseo Rio Jr.

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By Abe Olandres (The Philippine Star), Jun 12, 2017 The latest OpenSignal report on the State of the internet has once again placed the Philippines at the bottom end of the list.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 6, 2017 Netizens in the Philippines spend the most time online among select Southeast Asian countries, with Filipinos “far more forgiving of poorly performing website experiences,” according to a survey by a global content delivery network services.

By: Miguel R. Camus, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb 24, 2017 The Philippines ranked near the bottom worldwide in a measure of mobile internet speed and availability, based on a crowdsourced survey. The results from United Kingdom-based OpenSignal, which claims to collect data from millions of smartphones worldwide, showed that the country’s “overall” mobile speed from…

by Abe Olandres, Feb 21, 2017 In an early access provided to us by OpenSignal, the latest report (February 2017) on global mobile internet speeds placed the Philippines at 3.33Mbps. This is higher than the 3.13Mbps reported by OpenSignal back in August 2016.

By Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), Dec. 23, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines had the fastest average mobile internet speed in Asia Pacific in the third quarter, according to the latest report of content delivery network services provider Akamai.

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By Marvin Velasco (The Philippine Star), November 14, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Crowdsourced mobile data from OpenSignal revealed some interesting figures for the third quarter of 2016. Based on statistics published today, Singapore and South Korea have the best 4G data speeds and nationwide availability, respectively. Asian neighbors India, Indonesia and the Philippines didn’t do…

By Claire Jiao, CNN Philippines, November 5, 2016 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Internet in the Philippines is slow because there aren’t enough cell towers in the country and frequencies are poorly allocated to telco companies, a Cabinet official has said.

By Patricia Esteves (The Philippine Star), September 29, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The tech sector is no longer a man’s world. Just think of Yahoo’s Marisa Mayer, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and others who made a mark and excelled in the IT industry. A career in the IT industry is both lucrative and a rewarding experience.…

by Mike Snider, USA TODAY, July 11, 2016 Microsoft and GE are joining forces to use cloud technologies in industrial production. GE will bring its Predix industrial data-gathering operating system to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, the two companies announced Monday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.

Jose Bimbo F. Santos, InterAksyon.com, June 20, 2016, http://www.interaksyon.com/infotech/philippines-now-fastest-growing-smartphone-market-in-asean-idc MANILA — Smartphone spending in the Philippines is now the fastest in the Southeast Asian region driven by surging consumer demand on a very nascent market populated by active players according to market research firm IDC.

by Rizal Raoul Reyes – April 18, 2016, Asian men use smartphones, PCs more than women–report ASIAN women use personal computers (PCs) on Thursdays more than men, a report by Appier Inc. revealed. The report by the Taiwanese technology company shows that on average, Asian men are more active on both PCs and smartphones than…

A traveler to the Philippines knows the dance too well. You check into a hotel that advertises Wi-Fi. Turns out it’s only available in the lobby, and only in the daytime. Then you learn of a freak service outage in the lobby. When you do eventually connect, no websites come up. On better days, each…

EXPERT TELLS GOV’T TO EASE FOREIGN RESTRICTIONS The Philippines has the potential to become a global investment destination and the next big information technology hub by liberalizing foreign restrictions on property ownership, said an executive from the Indian unit of international property consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

ICT has the power to positively affect every aspect of our lives. But there are hurdles that we as a nation need to overcome first MANILA, Philippines – We have been dubbed as the social media capital of the world, and the numbers continue to prove it.

If your preschools or elementary schools have no desktop computer you must be wondering whether you are shortchanging your children’s education and their future. NOT AT ALL – for the six- to 12-year olds’ intelligence, emotions and physical capacity are mobilized dynamically by Mother Nature to make them independent and responsible.

In 2011, a United Nations report declared internet access to be a basic human right, arguing that disconnecting individuals from the internet was a violation of human rights and international law. So: if internet access is a basic human right, shouldn’t Filipinos be more outraged with the quality—or lack—of service we get from our internet…

The research: Yale doctoral candidate Matthew Fisher and his colleagues Mariel Goddu and Frank Keil asked people a series of questions that seemed answerable but were actually difficult. The questions concerned things people assume they know but actually don’t—such as why there are phases of the moon and how glass is made. Some people were…

The human and technical aspects of cyber threats changed dramatically in 2014. Highly evasive attacks, created from blended techniques, exploited vulnerabilities and opened cracks in old infrastructure standards. The constant evolution of technology development created a completely new set of challenges.

MANILA — The House of Representatives has approved a bill that will mandate free public wireless internet access in public buildings, terminals, parks, and plazas nationwide.

The Philippines has the second slowest average download speed among 22 Asian countries, according to a study on consumer Internet speeds as of May 2015.

DOST is planning to roll out its free public WiFi Internet access project across the Philippines beginning this July. It is a good concept, but don’t get your hopes up just yet. Note this is free and is a government project.

MANILA, Philippines – Nearly nine out of 10 Filipino consumers do their shopping online, based on a study commissioned by Visa International. The Visa eCommerce Consumer Monitor 2014 also reveals that the top reasons for online shopping are convenience (58 percent), price (47 percent), and deals (46 percent).

The report by the non-government watchdog group Freedom House says online freedom declined in 36 of 65 countries surveyed WASHINGTON DC, USA – Internet freedom suffered this year as a growing number of countries stepped up efforts to spy on users and censor online postings, a global survey showed Thursday, December 4.