MANILA, Philippines – The local information and communications technology (ICT) industry is expected to contribute as much as $50 billion in annual direct revenues to the economy by 2016, a government official said. Read the rest of this entry »
ICT sector a $50-B industry by 2016
March 24, 2012
OC about OCR
February 7, 2012
I RECENTLY needed to scan and post a book excerpt for a class I teach but wanted the pages to be available as text, not images. That meant using optical character recognition or OCR software that can translate scanned pages from my book to machine-encoded text. Read the rest of this entry »
Internet becomes basic necessity — Ericsson poll
January 10, 2012
Ericsson Group’s consumer research arm Ericsson ConsumerLab has identified consumer trends for 2012 and beyond, highlighting connectivity becoming as essential as roads and electricity, that social media are redefining news reporting, and that anyone can now be a service provider. Read the rest of this entry »
Gartner lowers global IT spending forecast for 2012
January 6, 2012
The outlook for IT spending this year isn’t quite as rosy as Gartner previously predicted.
Spending on IT products and services is expected to reach $3.8 trillion in 2012, a 3.7 percent rise from last year when spending totaled $3.7 trillion and had climbed by 6.9 percent from 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
PH is 6th in spending time on social media
January 2, 2012
Filipinos spent an average of 8.7 hours visiting social networking sites in October 2011, landing the Philippines on the sixth spot in the list of social networking countries as reported by research firm comScore. Read the rest of this entry »
DSWD, anti-child abuse groups launch online information campaign
November 27, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – A coalition of anti-child abuse groups and the Department of Social Welfare and Development launched yesterday an information campaign via social media sites in a bid to bring the battle against all forms of child abuse to cyberspace. Read the rest of this entry »
PH companies slow to social media use
November 24, 2011
None of PH companies surveyed have active corporate blogs or video-sharing services
MANILA, Philippines – Like many of their Asian counterparts, businesses in the Philippines have been slow in integrating the social media into their operations, a survey by public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller (SEA) Pte Ltd. showed. Read the rest of this entry »
Innovation not just for rich countries — report
November 23, 2011
DEVELOPING ECONOMIES are slowly growing their share of intellectual assets as multinational firms and increased public spending drive up patent filings and research, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reported last week. Read the rest of this entry »
Mobile internet usage growing fast in Phl
November 14, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – Mobile Internet usage in the Philippines is growing rapidly on the back of the rising popularity of smartphones, tablets and other non-computer Web-enabled devices. Read the rest of this entry »
Globe sucks
November 2, 2011
I would have to end this column with a rant. In the last five days, I have been largely difficult to reach because I lost my cell phone last week. I was issued a SIM card with my old number last Friday and was told that mobile services would be re-established within two hours. It didn’t happen on Friday. I called Globe’s hotline Saturday and was assured it was going to happen within twenty-four hours. It still didn’t happen as of Sunday. I called Sunday afternoon and they told me there was no record of earlier transactions and I had to make another report. I was still incommunicado as of Monday. They finally got around to reconnecting me to the world yesterday, after five frigging days.
What can I say, the service of Globe sucks.
