While most internet shops have closed business during the year, leading internet café chain Netopia is planning to open more than 12 new branches in 2009, adding that the global economic slowdown has little or no effect on them.
Netopia President George H. Tan said that they are setting aside P25 million to P30 million in […]

At present, Skype seems to be the most popular choice in making PC-to-PC phone calls and cheap PC-to-landline calls. Although one setback with this is that it requires downloading the program and installing it in your PC – that could mean precious hard disk space and memories being tied up.

What if you can have an […]

Filipino developers would love to hear the competition that Google has launched. As part of Google’s support to the developers as well as to encourage the innovation on the OpenSocial platform, they organized an OpenSocial Gadget Contest for local developers. This is a great venue to put their coding skills and creativity to test as […]

Nokia is about to take a big leap in its business at it plans to tap the market for connecting laptops to wireless networks. The world’s number one cellphone maker plans to rival market leader Huawei Technologies, according to a senior official of Nokia.

With its know-how and experience when in comes to developing 3G technologies […]

Smart Communication is keen on launching a new service that will rival Skype. This new service comes with their new product called Plug N Text, a USB thumb drive pre-loaded with a “softphone” application developed by Smart.

This new service which is targeted at Filipinos abroad, will allow PC-to-PC and PC-to-mobile calls as well as short […]

Google, the Internet’s most popular search engine has given users the power to choose the search results being delivered to them. Now, if you don’t want a particular result which seems useless for you, you can delete it and you won’t see it again. You can also put your favorite website on top billing so […]

LG Electronics is yet to expand its clout in the touch-screen phone market as it launched recently the new KP500, a full touch-screen mobile phone. LG is the global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics.

Since they released their first full-touch screen phone in the market, the Prada Phone, LG has been continuously advancing the […]

Ever wonder of what could be the best business for years? Something that is of your interest and something that is in continuous demand in the market. I have here a list of top industries that you may find interesting.
1.COMPUTER INDUSTRY
Software and Computer Systems
Since the advent of information technology, demand for software is in consistent […]

Because signing up for an online game is free most of the time, and the fact that it can be played for as low as P20 an hour in any internet café, the Philippine online gaming industry appears to be resilient in spite of the looming economic slowdown in 2009.
Access and affordability, two factors that […]

Filipino IT expert has once again etched their name in the international IT scene, as the first ever Filipino-made Nintendo Wii game was launched.
Kuju Manila, a game development firm launched a new Wii game called Circus Games. The first Filipino-made Wii game can be played one or two players, with about 20 different circus themed […]

Earning fast cash on the Internet continues to be the primary driver for the spread of malicious viruses and Trojans and will be the trend in the latter years; this is what a Symantec executive said.
Effendy Ibrahim, Symantec Consumer Business Lead for Asia South Region has said, “the creation of spyware and viruses is growing […]

China will be the first country in the world to officially recognize Internet addiction as a clinical disease as it battles with the increasing number of people who spend almost of their time in chatrooms, blogging or playing games.
Chinese hospitals will be launching special units to treat internet addiction after surveys revealed that over four […]

This is good news to all our nationalistic countrymen out there. The popular search engine Google now can translate an entire webpage to and from the Filipino language.
The internet giant Google has just launched its translation tools that allows translation of 34 languages to the Filipino language. Calling it Google Translate™ it is the first […]

To this date, America is leading in terms of scientific discovery but since 2000, the country has seen what might be termed a scientific recession. Researches are hoping the new president makes good on his promises.
Federal investment in science has fallen for 5 consecutive years, stalling endeavor and leading to despondency among America’s scientists.
During […]

According to Thomas Harpointner, “businesses already have cut back on postal use, the rate increase is making the press but now, they are raising the rates annually.”
E-mail, is being used to virtually every type of business. But there are some things that cannot be sent through e-mail so, is there a way for those types […]

The internet giant Google is set to build a server farm in Austria. Google has already brought 75 hectares (185 acre) property in Kronstorf, northern part of Austria.
Kay Oberbeck, Google spokeswoman said that they have looked at a dozen sites in European countries before finally making their decision. Kronstorf, with a population of 3,000, was […]

The two giant TV station in the Philippines today, ABS-CBN Channel 2 and GMA Channel 7 have been logging it out since after the revolution days. Both rose to prominence by using the same formula, that of sensationalism. For years now, they have going against each other’s throat when it comes to the ratings. The […]

A study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit commissioned by Business Software Alliance (BSA) showed that the Philippines ranked 10th most competitive IT industry environment in the Asia-Pacific, moving up one rank from last year. The 2008 IT Industry Competitive Index found that the Philippines is strong in human capital, comprising of a large and […]

Economy in the regional level may not immediately feel the impact of the global financial crisis but business leaders in Negros Oriental warned that its effects may be felt by next year. According to Councilor Manuel Sagarbarria, who is also the president of the Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce and Industry is confident that the […]

The information technology (IT) sector of the Philippines invests more in the research and development (R&D) of new technologies as well as in intellectual property rights protection in order to improve the competitiveness of our country against its neighbors.
Research and development (R&D) is very significant in business because the level of competition, production processes […]