Here’s another first from the Smart Communications, the country’s leading wireless services provider. The company launched recently the beta phase of its mobile email, the first daily flat-rate, unlimited push email solution in the country.

The Webby Awards is an annual award which was started in 1996. It is aimed to recognize and reward excellence on the internet in a number of categories including news and other websites, interactive advertising and online film and video.
The awardees are chosen by a 650-member academy, with members including one of the internet’s inventor, [...]

Last week, a public high school in Floridablanca, Pampanga, became the first school to receive Smart Communication’s high-speed wireless Internet connection.
In spite of the presence of different Internet shops in the town proper, the Paguiruan High School (PHS) is a “dead” spot. Thanks to Smart, it received the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax), a [...]

A new and improved myDSL service which was designed for business use was launched last week by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT). The new service was geared specifically for the small and medium enterprise (SME) segment.

Internet giant Google has come to the aid of Philippine business as it offers business stimulus package to local businesses. Google, together with STI Colleges has offered to build free websites for 200 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Aside from that, they will also be given P2,000 worth of free credits on Google AdWords.

Have you heard about satellite Internet? Honestly, I haven’t and I wonder what was there is to it the first time I heard it. My friend overseas shared to me her experience with Michigan Satellite Internet and told it was one of her best experience since she started web surfing.

The internet giant Google launched a Search Options last May, which allows user to filter and refine the search results from Google searches. Recently, the company added more options as they received more favorable feedbacks from the search options everyday.
The new search options allow for more specific refinement and filtering of search results. These are [...]

OneWebDay started out as a volunteer activity in 2006 by Susan Crawford, a former member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This year, the OneWebDay celebration has reached the Philippine shores. Businesses and individuals are putting a “bayanihan” twist to spreading Internet use as the country joins OneWebDay celebrations for the [...]

Think Big. Think Global. An entrepreneur may start small, but it doesn’t mean that he should not aim to go global some day. The help achieve that mindset, he needs to know and understand Global Branding for Entrepreneurs to be able to ready on getting a slice of that global pie someday.

Iloilo will be having its 4th Iloilo Information Technology (IT) Week on September 28 to 30. On that week, jobs and business prospects in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry will be highlighted.

The Easycall Communications Philippines, Inc. (ECPI) has been granted the license to install, operate and maintain a nationwide data communication network by the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC). The license however, comes with a condition.

After spending the last nine years of his career in senior leadership roles with some of the most well-known companies in the country, which include the position of Managing Director for Ayala Corporation and later the Managing Director for MTV Philippines, Jack Madrid is now the new General Manager of Yahoo! Philippines.

The ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation is aiming to raise an additional P600 million this year in order to expand the broadband business of unit SkyCable Corp. The broadband service which is dubbed the Sky Broadband is being marketed as the fastest Internet product of its kind in the country.

Business process outsourcing (BPO) Focus Direct Philippines will opening a service center in Mandaue City and is looking forward to hiring about 1,200 people. Site director Ryan Beattie said, they are encouraging both part-time and full-time employees, including students to apply to their company. Focus Direct Philippines, according to Beattie, is willing to offer working [...]

Internet search giant Google reported a significant profit increase for the second quarter of this year, indicating that stabilization of the advertising market may be possible soon.
Google’s net income for the quarter posted an 18 percent increase, as its revenue increased by 3%. This was the lowest growth rate the company has posted in [...]

Internet search giant, Google, reports experiencing signs of stabilization in what has been a tumultuous advertising environment.
Google’s Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said consumers are still spending less than they did before the economic crunch, but at least they are clicking around and searching for deals. Google reported an increase in the number of [...]

The government of Iran has somehow declared war on the news breaking of 21st Century by declaring that they will prosecute people who will cooperate with the programming providers of satellite television. Iran has also blocked Twitter and messed with cellular phone networks.
The seemingly declaration of war against the media of the new millennium is [...]

We know about prepaid credits on mobile phone, and there are also prepaid internet credits as well as prepaid cable TV service… soon, there will also be prepaid electricity. It’s called the prepaid retail electric service (PRES), a prepaid metering scheme for electricity whose governing rules has been approved by the Energy Regulatory Commission last [...]

Internet myths are one of the reasons why entrepreneurs find it complicated to create a website for their business. A website host and creating company, Homestead.com, founded by Justin Kitch has helped numbers of entrepreneurs established their own webs. Doing the business for decades now, Kitch has found the reasons why some entrepreneurs are still [...]

“Localization is always a big plus when it comes to the web space. Besides giving the user the look and feel of home, advertising products to fellow Filipinos in our own native language makes business transactions more personal. 88DB Philippines is proud to be a Filipino, too.”
This is what 88DB Philippines Business Development Manager Lyndon [...]