Technology NEWS

Every day, 1.82 billion people access Facebook. They come from all around the world, speak thousands of different languages and dialects, and post billions of pieces of content every day – from photos to videos, to text. 

The current global health crisis has highlighted the value of virtual health through telehealth, telemedicine, or remote patient monitoring. Due to lockdowns and community quarantines, healthcare organizations, ranging from large hospitals to small independent physicians, are now adopting telehealth systems to continue providing services to their patients. 

Lenovo recently inked a memorandum of agreement with Immaculada Concepcion College (ICC) as its first Platinum partner under the Lenovo EdVision program.

Digital transformation is the road that will restore our country speedily and make our economy more robust, from the city-wide level to the national. To discuss this nationwide campaign, the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), with the support of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG,) and GeiserMaclang Communications Inc., will be launching the “Digital Filipino, Digital Cities, Digital Philippines”  campaign, starting with a forum on December 10 at 9AM.

Some 8 million motorcycles and tricycles were registered in the Philippines last year, heavily outweighing the number of 4-wheel vehicles that ply the roads. But despite being the majority of total motor vehicles in the country, motorbike riders don’t get the same attention as cars or trucks.[1]To ensure that more 2-wheel motorists get the fuels and service fit for their needs, Shell signed a three-year partnership with global motorcycle and parts manufacturer TVS Motor on October 23,  bolstering the level of support that motorcycle riders can get on their journeys.

The Philippines is set to showcase its best financial technology (fintech) practices to an international audience and cement its global digital footprint in the five-day virtual World Fintech Festival (WFF) on December 7-11. Previously presented as the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) in past years, this year’s WFF shall spotlight key executives and decision-makers from different Asian nations as they discuss how they pilot fintech to produce societal impacts.  Global tech legends like Bill Gates, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will broadcast their talks to WFF participants in ten free sessions through YouTube and Facebook. 

Following Typhoon Ulysses’ widespread destruction last week in the province of Isabela, real estate advocacy group that seeks to promote inclusivity and the use of technology in the industry, A Better Real Estate Philippines (ABREP), mobilized volunteers to provide crucial support to displaced families in Ilagan.

With the lockdown, iFRANCHISE President and CEO Krizia Ann Loyang realized how difficult it must have been for her people to live in this circumstance. It was almost instantaneous when she decided to help soften the impact of the pandemic on her people. It helped that her companies, iFRANCHISE and Commissary Kitchen, are engaged in the food franchising business.Through innovation and technological advancement, iFranchise aims to position itself as the market leader in the franchising industry, starting with its brainchild, Food Caravan, a collaborative initiative, between and with culinary masters of Commissary Kitchen.

Seiko Epson Corporation will begin external sales of new sensing technologies that combine semiconductor and optical technologies that Epson has nurtured and advanced over many years. The company will also launch a new business that will use motion-sensing analysis technology developed for Epson’s M-Tracer golf swing analysis system to provide valuable data about the actions and movements of people and objects in everyday life. Epson will enrich lives and create new customer value through these initiatives, which will capitalize on open innovation.

In order to address the 6.75-million-unit housing backlog, which approximates that around one in five Filipinos lacks access to a decent and formal home, real estate industry representatives revamped efforts to amend the Real Estate Service Act of 2009 (RESA) through the filing of a class-action Petition for Declaratory Relief on Tuesday at the Makati Regional Trial Court.

Mastercard announced a new business-to-business payments solution in Asia Pacific with the launch of Mastercard Track™ Card to Account Transfer, allowing businesses to use commercial cards to pay Suppliers regardless of whether they accept card payments. 

It is normal for any internet service provider (ISP) to have unscheduled outage from time to time. But for the second time this month, Converge ICT Solutions (Converge) has encountered a massive outage affecting a vast majority of their subscribers.

Shopee, the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, successfully creates a big impact at 11.11 Big Sale, building its vision to make e-commerce for everyone. Across the region, 200 million items were sold in 24 hours on November 11.

Remote operations for most industries, especially the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) has become the new norm. This compels businesses to manage their operations with help from new solutions that leverage technology. Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank), the thrift banking arm of the Metrobank Group, believes that digital and online solutions can help MSMEs adapt and regain their competitiveness even during a crisis.

SYKES Cebu has announced their decision to deploy over 6,000 employees into a work-from-home setup until the COVID-19 pandemic eases.

Trend Micro Philippines has opened its annual Decode cybersecurity conference with about 3,000 Filipino IT professionals from across the country and the globe last November 10, 11, and 12. 

Hackers targeted at least 2,806 online storefronts running Magento 1.x, an ecommerce platform, which continued to run until last June.Called Cardbleed, the perpetrators leverages a feature called “Magento Connect” to download and install the malware, “mysql.php” that gets automatically removed after the skimmer code is added to “prototype.js.”These are JavaScript codes that was inserted to the ecommerce website, mostly on payment pages to capture customers payment information and send the details to a remote server controlled by the attacker and later to be sold by the attackers on Carding Forums.Carding forums are mostly located on the dark web where cyber criminals sell Payment Information obtained by ATM Skimming, phishing, hacking into payment providers and recently from this kind of attacks.

Courier service J&T Express Philippines, known for efficiently delivering parcels even to far-flung and hard-to-reach locations in the country, showcased its Certified Lokalista Campaign in a webinar during its highly anticipated double-day sale on Nov. 11. The campaign, which started on Oct. 16, 2020 and will run up to January 14, 2021 encourages people to ‘buy local’, patronize, and support small-to-medium-sized entrepreneurs, and thus promote regional products to a larger national audience.