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During the recent Secure Operational Technology Summit 2021: Elevate Your Security APAC Digital Edition held last April 22-23, 2021, Fortinet discusses the risks of all the threats that are targeting internet-connected operational technology and the OT infrastructure attacks that comes with these threats.

Have you ever experienced when you’re looking and searching for properties over the internet how complicated some of the websites that are offering housing developments? It shouldn’t be the case. The experience should be easy and smooth, so customers or future property owners can feel comfortable looking at properties available on the web.

Warning: this review contains light spoilers.

Even if most of the business requirements can now run in the cloud, it is still a fact that some workloads still need to be on-premise like applications that are sensitive to latency and variability in latency, and applications that process data locally.

I have been using the Pi-hole on my home network for years now. It is a network-wide ad and tracker blocker — if you have multiple devices on your home network, this open-source project simply adds the much needed protection from trackers that are embedded specially on mobile applications.

Samsung topples Apple as the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer during the first quarter of 2021, according to the latest report released by Strategy Analytics.

Apple AirTag is one of the new products Apple officially unveiled at the recent Spring Loaded event.

Adobe Sign (formerly EchoSign) is a cloud-based e-signature service that allows the user to send, sign, track, and manage signature processes using a browser or mobile device. It is part of the Adobe Document Cloud suite of services, and it is transforming the way businesses compete with customer experience, dynamic workforce, and innovation through digital experience.

Education is undeniably one of the sectors in the country that was heavily hit by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. According to UNESCO, more than 1.5 billion students were affected by school closures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease and 30 million of which are Filipino learners.

The country’s third major telco player DITO Telecommunity announced the expansion of their connectivity services to twenty-one (21) more cities starting today, 16 April 2021. Initially available to fifteen (15) selected cities in the Visayas and Mindanao during its commercial launch last 08 March 2021, DITO services are now available in the following cities:

6G, the next-in-line mobile network technology after the current 5G, is expected to launch around 2030.

Not too long ago, using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication or RDF Site Summary) reader is the most popular way to consolidate all the blog posts and news sites that you follow or subscribe to. An RSS reader allows you to quickly get the latest and greatest articles, sometimes the moment it gets published. Whilst RSS is still very much alive and present (did you know that that podcast you subscribed to uses RSS?), its use has been eclipsed by the social network feed. Whilst your social network feed is somehow influenced by who you follow (what they write and share), but chances are, it is controlled predominantly by an algorithm — code that selects what you see, optimized for whatever parameters the social network sets it to.

As students and teachers try homeschooling to work out during this pandemic, the need for better educational resources is continuously rising. With this demand, specifically within the IT education sector, the developers of CodeChum introduces an upgrade to its AI-powered Learning Management System (LMS) with a focus on monitoring and teacher smart assistance.

Filipinos have always been credited to make up for a significant percentage of the world’s online population, with millions of tech-savvy users flooding social media sites and gaming lounges every second of every day. While this might be considered an addiction, what it really is, is the Filipino spirit—in this case, the ability to adapt to new technologies brought about by the changing times.

Max K (not his real name) sat nervously as he waited for his Covid Test results. He works as a security guard in a Butuan realty corporation. He was one of the 14 close contacts of a previously confirmed case. He did not want to be tested. He claimed that he had not been in contact with the previous case for the last 6 months. He feared being quarantined as he is the family’s sole breadwinner. Max was not incentivized to self-report or self-quarantine. Max is a typical case.

As part of its commitment to promoting financial inclusion, savings mobilization, and service to the Filipino people during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RCBC is waiving BSP InstaPay money transfer fees until the end of 2021 via the DiskarTech app. The waiver of InstaPay fees applies to both interbank transfers and eWallet funding transactions from now until the end of December 2021.

It has been more than a month ago when the alleged data breach at Cashalo, operated by Oriente Express Techsystem Corporation, surfaced at the interwebs. It was Valentine’s Day this year when several posts were made in forum websites on the “dark web” selling the personal information of some 3.3 million Cashalo users. Personal information such as usernames, passwords, email addresses, phone numbers, and even device identifications are being sold online at a bargain price. The same data resurfaced in the “dark web” this week.

In the Ohmyhome application and website, customers can now find over 1,300 listings in its DIY platform and more than 40,000 units worth of property from over 140 real estate developments. The latter comprise select projects from Ohmyhome’s developer-partners such as Vistaland International Marketing Inc., Suntrust Properties, Avida Land, and Honeycomb Builders Inc. which came on board in 2020, and SM Development Corporation, and Bria Homes which signed up this year.