Latest Nokia smartphones now in the Android Recommended program
HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, today announced that it now offers the largest and most diverse range of “best-in-business” smartphones on Android™ with the addition of three new…
PLDT Global expands partnership with int’l tech platforms DT One and CTL
PLDT Global Corp. (PLDT Global) has expanded its partnership with CommuniGate Technologies Limited (CTL) and DT One to provide overseas Filipinos more convenience and connectivity while they travel and work…
Video and mobile games boost Smart’s data usage and revenues
PLDT Inc.’s resurgent mobile business posted record revenue growth in the first quarter of 2019, riding on the growing appetite of its customers for online video and mobile games. Service…
Kaspersky: Humans cause 9 out of 10 data breach in the cloud
Incidents in public cloud infrastructure are more likely to happen because of a customer’s employees rather than actions carried out by cloud providers, according to a new Kaspersky Lab report…
Fintech GoBear receives $80 million in funding to expand platform
Asian financial supermarket GoBear recently announced $80 million in funding to date. GoBear will use the funds to drive growth through product and technology enhancements, expand its partner network, and…
PayMaya expands Boracay’s first ‘cashless’ ecosystem with QR payments
Beach-goers around the recently reopened island popular for its white-sand beaches can now pay using only their mobile phones in hundreds of merchants all across Boracay, ranging from food establishments,…
Check Point confirms return of the Trickbot multi-purpose banking trojan
Check Point Research, the threat intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., has published its latest Global Threat Index for April 2019. The banking trojan Trickbot has returned to…
One call on WhatsApp is enough to establish surveillance
A recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in the world’s most popular messenger — WhatsApp — allowed hackers to eavesdrop on users, read their encrypted chats, turn on the microphone and camera,…
WhatsApp urges users to update after spyware discovery
Financial Times reported — and was confirmed by WhatsApp — that the messaging app has been infected with commercial spyware. According to the report, Israel’s secretive NSO group developed the…
Fin7 hacking group targets more than 130 companies after leader’s arrest
Following the arrest in 2018 of a number of suspected leaders of the notorious Fin7/Carbanak cyber-gang, the group was believed to have disbanded. But Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a…
IDC: Consumer spending on technology to reach $1.3 trillion in 2019
Consumer spending on technology is forecast to reach $1.32 trillion in 2019. According to the inaugural Worldwide Semiannual Connected Consumer Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC), consumer purchases of…
AdMov partners with Lenovo for digital advertising needs
As part of the company’s plan to revolutionize the local advertising industry, AdMov Transport Marketing Solutions Inc. has partnered with global innovation leader Lenovo, to deliver highly interactive and personalized…
Kaspersky: 59% of employees hide social media activity from their boss
With 90% of people in employment going online several times a day, it can be hard for most workers to keep their private and work-life separate during the working day…
GCash hopes to transform 20% of cash transactions to non-cash by 2020
The aspiration of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for the country is to transform a fifth of the total volume of transactions to non-cash methods by 2020. The challenge now…
Samsung’s ‘The Wall’ wins industry award for MicroLED display
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that the company was awarded Display of the Year from the Society for Information Display (SID) for its innovative modular MicroLED display, The Wall.…
‘Smart Saturdays’ helps fund rollout of portable digital classrooms
More learners are expected to benefit from mobile technology, 21st-century teaching tools, and multimedia resources as employees of PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications (Smart) continue to support “Smart Saturdays,” a…
Check Point launches channel initiatives to increase value, accelerate benefits to partners
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a provider of cybersecurity solutions, announced two major new elements of its Check Point Engage global partner program to further increase value to partners, and…
PayMaya: 4 awesome ways to show love to mom on Mother’s Day
Mothers deserve to be celebrated every single day for all that they do, but this May 12, show your mom how much you love and appreciate her as we all…
Kaspersky: Geopolitics is key driver of APT in Southeast Asia
In the first three months of 2019, Kaspersky Lab researchers observed an active landscape of advanced threat operations that was centered mainly on Southeast Asia, increasingly influenced by geopolitics, and…
D-Link bags Customers’ Choice award from Gartner Peer Insights
D-Link International Pte. Ltd, a global supplier of networking products, was recently named Customers’ Choice for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure for April 2019 by Gartner Peer Insights, an…
NEC Platforms unveils all-in-one solution to combat cyber attacks
By Alicia Angelica Villanueva With the rapid growth of technologies today, it comes with the continuously increasing number of risks to our privacy and security. The more we use advanced…
Schneider Electric Back-UPS Connect offers protection from power overloading
With the summer season in full swing in the Philippines, temperatures are soaring and so is the demand for power to keep homes and businesses cool. But with the power…
Cybercriminals can take advantage of PH elections to steal data
By Julius Suarez, Senior Manager, Solution Engineering, Sophos With the Philippines’ general elections coming up May 13, Filipinos are reminded to exercise vigilance and caution with regard to protecting their…
Kaspersky: Digital clutter poses security risk to organizations
Businesses across the world are struggling to secure their data due to employees not recognizing their responsibility for digital clutter; the proliferation of digital documents and files without thought for…
GCash breaches 50k QR merchant mark
GCash, operated by Globe Fintech Innovations Inc. (Mynt), continuously sets up as many QR-enabled merchants as possible, because it believes that the future of mobile digital payments lies on innovative…
Gartner: 20% of top global grocers will use blockchain by 2025
Research and advisory company Gartner Inc. predicts that, by 2025, 20% of the top 10 global grocers by revenue will be using blockchain for food safety and traceability to create…
Visa says payment industry can move away from using passwords
World Password Day was “observed” last week and there is no better time to acknowledge that the computer password is over 50 years old. It was invented by Fernando Corbato…
Smart fires up LTE in Romblon for better mobile experience
Customers of PLDT wireless arm Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) in Romblon can look forward to a better mobile data experience as Smart transforms Romblon into an LTE province. As part…
Kaspersky: Phishing scammers target ‘Avengers’ fans
“Avengers: Endgame” dominated the human race’s world since it started showing last month. People were obsessed with the story and how “epic” it was. The sheer number of data pointing…
Facebook hopes to bounce back with ‘The future is private’ spiel
At F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated the social networking site’s commitment to improving data privacy. The company has become the poster boy for the nightmarish data…
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