Companies could never stress this enough that data is the new fuel. Even cybercriminals would go to great lengths to steal valuable customer information and use them for illicit activities. Dell Technologies, […]
Data to power innovations in autonomous future
DDoS attacks almost doubled in Q4 2019 compared to previous year
Analysis has revealed that the number of attacks blocked by Kaspersky DDoS Protection in Q4 2018 amounts to only 56% of attacks detected in Q4 2019. Further investigation of botnet activity reveals […]
IDC: China’s ICT market faces challenges, opportunities amid COVID-19 outbreak
Industry analyst International Data Corp. (IDC) forecasts that the COVID-19 outbreak will bring five major changes in China’s macro environment: intelligentization and modernization of governmental operations, decentralization of city clusters and central […]
Apple to miss Q2 revenue guidance due to effects of coronavirus
Apple cites the effects of coronavirus for missing the second-quarter guidance the company issued the same time it released the first-quarter earnings. The technology company has temporarily closed its stories in China […]
Mapua partners with Sophos in offering cybersecurity courses
Mapua University, an engineering and technological university in Manila, tapped cybersecurity firm Sophos in offering cybersecurity courses and training for students. This comes at the heels of skills shortage in the security […]
Survey: Gig economy helps close gender pay gap
Payoneer recently released the result of its Freelancer Income Report 2020 based on a survey of over 7,000 freelancers from 150 countries. The report reveals that women’s participation in the freelance workforce […]
Digital solutions company to deploy ‘coronavirus-tracking module’ for gov’ts, organizations
Conduent Inc. unveils a version of its disease surveillance and outbreak management platform called Maven to securely track, manage and report on cases of the coronavirus. Maven is a software platform developed […]
3M migrates entire IT infra to Amazon Web Services
As part of its IT transformation and modernization efforts, multinational conglomerate corporation 3M is migrating its entire IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud […]
Kaspersky receives security standard certification from TÜV Austria
Global security company Kaspersky has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, the international standard outlining best practices for information security management systems. Issued by TÜV AUSTRIA, the certification confirms that the company’s data security […]
How Edge AI is widely changing smart devices
By Dr. Ryan Chen, General Manager of the Computing and Artificial Intelligence Technology Group at MediaTek In layman’s terms, “edge” processing is “local, in-device analysis.” This means that data is sampled and […]
New Year, New Game for Business Data Management
By Nilantha Brito, Senior Sales Director, Autonomous Database, ASEAN The idea of autonomous technologies has spiked over the past few years with a wide range of different industries incorporating the term in […]
Enterprises to adopt hybrid computing models in 2020
As the world charges into 2020, organizations increasingly will forego the enterprise-or-cloud debate that dominated C-level conversations in recent years in favor of hybrid architectures that incorporate public and private cloud models […]
Backbase appoints Thomas Fuss as CTO to build Banking-as-a-Service strategy
Digital banking platform provider Backbase announced the appointment of Thomas Fuss as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) starting January 2020. Backed by his experience leading engineering and delivery teams, Fuss was tapped to […]
HP launches Elite Dragonfly, Spectre x360 in PH
HP Inc. brings to the Philippines the two CES 2020 Innovation Award honorees: the HP Elite Dragonfly, considered to be the world’s lightest compact business convertible and HP Spectre x360, said to […]
Jabra PH unveils Elite 75t wireless earbuds
Personal sound and office solutions company Jabra unveils its fourth-generation wireless earbuds in the Philippines: Jabra Elite 75t, which promises longer battery life and comfortable fit. The Jabra Elite 75t’s design is […]
Twitter takes action in making internet safe for users
On Safe Internet Day, microblogging and social networking platform Twitter announced a new rule to address what it calls “synthetic and manipulated media.” Starting March 5, it will start labeling Tweets if […]
BIR adds another digital tax payment option with PayMaya
Financial services company PayMaya Philippines (PayMaya) partners with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in offering another cashless payment tax option. Individual taxpayers can use the PayMaya app (available for Android and […]
Malware breaks hearts through fake dating apps
Kaspersky researchers evaluated the risks and challenges of using dating apps Tinder and Badoo, which they found out criminals use as a bait to spread mobile malware or steal personal data. When […]
Darktrace appoints Catherine Graham as CFO
Cyber AI company Darktrace recently announced that Cathy Graham will join as its new chief financial officer (CFO) this month. Previously at 2U, an education technology firm, Graham has broad experience in […]
IBM X-Force: Hackers recycle previously stolen data to get into networks
Cybercriminals are not only sticking with traditional methods, such as phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilities, they are also recycling previously stolen credentials in hacking their way to an organization’s network, according to […]
GSMA cancels MWC2020 amid threats of coronavirus
Due to the threat of novel coronavirus, the GSM Association (GSMA) an industry organization that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide, has canceled the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) scheduled […]
IDC: 5% growth in worldwide IT spending in 2020
A new update to the International Data Corp. (IDC) Worldwide Black Books, which provide a quarterly analysis of the current and projected growth of the global IT industry, shows total ICT spending, […]
Survey: Age key barrier to work opportunities for Filipinos
The latest LinkedIn Opportunity Index 2020, a composite measure index that seeks to understand people’s perception of opportunity and barriers, revealed that Filipinos prioritize career and life goals in order to attain […]
How The IoT Is Changing Mass Manufacturing
The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer a new phenomenon. But it’s certainly one that’s still growing and branching out. To that point, we have written in the past about the […]
Ericsson skips MWC Barcelona 2020 due to concerns of coronavirus
Ericsson, a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company, decided to skip Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2020 set on Feb. 24-27. The company cites its concern “for the health and safety of employees, […]
