The Philippine Red Cross (Red Cross) launched an app that uses the wireless, geo-location, and sensory capabilities of mobile phones to trace contact events among people. Called RC143, the mobile app will […]
Food packs distribution and providing financial aid during the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon in the Philipines required verification of recipients and residents of each household. Local government officials collect personal information […]
Filipino developers are pitching in to help mitigate the spread of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 by building relevant apps that would help in monitoring personal health and information dissemination. Below are just […]
With the number of COVID-19 cases steadily rising, PLDT Inc. through its Enterprise Business Group is providing vital communications support to increasingly hard-pressed healthcare workers, soldiers and policemen, and other personnel at […]
Feeling extra-stressed these days? Staying glued to screens — whether it’s your smartphone, laptop or TV — for minute-by-minute updates on the global COVID-19 emergency can add to coronavirus-related stress, according to […]
Cybersecurity solutions provider Kaspersky discovered how cybercriminals continue to exploit the panic amid the pandemic by actively using the topic of spreading malware such as backdoors and spyware in the past few […]
The enormous amount of data the current COVID-19 pandemic can overwhelm health authorities. Unstructured data would make it extremely difficult to address the problem from various perspectives. To make it easier for […]
As one of its responses to addressing the pandemic that is COVID-19, technology company IBM announced that it is expanding the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge to address the world’s reaction […]
The University of the Philippines Manila Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) launched today a dedicated 24/7 hotline number, 155200, for its COVID-19 Bayanihan Operations Center Through the hotline service, UP PGH aims to […]
Amid the pandemic that is gripping the world, disrupting businesses, and practically stopped life on its tracks, fake news still surfaces. Social network platform Twitter decided to provide people with verified information […]
As if the COVID-19 pandemic is not enough to cause anxiety and distress, fraudsters are taking advantage of the situation by sending phishing emails and installing malware. Now that many are working […]
As the number of COVID-19 patients increases, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) warns of the privacy of the infected. “Following the government’s declaration of a public health emergency (PHE) concerning COVID-19, it […]
To ensure that Filipinos have access to accurate and up-to-date information in the midst of the COVID-19 community quarantine, PLDT Inc’s wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) will continue to provide fast, […]
Along with the consistent increase of 2019 coronavirus cases comes the incessant techniques cybercriminals are using to prey on public panic amidst the global epidemic. Kaspersky has continuously been detecting new attack […]
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful to everyone. As the coronavirus evolves, the technology giant asserts its commitment to providing timely and helpful […]
The global smartphone market recovery will be impacted in 2020 as uncertainties around COVID-19 increased over the last month. According to the latest forecast from the International Data Corp. (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly […]
