Philippines

China seeks space cargo launches well below prices NASA pays SpaceX

Asia In Brief Plus: ChatGPT hallucinates Japan's PM; Infosys scores huge BP deal; Grab on the way to becoming a bank; and more

Science22 May 2023 | 8

Asia's top rideshare outfit, Grab, is late paying fines for running late

Took out Uber and promised to play nice, but regulator alleges years of evasion

Legal18 May 2023 | 3

Irony alert: Major airport to be interrupted for two hours to replace UPS

Three power outages have hit NAIA in the past year. What was that about ramping up tourism?

Offbeat08 May 2023 | 9

China's Mars rover finds signs of 'modern' water

Asia In Brief AWS adds Korean support; Singtel creates InfraCo; Philippines SIM registration drive extended

Science01 May 2023 | 4

Chinese scientists calculate the Milky Way's mass as 805 billion times that of our Sun

Asia In Brief ALSO: Australia says offensive hacking is working; DJI hit with $279m patent suit; Philippines Police leak data; and more

Security24 Apr 2023 | 12

Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend

Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad

Networks24 Mar 2023 | 4

TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report

Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls

Security19 Mar 2023 | 19

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

New Year's Day debacle strands thousands of passengers, attributed to decade-old tech

On-Prem03 Jan 2023 | 116

Philippines decides outsourcers need incentives to stick around, after all

Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing

Channel19 Sep 2022 | 4

Philippines Space Agency warns flyers, fishing boats to avoid falling Chinese rockets

The red rocket menace is real: Beijing's already sprayed the region this year

Science15 Sep 2022 | 3

Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops

Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000

Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 61

Philippines logs on to Starlink for remote area internet services

Comms ministry boss sees space as preferable to messing around with mountaintop builds

Networks28 Jul 2022 | 13

Giant outsourcer keeps work from home, loses tax breaks. Government says 'good riddance'

Philippines says subsidies inflate profits, not local economy

Off-Prem14 Jun 2022 | 17

Sri Lanka to adopt India’s Aadhaar digital identity scheme

Biometric IDs for all, cross-border interoperability not on the table

Security09 Feb 2022 | 2

Philippines gov takes down passport application website amid privacy leak fears

Google searches reportedly produce applicants' personal information

Security11 Nov 2021 | 1

Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS

Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources

Legal22 Sep 2021 | 5

Israeli firm Bright Data named as enabler of Philippines government DDOS attacks on opposition groups

Updated Bright denies all in this odd tale of a leaky VPN, creepy proxy networks, 8Chan, clouds hosting wonky workloads, and Swedish digital rights org Qurium

Security26 Aug 2021 | 18

Digital rights org claims cyberattacks against Filipino media outlets come from government and army

IP address inside Department of Science and Technology ran a vulnerability scan on target

Security02 Jul 2021 | 4

Philippines national ID registration portal opens, glitches out in first hour

2FA hasn’t kept pace with registration and real-world biometric capture

SaaS04 May 2021 | 3

Philippines president threatens Facebook ban after The Social Network™ deleted supportive content

Congress to probe whether Facebook crimps free speech

Legal30 Sep 2020 | 13

Philippines president threatens local telcos with expropriation

Calls for e-commerce surge and keeps schools closed due to certain virus that's made news lately

Networks29 Jul 2020 | 3

Philippines to install 23,000 free public Wi-Fi hotspots

To help plague time working and learning, even though schools are to remain closed until a vaccine is found

Networks20 Jul 2020 | 6

Philippines government tech agency seeks 750 percent budget boost for COVIDigital transformation

Most of it to go on new internet infrastructure to keep citizens working and learning remotely

Legal10 Jul 2020 | 4

Philippines government makes cloud-first a post-pandemic ‘new normal’ for all agencies

Revised post-pandemic policy carves out a few exceptions for things clouds are bad at

SaaS15 Jun 2020 | 7

Philippines floats digital services tax – and Uber’s local arm surprisingly applauds

Aims to fill post-pandemic coffers and level the local playing field

Legal20 May 2020 | 5

Philippines government to its agencies: You're not seriously going to do post-pandemic online services with that old stuff, are you?

Mass upgrades all-but ordered at all levels of government, even at unis

Legal14 May 2020 | 3

Philippine government demands telcos deliver a continuity plan by the end of the week

Better late than 'Oh no, our outsourcers are all disconnected from the world'

Legal15 Apr 2020 |

Philippines considers app to trace coronavirus carriers

Privacy perspective: President has also threatened quarantine-breaking troublemakers may be shot

Applications03 Apr 2020 | 10

Philippines sends all workers home, outsourced call centres for Acer and telcos suffer degraded service

Updated We get the lowdown on the lockdown from a BPO operator in the heart of Manila

On-Prem18 Mar 2020 | 8

$10m of Bangladeshi SWIFT heist ended up in Filipino Casino

Chinese high-rollers muled the money, thankfully didn't put it all on Red

Security10 Nov 2016 | 11

Beer-powered bid to build mobile network goes flat

San Miguel left with bitter taste in mouth after collapse of talks with Australian telco

Networks14 Mar 2016 | 9

Asia's internet in peril as cable network breaks in TWO places

Philippine telco tries to calm angry customers with backup plan

Networks01 Apr 2014 | 17

India's grip on offshoring eases ever so slightly

Your job could still go to Poland or the Philippines

On-Prem21 Jan 2014 | 29

Beer giant San Miguel to become mobile operator

Router hops just took on a deliciously refreshing new meaning

Networks27 Nov 2013 | 2

Moses tablets ease Noah's flood headaches

Philippines' first responders' fondleslabs

Legal25 Jun 2013 | 6

Anon posts Filipino president's phone numbers

Attempts to give Aquino a wake-up call and democracy a kick-start

Security17 Jun 2013 | 5

Anonymous becomes peacemaker as hacktivists battle

Malaysia vs. Philippines dispute over Borneo barney goes online, Anons hose it down

Security05 Mar 2013 | 9

Google launches third-world mobile web land grab

Aims to corner 'next billion users' with Free Zone

Networks09 Nov 2012 | 8

Philippines pinches nose, averts eyes, bans cybersex

And 12 years in the slammer for ‘comment trolls’

Legal26 Sep 2012 | 24

US Geological Survey detects earthquake on Twitter

The Earth moved for Filipino Tweeps before needles moved for boffins

Science02 Sep 2012 | 5

Philippines tech industries survive floods

Outsourcers unscathed after recent floods

On-Prem30 Aug 2012 | 2

Foxconn pay hikes 'driving tech titans into Philippines'

China's wage bump is a boon, says Manila's top trade wonk

On-Prem07 Mar 2012 | 49

Philippines declare war on cyberlingo

Jejebusters battle jejemongers on linguistic front line

Bootnotes16 Jun 2010 | 20

Philippine troops battle rampaging MILFs

It's true, believe us...

Bootnotes20 Aug 2008 | 36