Microsoft Philippines recently launched BizSpark, a program that intends to provide development tools to Filipino software start-up companies at no upfront cost.
The project’s beneficiaries will be identified by Microsoft’s local partners such as the the Commission of Information and Communications Technology (CICT), the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA), the newly-formed National ICT Conference of the [...]

Big names in the software business, including IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, are participating in the Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) which opens Monday, June 23, and ends tomorrow, June 24, in Cebu City…

MANILA, Philippines — Since April 2006, the University of the Philippines Manila has been leading open source initiatives for Southeast Asia, the head of the project said.
Funded by the Asia Pacific Development Information Program (APDIP) of the UNDP and the IDRC of Canada, the International Open Source Network (IOSN) has set up headquarters in UP [...]

MAKATI CITY, Philippines — A Filipino software startup who quietly launched an online backup and recovery service for iTunes last month is also working on a homegrown web service that will provide Apple’s iPhone users remote access to their iTunes library.
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In a brief demo in its Makati office in Manila, Terence Pua, co-founder and [...]

MANILA, Philippines — A software firm based in Spain has tapped Filipino prodigy Roselle Ambubuyog to help develop and provide training on solutions that allow the blind and visually impaired to use the computer and mobile phones.Ambubuyog, who has been blind since the age of 6, is product and support manager for Barcelona-based Code Factory.The [...]

Filipino software firm Gurango Software Corporation (GSC) has opened sales and marketing offices in Singapore, Australia and South Africa, following its acquisition of Absalom Systems.GSC announced last September it has invested $3 million in acquiring Absalom Systems, which specializes in HR software and has direct presence in these three countries.
In a statement, GSC managing director [...]