Smart offers best mobile experience in all categories in Cebu: Opensignal
Smart cited for Best Video Experience and Best Games Experience, among other awards Smart Communications, Inc. offers the best mobile experience in Cebu and swept…
CCCI asks BIR to further extend tax filing deadline
The Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) is appealing to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to provide more leeway to businesses and taxpayers…
DOTR, LTFRB, PayMaya provide PUV drivers with cashless payments, additional livelihood
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) have tapped digital financial services leader PayMaya to provide additional livelihood opportunities…
Tech bridges heritage conservation to the ‘new normal’
Technology not only helps in the preservation of heritage, it can also do wonders in reinventing how we experience it. The Cebu Archdiocesan Commission for…
Extend enhanced quarantine in Cebu City to prevent resurgence of cases: UP researchers
As Metro Cebu prepares to reopen for business by June 1, a group of researchers based at the University of the Philippines recommended that the…
Parents and kids tune in to eStorytelling Sessions of DepEd, Smart for online learning
Spending time together while listening to entertaining and educational stories is becoming a nightly habit for parents and children following the eStorytelling Sessions of Smart…
Location data show how Pinoys stayed home, avoided public places during ECQ
Visits to public places such as groceries, pharmacies, retail outlets, transit areas, and workplaces plunged as a community quarantine was put in place in the…
Businessman donates P4 million for COVID-19 response in cities of Cebu, Lapu-Lapu
The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in the cities of Cebu and Lapu-Lapu received a much-needed boost from businessman Michael Gleissner. Gleissner donated P2 million…
Cebu business leaders ask for more funds, equitable distribution to help workers
The leaders of the different business chambers in Cebu today asked government to add funds to its assistance program for workers and make its distribution…
Viruses are harmful: Here’s one way to protect yourself
Staying healthy during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is just as important as following such public health measures as social distancing and frequent handwashing. Good nutrition,…
Confirmed COVID-19 positive cases: an interactive map
More cases of COVID-19 infection have been detected in areas throughout the country. Cebu City is among the areas with an increasing number of confirmed…
1918-1919 influenza pandemic: the 2nd wave was a tsunami of deaths
The second wave of the trancazo pandemic in 1918 will be less severe and only the very young and old are vulnerable, health officials said…
Spanish Flu pandemic deaths in the Philippines: an interactive map
The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic claimed more than 80,000 lives in the Philippines. As in other parts of the world, the contagion came in three waves,…
Accenture, Intel, Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation use AI to save coral reefs
Accenture, Intel and the Philippines-based Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation have developed a new solution powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor, characterize, and analyze coral reef…
Technology aids Cebu group feeding COVID-19 frontliners
In Cebu City, professional chefs have joined hands with private individuals and businesses to combat the COVID-19 crisis in their own way: Through nourishing frontliners…
Visayan Electric energizes essential facilities for COVID-19 response
Visayan Electric has boosted the power capacity and energized vital facilities in Cebu that are intended for COVID-19 response. Visayan Electric President and Chief Operating…
Smart increases LTE capacity nationwide
With Internet usage rising due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. is further upgrading its mobile data service by boosting the…
Keeping the faith in digital spaces during Covid-19 crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic may have changed how the Filipino faithful are observing their Holy Week traditions this year, but it has not dampened their faith….
Smart’s LTE service keeps people connected despite COVID-19 quarantine
Msgr. Julius Perpetuo S. Heruela is the parish priest of the St. Augustine of Hippo Parish in Bacong, Negros Oriental. Like a growing number of…
Smart extends communications support for AFP, PGH frontliners
As part of its continuous support for COVID-19 frontliners, PLDT wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) extended communications assistance to the Armed Forces of the…