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Despite the reported economic slowdown, HP Philippines reaffirmed its strong commitment to the Philippine market. According to NG Tiang Chong (TC), Vice President (Personal Systems Group) South East Asia and Taiwan (SEAT) of HP, Philippines is a very important market for HP and there’s still a lot of room for growth in this region.

“We [...]

Symantec Corp. announced that malicious code activity continued to grow at a record pace throughout 2008, primarily targeting confidential information of computer users.

According to the company’s Internet Security Threat Report Volume XIV, Symantec created more than 1.6 million new malicious code signatures in 2008. This equates to more than 60 percent of the total malicious [...]

The Conficker worm is slowly being activated according to security experts, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm. Symantec Security Response Team reported that Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is quietly turning thousands of PCs into spambots and installing spyware.
Conficker installs a second virus, known as Waledac, that sends out email [...]

IBM unveiled details of an “advanced” artificial intelligence computing system that will be able to compete with humans on Jeopardy!, America’s favorite quiz show.
The AI system, codenamed Watson, has been under development in IBM laboratories for nearly two years with a focus on being able to deftly handle semantics, or the meanings behind words. [...]

Seagate introduced a new backup appliance that completely eliminates the need to manually learn, manage, or dedicate any time to the backup process.
Unlike most backup utilities, the new Seagate Replica backup appliance is a complete PC backup system, which automatically and continuously stores up-to-date copies of everything on a PC, including installed applications, operating [...]