Industry Linkages
Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Makati City
The PCCI, as the single voice of Philippine business, is a critical catalyst in building globally competitive businesses and in strengthening local chambers and affiliated business associations.
www.philippinechamber.com
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Association of Computers Businesses of the Philippines Cebu City
ACBP has been the a industry partner of COMDDAP in all its activities in Cebu and a crucial ingredient to the success of our computer exhibition.
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Association of Computers Businesses of Mindanao Davao City
Davao City, as a premier commercial and growth area in Mindanao, is seen by industry players as a fertile ground for technological breakthroughs and human. ACBM and COMDDAP have worked closely in support of this ICT development in the city.
Industry Resources

Novell this week unveiled Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, which enables development of Microsoft .Net applications for Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X from within Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE.


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Microsoft today said it will issue an emergency patch for the critical Windows shortcut bug on Monday, August 2. The company said it is satisfied with the quality of the "out-of-band" update -- Microsoft's term for a patch that falls outside the usual monthly delivery schedule -- but also acknowledged that it has tracked an upswing in attacks.


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Samsung appears to have won the race to be the first device manufacturer to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission for a phone based on the 4G LTE standard.


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Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community, company officials said in an interview. "In the past we didn't have an open source strategy," said Claus von Riegen, SAP's program director of technology standards and open source. "That has changed over the last two years or so."[...]


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Microsoft will ship a beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in September, a company executive said today. If the timeline is accurate, the IE9 beta release will come a month later than earlier speculation, which had settled on August, a pick based in large part on PowerPoint slides purportedly from a Microsoft presentation that focused on Windows 8, the next iteration of the company's OS.


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