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The Philippines is a tech-savvy country and is one of the top global providers of Information Techology (IT)-BPO services in Asia. In Manila, everyone has a cellphone and text messaging is part of daily life. And yet when Super Typhoon Haiyian (Yolanda) hit the island nation this month, technology was at first unable to stem to [...]

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Tags: Education News, Learning Tools QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA—Around 18,000 e-textbooks were recently deployed by Vibal Publishing House on tablet devices of 7,000 students across the Philippines, paving the way for students to get in touch with the future of education. For its tablet education campaign, Vibal partnered with different major schools such as La Salle Green Hills, De La Salle Zobel Santiago Alabang, Miriam College, and St. Paul Surigao. Vibal “e-textbooks” follow the international standard ePub 3.0, which allows e-books to embed audio and video clips for user interactivity, said Julius Rolando G. Corotan III, head of the