February 1, 2012

After exhausting its legal remedies at the Court Appeals, the country’s telco behemoths are expected to take their fight against the six-second-per-pulse billing scheme being imposed by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to the Supreme Court.

In a decision dated Jan. 19, 2012, the CA’s former Special Eleventh Division of issued a resolution the denying the motion for reconsideration filed earlier by Smart Communications, Globe Telecom, Innove, and Connectivity Unlimited Resources Enterprises (Cure).

“We find merit in the contention of the NTC that with the implementation of the six-second-per-pulse billing scheme, the average subscribers are going to realize huge savings given that they will be charged on a per-six-second-pulse basis instead…

A new study by research firm IDC has revealed that the boom in Internet-enabled mobile devices (IEMDs) is reshaping the printing industry, offering new challenges and opportunities for hardcopy vendors.

After a flat trend in 2010, IDC said it expects home and office print volumes in Western Europe to slow down even further, declining at a CAGR of 0.6 percent from 2011 through 2015. The increasing popularity of IEMDs will contribute to this slow decline, IDC said.

“New Internet-enabled mobile devices change the nature of users’ relationship with documents,” said Arnaud Gagneux, director for imaging hardcopy and document solutions ay Western Europe, IDC.

“This affects both consumers and businesses, and offers hardcopy…

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chair Francis Tolentino has asked an award-winning team of young inventors to build a robot traffic enforcer that could detect traffic violators without human intervention.

Tolentino

The high school team from Dr. Yanga’s Colleges Inc. (DYCI) in Bocaue, Bulacan was a guest at the MMDA office this week.

Their invention, a robot named MAGIS, can detect floods, body temperature, and blood pressure among others. The robot had garnered for the team a fourth place award in the annual World Robot Olympiad held recently in Abu Dhabi.

At a meeting hosted by Tolentino, he challenged the team, composed of Romyr Gimeno, Chelsea Morales, Alexandra Mae Guevarra, Claire Receli Renosa,…