As it has done so often before, Apple is triggering a new technology boom, with its integration of a fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s inspiring a wave of imitators that will drive the market for fingerprint-enabled smartphones to soar in the coming years.
After the launch of its dual-core Telpad last July, PLDT recently staged a gaming competition to show off its upgraded "landline-and-tablet-in-one" device.
In a period when the country has undergone its mid-term elections in May 2013, the market has not undergone any slowdown in investments. Conversely, it has maximized its potential to be the hotbed for many unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) vendors, driven mainly by several factors behind the impressive growth rates of the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector.