IT spending is steadily shifting from traditional IT offerings to cloud services (cloud shift). The aggregate amount of cloud shift in 2016 is estimated to reach $111 billion, increasing to $216 billion in 2020.
Home Credit, which set up shop in the country in 2013 with P2 billion in investment, is buoyed by the receptive response of Filipinos who use its offerings to buy mostly electronic gadgets and home appliances.
Although liquid-crystal display (LCD) has dominated mobile phone displays for more than 15 years, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology is set to become the leading smartphone display technology in 2020, according to analyst firm IHS.
Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte has instructed the newly created Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to study the formulation of a new national broadband strategy in order to expand the government?s free Wi-Fi access program in public areas.
In collaboration with Accenture, SAP now equips UST?s accountancy department with 12 hours of experiential laboratory activities that focus on the latest technologies in accounting on top of Accenture?s industry-specific lectures under the Computer 4 or Accounting Information System (AIS) curriculum.
Under the deal, PLDT will take care of the connectivity and managed services, while Intel will provide the hardware. All a customer needs to do is subscribe to the package via PLDT?s SME Nation, the company?s SME arm.
Analyst firm ABI Research has forecast augmented reality (AR) in enterprise to explode over the next five years, as the technology will add functionality to existing workforces that was not previously possible, with remote assistance to be the primary use case.
The Peace Corps and IBM had recently formed a public-private partnership, through the Peace Corps Response (PCR) program and IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC), which was launched recently in the Philippines.
A cyber security firm has warned of a ?gloomy? online landscape in the coming months as the Philippines saw a big 48% increase in cyber attacks in the second quarter of 2016 over the previous quarter.
