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Virtualization firm NComputing is ramping up efforts for its “thin client” model to allow the education sector to take advantage of a modernized learning environment at a cheaper cost.

The proposed Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is now a mere formality as the Senate on Wednesday approved on second hearing a bill creating the agency.

A lawmaker has asked the House of Representatives to direct the Committee on ICT to conduct an inquiry on the proliferation of unsolicited messages and unsubscribed services sent to subscribers.

ICT IS KEY. Sen. Edgardo Angara delivers his speech during the Infocomm Technology Association of the Philippines (ITAP) induction of officers at the Manila Peninsula last week. The new ITAP president is Dondi Mapa of Microsoft Philippines.

Some 100 health and computer science students and faculty from different campuses in Luzon flocked to the UP Manila College of Medicine recently to attend the Philippine Undergraduate Research on eHealth (PUReHealth) Awards Student Orientation.

The DOTC announced on Monday that the technical board of the Neda has given the green light for the P7.9-billion “Road Transport IT Project” which seeks to integrate the IT systems of the LTO and the LTFRB.

A lawmaker said in a recent Senate hearing on the K-to-12 curricular program that there is a need to enhance science and mathematics education in the Philippines to boost national competitiveness.

The new communication model has become multidimensional interaction between people through social media, he said.

Under the measure, mobile phone service providers, distributors, and retailers are required to file a petition to the NTC every time they intend to implement any changes in the market price ceilings of basic mobile phone services.

The DepEd and the Ateneo School of Government has formally launched checkmyschool.org, a website that provides information about the condition, services, and facilities in public schools and how community stakeholders can pitch in.