Sen. Paolo Benigno ?Bam? Aquino, who is slowly emerging as an ICT advocate in the Senate, has filed a resolution seeking to conduct an inquiry on the progress made by the national roadmap for e-commerce since the passage of the E-Commerce Law 14 years ago.
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), in partnership with the IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), has officially launched the offering of e-Service Management Program (e-SMP) as massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Local tech firm InfoStorage has introduced what it said is a first in the country -- a set of enterprise solutions featuring Oracle Linux and Oracle VM running on Hitachi Compute System.
The partnership allows DTSI to offer Bosch products for video surveillance, fire, public address, and evacuation to its growing customer base in various industries.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said projects under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) have benefited many Filipinos and partly boosted economic growth, citing in particular Project Noah (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards) and the new Doppler radar systems.
SAP Philippines managing director Darren Rushworth said the facility will initially hire 50 people and aims to double the headcount by next year. The plan is under the company's project Nucleus, which is a call center but is more sales-oriented.
Nicolas Ojeda Jr., a former brigadier general in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, made his first public appearance as deputy executive director of the Information and Communications Technology Office (ICT Office) at the National ICT Summit being held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Makati City.
The physical location of data still matters, but will become increasingly irrelevant and will be replaced by a combination of legal location, political location, and logical location in most organizations by 2020, according to a report from Gartner.
Bangkok-based Pocket PlayLab has announced the acquisition of local animation firm Anino Games to achieve its goal of producing more casual games on all platforms.
