The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) reached $5.2 billion in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14), representing year-over-year growth of 0.4 percent and a significant seasonal decline of -12.3 percent quarter-over-quarter.
Epson Philippines Corporation (EPC) recently celebrated its achievements as the top brand in three different categories, including projectors, inkjet printers, and dot-matrix printers during the company?s Fusion media activity held recently in Sumilon Island in Oslob, Cebu.
Scuba divers from the DENR?s Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) simultaneously installed one unit each of the autonomous reef monitoring system (ARMS) on underwater sites off Carabao Island in Cavite, Mactan Island in Cebu, and Snake Island in Palawan to culminate the celebration of May as the Month of the Ocean.
The BSP first released Circular 808 in August 2013, which sought to put in place a comprehensive guideline on IT risk management for banks and other financial firms in the country.
The appointment of Nicolas D. Ojeda Jr., which became effective last May 19, is seen as a move to fortify the cybersecurity capability of the country. In 2010 and 2011, he served as a lecturer on cybersecurity in Singapore. He has also lectured on the subject at the National Defense College of the Philippines and at the Asia Pacific College.
To make critical information more accessible in times of disasters, Google Philippines has created an infographic to serve as a guide for government agencies and organizations.
Banks are facing an identity crisis. For the last century, traditional financial services institutions ? banks, credit unions, savings and loans ? were largely the only game in town for consumers. Individuals often formed lifelong relationships with a single institution and accepted that the bank was the dominant partner in that union.
According to research firm IDC, factory revenue in the worldwide server market decreased -2.2 percent year-over-year to $10.9 billion in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14). This is the fifth consecutive quarter that the server market has experienced a year-over-year decline in worldwide revenue.
Local software firm Pointwest Technologies recently participated in the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) Australia Conference 2014 held in Sydney, Australia in conjunction with the mHealth Summit AsiaPac.
