Sen. Paolo Benigno ?Bam? Aquino said Senate Bill 2217, also known as the Start-Up Business Bill, would provide enterprises the proper time to stand on their own as they try to create a niche in the market.
The government's ICT program, iGovPhil, is a part of the e-Government Master Plan of 2013-2016, which aims to maximize the use of ICT resources through shared ICT infrastructure, services, and applications for national government agencies. iGovPhil has a total project cost of P2.53 billion implemented from 2012 to 2016. The DBM has previously released P164.6 million to ICTO in 2012 for the first phase of the project.
Based on a greater decline in demand than predicted in the first quarter and concerns that tablets and 2-in-1s will face additional market challenges the rest of the year, research firm IDC has lowered its 2014 worldwide tablet plus 2-in-1 forecast to 245.4 million units, down from the previous forecast of 260.9 million units.
ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data has announced it will launch Enterprise Mobility-as-a-Service (EMaaS), signaling its intent to provide a suite of cloud-based end-user computing services on a global basis.
YoRInfoCenter will serve as a one-stop shop that would provide government agencies and private organizations, local or foreign, with the latest satellite imageries and high resolution hazard maps that can be used as references in the rehabilitation effort.
The process is called CoaTiN because it uses titanium nitride (TiN) to coat, harden, and enhance the life of sharpened industrial tools. It can be applied to aerospace components, marine hardware, automotive parts, and medical devices, among others.
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.
