According to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas head of inclusive finance advocacy Pia Roman-Tayag, around 37 percent of municipalities in the Philippines have no banking office and are part of the 2.5 billion people worldwide, especially in emerging regions, that lack access to financial services like banks and credit cards, and are burdened to make payments or transfer money.
Dan Viray assumed his new job at IPC after shedding his role -- apparently just in time -- as business development director at CapGemini, the French-owned system integrator that is being blamed for the bungled IT migration of fast-food giant Jollibee.
The installation of 200 watts solar panels in selected classrooms or facilities will ensure that all schools nationwide will have power to energize basic teaching tools such as computers, printers and other laboratory equipment enabling them to deliver the same degree of quality teaching as other schools to improve the quality of education.
The proposed radar is a specialized one that makes use of the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. The Doppler effect is an increase or decrease in the frequency of sound, light or other waves as the source and observer move toward or away from each other, he explained.
Jollibee disclosed that it recently upgraded its computer systems last August 1 but encountered difficulties in the conversion from the previous Oracle system to SAP.
After the controversial closure of some its branches due to the upgrading of its IT system, it now appears that fast-food giant Jollibee is also partly to blame for the fiasco since it wanted to migrate post-haste to a new supply chain system, with standard precautionary measures apparently omitted because of the rush.
The proposed budget of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for 2015 will soar to P16.8 billion -- or six times its 2014 budget of P2. 8 billion -- an increase Sen. Ralph Recto described "as a high price we're being told to pay to have clean elections in 2016."
More than three years after suffering a debilitating stroke, technology and gaming journalist Relly Carpio passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 13, at the age of 39.
More than three years after suffering a debilitating stroke, technology and gaming journalist Relly Carpio passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 13, at the age of 39.
