The ?cashless payment? is made possible with the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) by the BI officials and the Land Bank of the Philippines on the establishment of point-of-sale (POS) terminals at BI offices.
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.
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.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has established ?focus groups? to study the requirements for the telecommunication standards for the global adoption of mobile money and ?aviation cloud? for real-time monitoring of flight data.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has tapped Microsoft?s cloud computing platform Windows Azure to automate the annual budget proposal submission process and to optimize its reporting system.
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) secretary Mario G. Montejo and Japan?s Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Yoshitaka Shindo inked the agreement, which coincided with the working visit to Japan of Pres. Noynoy Aquino.
The provincial government of Pampanga recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Negros Oriental for partnership in the Integrated Taxation Management (iTax) system.
The Philippine metals and manufacturing industry is expected to get a much-needed push toward global competitiveness with the recent launch of the Die and Mold Solution Center (DMSC) ? a one-stop solution for die and mold design and fabrication.
The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) has launched a Web-based eCalculator that helps depositors compute their estimated insured deposits given the maximum deposit insurance coverage of P500,000.
Wanting to differentiate itself from the rest of the pack, Japanese tech giant NEC Corporation has announced that it is applying a local approach for its latest energy efficiency solution.
