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With the PC market continuing to decline, computer vendor Acer Philippines is shifting its focus on becoming a more solution-centric tech company.

As a report made the rounds of social media showing the Philippine with having the slowest Internet speed among Asean countries, Sen. Bam Aquino has called for an investigation to determine if consumers are indeed getting their money's worth from Internet service being provided by telecommunication companies.

Called Ericsson Radio Dot System, the small disk-shaped device is being touted as an alternative choice for present indoor solutions that are built mainly for voice coverage but do not meet the growing capacity demands of apps.

All commercial airlines and corporate aircraft are required to install and use "black boxes" to track a number of flight parameters. The flight data recorder (FDR) is designed to record the operating data from an aircraft?s systems, including pressure altitude, airspeed, vertical acceleration, magnetic heading and position of control systems.

The Philippine Internet infrastructure is still a big conundrum two decades after it was first brought online, according to the man who helped get it up and running in the first place.

The latest technologies and how to comply with the Bureau of Internal Revenue's (BIR) tech-related tax regulations are among the two main things that many business leaders in the Philippines want to learn about.

Earlier, an organization of IT professionals criticized the website as a failed project as it was hard to use and did not contain updated information.

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has releaseed P600 million to cover the funding requirements for the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), the Aquino administration?s information technology (IT) system for integrating all public financial management processes.

Pointwest Technologies, a Filipino-owned software development house, was recently named the ?Best Filipino-Owned Company of the Year? at the recently concluded 2014 International ICT Awards Philippines. Former chair of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP) and Bacolod City councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, meanwhile, bagged this year's ICT-Business Process Management (BPM) Individual Contributor Award.

Covered by the proposed act are banks, department stores, shopping malls, colleges and universities, gasoline stations, pawnshops, lending institutions, and convenience stores, among other.