Analyst firm IDC the Philippines is looking at a healthy ICT spending performance in 2014 due to the rosy outlook in the country?s economic indicators, as well as the vibrant spending from the consumer sector.
The government, through the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), is now in the final stages of setting up a 154-kilometer fiber-optic network that runs on the infrastructure of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the Metro Rail Transit (MRT).
As a way of creating an army of ?e-civil servants?, Department of Budget and Management undersecretary Richard Moya also said the government is planning to buy 95,000 laptops for public sector employees using the government?s ?Digital Empowerment Fund?.
Riding on the growth momentum from 2013, the Philippines is set to record 11-percent growth in total IT spending by end of 2014, according to research firm IDC.
Supreme Court chief justice Maria Lourdes said the destruction of the court records in the typhoon-hit areas, particularly in Tacloban City where paper-based court records in the Hall of Justice were wiped out, has provided the justification for the judiciary to accelerate its migration online.
Believe it or not, an online or Internet version of a legislation or government order is not -- at least not yet -- recognized as an official form of publication required by law and therefore has no legal effect.
Twenty years ago, the ITU approved the standard that established 5.1 channels as the surround sound system for broadcasting. Now, the agency has developed a system for the next-generation "immersive" and "personalized" audio system, which will allow TV audiences to be "enveloped" in the sound as it traces the source of the audio track both laterally and vertically across the screen.
The solar-powered pedestrian light is made up of an ordinary PVC pipe that has a solar panel installed on top of it. During the day when the lamp is not lit up, an electricity outlet located at the near bottom part of the pole can be used to charge cellphones and laptop computers.
A timely mobile app that reconnects families and informs their loved ones of their current location and situation using their phones even without an Internet connection was recently declared winner of the recently concluded AngelHack Davao hackathon.
