The Philippines PC market grew by 18 percent sequentially QoQ but declined 15 percent Year-on-Year (YoY), to reach a total of 462,000 units in 1Q 2013.
The two DOST agencies responsible for the initiative -- the Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) and the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) ? said GovCloud will enable government agencies to use secure online applications for their various computing requirements.
High-end and volume systems were the major streams driving the server market growth. The growth of high-end servers was driven by organic growth from the banking sector, which was enhancing technology infrastructures to meet rising customer banking needs.
The government?s IT officials are pushing the use of a recently launched Government Website Template (GWT) in order to give government websites a uniform corporate identity, ease visitor navigation, and enhance website security.
This development renders the Philippines the most upbeat market in Asia-Pacific which, in contrast, contracted year-on-year for the sixth quarter in a row and dropped by 7.6%.
A smart visa is a digital paperless substitute for a traditional visa that can be obtained by a traveler from a travel agent or participating airline at the time of making a travel reservation or online through an Internet portal or through a mobile device such as a smart phone.
The project seeks to improve the effectiveness of the system of filing and analyzing SALNs by transforming the manual-based system into an electronic or IT-based system.
Marking a milestone in the Philippine IT education system, an initial batch of universities in the country is set to offer business analytics as ?specialization tracks? in two programs ? Information Technology Education (ITE) and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) ? beginning school year 2013-14.
The roadmap updates the strategic growth plan for the Philippine information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) industry since its Road Map 2016 was first published in 2010.
Launched on Friday at the Cucina Andare night market in Glorietta 3 Park, the BPI mobile Point-of-Sale (mPOS) is the first of its kind in the country that allows business owners to accept credit card payments with their iOS and Android devices.
