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Check If Your Anti-Virus Is Working
12 Dec2010
By Ed Zafra
Having virus-free computers in an i-café is a must if you are to keep your loyal customers. Not only will the customers shy away from your shop if you have virus-infected computers, you could also lose your investment for the equipment because there are viruses that could make them defective. It is not enough that you have a rollback program that could eliminate them when your units are restarted. There are chances that the next customer get to use a unit infected by the activity of the previous user if you fail to restart it before assigning the unit to him. A second line of defense and it is the usual practice, is the installation of an anti-virus software and making sure that it is working. Read the rest of this entry »
- In: Knowledge Base
- Tags: anti-virus, EICAR virus test
The I-Café As A Cash Remittance Center
2 Dec2010
By Ed Zafra
With millions of Filipinos working abroad in order to support families that they left behind in the country and thousands more needing to transfer money from city to provinces and vice-versa, cash remittance is really big business here in the Philippines. The big bulk of the money transfer business are being served by domestic banks and specialized multi-national companies like Western Union, Money Gram and some local companies. They have branches in different locations in the country but there are still areas that are unserved or underserved at present.
Pawnshops, telegram and cargo companies had already entered the business long time ago but still, I should say, there are rooms for others to join Read the rest of this entry »
- In: Business Models
- Tags: cash remittance, overseas workers
The Enhanced Business Name Registration System
12 Oct2010
By Ed Zafra
As part of our new government’s effort to facilitate faster and easier registration of single-owned businesses in the country, the Department of Trade and Industry has recently amended the revised implementing rules and regulations of the Business Name Law and came out with a department administrative order (DAO) that gave birth to the Enhanced Business Name Registration System (E-BNRS). The agency issued DAO 10-08 Series of 2010 last September 30, 2010 and had the E-BNRS online registration facility upped last October 6, 2010. The system will handle the registration of the business name (BN) of a person who is at least eighteen (18) years old, doing business or proposing to do business in the Read the rest of this entry »
- In: Uncategorized
- Tags: business name, DTI registration
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