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What Y2K can teach us about 2012

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, November 06 2009 04:11 AM

Dec. 21, 2012. It's a big day on the calendar, particularly because some believe it marks the last day of the world as we know it. The apocalypse. Armageddon.

The end of the world prediction spawns mainly from the Mayan Long Count calendar, which terminates on that fateful December 2012 day. I would suggest the Mayans quite simply possibly ran..... Read more ť

Tags: Y2K, Prediction, Y2K bug, Sony Pictures, viral marketing

In remembrance: DRMs

Posted in Tech Legal by Bryan Tan on Monday, November 02 2009 10:07 AM

Last week, I was at a WIPO-organized forum on copyright and related rights in Singapore.

Several persons spoke about digital rights management (or DRMs). DRMs are access control measure technologies used by copyright owners to control use of their rights, by controlling the usage of digital content and devices. Depending on which camp you are from, there are..... Read more ť

Tags: DRM, WIPO, DMCA, copyright, law

My favourite new features of Windows 7

Posted in Mister Tech by Lee Lup Yuen on Saturday, October 31 2009 10:31 PM

I'm a happy user of Windows 7. I have been doing heavy multitasking with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 every day for the past 2 months without problems. Unlike my experience with Vista, Windows 7's sleep and resume functions actually work, so I hardly ever needed to shut down Windows 7.

Here are my favourite Windows 7 features that..... Read more ť

Tags: email window, legacy application, e-mail window, Windows 7 Calculator, 64-bit

Learning to embrace Net without fear

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, October 30 2009 11:21 AM

Like some others out there, I was terrified of the dark and avoided watching horror flicks growing up.

But, as I matured and my adult mind learnt reason and rationale, I realized my fear of the dark was baseless and that those screaming bloodied actors were actually covered in prop blood and latex...though I'm still horrified each time I look..... Read more ť

Tags: Data Breach, Risk, Security Company, antivirus, Security

Changing of the IT guards

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Thursday, October 29 2009 10:26 PM

There's another strong storm coming to the Philippines this weekend, but I won't go into this topic again just like what I've been doing in the last three weeks. I'm hoping, however, that this approaching typhoon won't create as much havoc as the two previous storms did.

Instead, I want to comment on a recent piece of news that..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, general manager, Oracle Corp., exec, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Deciding to outsource: Is it cultural?

Posted in Sourcing Insight by Michael Rehkopf on Saturday, October 24 2009 11:36 AM

You may have been expecting this to be about cultural differences in relation to companies that outsource but it's not. Instead, this is about "when" people decide to outsource.

I have noticed that most people involved in outsourcing decisions fall into two groups.

The first group are those who follow roughly the following pattern...... Read more ť

Tags: TPI, Technology Partners International, BPR, financial analysis, sourcing advisor

Accountability missing in ICANN's new autonomy

Posted in Tech Podium by Eileen Yu on Thursday, October 22 2009 05:41 PM

Update: After this blog post went up, Paul Levins, ICANN's executive officer and vice president of corporate affairs, gave his response in Talkback. Do take a read.

Before introducing the next guest blogger for Tech Podium, I thought I'd help set the stage a little to explain why this issue is relevant to the underlying infrastructure that supports the World..... Read more ť

Tags: ICANN, Asia-Pacific, domain name, TLD, Affirmation of Commitments

Macs: No longer last bastion of invulnerability

Posted in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp on Thursday, October 22 2009 10:53 AM

Last week, a friend of mine pointed me to an online promotion for some software for the MacBook that I own. It was a suite of 12 security-related programs designed specifically to protect the Mac OS.

I duly went to the site to check out the promotion as I was shopping around for some security software to protect..... Read more ť

Tags: Security, Graham Cluley, social engineering, Malware, Apple Inc.

The PCs that the flood took away

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Thursday, October 22 2009 01:02 AM

As a super typhoon prepares to lash the Philippines this week--the third time in a month--I ask for the indulgence of those who regularly check out this blog as I write about a topic related to the recent floods once again.

One issue that has received considerable attention in the media in the last few days is about cars that were..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Globe Telecom Inc., Motorola Inc., Internet Cafe, Litonjua

In death do we digitally depart

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, October 16 2009 03:05 AM

My parents never really sat me down for that dreaded discussion about death, but I knew at an early age that life was infinitely finite, regardless of what or who you were. Death comes to all, and that includes your beloved pet terrapins, hamsters, dogs and of course, humans.

My earliest memory of "knowing" a human death was at age..... Read more ť

Tags: Death, Security, Password, credit card, journalist