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When journalists become lil' Twittering birds

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, March 05 2010 09:24 AM

It was bound to happen eventually. Love it or hate it, the entire ZDNet team is now on Twitter.

We created a general account over a year ago that we use to push out news headlines, and anyone who's following us will be updated once our stories are published. So, our tweets were pretty straightforward, carrying mainly headlines and URLs..... Read more ť

Tags: Twitter Inc., News Headline, company executive, Software, Social Networking

Time fires first high-speed broadband salvo

Posted in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp on Friday, February 26 2010 11:42 AM

A couple of weeks ago before Chinese New Year, local service provider Time dotCom (TdC), announced the launch of Time Fibre Broadband, what it claims to be the fastest high-speed broadband Internet service in Malaysia, touting packages that allow users access at speeds of up to 50Mbps (megabits per second).

At the launch of its service, TdC claimed its..... Read more ť

Tags: Service, FTTH, TdC, HSBB, Malaysia

Don't let technology devalue life

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, February 26 2010 11:26 AM

I'd thought for a while before deciding to get a dog because I wasn't sure if I would be able to handle the grief of outliving it.

Reading news about lives lost in a devastating earthquake or flood halfway across the globe makes me tear, so I was certain losing a pet that grew up under my care would leave..... Read more ť

Tags: Life, high-performance computing, high-performance, Earth, U.S.

IT's not in the agenda

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Tuesday, February 23 2010 10:10 PM

Despite the fact that the IT and e-services sector contributes billions of revenues to the local economy--the semiconductor sub-sector is still the largest export earner for the country--I have yet to hear anyone from the current crop of presidential candidates for this year's national elections talk about their actual plans for this vital industry.

I know three of the guys--Noynoy..... Read more ť

Tags: Economy, Philippines, Barack Obama, Richard Gordon, Ireland

Mindset change needed to work with Chinese developers

Posted in Tech Podium by Eileen Yu on Friday, February 19 2010 04:28 PM

Home to the world's largest population, China is undeniably a potentially lucrative market that most businesses from around the globe will want a slice of. But, whether most can succeed in doing so or not, remains debatable.

From conversations with industry contacts and friends, I've been told that the Chinese market isn't easy to penetrate--several foreign businesses have tried, and..... Read more ť

Tags: Developer, Quality, software development, project manager, integration company

Reunion dinners are like project work

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, February 19 2010 11:21 AM

Merry metal Tiger year! If your family observes the lunar new year, you would have had the traditional reunion dinner over this past weekend.

As we trickled back to work after the long weekend, my friends and colleagues exchanged updates about our family reunions--always an enthralling experience for most, to say the least. Don't even get me started on mine...... Read more ť

Tags: Family, Dinner, information technology, job, environment

New DR framework: all disasters are local

Posted in BCP Confidential by Nathaniel Forbes on Tuesday, February 16 2010 11:31 AM

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the joint DHS-HUD Long-Term Disaster Recovery Working Group are inviting comments on their proposed National Disaster Recovery Framework Draft (59 pages, 834K). Hurry to avoid disappointment: the deadline is Feb. 26, 2010. Download the NDRF draft here, and submit your comments here...... Read more ť

Tags: National Disaster Recovery Framework, NDRF, unity of effort, all disasters are local, ICS

Seeing the good in bad

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, February 12 2010 03:36 AM

There are people in this world who live life thinking they're invincible and that nothing they do can go wrong.

And because nothing they do has gone wrong in their young life, they think everything should be done their way. More often than not, they get arrogant and want things done their way, and only their way.

To these people, I'd..... Read more ť

Tags: Life, Misfortune, IT manager, decision-making, workforce

End of the line for ICT bills

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Wednesday, February 10 2010 06:20 PM

Last Tuesday, I found myself in the Senate to witness the fate of two ICT-related measures--the bill creating the Department of ICT (DICT) and the proposed cybercrime law--just a couple of days before the chamber..... Read more ť

Tags: Bill, Information And Communication Technology, Philippines, Richard Gordon, vice president

Open source blog reloaded!

Posted in Open Source by Fred Muller on Monday, February 01 2010 06:22 PM

This is with great pleasure that this "little corner of the Web" is resuming activities through another member of the (now famous ;-)) Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) doing the reporting.

I was reading my predecessors first posts to get a feel of what a first post should be, as well as Jonathan Schwartz..... Read more ť

Tags: Open Source, Jonathan Schwartz, SourceForge, general manager, Open-source Software