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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

How the Sun continues to rise

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, January 29 2010 03:31 AM

I had sighed a sigh of relief when Sun Microsystems rejected a takeover bid from Big Blue in April last year. When Oracle entered the picture shortly after, I had hoped against hope that..... Read more ť

Tags: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Solaris, hardware, cloud computing, Java

No room for e-polls failure

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Tuesday, January 26 2010 11:50 PM

I hate to be an alarmist or an agent of gloom, but the fate of the country literally (I detest this word but I'll use it anyway) hangs in the balance with the automated national elections scheduled on May 2010.

A failure of elections, as pointed out by various publications and law experts, would result in the Philippines not having a..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Chief Justice, house speaker, senator, senior manager

Tiger Woods and his SMS

Posted in Tech Legal by Bryan Tan on Tuesday, January 26 2010 05:12 PM

Now that the dust has died down, and just about any woman within clawing distance of Tiger Woods has emerged from the woodwork (no pun intended), I will add my commentary from the Tech-Legal perspective.

It seems that the straw that broke the camel's back was an exchange of SMSes that took place, and were discovered when Tiger left his mobile..... Read more ť

Tags: Tiger Woods, SMS, phone, mobile, cell phone

Why aren't product recalls popular in India?

Posted in Inside India by Swati Prasad on Monday, January 25 2010 03:05 PM

Earlier this month, we had our friends over from Bengaluru--Deepty and Namit. Deepty is a tech-savvy corporate lawyer. She has a fetish for the latest gizmos and loves to fiddle around with all kinds of gadgets. Most of us, including her husband, Namit, get her to sort out our tech woes.

But over the last 18 months, Deepty has been rather..... Read more ť

Tags: Nokia, Blackberry, Google Talk, product recall, consumer laws

Getting old minds to meet social minds

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, January 22 2010 12:12 PM

Where can you be a farmer, café owner and member of the Mafia, all at the same time? Why, on Facebook, of course. And where can you discuss your experience of farming, running a café and doing a job in 140 characters? Why, on Twitter, of course.

There's no denying we've entered an era of social networks.

Microblogging site Twitter, which..... Read more ť

Tags: Student, social media marketing, marketing strategy, Social Media, social networking tool

Blaming social media won't solve anything

Posted in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp on Friday, January 22 2010 11:47 AM

Politicians are known for making tons of comments in the media. After all, being a public servant involves doing that on a day-to-day basis. But, every so often, we get ministers in Malaysia who make comments that are downright bizarre.

Take for instance Rais Yatim, the current Information and Communication minister, who was quoted in national news wire, Bernama, as..... Read more ť

Tags: Twitter Inc., Technology, Buddhism, Christianity, West

What do 2010s hold for India?

Posted in Inside India by Swati Prasad on Monday, January 18 2010 03:11 PM

It's very difficult to crystal-gaze. Back in 2000, when mobile telephony was becoming cheaper in India (and I had just acquired my first mobile phone--my elder brother's hand-me-down, a Nokia 1610), I would have never anticipated that in less than five years, almost every man/woman on Delhi's streets would own a mobile phone.

Today, my mobile phone has mobile phone numbers..... Read more ť

Tags: Sony Playstation, data storage, Spoken Web, New Delhi, camera

Is business continuity a dead-end?

Posted in BCP Confidential by Nathaniel Forbes on Saturday, January 16 2010 04:44 PM

What's the future career path for today's BCM professional? I've plodded along a BCM career path for 14 years, and I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. All I see is more tunnel.

Here's a simplified job description for a BCM Manager in a multinational company in Asia, and maybe where you live, too:

Get lukewarm to..... Read more ť

Tags: BCM dead end, business continuity future, BCP profession, BCP certification, risk management
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When political, social beliefs rule the day

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, January 15 2010 09:10 AM

Google may no longer be a verb in China if the search giant doesn't get its way and be allowed to operate an uncensored search engine in the country.

In an interview with CNN, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond said: "[We] just no longer in good conscience can continue to censor our results. And so it's kind of up..... Read more ť

Tags: cyberattack, Internet, Government, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc.