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Unnecessary distraction

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Monday, July 06 2009 11:53 PM

If not for the weird story that President Arroyo underwent a breast implant operation in a local hospital, I'm pretty sure the heat and public ridicule would not have abated against tech firm TIM after it threatened to pull out from its partnership with Dutch-Venezuelan company Smartmatic for the automation of 2010 national elections.

For the benefit of readers based outside..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Croatia, Kaspersky Lab, antivirus company, information management

Could this be the most critical budget for India?

Posted in Inside India by Swati Prasad on Friday, July 03 2009 11:59 AM

For business journalists in India, budget time is excitement time. It's like sports journos covering the Olympics. As a newspaper correspondent, I too had my fill of budget-time excitement. But I often wondered why the government must play with the (fiscal) fate of 1 billion Indians every year.

Till today, the Union Budget continues to determine every Indian's "financial" fate..... Read more ť

Tags: ESOP, Software Technology, Indian IT-ITES Industry, Tax, Recession

Shhh, but I ain't no Apple fanboy

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, July 03 2009 11:07 AM

Clearly, I ain't no boy. And unlike the millions of people worldwide who proudly carry an iPhone in their pocket, I'm also no fan of Apple.

But, before the religiously loyal Apple fanboys start using my photo as target practice, I'm also no mega fan of Microsoft, or any one particular brand. Rather, I'm a fan of any system and..... Read more ť

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple PowerBook, GAAP, Security, Apple Inc.

Outsourcing and value for money improvement--incompatible?

Posted in Sourcing Insight by Michael Rehkopf on Wednesday, July 01 2009 04:19 PM

Why would an outsourcer ever want to offer its clients value-for-money improvement?

Perhaps before we answer that question, we should consider what value-for-money improvement is and what leads to it.

To me, value-for-money improvement means I pay less for the same thing or I pay the same and get more. And most importantly, it is my choice which of those two I..... Read more ť

Tags: Improvement, arbitrage, outsourcing company, profit margin, revenue

So you're the boring guy

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Sunday, June 28 2009 04:20 AM

As I write this, news organizations all over the world are still scrambling to cover the sudden and shocking death of Michael Jackson, a "troubled genius" and "tortured icon", as CNN put it. Certainly, he was no boring guy as he was the master of the entertainment stage.

The person referred to as "boring" in the headline is me. As..... Read more ť

Tags: Compuware Corp., Michael Jackson, EMC Corp., server software, entertainment

Should India now look forward to unique ID cards?

Posted in Inside India by Swati Prasad on Friday, June 26 2009 06:10 PM

In his book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century, Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, talks about how the future of India depends not just on simple economic growth, but also on reforms and innovations in all sectors of public life.

Today, he has the rank equivalent to that of an Indian Cabinet Minister to put many innovative ideas to practice.

A..... Read more ť

Tags: Project, biometric identification, ID Card, UID, Government

The day tech saved me

Posted in Tech Legal by Bryan Tan on Friday, June 26 2009 02:58 PM

A few months ago, I accepted an invitation from my car manufacturer to attend a driver orientation program. During that course, we were shown some fancy features of the bar. Other than ABS and air bags, which are pretty standard, the car had some kind of crash-warning technology. This feature triggers with a sudden lifting off the accelerator and causes..... Read more ť

Tags: H1N1 Flu, Manufacturer, Car, SARS, accident

Utopic world of free-for-all content

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, June 26 2009 04:05 AM

Hi, my name is Eileen Yu, and I'm a Barry Manilow fan.

All right, there, I've said it. I'm a huge, big, out-of-this-world, mega fan of the guy who dances to the Copacabana in a pink ruffles puffy-sleeved shirt. So what if he has a nose the size of a brinjal and shares the same age as my dad. He..... Read more ť

Tags: digital-rights management, content provider, copyright law, copyright protection, Internet

Tech sweetens deal for Donut Empire

Hosted in Tech Podium by Eileen Yu on Thursday, June 25 2009 03:48 PM

Steven Chiew and his brother, Sky, started their business amid the donut craze that hit Singapore some time in 2006-2007.

Their company has now grown to become Singapore's largest donut chain, with 13 outlets across the island-state and plans for regional expansion that includes Malaysia, Dubai, Indonesia and India.

Aptly named Donut Empire, the company bakes egg-free donuts that feature..... Read more ť

Tags: Business, Customer, Web Site, social networking tool, Social Networking

How to run .NET applications on Linux

Posted in Mister Tech by Lee Lup Yuen on Wednesday, June 24 2009 12:00 AM

In many enterprise environments we work with a mix of Windows and Linux servers. If you had to build a large, complex enterprise application that runs on Linux, you would typically use Java. Now there's an alternative that's maturing and gaining popularity--you can run .NET applications on Linux, using the open source Mono runtime.

Running .NET applications with Mono..... Read more ť

Tags: Mono, Linux Server, console, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008