Pinoy Post

By Melvin G. Calimag

IT rantings from the Philippines

A new telco in town? Maybe not

Tuesday, May 13 2008 09:24 AM

A few days ago, an e-mail with a subject line "Invitation to the exclusive launch of a new telco" greeted me as I opened my inbox. Not knowing the person who sent it, I mistook it first as a spam mail.

I was informed about this launch by a PR..... Read more »

The end of cheap prices

Monday, May 05 2008 02:51 PM

The current rice crisis gripping Asia and the United States has led experts to declare that the era of cheap food is over. That seems to apply as well in the low-cost IT labor sector, particularly in the electronics manufacturing, in the Philippines.

Chipmaker Intel’s recent decision to pull out of..... Read more »

Finding the gold in blogs

Tuesday, April 29 2008 12:43 AM

If you place the word "blog" in front of a mirror, it may read something like "gold". It may sound cheesy, but that seems to be the status of blogs right now--both literally and figuratively.

I got that impression last Saturday, Apr. 26, when I attended the "iBlog4: the 4th Philippine..... Read more »

Putting the House in order

Monday, April 21 2008 03:23 PM

On Apr. 10, I attended an e-commerce conference organized by the government and an industry group composed of local e-business companies. It was a well-attended event and, as usual, it featured government officials who spoke about their current efforts in the field of e-commerce.

The chair of the Commission of Information..... Read more »

Disrupting the status quo

Monday, April 14 2008 05:22 PM

It's amazing how Taiwan has reinvented itself in the high-technology sector. I still remember the days when most of the world looked down on products that were "Made in Taiwan". That mindset, ironically, is now directed towards China where Taiwan has outsourced most of its manufacturing requirements.

The island has adopted..... Read more »

An unlikely source of electric power

Monday, April 07 2008 04:16 PM

Somewhere in the news section of this Web site, you'll find a story about Intel's impending plan to shut down its Philippine plant after 34 years of operations. This is sad news for the country, but the company..... Read more »

Blogging wields power again--sort of

Monday, March 31 2008 05:52 PM

Some of you may remember the story I wrote last year in this blog about a lifestyle columnist who was forced to resign from her job, after bloggers expressed outrage over comments she made about overseas Filipino workers. That episode demonstrated how..... Read more »

Caught in the act by tech

Monday, March 24 2008 02:23 PM

Last Tuesday, a day before the whole Philippines went on a national hiatus to observe Lent in this pre-dominantly Catholic country, I accompanied two IT journalist friends to the Makati City Hall to witness the "inquest" proceedings of five suspects who were caught using somebody else's credit card.

What's the big..... Read more »

The myth of electronic privacy

Sunday, March 16 2008 01:45 PM

I had been reading with amusement the tumultuous sex scandal that recently brought down New York Governor Eliot Spitzer from his post. What's interesting is that Spitzer earned his reputation as a hard-charging former prosecutor who had intricate knowledge of how organized crimes including prostitution rings, work because he battled..... Read more »

Catching the technology train

Monday, March 10 2008 08:50 PM

Like most inhabitants of the Philippines, I often don't follow or take seriously the designated time of a certain event. We have this bad habit, inappropriately called "Filipino time", which oddly puts premium on tardiness. Curiously, one risks being labeled an "eager beaver" if he or she comes in too..... Read more »

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Melvin G. Calimag

Melvin G. Calimag currently writes for the infotech section of a popular English broadsheet in the Philippines. Prior to this, Melvin served as an assistant editor at Metropolitan Computer Times (MCT), the first IT publication in the Philippines. He is currently the president of the IT Journalists Association of the Philippines (CyberPress), and also serves as a board member with the Philippine Science Journalists Association.