Pinoy Post

By Melvin G. Calimag

IT rantings from the Philippines

In Philippines, free ads site tops them all

Monday, November 09 2009 01:08 PM

Last September, just after typhoon Ketsana (locally known as "Ondoy") razed the Philippines, veteran IT chronicler Jim Ayson wrote in his blog that Facebook has become the most popular site in the Philippines.

Although Ayson commented in his blog that the surge of Read more ť

Tags: Site, Philippines, Blogger, Sulit.com.ph, Web Site, Advertisement, Social Networking, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp., blog

Changing of the IT guards

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..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, general manager, Oracle Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., information technology, managing director, director, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., exec

The PCs that the flood took away

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..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Globe Telecom Inc., Motorola Inc., Car, Internet Cafe, Litonjua, Yahoo! Inc., financial, computer, Microsoft Corp.

Tech and a nation's altered psyche

Friday, October 09 2009 05:19 PM

The sun's out here in Metro Manila, but the northern part of the Philippines is currently pounded by "stationary" typhoon Pepeng (also internationally known as Parma), bringing unprecedented flooding similar to what happened in the city about two weeks back.

As everyday life in Metro Manila springs back to normal, it's..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Calamity, Radar, San Mateo, mobile communication, Car, Internet, information technology, Pacific, computer

Tech tales and images of a great flood

Monday, September 28 2009 06:33 PM

As I write this blog post, a large swathe of Metro Manila is still submerged in flood waters. In other areas of the metropolis, power lines and Internet connections are still down.

I have lived the early part of my life in the province where typhoons are extraordinarily strong and..... Read more ť

Tags: Flood, Philippines, Millimeter, INTERNET CONNECTION, Movie, Hurricane Katrina, powerline, Car, Ondoy, YouTube Inc.

Broadband over power lines? Don't count on it, yet

Monday, September 21 2009 03:52 PM

Dominant carrier PLDT, as well as its high-profile chief executive Manny V. Pangilinan, have been in the news lately because of an allegation from a senator that former Pres. Joseph Estrada forced local tycoon Alfonso Yuchengco to sell his shares, so Pangilinan's group can take over the telco giant in..... Read more ť

Tags: Broadband Over Power Line, San Miguel Corp., Radar, American Power Conversion Corp., Pangilinan, broadband, power company, PLDT, financial, CEO

Sad saga of GSIS and IBM

Sunday, September 06 2009 11:26 AM

The pitiful battle between pension firm GSIS and tech giant IBM is nothing short of tragic. But, it's something that could have been easily averted if only the two camps exerted more patience and effort in resolving the issue.

However, I will say early on who I think is on..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, SAP AG, IBM DB2, business software company, OEM, GSIS, Questronix, Advertisement, Software, information technology

A Google model for mobile advertising?

Thursday, August 27 2009 09:33 PM

The week is not over yet but it seems I've already exceeded my quota of interviews with IT executives. Most of them are mobile officials who came over to the country to attend the recently concluded IMMAP (Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines) conference.

I picked up a number..... Read more ť

Tags: Globe Telecom Inc., mobile advertising, Cruz, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., managing director, Madrid, mobile, cell phone, exec

Regulating the unregulated telecoms market

Monday, August 17 2009 04:06 PM

It was on a plane trip back home from Singapore that I was able to grab a copy of a magazine (I cant remember if it was Newsweek or The Economist) which featured a guy named Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize laureate for economics in 2001.

In the magazine article, Stiglitz,..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Deregulation, Globe Telecom Inc., Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., Newsweek, mobile phone company, telecommunications, president, mobile, cell phone

A click farm in the Philippines?

Monday, August 10 2009 11:17 PM

Like most people I know, I had no idea what a click farm was. So when someone from the BBC sent an e-mail to me a few days ago inquiring about the existence of a click farm in the Philippines, the first thing I did was to look up for..... Read more ť

Tags: Farm, Philippines, Web Site, Google AdSense, Third World, third world worker, Africa, Gang Master, Advertisement, British Broadcasting Corp.

See more posts >>

Subscribe to BlogCentral

Click this link to view this blog as XML.
Add this feed to your online news reader

Latest in Blog Central

About the blogger

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 vice president for internals at the IT Journalists Association of the Philippines (CyberPress), and also serves as a charter member with the Philippine Science Journalists Association.