Pinoy Post

By Melvin G. Calimag

IT rantings from the Philippines

Archives for November 2008

CURE for a telcoÂ’s tumultuous history

Friday, November 28 2008 08:51 AM

Right from the start, something was already amiss with U Mobile and so I was not surprised when the company, now renamed Red Mobile, changed its name and eventually discarded its ad-supported business model that was supposed to be the first in Asia.

The sudden change of name and business model..... Read more »

Tags: SIM Card, 3G, Asia, Business Model, Advertisement, agent, financial, 3G network, telephone agent, top executive

A nation of social networks

Thursday, November 20 2008 10:25 AM

It's easy to make this claim, but I have no doubt in my mind that the Philippines is the most savvy country in the world in using Web-based social networks. Way before Facebook and MySpace even became popular in the U.S., Filipinos have already been using Friendster-–perhaps the grandmother of..... Read more »

Tags: Philippines, Wi-Fi, Friendster Inc., Asia, Social Networking, MySpace, marketing, Network, blog, Facebook

Outsourcing trouble with Obama

Thursday, November 13 2008 03:16 PM

I've written in this blog before about my great admiration for Barack Obama, whose sweeping message of change has catapulted him to the presidency of the United States. I was fortunate enough to witness his historic election during my recent trip to the..... Read more »

Tags: Barack Obama, Outsource, outsourcing, India, BPO, job, call-center, manufacturing, industry, U.S.

Observing the US automated elections

Wednesday, November 05 2008 09:38 AM

Before boarding my Philippine Airlines flight to San Francisco last Sunday night, a document inspector at the Centennial Airport in Manila, upon learning that I'm a journalist, asked if I was covering the U.S. presidential elections. I stopped momentarily before saying "no". It was only then that I realized that..... Read more »

Tags: Philippines, Barack Obama, Election, Security, George W. Bush, California, conference, president, U.S., TV

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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 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.