Pinoy Post

By Melvin G. Calimag

IT rantings from the Philippines

Archives for January 2009

A series of unfortunate layoffs

Monday, January 26 2009 02:58 PM

Despite the depressing economic outlook around the world, most Filipinos that I've talked to still view the Philippines as a safe harbor from the "perfect storm of crises" currently engulfing the financial sector. A common comment here is that the Philippines didn't crash or isn't suffering as much as the..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Country Manager, layoff, financial, BPO, semiconductor, electronics, Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp., industry

Bloggers in the news

Tuesday, January 20 2009 06:14 PM

Blogging is supposed to be a medium which ordinary folks can use to publish anything they want, be it a personal rambling or something that concerns the world. But lately, particularly here in the Philippines, blogging has somewhat been mistaken as some sort of journalism with bloggers bizarrely landing in..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Blogger, Blogosphere, Blogging, blog, TV, undersecretary, columnist

A lawmaker's bad call on another's misfortune

Monday, January 12 2009 01:45 PM

It's just the beginning of the new year, but the tech world is already buzzing with interesting stories, albeit negative ones.

The gloomy forecast for 2009, it seems, is off to an ominous start, although I'd like to believe that the Philippines is somehow not that vulnerable to this financial..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Satyam, outsourcing, India, corporate governance, information technology, BPO, BPO provider, Indian company, Information and Communication Technology

The Internet as the medium

Friday, January 02 2009 02:28 PM

It has been proclaimed many times that the Internet is a great leveler that has the power to eliminate barriers and inequities in this world. While this ideal notion has yet to be fully realized, we've seen a few instances where it has ably demonstrated its enormous potential.

I won't go..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, Talent, YouTube Inc., Internet, outsourcing, Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, e-Service, video, barrier

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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.