Need for Filipino IT firms to go global

Unlike India which has launched quite a number of successful global IT firms, mostly in the BPO (business process outsourcing) sector, the Philippines seems to be content in merely hosting multinational companies in the country.

A cursory glance at the composition of the largest tech firms in the country would..... Read more »

Tags: Open Source, Philippines, storage, outsourcing, India, information technology, BPO, marketing, knowledge, Sun Microsystems Inc.

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Summertime in the age of Facebook

For Filipinos, the arrival of summer means going on a vacation, usually to the beach. As a kid, I always looked forward to the months of April and May, when we take a break from school and indulge in the biggest thrill of them all--playing nonstop.

When I entered college,..... Read more »

Tags: T3, Internet, camera, digital camera, phone, Twitter, photograph, PC World, cell phone, Facebook

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Print publication meltdown reaches the Philippines

By now, you must have heard about the news that several big and centuries-old newspapers in the U.S. are in danger of closing down. Of course, there were some that have already ceased operating or have gone digital or online.

The big leaguers, so to speak, that I'm referring to are..... Read more »

Tags: Philippines, Magazine, T3, Web Site, Intel Corp., U.S., Boston Globe, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Web

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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.