Microsoft local chief, top execs grab 'separation' package

When Rafael "Pepeng" Rollan, managing director of Microsoft Philippines, told the local IT press on May 17 that the company was offering a voluntary separation package (VSP) to its local employees as part of Microsoft's global job..... Read more »

Tags: Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia, Butt Wai Choon, sales, managing director, job, manufacturing, Microsoft Corp., Epson

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Catching up with voyeurism and cybercrime

The over-the-top coverage by the mainstream media this week on the sex video scandal of a celebrity doctor here has been particularly amusing. Though I subscribe to the idea that it shouldn't have been accorded front-page treatment, I now think that it is perhaps a blessing in disguise that it..... Read more »

Tags: Cybercrime, Internet, legislator, U.S. Congress, mainstream media, Women, agent, hacking, U.S. Senate, commission

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WiMax: Waiting to explode in Philippines?

Last weekend, I had the chance to take part in an offsite press event organized by Smart Communications, the topdog in the mobile telecom space here in the Philippines. I was surprised to hear that they, too, have plans to roll out WiMax, as its rival Read more »

Tags: Philippines, Globe Telecom Inc., COO, mobile telecom, Affiliated Computer Services Inc., HSPA, call-center, mobile, Wireless, WiMAX

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A MegaPacific mess in the making?

The way things are going at the pre-qualification bidding of IT suppliers for the 2010 elections, I now have this uneasy feeling that the country will again end up with another botched attempt at automating the polls and in its wake lays another MegaPacific mess.

Before going further, let me categorically..... Read more »

Tags: Agency, information technology, commission, industry, TV, Filipinos

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The curious case of Sun Microsystems Philippines

In more ways than one, Sun Microsystems Philippines (SunPhil) is an "anomaly" among the large IT companies in the country. Let me try to explain this in light of the recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.

Firstly, SunPhil was formed under a very different business model. Unlike in..... Read more »

Tags: Philippines, Car, Oracle Corp., information technology, managing director, Sun Microsystems Inc.

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• Sad saga of GSIS and IBM
• A click farm in the Philippines?
• Tech tales and images of a great flood
• A Google model for mobile advertising?
• Catching up with voyeurism and cybercrime

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2008

2007

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• Don't CC me, I'll CC you
• M'sian broadband wars heat up
• Where have all the bosses gone?
• NUS Enterprise: An 'incubator without walls'

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.