A Google model for mobile advertising?

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 »

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

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Regulating the unregulated telecoms market

It was on a plane trip back home from Singapore that I was able to grab a copy of a magazine (I can’t 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 »

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

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A click farm in the Philippines?

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 »

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

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Inspiration from a democracy icon

I think it was Anthony Spaeth, correspondent of Time magazine during the 1986 Philippine revolution, who said Filipinos love freedom so much that they preferred it over a fuller rice bowl.

Such is the virtue, as well as the misfortune, of the Philippines that has struggled economically, despite ending years of..... Read more »

Tags: Philippines, Time Magazine, correspondent, Cory, Yahoo! Inc., information technology, president, U.S., Web, America

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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.