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Making the case for Filipino IT entrepreneurship

Filipinos are again over the moon with the masterful performance of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao in yesterday's bout against Ghana native Joshua Clottey. This guy never ceases to give his hard-up countrymen a reason to cheer every time he fights gallantly in the ring.

Like the "Pacman", there are a number of talented Filipinos in other fields who are giving or.....

3 days ago in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag Comment

What will social analytics say about your company?

I was finally able to set aside some time the other night to reassess my privacy settings in Facebook, following changes made to the social network's privacy policy in December.

One significant change is that the "Friends" list can no longer be hidden. Facebook believes this belongs to categories of information, along with others such as name, profile photo and.....

6 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (1)

When journalists become lil' Twittering birds

It was bound to happen eventually. Love it or hate it, the entire ZDNet team is now on Twitter.

We created a general account over a year ago that we use to push out news headlines, and anyone who's following us will be updated once our stories are published. So, our tweets were pretty straightforward, carrying mainly headlines and URLs.....

13 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (1)

Time fires first high-speed broadband salvo

A couple of weeks ago before Chinese New Year, local service provider Time dotCom (TdC), announced the launch of Time Fibre Broadband, what it claims to be the fastest high-speed broadband Internet service in Malaysia, touting packages that allow users access at speeds of up to 50Mbps (megabits per second).

At the launch of its service, TdC claimed its.....

20 days ago in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp Comment (1)

Don't let technology devalue life

I'd thought for a while before deciding to get a dog because I wasn't sure if I would be able to handle the grief of outliving it.

Reading news about lives lost in a devastating earthquake or flood halfway across the globe makes me tear, so I was certain losing a pet that grew up under my care would leave.....

20 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (2)

IT's not in the agenda

Despite the fact that the IT and e-services sector contributes billions of revenues to the local economy--the semiconductor sub-sector is still the largest export earner for the country--I have yet to hear anyone from the current crop of presidential candidates for this year's national elections talk about their actual plans for this vital industry.

I know three of the guys--Noynoy.....

22 days ago in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag Comment

Mindset change needed to work with Chinese developers

Home to the world's largest population, China is undeniably a potentially lucrative market that most businesses from around the globe will want a slice of. But, whether most can succeed in doing so or not, remains debatable.

From conversations with industry contacts and friends, I've been told that the Chinese market isn't easy to penetrate--several foreign businesses have tried, and.....

26 days ago in Tech Podium by Guest Bloggers Comment (1)

Reunion dinners are like project work

Merry metal Tiger year! If your family observes the lunar new year, you would have had the traditional reunion dinner over this past weekend.

As we trickled back to work after the long weekend, my friends and colleagues exchanged updates about our family reunions--always an enthralling experience for most, to say the least. Don't even get me started on mine......

27 days ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment (1)

New DR framework: all disasters are local

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the joint DHS-HUD Long-Term Disaster Recovery Working Group are inviting comments on their proposed National Disaster Recovery Framework Draft (59 pages, 834K). Hurry to avoid disappointment: the deadline is Feb. 26, 2010. Download the NDRF draft here, and submit your comments here......

30 days ago in BCP Confidential by Nathaniel Forbes Comment

Seeing the good in bad

There are people in this world who live life thinking they're invincible and that nothing they do can go wrong.

And because nothing they do has gone wrong in their young life, they think everything should be done their way. More often than not, they get arrogant and want things done their way, and only their way.

To these people, I'd.....

1 months ago in B.T.W by Eileen Yu Comment

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it is not to good for china.
Proactol

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McAfee steps up cloud assurance - Zd Net Asia.com
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Interesting take on social analystics. http://www.zdnetasia.com/blogs/w...

Singapore govt (LTA) wants to provide live parking data to third parties. http://bit.ly/90Fc0m

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Very good explanation of JMX

23 hours 19 minutes ago by Babith B on Managing applications with JMX

The reaction to a report issued Tuesday by Flurry Analytics managed to completely overlook some interesting news--the Android-based Motorola Droid outsold the original iPhone over the same period of time following their respective launches--to focus instead on the sales numbers for the Nexus One.

1 day 23 minutes ago by lonemavericks on diggs

Another ZTE story....

1 day 25 minutes ago by Moderate Your Greed on Philippines opens bid for final 3G license

We at www.fifosys.com have also seen a growth in IT outsourcing and anticipate it as a growing field.

1 day 58 minutes ago by sarah Jane on Companies' outsourcing spend to increase

I agree with you. The iSiVaL is super portable and TVs can't expand their image size. I recorded a video that might bring some ideas to...

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hermm... he deserved it.. he shud not talk abt sensitive things like tat, well, he shud think twice before saying all those things, event...

1 day 6 minutes ago by ... on Facebook user charged in Malaysia

Password manager tools are potential security threat. Criminals who hack into the computer can use the password manager to log onto any s...

1 day 7 minutes ago by ohanae on What defaults should random password generators use?

I've found the cross platform utility unetbootin to be rather handy for this kind of thing as well.

1 day 41 minutes ago by Jim on Use Live USB Creator to install Fedora 12 from a USB stick

Thanks for the article. I think the debug command has an "\" after "C:" it should say w32tm /debug /enable /file:C:\l...

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available in singapore now
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1 day 18 minutes ago by steve on Microsoft coy on apps for Zune HD

How about just using http://www.random.org/strings/? It is very configurable, satisfies all of the flexibility requirements you have ment...

1 day 23 minutes ago by Varun V Nair on What defaults should random password generators use?

Wi-Fi as the "Rodney Dangerfield of wireless", is a catchy metaphor, but it's already been used. In fact, it was the title of a...

2 days 23 minutes ago by Martin Suter on Selina Lo: Wired up for Wi-Fi in Asia

Dear Sir/Madam, I am Narasimha Rao.L. From bangalore India , i searching job in abroad , in electronics field, i have 6+ years exp....

3 days 25 minutes ago by Anonymous on Hot tech jobs in Singapore

Good article, computational aspect of acquired knowledge from the social platform is really questionable, given that there are a lot of p...

3 days 31 minutes ago by JN on What will social analytics say about your company?

The worlds most popular browser Firefox which has remained a stable trustworthy and secure product for many years now was today broken by...

4 days 41 minutes ago by Mitchell Krog on Mozilla aggressively asks older Firefox users to update
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