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Just recently, the IT world saw two blockbuster deals involving startups: the US$200 million purchase of app builder OMGPOP by casual games company, Zynga; and the US$1 billion acquisition of mobile photo-sharing site Instagram by networking giant Facebook.
Although it is important to note that these transactions occurred in the U.S. involving American firms, it is also not farfetched that.....
Despite the millions of public funds that have been poured into the modernization of local government units (LGUs) in the Philippines, it's a shame that not much has changed in the way municipalities conduct their transactions with the public.
Last January, I tried to renew the business permit of Newsbytes.ph, the IT news Web site which I co-founded, at the City.....
Right now as you read this blog entry, there's an ongoing impeachment trial in the Philippine Senate against Renato Corona, the country's top judge. This political exercise, which is being streamed live by various Web sites, is again being lapped up by the public.
Meanwhile, with the country's legislators busy strutting their stuff before the national audience in preparation for next.....
Since that fateful day in July when President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III thoughtlessly dissolved the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and created a replacement agency called Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO), I have yet to hear a single significant project or policy pronouncement from the country's supposed main ICT body.
Unlike the CICT which had a Cabinet-level classification.....
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is in the news once again with its bold--and perhaps naive--proposal for a government broadband network or GBN, a new version of the ill-fated national broadband network (NBN) project that rocked the previous Arroyo administration.
According to DOST secretary Mario Montejo, the new broadband initiative, with an estimated cost of 800 million peso (US$18.7.....
The local ICT industry was stunned at the end of last month when Pres. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III issued Executive Order (EO) 47, which downgraded the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) into a mere attached unit of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
The EO, which was actually signed on Jun. 23 by Aquino, was released on the.....
First, allow me to apologize to the readers of this blog as I have not been able to post entries in the past few months. I actually have a number of "legal" excuses, but I wouldn't make the trouble of narrating them here.
Last January, I had intended to write about the data cap issue being floated then by local.....
The year 2010 was particularly fruitful for the Philippine BPO (business process outsourcing) industry with some noteworthy feats achieved by the sector, foremost of which is the top ranking it got in the IBM Global Location Trends Report that put the Philippines ahead of India in the voice BPO category.
The report came out in October but it was only in.....
The double-edged nature of ICT, particularly social media, came into full view in the last few weeks here as a triple whammy of sorts led the Philippine government to be bombarded with criticisms from the public.
It's been more than a month now since the first blunder surfaced on the national scene involving the plagiarism charge hurled against Supreme Court.....
I hope the readers of this blog would indulge me as I try to narrate my experience in a recent trip to the U.S. to attend a technology conference that I had always wanted to cover as an IT reporter.
It's exactly a month now since I left Manila to cover Oracle Open World (OOW) 2010 in San Francisco. Although the.....
Melvin G. Calimag currently writes for the infotech section of a popular English broadsheet in the Philippines. 
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