Filipinos
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Philippine SMS tax 'burden' and 'dangerous'
News Country's lobbyist groups and carriers strongly oppose government-proposed tax on SMS messages, saying it will increase communications cost.
Tags: Legal, Mobile platforms/communications, Taxes, Philippines, income tax, mobile company, telecommunications company, U.S. Congress, tax, Income
Mobile broadband still lagging in Philippines
News Sector has surpassed fixed broadband in country but mobile broadband adoption still lower than other markets in region, say industry watchers.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, WiMax, 3G (Third Generation), Frost & Sullivan, Globe Telecom Inc., GSMA, mobile, Wireless, Philippines, Mobile platforms/communications
WiMax still too pricey for rural Philippines
News Prices of WiMax customer premise equipment need to drop, before operators can justify going into the country's rural areas, according to Filipino operator.
Tags: WiMax, Network infrastructure, Operator, Philippines, IP, Broadband, CTO, network, VoIP, average revenue per user
A MegaPacific mess in the making?
Blogs The way things are going at the pre-qualification bidding of IT suppliers for the 2010 elections, I now have this uneasy...
Cagayan, my valley home is dear to me
Blogs The title above is the first line of the official anthem of Cagayan, my home province here in the Philippines. I've been...
Inspiration from a democracy icon
Blogs I think it was Anthony Spaeth, correspondent of Time magazine during the 1986 Philippine revolution, who said Filipinos ...
Tech and a nation's altered psyche
Blogs The sun's out here in Metro Manila, but the northern part of the Philippines is currently pounded by "stationary" typhoo...
Time to map out
Blogs Before anything else, let me devote a few words to the fallen journalists and other victims of the brutal massacre that ...
Tech tales and images of a great flood
Blogs As I write this blog post, a large swathe of Metro Manila is still submerged in flood waters. In other areas of the metr...
Weirdest IT story I've written
Blogs In my almost a decade of covering the IT beat here in the Philippines, I've written different sorts of stories--some of ...
A nation of social networks
Blogs It's easy to make this claim, but I have no doubt in my mind that the Philippines is the most savvy country in the world...
Superhighway to heaven
Blogs It's that time of the year again when Filipinos troop to cemeteries to remember their departed loved ones. It's fascinat...
Net community mourns former Philippine leader
News Filipinos turn to social networks and blogs, including Facebook "virtual wake", to pay last respects to former president Corazon Aquino who died Aug. 1.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Twitter, Philippines, Video, social networking, Facebook, network, leader, Joel D. Pinaroc
Linux losing netbook ground
News The open source operating system is losing netbook market share, but could find its niche in smaller, Internet-enabled appliances, says Ovum.
Tags: Development/design, Linux, operating system, telephony, Apple iPod, ISV, Apple iPod Touch, Microsoft Windows, Internet, analyst
A series of unfortunate layoffs
Blogs Despite the depressing economic outlook around the world, most Filipinos that I've talked to still view the Philippines ...
