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Manila's metro rail adopts SMS ticketing
News Mobile ticketing system aims to cut long queues at Manila's main public transportation line which serves 200 million passengers a year.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Mobile, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Mobile commerce
Filipinos turn to Web for typhoon help
News Philippine online community rides on blogs and social networking sites in bid to galvanize relief efforts and assistance for victims of Typhoon Kestana.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Philippines, Powerline, social networking, Facebook, food, Internet, blog, Joel D. Pinaroc
Philippine government proposes new IPR laws
News Facing mounting piracy, country unveils set of proposed rules to facilitate faster and more efficient resolution of court cases involving intellectual property rights.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, Chief Justice, Conference, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, IP, Intellectual Property Right, Government
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...
India tops global outsourcing nations list
News Country trumps outsourcing nations ranking with six cities making the top 8 outsourcing destinations, according to global study.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Outsourcing, India, Philippines, BPO, CIO, Chennai, outsource, foreign direct investment
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...
The PCs that the flood took away
Blogs As a super typhoon prepares to lash the Philippines this week--the third time in a month--I ask for the indulgence of th...
A click farm in the Philippines?
Blogs 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 da...
Tech giants line up for e-health dollars
News Allscripts, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft and Nuance Communications are banding together in an effort to make doctors aware of the benefits of electronic health records.
Tags: Digital media, Tool, E-health, Cerner Corp., Nuance, Digital media, U.S. President Barack Obama, electronic health record, speech recognition, alliance
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 ...
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
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...
Sara Lee, IBM sign outsourcing deal
News Stretching seven years, contract will see IBM's Philippine delivery center as one of the locations tasked to support finance and accounting services for Sara Lee.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Sara Lee Corp., IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Business Process, Back-office, SCM, Procurement, supply chain
Popularizing S&T culture to the masses
Blogs What does it take for a country to become economically progressive? For sure, it involves a lot factors such as good...
Print publication meltdown reaches the Philippines
Blogs By now, you must have heard about the news that several big and centuries-old newspapers in the U.S. are in danger of cl...
