Archive for March, 2006

Sky-click: Skype-based Call Center

Monday, March 27th, 2006

In this techcrunch article about creating a fully outsourced Skype-powered Call Center called Sky-click, there is some interesting comments on this new addition to the Skype-conomy. This service, built with the Skype API, allows subscribers to setup a fully web-based outsourced call center. The techcrunch describes the services as:

This call-center has all the important features […]

Tidbits from the Father of the WWW: Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

BCS managing editor Brian Runciman interviews Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the eve of one of the biggest conferences about the Web: www2006. Some interesting tidbits:

“Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order.” I wonder why this was mentioned. Maybe, it would have been more logical. Left most items would be the […]

Top (10) System Janitor Tools

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

In the spirit of an article I read in Linux.com about My sysadmin toolbox (which looks more like a desktop enhancement list), I would like to start my own list of essential systems administration tools. These tools are arranged in no particular order. I omitted things like kernel, less, fileutils, cron, at, coreutils, psutils, modutils, […]

Plagiarism Check using Google’s Search API

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

This project is inspired by an incident were somebody tired to pass off material from a public document found in the Internet as his own. Fortunately, a Google search was done on a random paragraph to yield surprising results. Try it out!

Send […]

6th Philippine Computing Science Congress

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

The 6th Philippine Computing Science Congress will be hosted by the Ateneo de Manila University. This year’s theme is “Towards International Collaboration in Computing Research and Development”. The call for participation is as follows:
The Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP) invites you to participate in the 6th Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2006). The […]

Free Linux Training for Public High School Teachers

Friday, March 24th, 2006

In a posting in the Philippine Linux User’s Group mailing list, Bluepoint is offering free Linux training as part of its Tulay program. The posting by Dominique Cimafranca is summarize below:
Bluepoint Foundation, a non-stock, non-profit education and development center focused on free and open source software, will offer free training on Linux and other open […]

Big Brother Google Part II

Friday, March 24th, 2006

After writing about Google as Big Brother, I just remembered another Google project that points in this ominous direction. The project is Google Compute.
Google Compute is a new feature of the Google Toolbar. The goal of Google Compute is to make a contribution to science by enabling Google Toolbar users to easily donate their idle […]

Mobiles Displacing or Converging Digicams and iPods?

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

There is some interesting discussion in Mobhappy about Mobiles Killing-off Music Players and Cameras. Nokia’s head of multimedia makes an aggressive stand stating this fact. However, Russell responds with:
Nokia made a similarly apprently implausible claim back in 2000 about cameras. However, James at Moco News points out that the stand alone camera market didn’t in […]

Oh where art thou PayPal Mobile Philippines

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

People using Philippine-issued credit cards seeking to make online payments using a wonder service called Paypal have been sorely disappointed for quite sometime. Check here and here. To make the pain even worst, mobilecrunch annouces that Paypal has just released Paypal Mobile. Paypal simply describes this service as:
… the ability to send money, […]

32 GB Flash Drive

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Now this is one big solid state storage device! In tgdaily.com, it reports that “Samsung launches 32GB Flash disk for mobile computers“.
Samsung is first to announce a Flash storage device that aims to completely replace the traditional hard drive in some mass market mobile computers. The 32 GB solid state disk (SSD) drive comes […]