Where does one draw the line between government regulation and plain meddling? Yuga has this post about some of the NTC’s plans to force websites and blog to register with them. I have been trying to dig for the original Manila Times article but could not find it. So if somebody has a copy please […]
Looks like the battle for the future development platform of choice is really spilling into the open source realm. First, we see SUN releasing Java as open source after a long decision making process. Then SUN makes another move by released the entire J2ME platform as GPL and also releasing an an open source J2EE […]
Here is another interesting move by Philippines’ second largest mobile network operators, Globe. Together with with Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), which is responsible for tax collection in the country, they have introduced a new service called PAYBIR.
PAYBIR is a project initiated by BIR to support its Tax Collection Drive. Through the PAYBIR […]
In the past few weeks, we have seen a lot of activities in the WiMAX space. A lot of countries are signifying their intent on launching WiMAX networks [1][2][3][4][5][6]. A lot of these are even on track to launching WiMAX this year. Even the big manufacturers like Intel and Nokia are releasing WiMAX gear soon. […]
While doing a bit of reading on WiMesh networks, I bumped into a lot of literature about another form of wireless ad-hoc network called a Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Network. People have been studying sensor management for quite sometime now. There is even an ACM publication dedicated to wireless sensor studies.
These types of networks will […]
The Jesuit Modo de Proceder (Way of Proceeding) is summarized by Chris Lowney in his book Heroic Leadership into four main components.
Self-awareness. It says in order to successful in any endeavor one must know oneself first. It is important that one know ones goals, principles, capabilities and weakness. A venerable SWOT session on the self […]
This time is am not going to discuss the merits of this patent. However, I am going to talk about how utterly cool this project is. New Scientist has this article about a new Xerox patent covering technique to recover demographic information like your age, sex and perhaps even your income by analyzing the pattern […]
Looks like the mobile world is a washed with news about major mobile Linux initiatives.
First, we see Nokia joining the Linux Foundation together with Marvel Semiconductors and VirtualLogix. Nokia already uses Linux in its Nokia Internet Tablet line. Aside from this Nokia is set to release a Linux/Open Source developer friendly Symbian Series 60 […]
I was just doing a bit of reading about call centers lately. I have been working in this sunshine industry for about five (5) years already. I do not actually do the taking or making of call but I do build and support call center infrastructure. The call center industry in the Philippines is a […]
A Slashdot reader has this entry about Paul Graham commenting on Microsoft being dead. Not the throw in the towel dead but that has lost is big bad “borg” image. Maybe Slashdot should change its category logo for Microsoft? Wacha say Mr. Taco?
He doesn’t mean dead as in six feet under, but rather that the […]
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