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There is some interesting discussion on freeing your WiFi in Abe’s blog today. The blog post contains a few musings on how to do free WiFi.
I’ve been talking to several people, especially bloggers about the possibility of this “open source” project. I’d ask them if they have wifi at home and if they freely share […]

I just finished reading this Ars Technica feature on Bill Gates’ comments on the need to increase of the number of H1-B visas issues by the US government. The article primarily discusses the wages that companies like Microsoft pay to their foreign employees under the H1-B program. The assertion of anti-H1-B proponents is that the […]

I just finished listening to a number of backlogged Harvard Business Review Ideacasts. My interests was intrigued by one of them. It was HBR IdeaCast 21 on Extreme Jobs. This features an interview with Sylvia Ann Hewlett who is a co-author of the highly provocative “Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek” featured […]

Interestingly, Google may be trying out a new business model soon. Currently, Google makes bucket loads of cash by selling advertising on its applications and affiliate networks. However, here is a move to change its primarily advertising-based model into a subscription-based model. Here is the story from ArsTechnica.
The original goal of Google Apps for Your […]

The department has been facing a serious problem in the last few years. This problem is basically the ever decreasing numbers of people taking up computer science as an undergraduate degree. In the Philippines, we have attributed this to the fact that students are now taking up health science-related courses because of the boom in […]

After reading about an Inquirer.net article describing the prospects for IT projects in the country, I realized that the Philippines is steadly (and as predicted) becoming one of the preferred destinations for call center work in the world. This is likely because our workforce has the requisite language skills and is culturally compatible with our […]

VoIP Planet has this article about Neustar announcing the release of its SIP exchange. This is definitely related to my previous post on moving towards an all IP infrastructure. For those of you who do not know this company, here is a short description.
Neustar operates the authoritative directories that manage virtually all telephone area codes […]

Here is some good GigaOM coverage on the on-going Net Neutrality debate. Looks like carriers are definitely setting their sights on Google and bring out the big guns (and funds). The weirdest arguement is shown below.
From there you get the new argument: If Google wants network neutrality, why aren’t they offering search neutrality?
Telco water-carrier Mike […]

I just read an interesting little tidbit from October 2006’s Newsweek. Yes it is quite old but interesting never the less. I can’t find a web copy so here is goes.
Is screening embryos for potential diseases a good idea? More than 3 million children worldwide have been born through in-vitro fertilization, but nearly 50,000 embryos […]

There is a lot to be learned about Silicon Valley culture. It is interesting to note that a lot of the cool practices we see there are actually old hat. In the book - Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, Silicon Valley culture in the early 1970s is clearly […]