Cyberbaguioboy

The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) will be the first Philippine government agency to try voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). VoIP routes voice calls to the Internet Protocol-based networks instead of the traditional phone networks. IP-based networks are a lot efficient and can carry more information. So with an efficient voice network, costs [...]

My story on this Japanese community and game developer Gaiax Co. Ltd. is out on Hackenslash.
I previously discussed this here. This is an interesting development because Filipinos love anime and Manga. This Japanese firm hopes to ride on the popularity of Jap pop culture among the younger generation (sadly, I’m no longer part of that…) [...]

This was the first sentence in Joey Alarilla’s @Play column today in INQ7.net Infotech.
I think this is the first time I’ve read a local tech columnist write about the impending demise of newspapers (as we know it) if they fail to reinvent themselves now.
Alarilla says:
NEWSPAPERS are f***ed.
Kurt Andersen, co-founder of the legendary Spy magazine, whose [...]

What’s RFID? It is radio frequency identification. Instead of bar codes, RFID tags are now used increasingly because you don’t need to scan each item with a reader. It only needs to come within the proximity of a radio signal for it to be identified. RFID technology is a wireless technology that also stores information, [...]

It is that time where companies are merging, downsizing (right-sizing as they call it) to cope with an industry approaching maturity. Intel has also announced global layoffs. Other companies have followed. An excerpt of my story:
There will be no changes at 3Com’s operations in the Philippines as its president recently resigned, an executive told INQ7.net.
Reacting [...]

I’m not sure if it is my blog or my local host. But I’ve been getting more error messages whenever I access this blog (I hope I don’t loose this post). Hmmmm…I wonder what’s wrong.

The Philippine Honeynet Project is joining a worldwide Internet security project. With technical and financial help from Ateneo de Naga University, the group will join a French team that is now leading this initiative. More details from INQ7.net Infotech, but excerpt below.
The project aims to deploy “honeypots” around the world to share security research and [...]

I wrote this story for INQ7.net after a brief mention of this recent incident in this blog. It involves an individual whose privacy was put at risk.
Filipina blogger “transience” said she took down her blog because someone or some people pretended to be her, and started spreading false and damaging emails. This prompted the taking [...]

Okay, if you’re a PC gamer, you’re familiar with this stuff. Mod or modding (verb) is a short term for modification. It describes altered versions of a published video game.
New York Times wrote that Microsoft is now allowing players of Xbox to create mod that will run on their consoles. The article says:
Today the company [...]