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Hear ye! The Information Technology Journalists Association of the Philippines has named its new officers. They are: Melvin Calimag of Manila Bulletin, president; Alex Villafania of INQ7.net (VP-Internal); Lawrence Casiraya of Computerworld Philippines (VP-External), Bing Ramos of Psicom Publishing (Secretary); Abigail Ho of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Finance Committee Head); Jing Garcia of Manila Times (Membership [...]

Alex Villafania reports on INQ7.net that government will save about 1.2 billion pesos once it implements the controversial unified ID system. Details can be read here. Meanwhile, police continue their clamp down on software pirates in the country, raiding two computer shops in popular shops in Iloilo City.
Joey Alarilla also blogs about the new iTunes [...]

Found this one on YouTube. Joe Satriani gives 10 tips on guitar playing. It’s simple and yet significant for starting and intermediate guitar players.

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Joe Satriani’s Guitar Tips

I keep getting booted out of Yahoo! Messenger lately. Today, I lost all my YM buddies, mysteriously. What is Yahoo! doing now? This is getting so irritating. The regular updates (not to mention the plug-ins) have probably zapped all my buddies out of my list. Now I have to add each buddy manually. Darn!
I just [...]

Philippine companies are now looking for “open source” alternatives that they can use. As this report states, local firms are aware of the benefits of going open source, and they’re now looking for software firms who can deliver.
Read the full report at INQ7.net.

This story was published late Thursday, which combines information that I got with Inquirer’s and a wire report. This news came as a shock to many, including me, who knew the victim. The full report can be read at INQ7.net.
Excerpts:
Delia Gutierrez, 51, the president and chief executive of Media G8way Corp., which publishes the country’s [...]

Call or contact centers are still producing most of the high-tech jobs in the Philippines, a fact that has remained since the boom of the outsourcing industry in the country.
This year, the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) chairman said this segment is expected to produce close to 180,000 jobs by end of the [...]

Two organizations in India and the Philippines have signed an agreement to help each other get a bigger share of the global outsourcing pie.
The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) signed an agreement Monday to cooperate in seven “strategic” areas, said Rainero Borja, BPAP [...]

(This is an article I wrote for my advance writing class).
JEROME Espinosa, 20, is a tough kid who has lived in the slums in barangay Payatas B, Group 13, simply known as Payatas Trece or 13, in Quezon City.
The president of a youth group called “Siga,” (a Filipino term for “tough guy”), Espinosa is now [...]