Cyberbaguioboy

Aileen Apolo starts her blog with a rant about the scarcity of news about the information technology industry in the Philippines for, hmm, the past months since elections started, or even way before that period.
The shortest reply to her question is this: elections. Most of the media’s attention is focused on this regular exercise of [...]

A sad news.
CICT chief resigns
June 01, 2007
Updated 12:40:16 (Mla time)
Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Ramon Sales, chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), has filed an indefinite leave of absence en route to his resignation, an official confirmed with INQUIRER.net Friday.
“He has filed an indefinite leave of absence yesterday but since [...]

Is the boob tube the noob tube? Joey Alarilla asks in his @Play blog. To add to this discussion, I offer you my own, well, thoughts.
1. I hate advertisements slammed down my throat. Remember the boxing fight between, oh you know who. I recall waiting for hours to find out who won the fight when [...]

Are you mobile? Do you telecommute? If you’re answer is yes to both questions then you’re officially “wired” or should I say “plugged.” Wireless technology is all around you. It is impossible to miss a text message these days, unless you’re battery is dead. And you sometimes throw a tantrum when you find out a [...]

Yay! Mobile TV is almost here. Wait. What’s on? Well, that’s the biggest question that I want to ask service and network providers. Yes, mobile television is here but what content will it have. Will mobile TV services resort to shovelware, meaning pushing the same content we now see on our boob tube to the [...]

I have succumbed to tech addiction. I can’t leave home without my iPOD, mobile phones, and my Blackberry (I use this mainly for work). Last Friday, I realized I could not stop looking at my incoming messages on my Blackberry. It was a compulsion of sort. So when I saw this video clip by Nalts [...]

A social networking service for fund managers, traders, and analysts. This is what Reuters is aiming to create. (You have to register to read the rest of the story from Guardian Unlimited).
Excerpt:
“You will see us, later in the year, launch a version of MySpace for the financial services community,” said the chief executive, Tom Glocer. [...]

INQUIRER.net reporter Lawrence Casiraya shot this interesting video (again using a camera phone) clip of Filipino venture capitalist/entrepreneur Winston Damarillo giving advice to IT startups.

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INQUIRER.net Video: Exist chairman gives advice to startups

Who is Winston Damarillo? Read Lawrence’s breaking story.

Loren Legarda says podcasting “levels the playing field” for candidates. The Internet and innovations related to it (e.g. blogs, podcasting) is proving to be a cheaper way to campaign. SMS campaigns have also been used by some Senatorial candidates (I’ve received text spam from PRO Pinoy apparently from admin senatorial candidate Propero Pichay). But these [...]

Ramon Sales, chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology, admits rumors have circulated about the agency’s transfer. Read the story here.
My sources in government say this was bound to happen. Telof or the Telecommunications Office has been under the “direct supervision” Commission on Information and Communications Technology. Now, it’s back with the Department [...]