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I read this story today and wondered why people still go to malls despite today’s inflation rates and dubious eVAT charges? Anecdotal evidence points to several reasons. One of them is that people go there to cool. Due to lack of public parks to mill around, they would rather go to malls and stay there [...]
Picked this up from Vox Populi:
Apart from the congested traffic during the daily rush hours, a normal sight along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City would be the colorful tricycles that quickly traverse down the streets against monstrous trucks, missing nearby vehicles by mere inches.
But the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has banned tricycles from the [...]
An interesting article done by Alex Villafania for Inside Science. Apparently, some people do care about where electronic waste go. In Europe and some states in the US, there are now laws against dumping e-waste in landfills, according to Alex’ report.
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines — Electronic device purchases in the Philippines are increasing despite the dire economic [...]
Watch INQUIRER.net community evangelist Alex Villafania’s video interview with Senator Manuel Roxas III who has been known as “Mr. Palengke,” talk about technology and the Internet.
Here’s the story I wrote about the local call center industry, and the video I took.
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines — The Call Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP) is reorganizing itself to respond to pressures coming from the local inflation, currency exchange fluctuation, and the continuing pressure to become profitable amid increasing competition, an executive said Wednesday.
This [...]
Bloggers and students were given a chance by Comelec to test the automated election systems last Saturday.
Excerpt from INQUIRER.net.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) invited bloggers and students last week to try out the automated systems that will be used in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) elections in August.
Initiated by members of Bloggers’ Kapihan [...]
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 [...]
Some doctors and hospitals have defrauded the government’s Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) by P4 billion in unnecessary or overpriced medical procedures since 1995, an official has disclosed to the Senate.
This is perhaps the most depressing story I’ve read today. I personally know how expensive medicines and health procedures are. I myself had been complaining [...]
First off, thanks Dr. Stephen Quinn for citing our experience here in the Philippines.
My prof in convergent journalism, Dr Quinn, wrote a story for the Sydney Morning Herald, titled the On the Beat with Citizen Reporters, where he details how technology has changed the way news is delivered, at least for some organizations.In today’s world [...]
Journalists covering the 2007 mid-term elections are now increasingly using wireless technology to send information back to their organizations.
I remember the first time I was using a Palm-based device that connects to a GPRS phone via Bluetooth, that felt like the future. Now, here we are using it to the fullest.
Today, I wrote a story [...]
