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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 [...]
There’s a word war going on in blogosphere. And the battle has just begun…
David Bullard, a columnist for Sunday Times, has written a controversial piece that compared some bloggers to the “air guitars of journalism.”
Air guitar is about pretending that you can play those fast riffs without the instrument. Air guitar became [...]
Old media (the likes of Time Warner) has hit back on new media (read Google) for its continued violation of its copyright. The CNET article writes:
“The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation,” Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons said, referring to the Civil War [...]
(UPDATE) Filipino cybercrime forensic investigator Alex Ramos who has been named one of six finalists in the prestigious cybersecurity award wins.
Excerpt:
A Filipino cybercrime investigator has been named one of the finalists in an annual award given to cybercrime forensic investigators, INQUIRER.net has learned.
Alex Ramos is vying for the 2007 Timothy Fidel Memorial Award, according to [...]
It was too good to last. Yes, Pandora, the Internet streaming service that allowed people to rediscover music is gone. I was introduced to Pandora by my officemate. In not so many words, she just said, “Go to Pandora.com. You’ll love it.”
I replied, “Pandora what?”
“Just go!” she snapped back.
So I opened my browser, and for the [...]
This piece of news was a surprise. I was just reading through the blogs at INQUIRER.net when I read this entry 572 issues from Current. It read:
Today we printed the last issue of Inquirer Compact, the company’s first venture in compact-format journalism. We had a great ride, but, well, all good things must come to [...]
