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How much of IT are you willing to give up?

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, November 21 2008 03:07 AM

A CNN report this week discussed the likelihood that the country's first tech-savvy president will have to give up the one thing that differentiated him from his predecessors--his BlackBerry.

U.S. president-elect Barack Obama is the country's first government head whose hand seems glued to the mobile device. Various video clips show Obama constantly peering at his BlackBerry, so much..... Read more »

A nation of social networks

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Thursday, November 20 2008 10:25 AM

It's easy to make this claim, but I have no doubt in my mind that the Philippines is the most savvy country in the world in using Web-based social networks. Way before Facebook and MySpace even became popular in the U.S., Filipinos have already been using Friendster-–perhaps the grandmother of all social networks.

It's fairly common to encounter a bunch of..... Read more »

Stream your own live video to your mobile phone

Posted in The M Files by Lee Lup Yuen on Thursday, November 20 2008 12:23 AM

HAVA is a networked appliance that can encode a video source in real-time and stream it to your mobile phone. For example, you can connect a surveillance camera to the HAVA box and you will be able to watch the surveillance video on your mobile phone, via the HAVA mobile client software. The HAVA mobile client software will..... Read more »

Time for stricter harassment laws?

Posted in Tech Legal by Bryan Tan on Monday, November 17 2008 12:43 AM

A remarkable scolding incident filmed on a handphone has appeared on Web sites. In it, a lady is seen launching a verbal barrage at a commuter standing in a commuter train. The five minute edited video seems to suggest a much longer period of filming in which the lady loudly proclaims in a mixture of Hokkien, Mandarin and..... Read more »

Time right for young open source companies: Proactum

Posted in Open Source by Peter Cheng on Sunday, November 16 2008 11:43 PM

During the recent Beijing Open Source Camp, I met with senior executives of Proactum, an open source software company from Finland.

While, generally, everybody knows Finland for Nokia, every one from the open source world knows Finland for Linux.

The executives--Proactum chairman Anneli Koivunen, senior partner Jouko Hyppönen and senior advisor Mikko Puhakka--shared their ideas on open source...... Read more »

Ailing companies, turnaround CEOs

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, November 14 2008 03:02 AM

Back in 1997, Apple Computer was far from the revered company that it is today. The company was bleeding cash and then-CEO Gil Amelio was booted out after a boardroom coup.

Steve Jobs, who himself was ousted from Apple in 1985, returned to the company and guided it back to profitability--and beyond. With the introduction of iconic products such as..... Read more »

Outsourcing trouble with Obama

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Thursday, November 13 2008 03:16 PM

I've written in this blog before about my great admiration for Barack Obama, whose sweeping message of change has catapulted him to the presidency of the United States. I was fortunate enough to witness his historic election during my recent trip to the United States, which coincided with the Nov. 4 polls.

It is..... Read more »

Free GPS tracking for iPhone, Android

Posted in The M Files by Lee Lup Yuen on Tuesday, November 11 2008 03:34 PM

If you need to track the whereabouts of your co-workers, or to give them your precise location, try using the free GPS tracking service by InstaMapper. (You still need to pay for mobile data charges though.)

You can install the free InstaMapper client software on your iPhone, Android and BlackBerry (some models only) mobile devices. When you run the..... Read more »

What difference a tech-savvy president maketh

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, November 07 2008 10:32 AM

In a typical newsroom where every journalist is fighting for a space on the front page, there are often days when you don't really want to be a tech reporter. Why?

How do you convince the chief editor that your piece about Asia becoming a breeding ground for..... Read more »

Why multi-SIM mobile services are useful

Posted in The M Files by Lee Lup Yuen on Thursday, November 06 2008 10:54 AM

Some mobile operators offer a multi-SIM service that effectively "clones" your SIM card, allowing you to use multiple phones and PDAs with multiple SIM cards that are linked to a single mobile subscription.

You may make multiple phonecalls and mobile data connections simultaneously. However, only one of the devices can be designated as the master device to receive phonecalls and..... Read more »