Month: December 2008

Top Philippine Technology News of 08

in a couple of hours today (GMT +8:00) we bid goodbye to 2008 – a year that has been generally good to the IT PINOYs. i’ve listed here the top IT PINOY technology news of 08: despite fears of usa recession in the last quarter of the year and laying off of some IT PINOYs […]

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imagine cup 09

IT PINOYs i want you to imagine this:– you will have a crack and provide the best solution to our problems today– you will compete against around 200,000 fellow students around the world– win cash prizes, internships @ Microsoft + a trip to Cairo, Egypt next year!– lastly, you may even have a chance to […]

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a brief history of worms

my last post about DTI’s website being hacked prompted me to do some research on internet viruses and worms. according to snowplow.org, the term “worm” originated from a science fiction story called “The Shockwave Rider” written by John Brunner in 1975. the story is about a totalitarian government that controls its citizens through a powerful […]

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PINOY govt. website hacked!

inquirer.net reported that the department of trade and industry’s (dti) web site have been defaced by supposed foreign hackers. this is just an alarming call to our local government’s IT divisions to not only pay attention to content and layout of their pages, moreso they should focus on securing their web sites against these malicious […]

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DAYO – truly IT PINOY!

it’s christmas time and in the Philippines it means it’s the metro manila film festival (mmff) where only PINOY movies get to be shown during the holidays. this year the event welcomes another breakthrough – DAYO, the first full-length digital animation movie made in the country. it was said that the movie – took around […]

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microsoft sees bright spots in 09

i thought this would be a kewl christmas gift for us IT PINOYs… according to the news i read today, Microsoft is confident of a few bright spots among end-users. “I think the industry in general is taking it cautiously and that is very similar to how Microsoft is taking it,” said Microsoft Philippines managing […]

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IT Christmas Songs

ITPinoy along with the rest of the world celebrates this yuletide season. As I was looking for kewl IT Christmas songs I found this funny song that fully depicts us bloggers (addict sa web! hahaha). Sing and enjoy!!!! Merry Christmas!!!!! Happily Addicted to the Web (to the tune of “Winter Wonderland”) Doorbell rings, I’m not […]

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FREE Pinoy eCards!!!!

oh yeah!! just when we thought nothing is free anymore esp. during these days… well there is still still some thing for us to smile about. we can still send FREE ecards to your loved ones this holiday season – with PINOY flavor pa!!! thanks to eCards.ph we can still reach out to our loved […]

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