— VIRUS ALERT!!! —- there’s a fast-spreading virus that is now lurking through the usa, europe and asia, this in fact has affected around 9mil users already. F-Secure’s chief research officer, Nikko Hypponen, also noted that it is migrating “more rapidly through corporate networks than anything seen in years.” The worm called MS08-067, also known […]
today Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America will take his oath of office and IT PINOYs have a chance to watch it in several ways online! a couple of tech companies will host the inaugural activities, Stephanie Condon of CNET News has listed ways of watching the event via the […]
Morein a few hours today, Barack Obama will sit as the new US President but before that I read about what contributions the Bush administration has with regards to technology. “The 43rd president leaves behind a technology legacy characterized less by intent than by casual neglect,” this is how Declan McCullagh and Stephanie Condon of […]
Moreyou are probably well aware now that Steve Jobs have decided to step down as Apple’s CEO late last week. this prompted me to do some research about Steve Jobs as i’ve heard so many great (and not so great) stories about him. in his 2005 Stanford commencement speech he best summarized his life in […]
Morewe can say that today’s the youtube & iphone era, and everyone’s taking the fun ride, one of them is the catholic church. and there’s no stopping them in their quest for “gadget evangelism” and reach more people. aside from recently endorsing an iphone prayer app, the vatican has just announced that Pope Benedict XVI […]
MoreJason Hiner of Sanity Savers for IT Executives, recently did a countdown of the top 5 reasons why it’s great to work in IT. here’s the list plus some of my thoughts… #5: Techies are heroes when they solve problemsone of the greatest feelings an IT PINOY gets is when he is able to solve […]
MoreIT PINOY‘s, active learning will once again conduct a training on J2EE focusing on servlets, java server pages (jsp) and struts from feb16-20, 2009. for more details visit [here].
Morewith yesterday’s news of Accenture Manila laying off around 500 IT PINOYs, plus getting more infos of how it was done, I did some research on what effects there is to people when there is a recession (or rumors of it) – the results are intriguing and sad. Cyber-Ark, a security firm interviewed 600 workers […]
Morethe last quarter of 08 was a bombardment of IT layoffs in the Philippines. @ the start of 09 there had been news that microsoft itself will lay off 15000 of its workforce worldwide. here comes another sad news – google has announced layoffs of around 100 people – most of them from HR. —- […]
Morethe latest facebook app from burger king where you can sacrifice a friend to earn a free whopper coupon was an instant success. however, only after a week the tables have been turned and the facebook management have decided to disable a feature of this app. “After extensive discussions with the developer, we’ve made some […]
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