it’s april fools day and for some reason the virus developers seem to like this date and time the release of their “babies.” i did some research (what i got is not much so feel free to correct me) and listed the top april 1 viruses (or viruses that appeared/current in this month) in the […]
Morethe tech world is waiting anxiously… in a few more hours (manila time), we will know whether the “sleeping giant” conflicker.c will wake up and reap havoc (okay i didn’t mean that to sound too scary..) australianit reports, “SECURITY analysts are bracing for possible internet disruptions tomorrow when the tenacious and mysterious Conficker worm “wakes […]
Morejust blogged this yesterday, today the Philippine’s Dept. of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is found out to be one of the countries that got spied on by the malware software called GhostNet. the Canadian researchers who are looking into this mentioned that around 1,295 compromised computers from the ministries of foreign affairs of the Philippines, Iran, […]
More‘just read this report that a vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama.it was added that the system is being controlled from computers based in china (although it’s not conclusively mentioned that china is behind […]
Morei have had my share of interviewing would-be programmers for my team and i did have a layout of qualifications/questions that i/team needs hoping i would find them in the candidates.. of course, hr’s questions would be different from mine unless they themselves are technical people, so i’m not going to demean their way of […]
MoreYahoo! & Nielsen survey shows that there’s a slight decrease of tv viewership and print readership, as the “younger youth” now prefers web over these traditional communication mediums. from 2007’s 89% to 2008’s 92%, Pinoys show preference to web over tv. not that they no longer watch tv shows, but with shows now being streamed […]
Morejust did a quick browsing and found these top 3 tek topics today: UK kids in primary school to be taught twitter, social networking and blogging – kewl! China bans youtube – this sucks big time! good thing i’m an IT PINOY! Canadians didn’t like google’s street view feature as well – nowadays, who does?
MoreHOW ABOUT YOU?Earth Hour is on mar 28 ’09 @ 8:30pm. more @ http://www.earthhour.org(thinking out loud – with often black outs in the country, i think we’re one of the pioneers and big contributors to this cause! haha :))
Morefive years after it’s launch, skype is now the largest long-distance phone company! skype‘s cross-border traffic grew approximately 41% in ’08 to 33B mins – equivalent to 8% of combined intl. telephone + skype traffic. now, with the “skype for SIP” beta program released, wherein they have now enabled traditional business phone communication to go […]
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