Month: June 2009

PoliticalArena.com Launched!

the philippine politicians, to further their 2010 goals have utilized social networking (such as facebook and friendster) to reach out to the IT PINOYs, today a new socio-political networking site – politicalarena.com is launched! the website aims to consolidate infos and provide an online forum for both candidates and voters for the upcoming 2010 general […]

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Accused Facebook Spammer Faces Jail Time

the advent of social networks not only attracted people to join and connect with their friends, as well people who go out their way and abuse the system, today an alleged Facebook spammer could face jail time in connection with a lawsuit filed against him. Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court for the […]

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RP Telcos Aims Better Broadband

with growing demand for better connectivity due to the internet phenom, social networking, telecommunication companies are doing ways to accommodate this need. “People will continue to communicate and they will become the content creators by uploading photos and videos,” said Annie Naval, marketing group head for Sandbox, an online service of both Smart Communications and […]

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Philippines Independence Day Gets a Doodle

google is one with all the filipinos celebrating the country’s 111th independence day by creating a doodle for this event. doodles are designed to celebrate worldwide events, anniversaries, and the lives of notable artists and scientists. “Google doodles also celebrate important local events and holidays such as this one. It is our honor to celebrate […]

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IBM Challenges RP Businesses to an IT Makeover

is you company ready for an IT makeover? if so, why not join IBM Philippine’s – IBM Makeover Challenge! the competition, which is open to small and medium businesses (SMB’s) encourages these companies to describe in 100 words (or less) their biggest IT challenges. they are to tell how the $30thou worth of IBM suites […]

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Tetris Game Celebrates 25th Birthday!

TETRIS – the all time favorite pastime of both slackers and kewl people alike celebrates it’s 25th year today! it was on june 6, 1984 when Alexey Pajitnov created a game (a puzzle) where you need to fill in horizontal blocks to eliminate rows and thus gain points. derived from the Greek numerical prefix “tetra” […]

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Bing vs Wolfram Alpha

in the past weeks, there were two new search engines that were launched – microsoft’s bing and wolfram alpha, tech crunch made a quick comparison of the two, tell me what you think? will these two can even come near google? so far, bing is a lot faster than wolfram alpha – it looks more […]

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Philippine 2010 Poll Automation Pushes Through

after months of discussions, doubts and controversies, looks like our automated polls will push through as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will likely award the P11.3b contract to the lone qualifying bidder consortium of Netherlands-based Smartmatic and local partner Total Information Management (TIM) next week. “We will act on the recommendation from SBAC (Special Bids […]

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