faced by the ongoing issue of system failures, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) recently sacked it’s Information Technology Services Group (ITSG) Sr VP for allegedly entering into illegal and questionable deals with Questronix Corp. and IBM Philippines. Edilberto P. Ocampo was said to be dismissed after being found liable for entering into multi-million peso […]
MoreSymantec just listed 100 websites we badly need to avoid! based on the number of threats detected by Norton Safe Web, the list hopes to identify which sites are safe (unsafe) so that visitors wouldn’t be deceived by stealing their personal infos, or worst comes to worst – crash their computers. these are but a […]
MorePromised to be the most advanced campus, STI recently opened it’s P300M-worth academic center, with the hope of providing better learning environment for its students. the building sitting on a 2,632 square meter lot would house the institution’s first center for the arts (includes photography, music, theater and culinary). it would also serve as main […]
Morestate universities and colleges (SUCs) are being urged to invest and utilize shared IT systems to help alleviate process for retrieving student grades/transcripts as well as to allow online payment of tuition fees. “We recognize that IT systems require extra spending that many SUCs can’t readily afford if they each decided to invest one by […]
Moredo you know any company using pirated softwares? well here’s your chance to help the IT industry and at the same time, earn! the Business Software Alliance (BSA) mentioned it has given P1M in rewards to eight informants who tipped authorities of companies using pirated softwares, which is a violation of the Intellectual Property Code […]
Moreif you’re wondering slow response on the internet yesterday, that’s because there was a cut (again) in the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea submarine cable, which in fact affected most of the asia-pacific region including Singapore and Philippines. Malaysian telco – TM Net states that the cable fault was traced in segment 7 of […]
Moreby the end of 2009, the number of broadband users in the Philippines would have reached 2M, this came in a recent statement by Catanduanes Representative Joseph Santiago who by this, urged companies offering these services to be truthful in marketing their connection speeds. “They should be able to deliver minimum Internet connectivity at par […]
Moretwo of the most dominant social networking tools right now – Twitter and Facebook encountered attacks and performance degradation yesterday. the report came after Twitter had to be down for more than 2hours. co-founder Biz Stone has this to say, “On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service […]
Morethe outpour of search queries for the recent passing of former Philippine President Cory Aquino has caught the attention of cyber crooks as they used these times to redirect users to malicious sites. abs-cbnnews reported that Trend Micro recently alarmed users that search queries containing “corazon aquino’s death” would lead users to sites, which auto-redirects […]
Morejust found this live stream of former Philippine President Cory Aquino’s wake… check out -> http://www.gmanews.tv/livestreaming/?section=livestreaming
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