Month: October 2009

FailCon 09, a Success!!

have you heard of a successful failure? FailCon 09 just proved this bitter-sweet irony when they gathered successful founders, investors, designers, and developers to answer this question, “What’s gone wrong and how did you fix it?” the conference devoted to failure was definitely a first of it’s kind. PayPal co-founder Max Levchin talked about how […]

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Facebook Memorial – Immortalizes Deceased Members

facebook, the leading social network site today finally introduces “Facebook Memorial,” solely dedicated for it’s deceased members. it is hoped that this will ‘immortalize memories’ of the deceased member. it will feature the person’s facebook information, which is restricted to confirmed friends and family only and their profiles will no longer show up in the […]

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Google Audio

there have been recent news that Google is to launch it’s new service – Google Audio, on oct28. what you need to do is search for a music and Google Audio/Music will display you a list with pre-configured players (e.g. iLike, Lala). now, im curious how would this look like…see some screenshots from techcrunch.com.

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Philippines – The Next Cloud Computing Hub

seems like slowly (but surely) Philippines is catching up with “cloud computing.” Netsuiteā€™s strategy to groom the country as its largest hub for cloud computing services worldwide by adding 300 more to it’s current staff. they have developed cloud-compliant softwares for the Dept. of Finance and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) processing their financial reports […]

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Beware of Fake "Ondoy" Antivirus

Ondoy seems not only wreaked havoc on the Philippine islands, news from inquirer.net stated that even the cybercriminals have used this event to fool anyone and download a fake antivirus. Trend Micro reported several malicious sites that will take users to other sites which contains a trojan called TROJ_FAKEAV.BND, a fake antivirus application. IT PINOYs, […]

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