Month: May 2010

Today is Quit Facebook Day

IT PINOYs and the rest of the social networking world are urged to quit Facebook today, May 31, 2010.  this came after critics raised concern on privacy issues.  “For us it comes down to two things: fair choices and best intentions. In our view, Facebook doesn’t do a good job in either department. Facebook gives […]

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COBOL Turns 51!!!

51 years ago, today, one of the first english-based programming languages – COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) was born. in may 28, 1959 pentagon set up several committees to define an initial language specification. sensing that there’s an opportunity to make this “new” programming language accessible and useful for business, by december they completed the specification […]

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IT PINOYs on Twittiquettes

the recent automated elections has shown how strong IT PINOYs got hooked with twitter, esp with the witty remarks of @PCOSmachine and updates of #halalan.  while some had heated arguments in their messages, thought we share this twittiquettes to help further educate all IT PINOYs. geeks are sexy listed 8 ways to be a better […]

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@PCOSmachine Comes To Life

in the recent automated elections, IT PINOYs saw how technology played its part in ensuring the success of the event as well as better ways to deliver updates, one of these that “came to life” was @PCOSmachine!“I am a PCOS machine that’s part of the Philippines’ 1st automated elections,” @PCOSmachine described itself on Twitter. as the major […]

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Microsoft Office 2010 Offers Free Web Apps

IT PINOYs love freebies, well here’s the latest treat for us…. in order to compete with Google’s Online Docs apps, and to make itself more competitive, Microsoft will offer most of it’s Office 2010 components – for free! Microsoft Office has been one of the best selling software fohttp://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspxr 5yrs now and on it’s next […]

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ABS-CBN-2 vs GMA-7 (Virtual Presence vs Hologram)

IT PINOYs might have been amazed with how the two major (warring!) networks brought the recent Philippine Automated National Elections yesterday with the use of “virtual presence” and “hologram” technologies. in the last days before the election, GMA-7 boasted of it’s expensive set and eventually surprised everyone with it’s hologram effect of reporting (it looked […]

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Philippine Election Top Trends Today

IT PINOY as early as a year ago started following how the Philippine automated election would turn out, assessing so far the day – it generally turned out well. this would be be a  great feat as this marks the very first time Filipinos would use a new system in choosing the 15th President.  the […]

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Who is Your 15th?

the long wait is over as the Philippine National Elections pushes through as scheduled today – May 10, 2010. watching abs-cbn’s halalan 2010 coverage via kewl high tech ways of presenting news such as use of augmented reality and large touch tvs in their “war room,” reports have started pouring of PCOS machines not working […]

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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!

IT Pinoy would like to say… HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all the moms, to your mom, to the would-be-moms, to your wife, to your mother-in-law (okay you can forget the last one! joke)! for all the world changers, doing it one heart beat @ a time, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!

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