IT Pinoys in the Philippine government offices wouldn’t like this news that Marikina Rep. Romero Federico Quimbo recently filed House Resolution 184, which seeks to regulate internet access. “…unabated and unregulated use of the Internet by government officials and employees during office hours adversely affects their productivity and the quality of service they provide.” Quimbo […]
Philippine’s Supreme Court (SC) joined the social networking bandwagon by having it’s very own Facebook and Twitter accounts. “It aims to bring the court closer to the people and give them real-time updates, news, programmes and projects of the Supreme Court,” Midas Marquez, SC’s spokesman said. check out Supreme Court of the Philippines in Facebook […]
MoreIT PINOYs here and around the world rejoices as they welcome the 15th President of the Republic of the Philippines, P-Noy (President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III). P-Noy spoke of hope, change, cited ordinary IT PINOY issues like dealing with the “wang wangs” (in the country government officials used to do counter flows or alarm motorists […]
Moreit has been reported that hackers recently defaced the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) website, http://www.tesda.gov.ph the hackers put up two changes on the home page, the first reads, “Nakikiramay kami sa pagpanaw ng Iskolar ng Bayan, freedom fighter na si Kimay” and an illustration of a man giving the middle finger with […]
Morethe commission on elections (COMELEC) recently laid out it’s plans to automate the 2010 elections. all i can say is – it’s about time! did you know that the COMELEC automation law was passed as early as around 1997? RA8436 and later an amendment RA9369, “authorizing the commission on elections to use an automated election […]
Morenews of layoffs are staggering and worrisome and the most recent was done by Intel as they just closed shop, Microsoft Philippines however has just announced that the country will not be affected by the announced job cuts worldwide. this is great news in a string of not so great news lately… at least the […]
Moreu.s. will soon elect it’s 56th president tomorrow! sino ba manok ng mga IT PINOY’s – si obama ba o si mccain? hmmm??? found this in youtube, thought it was a kewl way to explain the american election system. eh ang PINOY heto ang panapat! sus!
Morehmmm interesting topic but i’ll try to be as objective as i can (and if i can’t help it, pls forgive me). to give you a backgrounder, i’ve been in the IT industry for more done a dozen years now (whew! that long?) and i have had the chance to work with different nationalities and […]
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