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May 21, 2012

Teardown the ThinkPad: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook

The other day, we attended a Lenovo event called “Teardown the ThinkPad”. Members of the press, media and bloggers witnessed how the machine was torn down in to bite-sized pieces and saw the parts that make this business notebook one of the most durable if not the most durable PC in the world. Catch our video presentation of the ThinkPad after the break.

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February 14, 2012

Level Up and e-Games merger announced

This may come as a surprise but local online game companies Level Up! and E-Games has finalized talks of a merger. eGames made the disclosure earlier this morning at the PSE (since it’s a publicly listed company).

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January 30, 2012

Anti-Cybercrime Bill gets Senate approval

The Senate finally approved their own version of the Anti-Cybercrime Bill (Senate Bill 2796) earlier today. The bill provides for penalties of Php200,000 to Php1.25 million and imprisonment of up to 12 years.

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November 16, 2011

What’s on your Christmas Gadget Wish List?

Every year, we ask this question to our readers and we’ll never get tired of asking it again and again. Christmas is fast approaching and it’s that time of the year where we get to indulge a bit on the gadget that we really like.

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August 10, 2011

PLDT-Smart opens “Jump” Experience Center

PLDT and Smart today launched their first-ever “Jump” Experience Center — a museum-like venue that showcases all of the latest trends in gadgets and technologies — at the CyberZone, Mega Mall.

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July 16, 2011

Poll: What’s your favorite/top tech brand?

Our last entry about Nokia being the top brand in the Philippines caused quite a stir, not only here but also in our FB and Google+ entry. So I thought why not do our own little survey too?

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January 05, 2011

5 Reasons ISPs Implement Bandwidth Caps

I’ve been asking engineers around for reasons why ISPs around the world have been implementing bandwidth caps and got several possible scenarios to consider. Here are the top 5 most probable reasons behind the issue of bandwidth caps.

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September 15, 2010

Is the local Online Gaming industry in trouble?

Just got a couple of insider info from a reliable source that might give us the impression that the Philippine Online Gaming industry is in a bit of a trouble right now. Two of the biggest online gaming companies, Level-Up & e-Games, are showing signs of it.

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March 13, 2010

Are you still addicted to FarmVille?

On Facebook, FarmVille is the top game this year with over 26 Million active users, 3 times biggest than the second most active, Cafe World.

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December 31, 2009

Our Biggest Tech Stories of 2009

Looking back in the last 12 months, we’ve seen quite a number of exciting developments and news that we broke here on YugaTech. Let’s do a quick run down here before the year ends.

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April 03, 2009

Odysseylive Reboots: Interview with Jay Fonacier

Starting this month, I will be doing regular feature interviews with local start-ups, internet entrepreneurs, executives of blue-chip companies and interesting web personalities to add to the mix of topics I’m covering for this blog. For this month, I’d like to check back on Odysseylive and talked to President & Managing Director, R. Jay Fonacier, and what he thinks of the digital music scene in the Philippines.

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March 02, 2009

Top IT Companies based on Employee Salaries

GigaOm ran a quick report on the top tech companies is the US based on the average salaries they gave their engineers/developers and Google came out on top. I wonder which tech companies in the Philippines would be on the top 10 if we had the same salary information.

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November 17, 2008

Obama and the Call Center Industry

Since the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States, much talk has been going around about his policies and stand on outsourcing among call center employees. My discussions with several people working in the BPO and contact center companies have been mixed.

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July 11, 2008

Intel likely to move fab to Cabuyao, Laguna

When the rumor that Intel Philippines was facing an impending closure in April this year, the company corrected this — saying that it’s weighing its options and could transfer its plant somewhere else. June has past and Intel officials have not released anything. I’ve sent out interview questions in the hopes of getting some updates.

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May 28, 2008

Philippines ranked #8 on Worldwide Porn Revenues

With about $1 billion in annual revenues, the Philippines is tied at No. 8 with Canada and Taiwan for the largest revenues from pornography in 2006. This is according to the Internet Pornography Statistics report by Jerry Ropelato of Top Ten Reviews. For a poor 3rd 2nd world country, that’s something, huh?

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January 20, 2008

Level Up, e-Games on Top Philippine Web Sites

For the longest time, The Inquirer.net has been regarded by everyone as the number 1 Philippine website, previously boasting some 44 million pageviews a month (recent figures pegs it at 28M). Since other sites don’t really publicize their numbers, a lot of people are relying on Alexa stats and this website that ranks them accordingly.

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July 28, 2007

The best Filipino Software Developers are headed for Singapore

An article at the Inquirer last night revealed that Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) has expressed alarm over the rampant recruitment of Filipino software professionals by Singaporean companies. Migs, opened up the discussion at PTB: Can Pinoy Software Companies Stop the Exodus to Singapore?

The obvious answer is no. And we all know why.

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February 14, 2007

Phil. Blog Awards: Nominate your fave blogs!

As promised, we’re now opening the nominations for the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards. We’re actually already getting submissions when we opened it early today, so we know people are watching out over there.

We’re getting huge response from people/bloggers and companies wanting to sponsor the event and we can never stop saying thank you to them.

Here’s our incomplete list of sponsors/donors so far:

If you emailed me and didn’t get a response, please re-send. It might got buried. If you still want to support this event, there’s still plenty of time. Contact us anytime. Those who are interested and willing to volunteer for the awards night itself, thanks and we’ll contact you for a planning session.

Thanks. Many, many thanks to everyone!

But wait, there’s more! The Pinoy.tv has also pledged to sponsor an Apple iPod Video 30GB to be raffled off on the awards night itself! Fotogra Weddings, Inc will also be providing a photo booth on the venue for people to have their pictures taken. Sheero Media Solutions will also be giving away a Canon MP-160 Photo Printer for the Best Blog Design Award.

January 12, 2007

Is 2007 the Year of the Filipino Blogger?

To continue with our earlier discussion, Joel Alarilla wrote a follow-up article in Inquirer.net – “The revolution will not be televised, but blogged“.

He asks the question and Will 2007 be the Year of the Filipino Blogger? and says “I believe so, because now we might see whole groups of Filipino bloggers achieving success here and abroad.”

I find myself agreeing with him and I’d like to elaborate on that as to why I think so. A lot large blog networks out there have at least one Filipino problogger in their roster — Know More Media, Creative Webbloging, b5media, Bloggy Network, WeblogsInc. etc.

See, when I took the position over at Blog Herald, there was quite a mix of ruckus and excitement. It was in the news (well, our news) and some people were asking me why there was so much excitement in our little part of the world about the development.

I explained that our generation (i.e. Filipinos) have become known around the globe as any of of these types of people — domestic helper, nurses, sea men, care-giver, or call center agents. In short, we’re looked down by most as cheap 3rd-world laborers. I have aunts that are working as nurses in the US for decades, uncles & cousins on a cargo ship at sea, relatives who are domestic helpers (OFW is the proper term) in Singapore & HK, older cousins who graduated as nurses but ended up as care-givers in UK and even more younger cousins who are now waiting for their Nursing Board exam results. So, a fellow Filipino taking over a top position in a pre-dominantly western niche is real news.

Several contacts I’ve talked to told me about the stigma that comes along with being from the Philippines. So no wonder that a lot of Filipino start-ups open up offices (or shell companies) in New York, San Francisco or the Silicon Valley to avoid being flagged as an Asian (or Filipino) BPO or outsourcing lest they’d be ignored and not get the credit or attention they duly deserve.

So yes, maybe the blogosphere is indeed a true equalizer where regionalistics bounds do not exist nor color of the skin or the height of the nose are excluded from the equation. Yes, we could do better in the blogging industry and hopefully we’ll show more of that this 2007.