• Blogging

    Posted on 30 March 2008

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    Ratified and magnified!

    I was delighted when I found out that this blog was given the #1 spot by Ratified.org in its daily assessment of blogs in the Philippine blogosphere. This top position means that IT talks! garnered the highest positive change in rank.
    Yesterday, my blog stood at the 387th place among all Ratified blogs in the Philippines. [...]

  • Announcements

    Posted on 27 March 2008

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    TechnoKapihan #15

    The 15th TechnoKapihan Davao will be held on 2 April 2008 (Wednesday) at the We R Inn Hotel in Bajada. The venue is by Central Plaza I, across the highway from Gaisano Mall of Davao. The event will be from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Attire: come as you are!

  • Announcements, Events & Stuff

    Posted on 25 March 2008

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    TechnoKapihan for this month postponed

    The TechnoKapihan session for this month is a no-go. According to ICT Davao Inc.’s Bert Barriga, this monthly powwow will instead be held on the 2nd of April 2008, from 2 to 4 PM. No venue set yet. Whether we’ll have another TechnoKapihan for April, or this rescheduled session will be it, we don’t know [...]

  • Announcements

    Posted on 24 March 2008

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    Welcome to my new domain

    I’m really getting good at this…. If you’ve been reading IT talks! since its inception last year (actually it was “born” in 2004), you’d know that I’ve transferred the site (address-wise) twice now. In its infancy, the blog was found at http://ittalkscolumn.blogspot.com. When I started acquiring domains, I put the site under http://ittalks.robilloblog.com, thinking I’d [...]

  • Industry Issues

    Posted on 24 March 2008

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    Business Model 2.0

    In a recent article at TechCrunch.com, it was reported that the Japanese government is considering a move to crack down on file sharing (read: Torrent or Kazaa). In Japan, the most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) network for the distribution of computer files is Winny. In simple terms, “P2P” is defined as the combined connectivity and bandwidth [...]

  • Events & Stuff

    Posted on 22 March 2008

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    While doing translation work…

    …I thought of taking a break to post here.
    I’ve been doing Japanese-to-English translation work for a consulting firm based out of Makati for a couple of years now. I really can’t talk about the documents I translate because they’re sealed under a non-disclosure agreement. But I suppose I can hint at the contents a bit. [...]

  • IT Corporations

    Posted on 19 March 2008

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    PDF, anyone?

    DURING THE TIME I was organizing the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit late last year, I came to meet quite a number of interesting people. One of them is Ted Padova. Since I’ve never really delved very deeply into the world of creatives and graphics design, Mr. Padova was, to me then, just another blogger who [...]

  • IT Investment

    Posted on 12 March 2008

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    IT real estate bullish

    Following the success of the Damosa IT Park of Damosa Land, a number of other real estate development projects are now expected to see the light of day in Davao City.
    Ed Villaver, Vice-President and General Manager of Damosa Land, confirmed recently that the Anflocor Group is entering into a joint venture with Ayala Land Inc. [...]