More and more, people are moving towards technologies that afford the user mobility and portability. The most shining example of this behavior is our proclivity for cellular phones. Not to mention, iPods, PSPs, laptops, etc.
People are now using their mobile gadgets for entertainment, business, work, leisure — practically in many aspects of their lives. I believe it’s come to a point where we probably won’t survive without our electronic devices.
Notice that pattern of dots and squares on this post? (There’s also another one on the sidebar.) It’s a two-dimensional barcode, which contains the URL of one of my blogs. If your mobile phone has a built-in barcode reader, scan the image and see what it contains.
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As this kind of technology is not yet pervasive in Davao City, not many locals are aware of the advanced developments being accomplished by a certain Davao-based software house. Cutting-edge technologies in industry-strength inventory systems, telephony services — these software applications are being designed and developed right here.
Lane Systems Inc. is a 12-year old company that has been involved in foreign projects, long before outsourcing and offshoring became buzzwords in the Philippines. Lane Systems (LSI), spearheaded by CEO Rodney Jao, is Davao’s showcase of success in the field of software development, and they are showing no signs of slowing down.
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I applied for it, thanks to Jayvee, and now I’m part of the ümobile-connected Filipino population.
As soon as I plugged the SIM card in, I was able to surf the Internet with no hassle at all. There was no trouble configuring my Nokia 6500, since ümobile automagically sent me the setup data via OTA.
Too bad, however, that the change-number function isn’t available on their website yet. I would really like to change the number to something more meaningful to me.
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When TechCrunch, ZDNet and other notable online publications and blogs trash a company or an individual, techies and people who spend a lot of time on the Internet will invariably take notice. But when it’s the venerable The New York Times that does the lambasting, virtually nobody will miss it.
In a recent article in this bastion of traditional journalism, NYT’s Joe Nocera published a scathing "open letter" addressed to Yahoo! CEO, Jerry Yang. It’s entitled "Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby" and alludes to Yang’s incomprehensible behavior during the months when Microsoft Corp. was batting for a Yahoo!-Microsoft merger.
Yang co-founded Yahoo! 14 years ago and, before the emergence of Google, it was the coolest outfit that hackers and users alike idolized. Perhaps Yang just couldn’t let go of his paternal sentiments for his company, even after it went public in 1996. Which was to his detriment, because it would seem (as NYT put it) that he never made the transition from owner to caretaker (i.e., servant to his stockholders).
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As I’ve written before, the new wave of Internet developments that we find ourselves in is called Web 2.0. And belonging to this overarching concept are blogs, cutting edge Web designs, social media, and the like.
Blogs are personal publishing platforms. For the most part, they reflect the individual opinion of their owners. There are such things as blog networks, too – blogs that are part of a conglomeration – but each blog that’s part of it is still considered as a personal site.
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