IT talks!

Have you noticed the growing number of Filipino companies advertising on Facebook lately? This trend points to two things: 1) the population of Filipino users in Facebook has reached critical mass already; and, 2) businesses in the Philippines are finally grasping the reality behind ‘new media’ and the benefits of online advertising and marketing. Facebook [...]

The Symbian S60 on the Nokia N-Series mobile phones offers a wide range of applications that are Internet-enabled. Here are the apps that I currently have on my Nokia N82. One of my favorites: Nimbuzz. Basically, it’s a chat program that consolidates your accounts on Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM/ICQ, and a few others into [...]

It would most probably be safe to assume that all Filipinos who go online have at least a working knowledge of English. That’s possibly why there haven’t been many sources of Filipino-language material on the Internet, because there just wasn’t much need (or so many of us think). But there is a need: a need [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ostensibly in retaliation to Western media’s coverage of anti-Chinese demonstrations in Europe, the Sports Network website was hacked last Sunday. The site was defaced with the image that you see here (captured by ChristineLu.com). Repeated attacks, most probably serious denial-of-service assaults, have caused the site to be taken down. After a few days, the site [...]

PLDT seems to be blocking Google and other search engines, so that they can offer their own search product with advertisements.

WHICH BROWSER DO you use when you surf the ‘Net? Chances are, it’s Internet Explorer, because most of us use Windows, and this browser comes bundled with Microsoft’s operating system. Here’s a breakdown of browser usage all over the world (Jan.-Feb.2008 figures. Source: TechCrunch):   IE6 IE7 Firefox Safari Mozilla Others Feb ’08 22.0% 30.7% [...]

News of Microsoft’s intent to acquire Yahoo! has been all over the Internet lately, and everyone seems to be thinking that the acquisition is a done deal. Maybe so. And what does Google think about it? In the official Google blog, David Drummond, Corporate Development Senior VP and Chief Legal Officer, voices out a very [...]

VeriSign, the company that globally manages the two most popular top-level domains (TLDs), has announced that it will raise the wholesale rates of .com and .net domain names this 15th of October 2007. Domain names ending in .com, from $6.00, will be increased to $6.42; and .net domains, from $3.50 to $3.85. This rather huge [...]