08/29/2010 09:32 PM |
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Facing reality from a Google search about Echo of Amboseli
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08/26/2010 10:26 PM |
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Being married doesn't make one a better boss
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As a single living in Singapore, you can't buy a government-subsidized flat until you hit 35. Even then, you're permitted to purchase only second-hand flats and not newly-built ones from the housing board authorities, which are typically cheaper.
It's my government's way of urging its citizens.....
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08/22/2010 09:42 PM |
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The flight Philippine Airlines is missing
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About four weeks ago, during the time when Philippine Airlines (PAL) was hogging the headlines after a huge number of its pilots deserted the carrier for other airlines, I was notified via e-mail of a discounted miles promo being offered to the company's frequent flyer.....
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08/19/2010 10:06 PM |
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Is pureplay a thing of IT history?
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Oracle buys Sun Microsystems and now Intel buys McAfee.
News broke here last night that Intel will acquire McAfee for close to US$7.7 billion in a move the chipmaker says will elevate focus on security and augment Intel's mobile wireless strategy. "Providing protection to diverse.....
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08/12/2010 09:03 PM |
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What you don't do can Hurd you
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Ok, that was a cheap pun, not to mention tacky, but I couldn't help myself and I bet neither could many in the industry after news broke last weekend that Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd had resigned, following allegations that he had misreported company expenses to.....
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08/09/2010 09:22 AM |
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Have we become too dependent on tech?
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I was prepping a blog about something else but after reading my editor's blog and tracking several stories that are trending worldwide, I decided to pen this blog instead.
It started when her blog questioned whether IT is ironic or not. In a nutshell, she argued.....
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08/03/2010 11:02 AM |
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A new sense of IT order
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After appointing a new chair for the CICT (Commission on Information and Communications Technology), the country's new president, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, appears ready to pump new life to the local economy, particularly the IT and BPO sector.
The selection of technology lawyer Ivan Uy as.....
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07/29/2010 09:44 PM |
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Isn't IT ironic?
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I was listening to Alanis Morissette sing with much angst in my car the other night when it struck me that the IT world is fraught with irony.
Take the recent DBS Bank fiasco, for example, banks and most financial services providers typically load their.....
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07/28/2010 06:59 AM |
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Is iPhone 4 suitable for business users?
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The Apple iPhone 4 launches this Friday (Jul. 30) in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and 14 other countries. Is the phone suitable for business users? Here's my take on the latest iPhone after using it for work over the past 4 weeks:
The iPhone 4's operating.....
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07/23/2010 03:52 AM |
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Taobao initiates Chinese open source revolution
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In my previous post where I talked about "Linux and FOSS no longer being the underdog", changes continued to take place in a way that we, promoters of free and open source software, have been waiting for, and for years.
Three years ago I remember.....
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