Archive for October, 2007

GETTING A DIAL TONE - Telecommunications Liberalization in Malaysia and the Philippines

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

A friend from way back in highschool and college recently released her book. Catch it and get a perspective of telecommunications liberalization in Malaysia (btw, I'm in Malaysia now) and in the Philippines (btw, my heart is in the Philippines now). :-) GETTING A DIAL TONE Telecommunications Liberalization in Malaysia and the Philippines By Lorraine ...

Let’s talk about Wireless Landlines

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

In this podcast, I talk about Bayan Wireless Landline, Mango by Digitel and PLDT wireless landline ...  

Prayer in the time of mp3 players

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Received this email from online friend Jun Asis. Re-posting because I believe in it .... Hi, I am going to ask probably the biggest favor I've ever asked of you yet. I won't ask for money or blood =) Fr. Stephen Cuyos, MSC (www.stephencuyos.com) and I ( www.mabutingbalita.net) collaborated to record (do a podcast ...

Phishing attempts on Gmail Accounts

Friday, October 5th, 2007

In computing, phishing is a criminal activity where phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. eBay and PayPal are two of the most targeted companies, and online banks are also common targets. ...

MEEBO - consolidated instant messaging

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Meebo, what does that mean [I wonder what that means]. Meebo is a service, an online service which brings together google chat, yahoo messenger otherwise known as YM, MSN messenger, ICQ, AIM messenger all in one using one log-in. Using only the Internet a web browser and you will be able ...

Europeans like Pinoy call center agents

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Here is a short podcast. Vonage call center in the Philippines. I spoke to a friend who works for a call center, she works for Vonage [I keep pronouncing it von-age but it's...whatever]. This is what she tells me, their technical support group has a counterpart in the US. These two ...

Paypass

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

This is about paypass. Paypass is a payment system where the credit card does not need to be swiped it just needs to be tapped on a device. I'm in SM Mall of Asia came from Shapes and I happen to see one of the terminal of paypass. I spoke to ...

Hotspot Hunting in Baguio

Monday, October 1st, 2007

In a previous article I spoke about WiFi hotspot hunting in Baguio City. Back then [maybe almost a year ago] I was able to identify two hotspot. One is in SM city at Figaro they have an airborne access hotspot there, of course you need to pay unless you have ...