PILIPINAS.IT is everything you need to know about the Philippine Information Technology industry (+ more). This is for all PINOYs who simply love && can't live without technology! because PINOY's got IT!
the Philippine Department of Science and Technology's Information and Communications Technology Office (DOST-ICTO) recently sent directives to all government system admins to review their security protocols in light of the recent website hack attacks.
Undersecretary Louis Casambre, ICTP exec director said, "We would like to request system administrators of government websites to review their source code for these security flaws. A common vulnerability we have found stems from third party plug-ins used in content management systems (CMS)."
iGovPhil, a P500mil project aims to consolidate the deployment of email systems and other applications across government agencies. Local Government Units (LGU) no longer have to be concerned with maintaining (and protecting) their IT systems, in effect this would improve service to the general public.
ICTO Executive Director Louis Casambre, added they are looking into hosting other government systems through the Government Cloud (G-Cloud) service, such as the Electronic Business Permits and Licensing System (eBPLS), which is traditionally deployed separately by the various local government units.
"Our approach is to offer the application for free to all LGUs. LGUs will however have to contract private sector IT consultants certified for the eBPLS for their particular customizations and commissioning," Casambre said.
"We’re almost finished with the bidding documents...If I’m not mistaken, it should be operational before the State of the Nation Address of the President in July," Casambre added
Cloud Computing has been largely accepted by major IT practitioners as a much better alternative, scalable and cost efficient to support large enterprise systems.
it only takes half a second for Googleto return a result based on the keywords you type in. Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer explains how Google daily scours the web to provide the most updated search results.
the Scarborough Shoal stand off involving Philippines and China is now looming to be a cyberwar as well as hackers claiming to come from China and Philippines defaced top universities from each country.
for two weeks now, the hotly disputed islands in the South China Sea has been going and on friday (april 20), a group of presumed chinese hackers defaced the University of the Philippines' website by placing a Chinese script, "We come from China! Huangyan Island is Ours."Huangyan is the Chinese name for the Scarborough Shoal.
in response, the following day, it was found that the Chinese University Media Union was also defaced by Anonymous, stating "Scarborough Shoal is ours!" and with a loud screaming music playing in the background. other segments of the website is still down as of this writing.
Twitmusic, a social music sharing service initially developed in Manila, has been included in 500 Startups - a Silicon Valley based program providing early-stage companies with funding via seed investments and mentoring.
Twitmusic - launched in October 2011 is a service allowing recording (or budding) artists to share their music via Twitter in real time. fans on the other hand can now freely listen, download and quickly share the music on their websites.
Stefano Fazzini co-founder of Twitmusic confirms with us the dev started in Manila, "@pilipinasit Thanks! Yep, we started it in the PH. We just left 2 weeks ago for the 500 Startups program :)"
500 Startups provide $10K-$250K worth of seed investments, an accelerator program, new micro-fund models like the Twilio Fund with 160 experienced startup mentors around the world, a creative work space (in the heart of Silicon Valley), and a vibrant community of startup founders. Their goal is to help companies succeed in ways other venture firms do not (offer).
good luck to Twitmusic and may this inspire more start-up IT companies in the Philippines.
this is a high-tech story of two star-crossed lovers, G-Male (the perfect boyfriend) from the Google family and Siri from Apple. is there a chance for this couple, both who have helped humanity (and hated them), will they end up together?
hilarious! see cameos of "hotmale," "aol," "blackberry," and "yahoo."
the scorching heat of Philippine summer is on! Twitinoys (Pinoys in Twittter) took on the micro-blogging site making the phrase "more FAN in the Philippines" as the top trending topic in the country over the weekend.
metro manila felt the heat @ around 34.6 degrees celsius, the second hottest since january 2012.
enjoy summer guys, drink lots of water.. bring your fan ;)
Pinoys and asian writers or publishers finally have an online place to sell and distribute their writings, check out Flipreads (www.flipreads.com).
"Flipreads is a source of e-books from and about the Philippines and Asia," said Flipreads' CEO Anthony de Luna. the site has an inaugural offering of 70 e-books available for buyers anywhere in the world.
the ebooks are in ePub format or screen-optimized PDF ebook format, which can be read on Apple iPad and any device running on Android (Aldiko), Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.
payment gateways such as Paypal, Smart Money, Globe gCash, Cashsence and pesopay are available.
is it true that Googleis cooking up an office here in the Philippines - this will really be good news for IT PINOYs (if this is not an April Fools joke) :)
on march30, Google announced its newest Southeast Asia representative office in Jakarta headed by Rudy Ramawy. then job openings for the Philippines were also spotted in Google Singapore’s jobs page (e.g. Country Sales Manager, Account Strategist, Agency Relationship Manager, Communications Manager and Head of Marketing).
"We are always exploring opportunities in Southeast Asia but nothing to announce at this time." a Google spokesperson told InterAksyon.com
Philippines is truly making headway in the social media apps development, as a group of PINOYprogrammers recently won in the Facebook Mobile Hack held in Singapore.
besting other Asian countries, Jason Sia, Mico Ignacio, Melvin Fetalvero and Josh Basarte of Chikka.com, took the main prize in the Best Mobile + Open Graph category, via its "Hear Me" application, which lets uses post audio notes on their Facebook home page.
"I dont think we won because of what we came up with in four hours, but because of what Hear Me can become in the hands of other Facebook users and the developer community," said Chikka team lead Melvin Fetalvero.
the Facebook Mobile Hack - Singapore, hosted technical talks, Q&As, deep-dives with the Facebook Developers Team assistance. it covered both native and mobile web (HTML5) application development, aiming to get participants hands-on experience building social mobile apps and games. At the end of the day awards were given to those who have developed the best mobile social apps.
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