happy new year, IT PINOYs!!!! hope everyone had a blast welcoming the year!

• 2009 started with a sad note, the global recession led to many companies closing (or retrenching) and a large number of IT Pinoys weren't spared by this.
• US. President Obama's inauguration posted online was moving and captured the world's attention. technology was one of the best tools he used during his campaign
  
• who would forget when Microsoft's Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitos on a TED conference
  
• Philippine Poll automation was signed, a lot of issues arose and things are still shaping up all the way to the May elections
  
• Conflicker virus threatened to have infected around 10M users around the world and the GhostNet (the cyber espionage network) was revealed
  
• the world wide web (www) turns 20! while the Internet turns 40, Bing/Wolfram Alpha (the next google killer?), Google Wave, and iPhone 3GS were born!
• Philippines acts on privacy law, got more serious with software piracy, approves the Anti Cyber-Boso Bill (Anti-Voyeurism Bill) triggered by Doctor Hayden Kho's sex scandals, finally GSIS planned to sue IBM over failing system. 
• the netbooks kept the fledgling PC market afloat
• Philippine's boxing camp, Manny Pacquiao wins over Hatton and Cotto - both seen via p2p and live stream! 
• cybercriminals rode with the death of Michael Jackson, Cory Aquino and the Typhoon Ondoy victims

• Facebook gets into location and payments
• Live Video Goes Mainstream and Becomes Immensely Profitable
• Emergence of Web 3.0
• Home Servers Make It Home
• Cloud Computing

• with the coming Philippine National elections, bloggers and all the technology we have right now will be a big tool to ensure a truthful and safe elections. we all bloggers are urged to be vigilant and write all the events this coming May.
  
• Cloud Computing will be made known to the IT Pinoys, 
• Google Chrome OS will be another option, 
• and everyone riding on the Google Wave!

Labels: 2009, 2010