Ng: Venture capital
A LOT of exciting things happened last Startup Weekend. Over 250 people showed up. But what I did not expect was that over a dozen venture capitalist companies showed up.
Venture capital is something we need to grow innovation and entrepreneurship. When you are starting a new business...
Ng: Why collaboration is important
ONE of the things that make me love my work is that I have had the opportunity to experience a lot of different ways to do business. We get to work with small companies, exporters, business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, service companies and even multinationals. We import and we export. We...
Ng: Draw Something
ONE of the applications that have become quite popular in both Android and Apple devices is Draw Something by OMGPOP, which was recently bought by Zynga, creators of Farmville, Mafia Wars and a host of other popular apps on Facebook.
Ng: Google Drive, Skydrive
TECH news reports the last two days have been mostly on the announcement by Google of its new virtual drive, which is called Google Drive. This is not revolutionary as Microsoft has been offering its Skydrive for a couple of years already and other providers like Dropbox have also been in...
Ng: 4G incompatibilities
A RECENT article caught my interest. - It said that Apple would refund Australian customers who were misled about the 4G capabilities of its new iPad.
Apple had introduced its iPad as 4G capable but the device did not work with the local 4G frequency.
4G is a very confusing issue...
Ng: IT skills gap
IF YOU are unhappy with the current state of technology in your office, or you think the relationship between management and the information technology (IT) department is not very cordial, you are not alone.
In a recent survey of 500 bosses and IT managers by COMPTIA (Computing Technology...
Ng: Office IT infrastructure
IF YOUR office network and computers are not as cool as you want them to be, then you are in good company. I’m sure you can afford better, but having good technology is not a matter of affordability – its also a matter of priority. If you don’t think it’s important or worth the expense and the...
Ng: The new iPad
THE new Apple iPad has been released. Apple, however, is not calling it the iPad 3 and that would mean one thing – it’s just a minor upgrade, not a major one.
Ng: Windows 8
THERE have been good developments recently for Microsoft. Its Xbox 360 continues to be a best-selling gaming device with over 66 million users worldwide. Its new interface, the Kinect, reportedly sold 20 million units. Windows 7 has been on a tear and most estimates say that over the last two...
Ng: : Disruptions
ABOUT five years ago, there was a disruption in the computer market—the introduction of the netbook, smaller and cheaper notebooks that people could carry around more easily.
A year or so later, Apple introduced iPhone, a smartphone that allowed people to check on their email, surf the...
Ng: HP vision
I AM currently attending the HP Global Partner conference. I always look forward to events like this because it is not only a great place to hear from experts and learn the future of technology, it is also an exercise in humility. How? Sometimes, when we don’t benchmark or compare ourselves...
Ng: Spared
WHEN the earthquake struck early this week, I started to check in the office that everything and everybody was all right as well as the building. I then climbed the highest point of the building and viewed things around. The city was okay. The shake was not that hard (at least the way I felt it...
Ng: Education and juvenile delinquency
LAST week, I attended Diwa’s Teachers’ Congress. Diwa is a leading publisher of educational materials and the company updated the schools on their new offerings, in particular their computer-aided learning and management system.
Ng: Bill Gates and philantrophy
AMONG the things currently making rounds is an interview of Bill Gates where he spoke about Steve Jobs.
These are two of the biggest titans and influences of the tech world. Amazingly they are of the same age - both born in 1955. Steve Jobs founded Apple Computers and started one of the...
Ng: Pending bills on Internet
AS I am writing this, the whole Internet is agog over and in almost open revolt against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) bills that will be deliberated on in the US Congress starting next week.
Ng: A building in 15 days
FOR those who think two weeks is too short to renovate an office, think again.
A Chinese construction company Broad Group has just done something that will certainly awe you—it managed to construct and finish a 30-storey hotel with over 17,000 square meters of space in just 15 days....
Ng: Going viral
VERY often you’d hear stories about things that “go viral” in social networks.
Somebody posts something interesting on YouTube or Twitter and pretty soon, people start telling others about it in the thousands and even millions. Everybody’s dream is to create content that is so...
Ng: Online destinations
WHERE do people go when they surf? According to market researcher Nielsen, the number one website is still Google, where people do search. According to their data, Google logged an average of 153 million unique users per month while Facebook logged 137 million unique users per month for 2011....
Ng: USB 3.0 adoption
ABOUT a year ago, I wrote about USB 3.0, a new standard interface for personal computers that promises to be much better. USB 2.0 has a speed of only 480 mbps while USB promises to be over 3 gbps, which is about 10 times faster.
This is not really a big deal if you are just using thumb...
Ng: Turning off phones in planes
I ADMIT that I don’t’ always turn off the cell phone when I board planes. But it seems to me that many don’t. And I think this has to do with wrong processes. When you check in at the airport, they ask you to put your cell phone in your bags. After you put it in your bag, you normally don’t get...
Ng: Tablet or cell phone for Christmas?
WITH just a few days before Christmas, many parents are now wondering what to give their kids.
Since children these days are more tech-savvy than we were in their age, their preferred Christmas present is either a cellular phone or a tablet.
Ng: Facebook virus
THERE has been a deluge of scantily-clad girls in Facebook lately. They say it’s a virus and it is being fixed.
I hope so. What happened destroyed the illusion that Facebook was a safe place to be.
Ng: Useful tools
I WANT to share with you some free tools that I find indispensable for every computer user.
First, I’ve been using a utility called Evernote for close to a year. This is an excellent program for note taking, and is a free downloadable for Windows, Mac, Android, iPad, Windows...
Ng: How to spot fakes
I WAS talking with some people from HP recently on the anti-fake campaign they are doing with the Bangko Sentral, which is also campaigning against counterfeit money.
There are fake bills still going around. When I was in China, I was repeatedly warned against counterfeit money. It seems...
Ng: Building corporate culture
I AM going to continue my previous article about IBM’s 100-year history. IBM was one of the first companies that recognized and emphasized the importance of corporate culture in making a company successful. I realized that some time back. In fact, when I was taking my MBA in 2004 and our finals...
