Limpag: Encourage hacker culture
FACEBOOK kicked off its historic initial public offering by holding another of the company’s fabled hackathons, which are all-night events that gather the social networking giant’s employees to work on products outside their office assignments.
Hackathon 31 was held on the eve of Facebook...
Limpag: Cebu startups rev up
FIFTY people offered ideas for a startup business on Friday night in the University of the Philippines Cebu audio-visual room. You should have been there.
The excitement was palpable and infectious – 50 one-minute pitches were heard during the Friday night “fire pitching” fueled by pizza...
Limpag: Rise of personal cloud
THE long-awaited launch last April 25 of Google Drive puts into focus advances in consumer cloud computing, the term for remote computing and storage services accessible through the Internet.
Google Drive offers five gigabytes of free online storage space that can be synchronized with...
Limpag: Google drive
TALKS are rife that Google will announce its long-awaited Google Drive this week.
According to unconfirmed reports that came out in several blogs and technology news websites in the past weeks, Google Drive will offer users five gigabytes of free storage space.
Several tech sites...
Limpag: Johnny A still on top of his game
I CAUGHT the first set of Johnny Arcilla’s win againt Jurence Mendoza, and boy, was it something. Like a puppet master, the country’s number one had the youngster at the end of his strings, running on all directions.
After another winner that had the country’s top junior netter looking,...
Limpag: New Ubuntu release on its way
THE Holy Week break allowed me to play around with the final beta or test version of my favorite Linux distribution, Ubuntu Linux 12.04 or Precise Pangolin. The final release is scheduled on April 29.
I have been using the open source (OS) operating system Linux for about a decade....
Limpag: MVP makes pitch for risk-taking
PLDT Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan’s latest baby is IdeaSpace, part incubator, part angel fund, part accelerator but fully backed by his conglomerate.
During a meeting with bloggers from all over the country last week, Pangilinan said his group is setting aside P100 million a year for the...
Limpag: Age of mobile
THE Pew Research Center released last week The State of the News Media 2012 by leading off with a key finding: “the age of mobile has arrived in earnest.”
“Mobile devices are adding to people’s news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to...
Limpag: Lapu-Lapu to stage beer run
MARK your running calendar for a unique event this April—Lapu-Lapu City will host the country’s first midnight beer run as part of the celebration of Lapu-Lapu’s victory over Magellan. What’s a victory celebration without a little drinking, right?
Lapu-Lapu City Councilor Harry Radaza...
Limpag: Digital shift
LAST week marked a generational milestone: Encyclopedia Britannica announced it would no longer be printing encyclopedias after 244 years. The company said it would focus on its digital product but will keep selling the 32-volume set until its current stock of 4,000 sets runs out.
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Limpag: Super women
LAST Sunday, 175 women crossed the finish line of the 1st All-Women Ultra Marathon in Karancho beach resort in Lapu-Lapu City. Of the number, 167 made it within the cut-off time of 10 hours.
The last runner to cross within the cutoff time was Ungo runner Anne Susada who broke into tears...
Limpag: Exciting times for startups
THESE are exciting times for local startups, Plug and Play Tech Center co-founder and vice president for operations Jojo Flores said in a press conference last week.
Flores was in Cebu to announce this year’s ON3 Startup Pitching Competition. During the press conference in CeBuinIT or the...
PLDT, Metro Pacific set up program to encourage ‘technopreneurship’
THE Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and the Metro Pacific Investments Corp. are currently setting up a program that aims to support technological entrepreneurship in the country, officials said last week.
“If you look at the companies in the group, we are all heavy users and...
Limpag: Innovation
IT IS always refreshing and inspiring to cover the Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (Sweep) Innovation and Excellence Awards. The annual contest pits engineering schools throughout the country in a contest on the use of mobile technology to solve community problems.
Anyone in...
SMS in Braille grabs Sweep award
SEEING a blind masseuse crouching in a corner with a cell phone held to her head gave three graduating Mapua Institute of Technology engineering students the idea for an undergraduate project and thesis.
Limpag: Is this the end of SMS?
APPLE announced last week that the next version of its operating system (OS) will incorporate features first introduced in the iPhone and iPad “re-imagined for the Mac.”
OSX Mountain Lion, which is scheduled for release later this year, will have Notification Center, iCloud integration,...
Furniture designs ‘pirated’
ARE Filipino furniture exporters losing their designs to their Chinese counterparts?A Chinese business service provider said Filipino designs are not just being copied, their designers are also being pirated.
Henry Hwang, chief executive officer of Business One Global Trade Center (B1GTC...
Limpag: Bootstrap new media
DURING the frenzied days leading to the initial launch of the project to data tag Cebu’s tourism and heritage sites using QR or quick response codes, it occurred to me to look into the possibility of geo-encoding articles and having these displayed automatically on a map.
Location data...
Limpag: Tracking a stolen iPad
A THIEF spoiled the first Sinulog of Smart social media senior supervisor Abbie Real.
Real was in Cebu Friday to attend the launching of an electronic guidebook on Cebu and the data tagging of the province’s heritage and tourism sites using QR code.
When Smart staff members were...
Limpag: Mobile first
IN THE coming years, more people will view Web pages on a mobile device than on a desktop computer. That change can come as soon as next year, basing on industry studies and taking into account the market condition of the dominant telecommunications companies pushing for mobile Internet access...
Limpag: Google gets current with news reading app
LAST week, Google finally released for Android devices, iPad and iPhone its long-awaited mobile news reading application Google Currents.
The application, however, is still only available for devices in the US. The decision to allow only US users to test the application has sparked...
Limpag: Disintermediation
TO do well online, close your website department.
The website department as we know it today is approaching obsolescence, even anachronism.
It’s like a typists’ pool-–convenient but unessential, an extra layer of fat that is fatal in today’s time of lean startups and agile...
Limpag: Becoming a better blogger
(The following is a condensed version of my talk on how to improve your blogging skills during the Visayas Blogging Summit last Saturday. The summit was well-attended and had several corporate sponsors, an indication that blogging has indeed gone mainstream in Cebu)
Ultrabooks ‘offer sleek design, top performance’
INTEL has launched a new category in personal computing to meet the needs of people who want great form factor and mobility without compromising computing power.
Intel Philippines marketing manager Randy Kanapi said consumer expectations of the personal computer have changed through the...
Limpag: Sony Ericsson pledges ‘superior Android’
SONY Ericsson is playing up the “Sony-ness” of its products to offer “the best Android entertainment experience,” said Sony Ericsson Philippines general manager Dennis Manzano.
Manzano led a group of Sony Ericsson officials who came to Cebu recently to announce the company’s new line of...
