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Thursday, March 17, 2005
Toral: Working wirelessly
By Janette Toral
Digital Filipino
SCROLLING. Wireless technologies have affected the way we work and how we communicate with peers. Whenever free, I find myself scrolling through my mobile phone’s address book and old text messages to see whether there are pending items that require follow-up or closure.
For those handling multiple projects and businesses, having text messaging as a facility allows them to keep in touch as often as possible.
Laptops today give us the convenience of taking our work wherever we are. With wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), we can go online immediately as soon as we find a hotspot. The only setback in Wi-Fi is its partly elitist implementation in the Philippines to date.
You often find Wi-Fi hotspots in airline business class lounges, in expensive coffee shops and the like. What Wi-Fi providers are failing to realize is that laptop ownership is no longer limited to the executive type of individuals.
As the price of this equipment has gone down in the past two years, it has found its way to cost-conscious entrepreneurs, small and medium enterprises, programmers and professors, among others. They may not fancy taking business class flights to enjoy Wi-Fi Internet access or buying P65-P100 cups of coffee since that amount can buy you a decent full meal already.
Two weeks ago, I had the benefit of testing PLDT WeRoam Mobile for four days. The service allows you to go online wherever you are in the country for as long as there is a Smart cellular phone signal.
I suddenly found myself responding faster to e-mail, something I hadn’t been able to do due to multiple workloads. The price of the unlimited Internet service nationwide is P2,000 per month.
The PLDT WeRoam service has raised the bar for new forms of Internet service. Although the subscription amount may be high for some, the time savings and productivity increase may make it worth it for road warriors, multi-tasking entrepreneurs, and sales people.
Kudos to ASID. The Association of Solution Integrators in Davao was just inducted yesterday during the Job Fair in Mindanao.
No less than Sen. Mar Roxas inducted the officers of this dynamic organization, which has been vocal in advocating Mindanao’s potential as an information technology destination.
TechFactors.ph. I just caught up with Dr. Jaime Caro. This guy is known to many of us as the head of the Department of Science and Technology’s Virtual Center for Technology Innovation in Information Technology (VCTI-IT).
He just co-founded TechFactors.ph, a Philippine company producing educational products similar to the JumpStart series.
Its learning materials are meant to be used by schools from kindergarten to high school. This is great innovation. I hope that TechFactors will make us all proud in showcasing Filipino ingenuity in developing learning materials.
(janette@digitalfilipino.com)
(March 17, 2005 issue)
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