What could have been worse for Philippines’ tech industry than Intel Corp., the world’s top chip maker is considering pulling out of the country. Intel’s factory in Cavite which employing more than 3,000 people, is Intel’s second offshore assembly operations centre in Asia and also serves as a test site. According to Intel source, they invested around 1.51 billion dollars in the country while high power costs are a problem in the Philippines. According to many industry experts this is part of an eventual …

Apple officially announced the long awaited iPhone 2.0 software, which is due to be released this June, but a beta release is already available for download from iPhone DevCenter. The beta version will include besides Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support and Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to private corporate networks, the highly awaited iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK will give freedom to any developers to create native applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Prior to this SDK release iPhone …

Google finally confirmed the rumours of turning to undersea cables and announced that, together with other five associates will start “Unity”, a trans-Pacific undersea fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The investment will cost approximately not so cheap $300 million and became necessary as the demand and the current capacity of the trans-Pacific cables tent towards an imbalance. With today’s announcement, it appears the Internet giant’s desire for infrastructure investments is growing or should we say hunger for domination :). …

Adobe took an important step in merging desktop and Internet applications upon announcing the availability of AIR 1.0, a run-time module that provides a way of running "rich Internet applications" (RIAs) on the desktop. Since the release of the beta version of AIR, several organizations already adopted the technology; among them, NASDAQ Stock Market Inc, AOL, EBay and many others. I agree with most developers, that AIR will reduce download time due to the fact that the desktop is constantly being updated while connected to the Internet. …

Next week United Kingdom legislators are proposing a new law under which surfers who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the Internet. This proposed Green Paper, which the Government is due to disclose, sometime next week, will require ISP’s to take action against the estimated six million users a year who access pirated material. The law is expected to propose a ‘three-strike’ system, similar to that already in place in the US and France. Users suspected of illegally downloading films or music (Shouldn’t this be All copyrighted material) will receive a warning e-mail for the first …

Groupware or collaboration software aims to help organize teamwork. Microsoft Project is one of the best-known project management apps, but not every business requires its power. A new generation of simpler, Web-based services can do the job. In our last two sets of collaboration tools review we featured four of the most outstanding free/partially free online collaboration app. Off course those aren’t the only tools that can make your collaboration up to the mark, there are a bunch of app/software out there which are free (Partial or full) and this list is growing every day. So here are my today’s …

Few days ago Cisco Systems, Inc announced an innovative family of data centre-class switching platforms, the Cisco Nexus Series, to meet customer demands for next-generation mission-critical data centres. As the data centre transitions to a more services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in orchestrating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with this environment in mind, delivering the infrastructure chapter of Cisco’s Data Centre 3.0 vision. The series is designed specifically for the data …

Acquired in a management buyout in 1987, Go North East is the founding company of the Go-Ahead Group. Go North East is now the largest bus operator in the North East of England. Now bus passengers using Go North East are now able to order and receive tickets by mobile phone, very fancy right? Well North East bus giant claims its scheme of selling bus tickets by mobile phone is first in UK. Launched this week following a trial late last year, …

Philippine’s booming IT and gaming group IPVG announced today it has acquired a Delaware-based IT security firm for $10.45 million, the latest acquisition in its aggressive expansion strategy. IPVG Corp., through its subsidiaries, operates in the information technology and telecommunications, online computer games, and business process outsourcing sectors in the Philippines. The company provides various Internet data center services. IPVG’s purchase of Prolexic Technologies Inc, which is basically an anti-virus company, comes just a few weeks after IPVG said it would buy around …