Got an email earlier this week from Ericsson Money, announcing the extension of their service to the Philippines. With Ericsson Money, mobile phone users in the Philippines will be able to instantly and safely send and receive money to and from family members or friends in Europe. Ericsson Money is a member of the Ericsson [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 14, 2011
Even though I’m not based in the Philippines, I do my best to keep up-to-date with the latest news and trends in my home country especially with things concerning technology. One of the talked about topics in recent months is the planned merger or share-swap agreement between telcoms PLDT and Digitel. Many people are aware [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 23, 2011
To promote and help boost the popularity of their latest web browser Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft created an online game called Master of the Web. As a bonus, Microsoft is giving away cash prizes – $100 to the weekly top scorer for the next 12 weeks and a grand prize of $3,000 to the overall [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 24, 2010
Hi everyone! How are you all doing? To make up for last week’s late Weekend Roundup, I made sure that I would be able to publish this week’s edition on time. This weekend wasn’t as busy as last week so I was able to work on this and finish it. Hope you enjoy this edition [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 17, 2010
WordCamp Philippines 2010 which is scheduled on October 2nd at the College of Saint Benilde, Manila, Philippines re-opened its registration yesterday, August 16th. If you’re a WordPress user, developer, fan, advocate based in the Philippines or someone who would like to know more about WordPress then this is THE EVENT that you wouldn’t want to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 12, 2010
A couple months back, The Blog Herald published a detailed infographic on Twitter’s growth and statistics. Yesterday, they released a new infographic which focuses on the popular social networking site – Facebook. Many of us already know that the social networking giant has already reached 500 million users but there are still a lot of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
UPDATE: Added new photos Time to take a break from the regular programming here in JaypeeOnline to do some public service and help the victims of typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines. Last week, I heard about typhoon “Ondoy” hitting the Philippines on the news and saw several photos posted and forwarded by people on Twitter, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 3, 2008
If you're a Pinoy blogger or a WordPress user/fan then most likely you've heard or read of this already. But in case you haven't, I have good news for you. There will be a WordCamp held in the Philippines this coming September 6, 2008. If you don't know what I'm talking about here's a little info. What is WordCamp? WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people. WordCamp is a spin off from the popular BarCamp which was a spin off of FooCamp. - Weblog Tools Collection WordCamp Philippines will be the first ever WordCamp organized and held in Asia. WordCamp Philippines is being organized by a group of Filipino bloggers based in Mindanao who were also responsible for organizing the successful 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit held last year. What are the objectives of WordCamp Philippines? ...to encourage more developers to use and deploy WordPress, not only as a blogging engine but also as a full-featured content management system for Web sites. Another is to increase the number of WordPress users and developers in the country. By developers, we mean programmers of WordPress plugins and designers of themes & templates.
Continue reading...Saturday, March 22, 2008
Today, March 22nd is the birthday of the Philippine’s first and youngest President, General Emilio Aguinaldo. If you’ve been to the Philippines or have seen previous Philippine currency, General Emilio Aguinaldo is the person on the 5 Peso bill (no longer in circulation). He’s known as one of the revolutionary leaders against the Spaniards and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 20, 2007
If you remember my post regarding the “Proudly Pinoy” Logo Design Competition, yesterday was the deadline for submission and also the day that the winner would be announced. The total number of entries submitted reached 297. I’m sure if the competition lasted longer there would’ve been more entries. Anyways, the turn out was good even [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 14, 2007
A couple days ago, I received an email from Nick Tan of Ahyer.com inviting me to join a logo contest which they were sponsoring. Since I don’t have Photoshop on my laptop and I’m not really that good in graphic design, I volunteered to promote the contest. Oh yeah, I forgot that I’m not qualified [...]
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