Category: Tech Talk

Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology

Social media ‘practitioners’: Are they becoming more like tweetbots?

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 benign0 No Comments

Interesting, this Fortune.com feature on tweetbots. Apparently, social media has become just another lynching field with both human and machine competing (and often colluding) with one another to achieve one end or another. Closer to home, I got into a short discussion on Twitter on how some key social media metrics like “trending topics” have…

Media, Tech Talk

Former Google pioneering exec now Yahoo! CEO – and pregnant!

July 18, 2012 benign0 4 Comments

A Stanford graduate and one of the pioneering software engineers at Google, new Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer had much to do with the evolution of Google’s user interface and, as such, has had a direct hand in shaping the way users experience Google. Mayer joined Google in 1999 as employee number 20 and was the…

Tech Talk

Filipino cosplayer among Top 7 to follow on social media

July 15, 2012July 15, 2012 benign0 19 Comments

Filipino Cosplay Queen Alodia Gosiengfiao was recently listed by Mashable among its list of 7 Cosplayers to Follow on Social Media feature. Gosiengfiao is a noted personality in the eclectic cosplay community in the Philippines and has broken into mainstream media trying her hand in TV hosting and appears in a supporting role in the…

Culture, Media, Tech Talk

World’s first Christian tablet PC now out!

July 12, 2012 benign0 No Comments

A new touch-screen device that is supposedly “the world’s first Christian tablet” has been announced by FamilyChristian.com, an online ministry that markets Christian products and services. Called the edifi, the device is equipped with a “Family Christian Reader”, offers “Safe Search Wi-Fi” web browsing, and retails for USD149.99 putting it in direct competition with new…

Education, Religion, Tech Talk

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declares war on Apple

July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 benign0 4 Comments

In his first public statement since Microsoft revealed plans to develop and market their “Surface” tablet computers, CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview with CRN.com vowed that they are “not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple” referring to the software giant’s unprecedent push into a product develeopment approach of closely integrating hardware and…

Tech Talk

Apple no longer focused on ‘green’ products for now

July 10, 2012 benign0 1 Comment

Apparently, the new MacBook Pro featuring the new high-resolution “retina” display has signalled the end of Apple’s commitment to “green” products. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will be pulling out products erstwhile rated as environmentally-friendly by the Green Electronics Council using their Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). EPEAT criteria requires products to…

Environment, Tech Talk

Why is Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s Twitter account ‘protected’?

July 7, 2012May 2, 2018 benign0 20 Comments

Look whose Twitter account is set at “Protected”. Ms Maria Ressa who is CEO of “social news network” Rappler.com has set her Twitter profile so that “Only confirmed followers have access to [her] Tweets and complete profile,” and so one needs to “Click the ‘Follow’ button to send a follow request.” Ressa is a self-described…

Lifestyle, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Teenagers and sexting: should we be alarmed?

July 6, 2012 benign0 11 Comments

According to a study published in the July issue of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 28 percent of surveyed adolescents in the United States have engaged in ‘sexting’. Sexting is the practice of taking suggestive pictures of one’s self and sending it digitally — usually by mobile phone multi-media messaging services (MMS) — to another party’s…

Education, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

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Oliver
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Freedominmyhead
on Why are Filipinos so irrevocably corrupt?
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Tim
on Why make being an oligarchy sound like such a bad thing?
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Gabsboy
on Why are Filipinos so irrevocably corrupt?
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benign0
on Blocking Grok and other AI chat apps in the Philippines is a good idea
Agree 100% banning AI is a band aid solution that
Gabsboy
on Blocking Grok and other AI chat apps in the Philippines is a good idea
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