Posted by: Admin on: December 16, 2009
Data comes in different forms – text, photos, and videos coming from TV, print, radio and online. And with the popularity of the web, people from around the world are hungry for information – be it politics, sports, business, entertainment and health, people need information. So just how much data do we consumed every day?
According to a report entitled “How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers,” released by the University of California, San Diego, U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008. One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes consumed last year were the equivalent of the information in thick paperback novels stacked seven feet high over the entire United States, including Alaska.
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Posted by: Admin on: December 8, 2009
Everybody is into social networking nowadays, most especially teenagers. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Friendster, Multiply and more, name it and they have it. Started as a social community, today even the enterprise cannot ignore the benefits social networking brings to their businesses.
But how about personal benefits? Aside from gaining friends, are there any other benefits these social networking sites bring to its users? The answer seems to be Yes.
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Posted by: Admin on: December 6, 2009
Security has been an issue since the Internet became so popular, especially now with the popularity of Web 2.0 – securing your personal computer or a corporate I.T. infrastructure is no joke.
It has been a cat and mouse thing between security providers and cybercriminals. With all due respect, I think the later is winning the game considering that the amount and opportunity losses are increasing every year. Why is this?
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Posted by: Admin on: November 27, 2009
No, this is not my year-end report still. Let us say this is simply a prelude to my actual year-ender article. But I would just like to emphasize that the year 2009 is a year full of surprises in terms of the changing of the guards for the companies.
The biggest of course is the announcement of HP Philippines, David Tan leaving his position as managing director, in his place is Ryan Guadalquiver, another big surprise. Guadalquiver is Oracle Philippines managing director before he decided to move to HP. We got hold of the story ahead of the rest (this is contrary to the claim of others that they were the first).
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Posted by: Admin on: November 25, 2009
Christmas is here again and its that time of the year when most of us are having difficulties on what gifts to buy for our relatives and friends. If budget is not an issue, then look no further because just recently the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) released a report indicating that Forty-two (42) percent of American adults plan to give or hope to receive a computer or video game this holiday season
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