I was listening to a very funny podcast last Thursday, where a telemarketer, apparently from India, called in to Chris Prilillo’s live internet-radio show. And it made me think about India’s dominance in the offshoring industry, as opposed to what is still an emerging industry in the Philippines. Yes, they have brilliant Programmers and analysts over at Mumbai or Chennai. But still when it comes to communication skills, I would tend to believe Filipinos learn better and more easily in terms of accent neutralization and cultural familiarization. You’d be surprised how Pinoys sound as American as Americans themselves.
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PLDT senior vice president and retail business group head Butch Jimenez has announced that PLDT…
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I’ve been writing about Techie people on Technobiography. Today, I write about Techie Taxis in Singapore and relate them to the technologies that we have in the Philippines that can turn Filipino Taxi drivers into Techies too.
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Yesterday, I wrote about an m-Commerce Pyramid Scheme email on Technobiography. I gave it some time to simmer, some time for my email sender to reply to my skeptic queries. But, with Jepoy’s additional information and with no reply from my email sender, I’m labelling this as a technology-enabled pyramid scam. M-Commerce users beware, and read on…
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I had a story a few months ago on Technobiography about some sensors temporarily installed at the Boni MRT station. I hypothesized that these were sensors would allow passage of commuters with the use of a cellphone. I wondered out loud whether the sensor would use SMS or bluetooth, or some other technology.
Later on, in private e-mails, I discovered more about the technology behind these mysterious sensors that appear and disappear at the Boni MRT station. Now, after trying out the EZ Link card in Singapore, I have a better understanding of how these sensors could work.
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I caught a news item in the Philippine Star – which doesn’t keep its articles…
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With Dell signing on, the Philippines has just scored well in it’s bid to ride…
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I thought I would never have to blog about PLDT and their myDSL service but…
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SkypeOut celebrates its first birthday. It has lowered rates to 20 countries, and added 6…
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The past few years saw the growth of a new industry, the Mobile Content Provider…