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Cebu’s transforming economy
by Robert J. Cheng
Back in the early 90s as I was about to end my college days, our professor and department chair, the venerable Ms. Annie Vistro-Capistrano, asked each of the graduating students to talk about the industries that we went to for our summer job.
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Applied Tech
Software: Beyond being a static product
by Robert J. Cheng
IN A RECENT event held by IBM in Cebu, I was told that only 20 percent of Small-Meduim Businesses (SMB) in Cebu have taken advantage of the “real” benefits of IT. By “real” I would think this refers to the software capabilities and, hence, productivity improvements.
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Applied Tech
Our best foot forward
by Robert J. Cheng
ALL of Cebu is now going full steam preparing for the upcoming 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. Allow me then to write about the Summit instead of the usual technology related topics.
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Applied Tech
The technology trap
by Robert J. Cheng
TECHNOLOGY is generally good. There is no argument about that. But, in rare occasions, technology does become a hindrance, especially if people and organizations start using it without fully understanding the underlying reasons and processes behind it.
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Applied Tech
Getting your news online
by Robert J. Cheng
DURING the past weeks, I have read articles in national dailies expressing apprehensions that online news would eventually replace newspapers. Getting the news online seems to be the more logical way forward than reading it via paper.
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Applied Tech
YouTube’s US$1.65-B payday
by Robert J. Cheng
THE BIG news to hit the tech world this week is the impending sale of YouTube (www.youtube.com) to Google for a whopping US$1.65 billion. That’s a lot of money for a 65-person company that has yet to realize any profit.
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Applied Tech
Bringing BPO to Cebu
by Robert J. Cheng
THE Cebu Investment Promotions Center (CIPC), with the assistance of Perl2, is forming a delegation that will go to key cities in the US within September to attract BPO investments and activities to Cebu. This is quite a unique program in many aspects.
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Applied Tech
Happy 25th birthday to the PC
by Robert J. Cheng
OVER the weekend, the personal computer (PC) celebrated its 25th birthday. Surely, many of us must have read something about this event in the newspapers or seen the PC story featured at CNN. Why the fuzz over a machine? It is because the introduction of the PC is a key turning point for all of us.
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