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Computerworld / July 2009
NEWS DIGEST
6 Electronics industry prepare for the upturn | Angara reassures creation of DICT this year
7 RP nears universal Net access with WiMax rollout | Smart ups wireless broadband offering with HSPA
OPINION
10 Managing Technology Social Networking Facelift by Michael Alan Hamlin
76 OutsourcingInsights AdEPT – Industry-Academe Linkage that works by Oscar R. Sanez
77 Executive Briefing Survive the Economic Crisis with Smart IT Strategies by Anne Ozzimo
78 RealIT Live Longer and Prosper by By Jack Madrid
FUTURE WATCH
32 The PC of 2019. The future PC promises to put nearly everything you could need or want right in your palm.
GREEN IT
37 Study: Green IT Now Essential IT Practice. Cost-reduction and environmental responsibility is leading to a significant interest in green IT strategies and solutions.
38 Dell pushes the green revolution to SMBs. Going green is the growing trend nowadays, and even small and midsize businesses (SMB) can keep up with the pace, according to global computer manufacturer Dell.
CAREER WATCH
66 The 7-Second Interview. It takes only seven seconds for people to make decisions about us in viewing our resumes based on 11 character traits.
67 IT Propagator. Wanting to make a positive impact to the whole world, Stephen “Tep” Misa appears to be in great challenge. But he believes otherwise, claiming anyone can actually do it by simply influencing, at least, one person; and he does this by propagating technology.
68 Success Absorption. Without a doubt, in the IT career field, there is more to just the technical core skills of professionals thriving in the executive level. And Melvin Guanzon teaches that one should be flexible enough to absorb everything – good or bad – and learn from them.
SPECIAL REPORT
12 Bloom in Gloom
As the economy drags on, IT professionals seem to have no recourse but to bloom where they’re currently planted.
16 IT Career Survey: The Elusive Dream
The good times are still elusive for most IT professionals. Aside from the looming effect of the worldwide recession to the organizations where they serve, most of them have grown to be content with salaries they believe are below industry standard.
NEWS ANALYSIS
48 The Poll Automation Bidding, An Expensive Learning Experience.
For several IT industry players, the bidding for the multibillion-peso contract to automate Philippine elections turned out to be a very expensive learning experience.
CIO ROUNDTABLE
22 IT Outsourcing
The Philippines is quickly becoming one of the global hotspots for business process outsourcing (BPO) by multinational firms abroad who have handpicked Filipinos to handle business processes that were once part of their domestic operations.
DIRECT ACCESS
42 Championing RP’s Cyber Goals
CICT continues to champion the Philippines’ cyber potential with its various ICT projects and initiatives. To take a closer look at CICT’s efforts, Computerworld Philippines (CWP) launched last month “Direct Access,” a quarterly roundtable meeting between CICT officials and the publication’s editorial staff.
SECURITY
50 Internet Warfare
Computers remain vulnerable. They still suffer attacks enabled by poor design and insufficient quality control. And despite the huge sum spent on IT security, US companies and individuals are loosing tens of billions of dollars annually to cybercrime.
54 Internet INTERRUPTUS
What does it really mean when one encounters the notice: “The Internet is down”?
55 Portrait of a Security-Savvy User
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. takes information security seriously. It claims to be the only financial services firm rated at Level 3 on the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration scale. It is also one of the co-developers of the just-announced industry standard Building Security In Maturity Model.
DATA CENTERS
58 Developing ‘Smarter’ Data Centers
In times of shrinking IT budgets despite increasing network demands due to high-bandwidth content such as videos and photos, virtualizing servers seems to be the proverbial Holy Grail for most IT managers.
TECH WATCH
60 Highlights of Computex 2009
An estimated 100,000 people visited Computex Taipei 2009 from around the world, down slightly from 106,517 last year, according to figures from the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA).
MOBILE & WIRELESS
62 Mobile Computing: The Achilles’ heel in Your Company?
While not quite willing to declare it as devastating as Achilles’ injury during the Trojan War, many organizations do acknowledge handheld mobile computing as their toughest security challenge.
IT & POLITICS
64 Web site to foster informed Pinoy voters
Dubbed Politicalarena.com, it is the nation’s first socio-political networking site that is aimed to provide a forum for candidates and voters to communicate through social networking tools such as blogs, chat and multimedia portals.
POWER TOOLS
70 Acer Phones
INDUSTRY BULLETIN 74
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Not Lobbying
This is in reference to the article “SAS plans to provide RP credit bureau with credit scoring solution” by Tom Noda published in Computerworld Philippines online last April 29, 2009.
This is to clarify Mr. Noda’s report that: “SAS executives disclosed that the company is conducting lobbying efforts in government offering its latest solution, called SAS Credit Scoring for Banking, for the use of the country’s first national credit bureau.”
We categorically deny that SAS is “lobbying” with the credit bureau of the government. Lobbying was never practiced in our course of business with the government or the private sector.
Sincerely Yours,
Maxie Ventura
Director, Commercial Sales and Marketing
SAS Philippines
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