by Jovie Cabais | Aug 22, 2010 | Tech Updates
Are you located at a remote location far from the coverage areas of the various Internet service providers? Auza.Net may be able to provide Internet access service at your location. The company has coverage in Dauis, Panglao, Tagbilaran, Baclayon and Albur. Auza.Net uses a carrier grade wireless mesh network system that can reach up to 12 kilometers from its relay stations in Dampas, Tagbilaran City and Catarman, Dauis, Panglao. To check if Auza.Net can provide service at your location, please contact Gemma at 038- 5018459 for survey schedule. Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Aug 22, 2010 | Tech Updates
Intel, the largest microprocessor manufacturer in the world, shook the IT security industry last week by buying McAfee, a security software company, in a $6.78B deal, the biggest deal yet for the company. Intel says that the acquisition will enable the company to better secure the increasing number of devices connected to the Internet. Senior research analyst at Gartner, Ruggero Contu, says that the move by Intel was surprising because there were other companies that he thought would have better synergies with McAfee. Intel paid $48 per share vs. the actual price of $29.93 per share of McAfee, a 60 percent premium paid apparently to ensure Intel seals the deal. Other players may have been involved. Analyst Tristan Gerra with Robert W. Baird & Co. said the deal targets rising security concerns among manufacturers of devices that uses microprocessors and gives Intel “significant security advantages” over its competitors who need to engage third party security vendors. The connectivity of devices that started to become a necessity in many business applications may eventually spread to devices used at home and cars. In the next 10 years, security of connected devices will be near the top of the list of features that customers will be looking for. Intel is clearly preparing for the future. Sources: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100819/ap_on_hi_te/us_intel_mcafee_acquisition http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/19/intel-acquires-mcafee-for-7-68-billion/ http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/08/securing-the-internet-of-thing.php Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Aug 15, 2010 | Tech Updates
The monthly user traffic of pioneering free online classified ads website for Bohol, www.boholclassifiedads.com, increased more than double between July 2009 to July 2010. From a monthly page views of 2980 last year, it is now at 6,458. The increase in traffic was attributed to increased promotional efforts started in April 2010. The website also enjoys the #1 position in Google search if the user searches for the keywords ‘Bohol Classified Ads’ which helps the website gain increased traffic over time as more and more users are connected to the Internet and start searching online. SME’s, real estate brokers, professionals and people selling products or services should take advantage of this free classified ads website to help increase sales. Employers looking for employees can help get more applicants who may not have a copy of news papers that have limited distribution locally. Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Aug 15, 2010 | Tech Updates
There is so much hype about the iPhone thanks to Apple’s impressive marketing strategy that its competition, the Android phones, don’t seem to be as popular. However, because iPhones are usually tied to a mobile carrier brand, its market is limited by the carrier’s market size. Both mobile platforms offer the user the capability to do more online work and play on a smart phone device. Both offer software development kits or SDKs for developers who want to create applications on these devices. Both platforms have their loyal users. The Android, an open source mobile platform developed by Google, has the advantage of being able to run open source applications that may be free or at least have lower cost than the proprietary applications that run on iPhone. Android itself is open source and free and can be used on multiple devices from different manufacturers. Android is based on the Linux operating System. The iPhone platform, called the iOS, is stuck with the hardware produced by Apple. In the Philippines, only Globe subscribers can use iPhones “officially”. Users using other networks would have to risk losing the warranty of the device by modifying its setup such that the carrier restriction is removed. Android can be used by any carrier thus its potential market size is much larger than that of the iPhone. Worldwide also, iPhones are restricted to certain mobile carriers. In the near future, it should not be surprising if Android phones will dominate the smart phone mobile market. [Android logo: http://www.android.com/media/wallpaper/gif/android_logo.gif] [get apple logo also] [get pictures of android phone and iphone. Share...
by admin | Aug 11, 2010 | Software Development Guide, Tech Updates
There are two general loops, the while loop and the for loop. There are variations on how the loops are implemented in different languages but the developer usually have two scenarios: he knows how many times to loop or he needs to loop until a condition becomes true. The for loop is used when the developer knows how many times to perform the loop. For example, he needs to print the ascii code of the characters of the alphabet. In PHP and in C (remove the $ sign from the variable if using C language), this can be done this way: for ($i = 65; $i < 91; $i++) { printf(“%c\n”, $i); } If we didn’t know that there are 26 characters in the alphabet but we know that the last character is the letter ‘Z’, then we would need to use a while loop: $i = 65; while (chr($i) != ‘Z’) { printf(“%c\n”, $i); $i++;...
