by Jovie Cabais | Apr 15, 2012 | Tech Updates
Auza.Net will start its training sessions beginning Monday, April 16, 2012. Trainings will be held inside the K of C Recreation Center Building, at the Auza.Net training area. Participants coming from Bohol’s leading institutions have enlisted to join the program. These trainees will undergo sessions and will be given assignments in connection to their weekly topics. Training will end on the first week of June. Students who are interested and haven’t passed their application letters and resumes may still catch up by coming to the program’s orientation on Monday, 9:30am at the Auza.Net Training Center inside the K of C Recreation Center Building. The following students who have already taken the Applicant Assessment Test are all qualified to enroll in the training program: 1. Auza, Genesis – BISU – Bilar 2. Batangon, Marifel – ACLC 3. Borja, Debra May – UB 4. Cenabre, Ma. Sheila – ACLC 5. Clave, Welliam – ACLC 6. Comillas, Christopher – UB 7. Forinas, Miguelito – Informatics 8. Gunday, Vince – UB 9. Lanada, Charles Henry – UB 10. Lorzano III, Wenceslao – ACLC 11.Matela, Julieta – ACLC 12.Ruedas, Ken Laury – UB 13.Salabsab, Wilson – ACLC 14.Salcedo, Loriel – ACLC 15.Santos, Joseph – ACLC 16.Simbajon, Joydah – Informatics 17.Tabat, Richie Noel – TESDA – Tubigon 18.Triunfante, Johnalyn – ACLC Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Apr 15, 2012 | Tech Updates
When Auza.Net started operations in Bohol in 2005, the company immediately started promoting the use of open source software as alternative to using pirated commercial software. At that time, it was a bit hard to convince Boholano users to move to Linux and OpenOffice.Org because the user interface of most Linux distributions were not that advanced yet. This year, the Philippine Anti-Piracy Team has been cracking down small time and big time software pirates as reported on their website at www.papt.org.ph. They are catching violators from computer technicians installing pirated software to large corporations using pirated software in their main business operations. Penalties and imprisonment have been slapped to convicted violators. If your business is found using pirated software, all computers may be confiscated and used as evidence. That means your business could shutdown. It’s no surprise that piracy is prevalent with software licenses increasing the cost of a computer significantly. Take for example, a popular operating system called Windows 7 will cost about Php 4,000 to Php6,000 per computer. The popular office productivity suite called MS Office will cost about Php11,000. The graphics software called Photoshop is at least Php30,000. Compare that with computer hardware costing as low as Php 12,000 without the operating system and office productivity software. Fortunately, the Linux operating system has evolved very significantly in the last seven years. The OpenOffice.Org office productivity software is now also comparable to the commercial version. The graphics editing software called GIMP has improved very significantly also. Users have a wide array of choices of which Linux distroy they would like to install. Old computers can still be...
by Jovie Cabais | Jan 22, 2012 | Tech Updates
While many of us were entertained by the impeachment trial of the chief justice, a very important matter concerning our freedom as humanity is currently being debated in the US Congress and Senate as well as in the online world. What is SOPA and PIPA anyway? SOPA which means “Stop Online Piracy Act” is a bill proposed by the US Congress and PIPA or Protect IP Act is the corresponding bill in the US Senate. These two laws attempt to protect the intellectual property of content or media producers whose business have been severely affected by online piracy. The problem is that these proposed laws have so much room for abuse because the content provider only needs to convince a judge that a certain website is doing piracy and the Attorney General can then order ISPs to block the website. It can also block its source of revenue by ordering payment processors like Paypal to disable accounts. Why would SOPA and PIPA affect us in faraway Bohol, Philippines? Because if the proposed laws are enacted and enforced to the letter, it would be very easy for content or media producers to allege that websites like Google, Facebook, Wired.com, Wikipedia, Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, and many more, contain links to pirated content and therefore could be blocked. Then other countries might follow suit. If left unchecked, the Internet might become tiny islands instead of one big network. The impact of such laws would be worldwide but the benefit is only for the media and content industry. On January 18, 2012, several popular websites like Wikipedia, Wired.com, Google and...
by Jovie Cabais | Jan 22, 2012 | Tech Updates
Auza.Net will soon be offering training courses for students and IT enthusiasts alike. These are in-house trainings which will be held at the Auza.Net Training Center. The company also accepts organizations who want to schedule seminars and workshops. As of now, the company is offering the following courses: Basic Networking, Introduction to PHP, Basic WordPress, Advanced Networking and Advanced WordPress. These courses will soon expand to allow more choices for students, IT enthusiasts, businesses, and even executives. The first batch of training sessions are expected to be scheduled on the second week of February, depending on the number of trainees who sign up. For more information on these sessions. please call 501-8459 and look for Theresa or Gemma. Meanwhile, those who are interested to enroll in the 2012 Summer OJT program may now start passing their application forms. The different courses offered in the training center will be integrated with the lessons for this year’s batch of summer On- the- job trainees. For interested applicants, please submit your application letter and resume on or before February 27, 2012. Please address your letters to: OJT Program Coordinator Auza.Net Training Center Tagbilaran City, Bohol...
by Jovie Cabais | Nov 6, 2011 | Tech Updates
We have anticipated for quite sometime Nokia’s huge move to catch up with the ultra- fast paced world of smart phones. Ever since iPhones and Androids made it to the market, the former leading cellphone manufacturer was sort of lost between the two giant’s endless battles. According to Nic Fleming of TechnologyReview.com, over the last five years, Nokia has experienced a dramatic reversal in fortunes. The company once dominated the high-end phone market with its Symbian-powered phones, but Apple’s iPhone and devices running Google’s Android have jumped ahead. However, it looks like Nokia is already trying to catch the smartphone wave with its partnership with Windows and the release of their new smartphones powered by Windows OS. Nokia has now produced two smartphones that would hopefully help the company regain relevance in the fast-growing mobile-computing market. The Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 are the first fruits of the Microsoft-Nokia alliance. The new Windows phones were unveiled during company CEO Stephen Elop’s keynote speech at the Nokia World event in London. “We are signaling our intent right now, here today, to be today’s leaders in smart-phone design and craftsmanship,” said Elop, a former Microsoft executive who signed the partnership deal with Microsoft in February. In a swipe at other manufacturers, such as HTC and Samsung, that have already launched Windows phones, he added: “Lumia is the first real Windows phone.” A glimpse of the Lumia 800 phone reveals that its hardware’s design is identical to the Nokia N9. Inside it is a 1.4-gigahertz processor and 512 megabytes of RAM, which lags behind the dual-core...
