Category: Tech Updates

After more than a week of voting, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary (IHMS) website which was submitted by Mary Lee Calope of BISU leads in the popularity criteria with 88 “Likes” in the Facebook page of the contest. The El Shaddai – Bohol website is a close second and was submitted by Catherine Pequino…

Last Sunday we talked about the pros and cons of the new Google +. This new social community is Google’s challenge to Facebook. Then just as Google+ was probably warming up, Facebook comes in with another just-stay-with-me-and-not-google+ feature, — the integrated video calling and the conference chat. For the past week or so, Google+ users…

The Bohol ICT Council is conducting a survey of Boholanos who are working in BPO firms outside Bohol starting today, January 9, 2011. The survey will allow the council to make an estimate of the number of Boholanos who may be interested to return to the province once a BPO firm opens a facility locally.…

Google has finally unveiled Google+, the company’s social layer that turns all of the search engine into one giant social network.   Google+, which begins rolling out a very limited field test, is the culmination of a year-long project led by Vic Gundotra, Google’s senior vice president of social. The project, is Google’s answer to…

There’s quite a new word circulating these days, and it involves getting more viewers to your website. Whether you want more readers to your blog, or to just promote your products online, the word SEO — which means Search Engine Optimization will definitely be a big plus for you. Here’s why: When internet first made…

Since its launch in March 2010, Auza.Net’s latest free online server PRCPassers.com (www.prcpassers.com) has served more than 40,000 search queries of names of passers of various Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) board examinations. The website indexes the list of the passers as published by the official website of the PRC and allows the user to search…

Facebook is probably the largest social network in the Internet today and a few hundred million users around the world regularly post updates about themselves and share information, some of it private, to friends and family. While it is fun and helpful to enhance relationships wherever your Facebook friends may be around the world, users…

Microsoft has officially revealed some of the key features of its forthcoming operating system. The new OS which may or may not be called Windows 8, has a completely different user interface. It takes inspiration mostly from the Windows Phone UI which puts a heavy emphasis on touch-based functionality. One of the most obvious design…

Another municipality has embraced modern, and transparent governance in tune with the efforts and goals of the Department of Interior and Local Governance (DILG). The Municipality of Dimiao is already online, and its constituents and other viewers can check the town out at www.dimiao-bohol.gov.ph. The site is a source of important information about the town…

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 781 out of 1,388 passed the various grades of the written phase of the Marine Engineer Officer’s Licensure Examinations given by the Board for Marine Engineer Officers in Manila this May 2011. Meanwhile, another graduate of the Philippine Maritime Academy – Bohol has passed the recent Licensure Examination…