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In his latest blog, Ruben Canlas takes a jab at the Comelec after it refused to accredit a gay party-list group on the grounds of immorality.

New media made news more personal because these were transmitted through social networks, Ruben Canlas writes.

Ondoy ushered in a sea change in the way Filipinos sent and received information, thanks to new and inexpensive media technologies.

Compact digital technology and the internet have rendered companies and moral crusaders powerless, Ruben Canlas Jr. says in his first blog for GMANews.TV after a two-year hiatus.

I give the next installment in the Online Consumer Series, through a more popular service: online booking for airlines. I recently tried to book a flight to Davao and I wanted to be able to compare Cebu Pacific and PAL. I wanted to see the price difference between the two airlines.

It's high time local governments harnessed the power of information technology (IT) to improve the way they serve the people. (Of course, by this I mean only serious local governments -- those who really intend to serve the people who voted them in power.)

Filipino programming students, take heed! Google is once again sponsoring students from all over the world to do some serious programming. The mission? To contribute code to an open source software (OSS) project.

Last week, people around the world gathered at Ortigas and put their heads together to shed light on two topics that are important to me: development issues and how to help solve them through knowledge sharing. The 2-day conference called KM4Dev: Forum 2007, was attended by various development practitioners, members of the academe, a few NGOs, funding agencies and even Philippine government agencies. I was there in my capacity as a student of knowledge management (KM) and information technology.

One of the frequent questions I get asked about Windows Vista is whether it is really secure. The safest answer I could give is, let's give it some time. I'm preparing an FAQ for a more detailed (but non-technical) discussion about the security question. In the meantime, the first potential hack for Vista has been found and reported.

I would have much preferred to watch an ordinary user who's tested the products and are excitedly talking about new products. Well, they did show some videos of some users. And besides, this is a launch for businesses, so they're focusing on business users.