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After his stint as Cisco Philippines Country Manager, Luichi Robles is now with BT Consulting services, a provider of IT consulting and staffing services.
Robles said his role is to link local clients with BT Consulting who are in need of consulting services and highly skilled IT professionals.
Robles worked with Cisco for [...]

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the extension of the Adobe® Flash® Platform to connected digital home devices with an optimized implementation of Flash technology that delivers high definition (HD) video and rich applications to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital living room.
The Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home now [...]

Micro-blogging site Twitter announced that a new variant of the Mikeyy worm is currently making the rounds.
“We are currently addressing a new variant of the Mikeyy worm,” Twitter wrote on its @spam feed. “Please avoid viewing the profile of users posting uncharacteristic or otherwise suspicious tweets.” The worm is reportedly referencing the account [...]

One Laptop Per Child project has announced that they are now using Via’s C7-M processor on their updated edition of XO laptop. OLPC said that this processor from Via operate at clock speeds of between 400MHz and 1GHz.
The processor from Via comes loaded with a 3D graphics engine and high-definition video decoder.

Ask.com brings back its iconic butler Jeeves after extensive research revealed users missed his friendly, human touch. His return caps an extensive programme of radical improvements to the search engine, which from today returns to its original name, Ask Jeeves, in the UK.
Ask Jeeves was originally created in 1997 with the Jeeves figure able [...]

Symantec have warned that rash of malware for Mac OS X systems is now being used to run a botnet. Systems infected by the Trojan have been used in at least one denial-of-service attack. Other users are also reporting that their systems are displaying activity caused by the malware.
Symantec recommended that Mac users avoid [...]

Oprah has announced the creation of her own account on the Twitter web service. Her account currently has no message but it already has attracted more than 38,000 followers.
Oprah’s Twitter account already is following some well known celebrities including Jimmy Fallon, Ellen DeGeneres, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.

The founders of the BitTorrent Pirate Bay website have been found guilty of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’ – with all four execs given custodial sentences.
Tthe Swedish Court found Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Carl Lundström guilty – and sentenced each to a year in prison and ordered to pay £2.5 million [...]

Microsoft has revealed that they would launch Windows Mobile 6.5 sometime May 2009. Microsoft already hinted that the new changes with the new update would include improved support for touch displays.
Windows Mobile 6.5 would be a step forward to Windows Mobile 7 which is expected to bring major changes to this mobile operating system.

IBM said it is no longer interested in acquiring Sun Microsystems “at any price”. Sun was reportedly to have approached IBM in an effort to reopen stalled talks, going as far to say it was flexible on price.
However, IBM said it was no longer interested in the deal. A deal that was reported [...]