Biometrics and Credit Card in Jakarta.

15Sep09

Couple of weeks back i visited Jakarta, Indonesia. I cannot remember if i have noticed it before but a biometrics lane was there to receive arriving residents or perhaps registered aliens. It was a service from Saphire. Singapore and Malaysia (if i remember it correctly – among asean country) have implemented this solution.  I quickly [...]

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Tags: biometrics, credit card, jakarta, saphire, silver bird

Avaya taking advantage over Nortel’s demise

31Mar09

After filing for bankruptcy, Nortel is in the midst of selling off its business units. One familiar player is bidding for it’s wireless unit. Interestingly, Rudy – a contemporary way back in my BPI life was once connected with Nortel and Cisco and now is with Avaya. I’m actually wooing him over to join our [...]

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Tags: avaya, nortel, voice applications

Abet’s 24/7 view

10Feb09

24 x 7 operations has been a trend since the boom of the call center industry. But in the food and beverage industry, Kowloon (siopao and siomai) has been one of the pioneers of operating round the clock.  My friend Abet (and his wife Lei) acquired a franchise about 2 years ago. With the franchise business model and [...]

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Tags: 24x7 operations, dyndns, ip camera, kowloon

TMBlog Best of 2006

31Dec06

Four months into blogsphere the team has published into diverse categories in which Knowledge Management was the widely viewed and reviewed. Is this a trend? Are we (the enterprise, our readers) serious about KM? Interestingly blogging is a tool that falls into the same category.  Initially we wanted to share our learning’s from UP’s Technology Management Center and our professional [...]

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PC for $100, Monitor Not Included! Gawang pinoy – by Raffy Mananghaya

09Nov06

I’m not sure if you have read about the notebook that was developed from MIT Lab for $100. It was not designed to be commercialized rather to aid the less fortunate communities in giving affordable access to technology and information. More specifically for the countries in the African continent.
Here comes a PC for $100, about [...]

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