IT Events: Celebrate IT! Career and Leadership Conference for Students.

November 22, 2011

Venue: AFP Theater, Quezon City, Philippines

November 22, 2011

Celebrate IT

CelebrateIT! is another quality learning event from itprosasia.com that is focused on equipping and preparing graduating students from I.T./Computer Science and related disciplines as they join the Philippines’ Tech workforce.

CelebrateIT! is about opportunities, career options, technology trends and industry directions that may have significant effects on students’ career choices and their immediate future as working professionals.

itprosasia.com launches its first ever Tech Career and Leadership conference for I.T. graduating students

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – September 29, 2011. itprosasia.com, the Philippines’ leading technology jobs resource, will be launching its first ever tech career and leadership conference for students, CelebrateIT! to be held at the AFP Theater, Camp Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City on November 22, 2011.

Mr. Neil Bocacao, Senior Business Development Officer of itprosasia.com shares, “At CelebrateIT! we will talk about opportunities, career options, technology trends and industry directions that may have significant effects on the students’ career choices and their immediate future as a working professional.” This career and leadership conference will gather about a thousand graduating students from different colleges and universities from Metro Manila and nearby cities.

Ms. Gina Duminy, Founder and CEO of itprosasia.com shares, “CelebrateIT is both a career and leadership conference. It aims to engage, inspire and ignite all that is great about these graduating tech students and prepares them as they join the tech workforce through valuable information and career experiences shared by select speakers. There are so many job opportunities for technology professionals both locally and outside the Philippines. We hope by focusing on all these opportunities and the huge potential of both the tech industry and profession, we can encourage our tech workforce to stay home and fuel a domestic market that is in dire need of tech talent.”

CelebrateIT! is supported by leading industry associations: Philippine Computer Society (PCS), Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA Manila), Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and SANS Institute. Media partners are BusinessWorld, BusinessMirror, MediaG8way and ComputerWorld, The Radio Partners Network, and Sulit.com.ph.

For more information about CelebrateIT! you may call +632 584-1625 or 584-6235, visit www.itprosasia.com/celebrateit or email events@itprosasia.com.

Nokia unveils first Windows phones

Nokia Corporation is moving forward to a windows phone platform.

The world’s largest cellphone maker Nokia unveiled its first phones using Microsoft software on Wednesday, hoping they will kick-start a rescue of its ailing smartphone business. The Finnish group, struggling to keep up with nimbler rivals in a hotly contested industry, unveiled the lumia 710 and lumia 800 in London and priced them at 270 and 420 euros respectively excluding taxes and subsidies. Crucially, the lumia 800 will include the full and free navigation service users crave. The phones will be available in European and other markets around the world by the end of this year and in the United States in early 2012 and into mainland China in the first half of 2012. Left in the dust by Apple and Google in the booming smartphone market, Nokia decided to ditch its aging Symbian platform in favour of Microsoft’s software in a risky deal in February that spooked investors. Nokia has not rushed with the new phones.

One giant leap for Nokia

Nimbler rivals HTC, Fujitsu and Samsung Electronics have beaten it with models using the latest Windows software, Mango. Nokia and Microsoft have said they will focus on close co-operation with operators to support the platform. “Operators really want to have another company on the scene: they don’t want Google and Apple to rule the mobile universe,” said Magnus Jern, chief executive of Barcelona-based mobile app development firm Golden Gekko, speaking ahead of the launch.


Lumia has dark background
Nokia’s market value has halved since February as investors are unsure whether it can ever regain the market share it has lost. Its third-quarter results beat low expectations, sparking hopes that the company can survive a painful revamp, but smartphone sales still dropped 38 percent from a year ago. With Microsoft software, Nokia hopes to gain the kind of attention Apple and Google have attracted from software developers that enrich their devices. Research firm Strategy Analytics expects Microsoft to double its share of the Western European smartphone market during 2012 to 12.3 percent, helped by the Nokia partnership. The 12.3 percent forecast for Microsoft’s software refers to its use across several mobile phone makers and compares with the much higher market share Nokia’s Symbian platform alone previously enjoyed – it controlled 41 percent of the West European market as recently as the first half of 2010. The annual Nokia World media and industry event in London on Wednesday includes speakers from the world’s largest carriers: China Mobile, Vodafone, Orange and MTN.



Thanks to Chris Cubilla of Phil IT Org for sharing this.

Nokia's Windows Phone platform revealed

As Microsoft recently announced the availability of two new Nokia Windows Phone 7.5 Mango thru Windows Phone Insider.  Nokia Lumia 800 is also known as Nokia Sea Rey and NOKIA Lumia 710 is also known as Nokia Sabre.  

Nokia Lumia 800

At a glance with the Nokia Lumia 800 every detail floats to life on the surface of the curved 3.7” ClearBlack display, bringing striking clarity, indoors and out. And with a seamless, deep-dyed body, and cutting-edge 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, you’ve got a revolutionary smart phone in the palm of your hand.  Specific colors vary by country. Check with your local retailer for more information.

Highlights

Seamless design with curved glass and one-piece body

ClearBlack floating 3.7” AMOLED display

Carl Zeiss 8MP wide angle lens

Coming first to UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Netherlands.

Phone specs

Display: 800x480 (ClearBlack floating 3.7” AMOLED display)

Processor: 1.4 GHz Single Core / Qualcomm

Camera: Yes (8MP, Carl Zeiss lens with LED flash, autofocus, and HD video)

Available colors Black, Cyan, and Magenta

Battery Life: 8 hours/16 days

Full specs can be found at GSMArena.com 

NOKIA Lumia 710

At a glance, the Nokia Lumia 710 with Windows Phone.  A different day, a different look. Xpress covers can be swapped out for an extra splash of color—and even matched up with your Start screen. Not to mention the super-fast Internet Explorer Mobile web browser, which lets you follow the next big story in real time, with easy online sharing to bring friends into the conversation.  Specific colors vary by country. Check with your local retailer for more information.

Highlights

Add apps, swap colors, swap covers

Get your social network updates in one place

ClearBlack display lets you see clearly indoors or outdoors

Coming first to UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Netherlands.

Phone specs

Display: 800x480 (ClearBlack 3.7” WVGA)

Processor: 1.4 GHz Snapdragon Single Core

Camera: Yes (5MP with LED flash and autofocus)

Battery Life: 8 hours/18 days

Colors: Black, White (front)/ black, white, cyan, fuchsia, yellow (back)

Full specs can be also found at GSMArena.com

 Images are from GSMArena.com

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – October 2011 Update

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – October 2011 Update now ready to download. Last month, I attended a Windows Azure University held at Microsoft Philippines HQ. I’m so very blessed the training 100% free.

The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform, including: Windows Azure, SQL Azure and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
 
The October 2011 update of the training kit includes the following updates:

[New Hands-On Lab] SQL Azure Data-tier Applications

[New Hands-On Lab] SQL Azure Data Sync

[New Hands-On Lab] SQL Azure Federations

[New Demo] Provisioning Logical Servers using Cmdlets Demo

[New Demo] Parallel Computing on Azure – Travelling Salesman Demo

[Updated] SQL Azure Labs and Demos with the new portal and tooling experience

Applied several minor fixes in content

Source: http://microsoftfeed.com/

LevelUp! Live 2011 at World Trade Center

Hey gamers mark your gaming calendar for biggest gaming event in the Philippines. Because LevelUp! Live 2011 is coming, on November 5, 2011 at World Trade Center, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City.


Level Up! Live is the biggest and most prestigious online gaming event in the Philippines. Every year, more than 20,000 gamers attend Level Up! Live to bond with their friends and online guild mates over exciting side events, activities, and the culminating tournaments of Level Up!’s biggest games.
Since its creation in 2004, Level Up! Live has given away millions of pesos worth of prizes to its tournament champions, along with the chance to live out their dreams of making it to the big stage. Level Up! Live champions have gone on to compete in premier international tournaments like the Grand Chase World Championships and the Ragnarok World Championships, proving to the world that the Filipino online gamer has got what it takes to go global.

Level Up! Live is held at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.

IT events: Get Dev High with HTML5

Title: Gimme Five: Get Dev High with HTML5

Date: November 5 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue: Microsoft Philippines. 6750 Ayala Office Tower, Makati City

A half-day session on developing Metro style application using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 on Windows 8

Session 1 - HTML 5 (Allan Spartacus Mangune)
Session 2 - Javascript and HTML 5 (Mark Guitierrez)
Session 3 - CSS 3 and HTML 5 (Christopher Misola)

Register now by adding yourself at Facebook event

Pinoy Gaming Festival 2011 SC2 Media and Bloggers Tournament

I just got back home from Pinoy Gaming Festival happening at Cyberzone, SM North EDSA.  Aside from covering the PGF 2011, media and bloggers got a changed to play DotA 2 and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. I joined the media tournament and played Star Craft 2, I choose Terrain on Multiplayer mode (1 vs 1) but unfortunately I was defeated in fast time, I never thought that my opponent taking an advantage attack against me.  It was cool and fun game for me. 

Thanks to  Sponsors and organizers for inviting us blogger. Thanks too Mineski Infinity, Razer, Inno3d for allowing us to cover this awesome event.

PGF 2011 (Pinoy Gaming Festival)  is from Oct 28 to Oct 31, visit Cyberzone SM City North EDSA to see the DOTA grand finals.

Official Partners

iPod touch. With iCloud, iMessage, and a new color. Just ₱11,490

Music, games, iMessage, HD video recording, and more. It has fun written all over it.Now starting at ₱ 11,490.00.  I think all Apple store specially Power Mac Centers offers this price. Also visit Power Mac Center in SM Mall of Asia to avail the 15% discount untill From October 28 to November 2.

iPod touch plays music, videos, and games. It also makes FaceTime calls,* sends text messages free over Wi-Fi, and shoots HD video. It comes in black and white. And it includes iOS 5 and iCloud. So everything you touch turns to fun.

Music, games, iMessage, HD video recording, and more. It has fun written all over it.Now starting at ₱ 11,490.00.

Technical Specification  click here.

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