New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft
Microsoft wants its sleek new toy to finally cross the bridge to the mainstream and become the family's entertainment center.
IP as an asset. Or even a bank collateral?
You have been granted a patent. What’s next?
EFF warns new US-led Asia-Pac partnership could turn ISPs into ‘copyright cops’
If you think the new copyright law is already restrictive, wait until the Philippines joins another controversial multilateral free trade agreement.
Copyright infringement under the new IP law
One of the upcoming major changes to the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, as a result of the recently passed amendments, is the expanded definition of copyright infringement.
New IP law is tough love
A new intellectual property law that amends some of our copyright provisions, is starting to make noise due to some changes, which the law’s critics find too restrictive.
SLIDESHOW | MacWorld / iWorld 2013, San Francisco
Our resident tech columnist Al Dimanlanta share’s the photos he took inside the Muscone Center West where all the four-day iActivities happened.
Bytes and bamboo: Jose Maceda meets Manila’s musical underground
This coming June, the UP College of Music will again be commemorating the death anniversary of Dr. Jose Maceda, the legendary Filipino ethnomusicologist and avante-garde composer.
Funding opportunity for local tech startups
A LinkedIn contact has shared with me details of an upcoming program that is designed to assist promising local technology startups.
Gigantic gift guide for gamers: Christmas 2012 edition
Buying video games as a gift can be a pretty scary task at times, even for seasoned gamers.
REVIEW | Forget the apples, here’s a Star
The Starmobile Astra: for P6,990, I got for myself a full-featured Android smartphone that not only was gentle on my wallet, it exceeded all my expectations of what a relatively “cheap” Android phone should be.
The Philippines and the region’s growing IP system
Southeast Asia is a region in transition in almost all fronts, including in the area of intellectual property. Poorer but fast-developing economies in the region have begun to invest in the system while one economic frontrunner is starting to make …
Rails, Ruins, and Re-use: New York’s High Line Greenway
The first time I’d heard of the High Line was when my wife Chako’s old college buddy Gabby offered to tour us around it during the second week of last October. We were in New York, visiting friends living in …
The state of the Philippine patent system
At this year’s annual assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization in its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the role of intellectual property, particularly of the patent system, as a driver of economic growth was highlighted once again. With our Asian …
Should news aggregators such as Google and Yahoo! pay newspapers?
This month, I submitted my Master’s Thesis for my LL.M. degree in Intellectual Property and Competition Law at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. It marks the end of a strenuous one-year program that was also attended by 24 other …
The cybercrime law: Service providers, beware!
Much has already been said about the controversial insertion of libel into the recently-enacted “Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.” In my opinion, more than the inclusion of libel, the discussion should zero in on the effect of the law on …
Of plagiarism, libel, and the end of freedom of expression as we know it
And so it has come to pass. The erstwhile Cybercrime Bill is now signed into law and our online lives will never be the same again. But first, a bit of perspective. In the past few weeks, cyberspace was abuzz …
GAME REVIEW | Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is finally out for home consoles, which means you no longer have to embarrass yourself in the arcades to play it. The game provides you with the great, tight, 3-dimensional fighting that has immortalized the series. …
Top 5 Philippine-branded mobile devices of Q1 2013
We sifted through what seems to be a huge pile of those launched — but not necessarily available — in the first quarter of this year and came up with five that have tickled our fancy.
