Growth spurt in mobile Internet
Over 35% of Filipino Internet users adopt mobile Internet A growth spurt in mobile Internet use in South East Asia (SEA) resulted in an over 35% of Filipino Internet users to adopt mobile Internet- placing Philippines third in SEA for mobile use. Compared to March 2011, mobile Internet use among Filipinos increased by over 48% in April 2011. Effective Measure Regional Director (SEA) Russell Conrad credits this growth to the increasing popularity of Smartphones, “Along with the boom of Smartphones throughout the region, a growing number of consumers, including over half a million Filipino Internet users, are adopting mobile Internet to access infotainment, conduct business and engage in e-commerce while on the go. Comparison of the increase in mobile Internet use in SEA from March to April 2011: The following details the browsing patterns of Filipino mobile Internet users in April 2011: Mobile Internet users stayed on a webpage at an average of 51 seconds, 22 seconds more than PC users Each session on mobile Internet lasted for at an average of 5.42 minutes, 34 seconds more than a PC session Mobile internet users viewed an average of 7 pages per session, 4 pages less than PC users “The progress of the Philippines market is deeply encouraging. The increased activity seen on mobile Internet provides an opportunity for businesses to target the Philippines market and establish mobile-friendly interfaces to strengthen an online presence,†said Conrad. SOURCE: Effective Measure Effective Measure is a world leading online Audience Measurement solution, head-quartered in Melbourne, Australia with additional offices in Dubai, New York, Sydney and Bangkok. Lead by a team of world respected Audience Measurement professionals, Effective Measure is rapidly becoming the de facto standard in 16 countries globally.
Social Network Integration
Wikipedia defines social networking service as “…an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activitiesâ€. Some popular social networking service sites are facebook and twitter. The world has gone social. The primary evidence is when you log in to your facebook account and see how many of your friends are online. More and more people are getting online every day and make it as part of their daily life.  They engage with each other, playing games, sharing activities, interests, and/or passions with their network of friends. They discover meaningful contents for them and join conversations. The activity and authenticity of the social network is made up of real people – and these people could be your customers. That is one reason why it is beneficial for businesses to integrate social networks, such as facebook and twitter, to their websites. Once a user like, recommend or tweet your website, it will be shared to their network of friends and this personal recommendation is a powerful kind of endorsement. Your website will have more opportunity to be visited that offers your products and/or services to be known to customers. Ever wonder how many people can find your facebook page or tweets? According to Wikipedia, facebook now has over 600 million active users all over the world while twitter has 200 million (as of January 2011). It’s now time for your business to join these social networking sites to keep in touch of your customers and get the edge by integrating it to your website. There are many ways of integrating these social networking sites to your website or web applications. Social networking sites provide Widgets, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and SDKs (Software Development Kits) or devkits which Software Developers can use to create custom applications or integration supported by their platform. For example, Facebook has the “Graph API†that enables us to read and write data to Facebook. We can now retrieve data like photos, events, likes, update statuses and other data objects. They also provide SDKs for certain programming languages like Facebook PHP SDK that provide Facebook Platform support for PHP-based web applications. Other Facebook SDK include Android SDK, .NET SDK, etc. Article and Presentation by John Michael Dalisay, Junior Software Developer for EACOMM Corporation. Social Network Integration
Blast from the Past…Part 1: EACOMM Presentations
EACOMM Corporation is celebrating its 10th year anniversary this year and we thought we’d bring back to light some of our past works, projects and presentations. To start, below are some power-point presentations we’ve presented over the years in PDF format: Building a Web-Based Marketing Channel – This presentation was shown in 2005 to groups of Filipino Export Companies in the hopes of convincing them to market their products online. It discusses basic on-line marketing, developing an effective website, and an introduction to e-commerce. EACOMM-introduction to 3d game programming – This presentation was conducted for a organization of Ateneo Computer Science Majors in 2003. It provides a brief introduction on 3D game programming and the available technologies for development during that time. Real-time-data-transmission-over-FM-sub-carrier-frequencies – This paper was a presentation on EACOMM Corporation’s R&D efforts in developing a data transmission system using unused bandwidth in FM Radio stations way back in 2002. This is one of our favorite research endeavors even after nine years given the novelty of the concept. Wireless Data Transmission over GSM Short Message Service (GSM-SMS) – This R&D project aimed to provide a means of data transmission over GSM-SMS (A relatively new concept in 2003 when this system was proposed). Innovative Applications of Asterisk Open Source PBX – This was presented in Asterconference Roadshow Manila last February 2, 2007. It discusses the potential applications of the Asterisk Opensource VoIP PBX Platform. Introduction to CSS2 – This is a presentation EACOMM uses to brief its new web designers and developers on CSS2.0 when it was still not being thought in schools. You can download the presentation along with references and examples by downloading this file: cssworkshop.zip
EACOMM is now a Rackspace Channel Partner
EACOMM Corporation has joined the Rackspace® Partner Program to provide you with a portfolio of compute platforms.  Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com Since EACOMM Corporation is a Rackspace Member Channel Partner, you can take advantage on your next hosting solution from Rackspace. Host Your Websites & Applications with the Power of Cloud Computing
Backup File Hosting
Our newest hosting product. Visit http://hosting.eacomm.com for more information on our suite of cloud-based hosting solutions. EACOMM Backup File Hosting provides a secure, enterprise grade file hosting and backup facility without any expensive capital outlay. Backup, sync and access data for teams of up to a hundred people. Never lose a file again, do away with DVD’s, external hard disks, tapes and other expensive backup systems. Upload your files to the cloud! EACOMM Backup File Hosting is the ideal disaster recovery and backup system for small and medium organizations with its low price and enterprise grade security and redundancy. Functions just like another Hard Disk on your Computer. No complicated FTP or SSH access! File synchronization across users. Automated/Scheduled Backups Access your files from any computer via the web, phone, tablet, etc. AES-256 Advance Encryption to ensure file security and integrity. Servers provided by Rackspace, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. (Learn more about Cloud Computing & Hosting from Rackspace) STANDARD BACKUP PACKAGE: Php 6,000.00+VAT per YEAR for 50GB of File Storage per User. Or Contact Us for a Custom Quotation for Multiple-users or large storage requirements!
Web and Software Division Website
The new Web and Software Development Division Website is now on-line! The site will focus on the products and service offerings of the web and software division of EACOMM Corporation. The site is powered (ofcourse!) by our very own DO-CMS Enterprise Edition ver. 3. Visit it here: http://web.eacomm.com Coming Soon is the 10th Anniversary Version of EACOMM’s Corporate Website!
OJT/Trainee/Internship Positions Available for 1st Half 2011
EACOMM is now accepting applicants for student interns/trainees/ojt’s for the following positions: Graphic Designer: We are currently looking for aspiring graphic designers looking to build on their portfolio by assisting us in various internally developed projects. Main tasks include web and print graphic design. Artists knowledgeable in HTML/CSS a definite plus. Web Programmer: We are looking for trainee web programmers familiar with PHP/MySQL and/or ASP.NET to work on various software application projects. Flash Programmer: Trainee familiar with flash action scripting to develop simple flash-based games. Sales/Marketing Assistants Trainees looking for a career in IT/Software Sales and Marketing to work in market research projects as well as sales and marketing presentations. Background in IT and IT-related courses is a bonus. Applicants should email their resumes to admin@eacomm.com along with any relevant links/portfolios of previous works relevant to the position being applied for. All trainees are provided adequate travel and lunch allowance. Part-time applicants (8-20 hours per week) are welcome.
eForuli.com
EACOMM Corporation is proud to announce its newest website: eForuli.com – Online ePUB e-Book Storage. Store, Download, Read and Share your E-Books With the growing proliferation of e-book readers, tablets and smart phones, there’s not a whole lot of ways to organize and manage your e-book collection, particularly across multiple devices. eForuli.com allows you to upload your e-book collection be it a few dozen or a few thousand and upload and organize this on-line. No need to fill up your phones, tablets or readers with hundreds and hundreds of books. Just upload all of it to eForuli.com and download what you want to read as and when! Currently supporting the open standard ePUB format, we plan to include support for other popular e-book formats in the very near future. You can view the ebooks online before downloading, search, create folders and assign keywords and genres to your ebooks to easily locate and catalog them. Also available is a ‘share’ function where you can ‘lend’ your favorite e-books for your friends to read. The site is currently running on Live Alpha Testing. In the next few weeks we will be including more powerful features such as: Facebook integration – post reviews, links, quotes and more from your favorite e-book to your Facebook profile. Let your friends know your favorite books, what you’re currently reading, etc. ePUB creation – we’re rapidly developing a simple web-based ePUB creator. Publish your own e-book and share them to your friends! Amazon integration – tired of reading from a screen and want the feel of paper? one-click integration to Amazon.com‘s vast collection is coming soon! Support for other e-book formats – upload and store pdf, doc, txt, and other formats. Sign-up now and enjoy unlimited e-book storage!
Season’s Greetings!
Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays to All! May 2011 be a Happy and Prosperous New Year for Everyone!
Business Process Outsourcing in the Philippines
Whenever we promote or market our BPO IT services to foreign companies, it’s not only the company that we are selling but our country as well. It would be an understatement to say this has been difficult in the past with all the negative publicity that the Philippines gets from the world media. However recent news have given us more positive reasons than ever before to showcase that the Philippines is truly the ideal outsourcing destination: PH overtakes India in BPO industry—IBM report The Philippines is now the world’s leader in business support functions such as shares services and business process outsourcing after effectively overtaking India in these categories last year, according to IBM’s Latest Global Locations Trend Annual Report released recently in New York…read more Creative content industry to become Phl’s top dollar-earner The business process outsourcing ( BPO), especially the “creative content industry,” will soon surpass the remittances sent home by overseas Filipino worker as the Philippines’ highest dollar-earner in the next five years, the Philippine Commission on Information Technology and Communications (CICT) said today…read more BPO sector seen posting $25B revenue in ’15 PH seen keeping 10% share in global business The country’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is expected to post about $25 billion in annual revenue by 2015 as the Philippines maintains its position as one of the world’s top outsourcing destinations. This will be more than double the revenue that the booming industry is expected to register this year, placed at about $9 billion, the Business Processing Association of the Philippines’ (BPAP) latest forecasts show…read more Indian BPO sets up shop in PH A unit of India’s biggest industrial house last week launched its business process outsourcing facility in the Philippines, representing a vote of confidence from the country’s main rival in the global outsourcing industry. In a statement, Tata Consultancy Services said its BPO center in Taguig City marked its first such facility in all of Southeast Asia and its latest addition to its so-called Global Network Delivery Model (GNDM)…read more
Upcoming Projects from EACOMM Corporation
It has been a few months since this blog has been updated and this is mainly because we have had to hunker down and complete a few major projects these past few weeks. However, with our tenth anniversary coming on August 2011, we are hoping to launch a number of new products and services to coincide with the momentous event. Below are a few of the projects we have that are already in the pipeline: Updated PhilippineCompanies.com – With now over 15,000 visitors daily and a few thousand dollars in monthly advertising revenue, we can no longer treat this website as a ‘hobby’. Work is underway to streamline the system and make it more robust and user-friendly. First to be launched will be the more powerful company profile engine before the end of this year. New EACOMM Corporation Website – As per our tradition of changing our website every 2-3 years, expect a new look www.eacomm.com by first quarter 2011. DO-CMS Version 4.0 – We are hoping to find the time next year to do a full revamp of DO-CMS and bring it closer to the bleeding edge of Web Technologies. Expect further announcements early next year. Business Apps – We’ve been mentioning our business apps projects all throughout this year and albeit we won’t be able to launch any by the end of the year, we are fully confident that a few applications will be ready before our Anniversary. This would include: Web-based Payroll and HR Management Software – This application will be made available both on a subscription model (SaaS) or deployed in the company’s own servers. The project is in early stages of Alpha Development and we hope to have it ready before mid-2011. Web-based Accounting System – Currently under heavy development using Microsoft’s .NET Framework and targeted for completion by end of 2010. Expect a translation to our favorite LAMP platform before the end of 2011. Web-based Vehicle Repair and Preventive Maintenance System – Ideal for car dealers or companies with a large car fleet. This application monitors repair and maintenance records for automobiles. Beta prototype will be available for evaluation before the end of 2010. Other Web Portals – As some of you may know, EACOMM also maintains other web portals such as www.artesdelasfilipinas.com, www.imagesphilippines.com, and www.philippinepropertyfinder.com. Expect this to be joined by at least two more websites before the end of 2010 and perhaps up to half a dozen more by next year! Tablet Applications – We are confident that Tablets will be a mainstay of computing in the next few years and as such we will be investing heavily in developing applications for this new platform. EACOMM has almost a decade of experience in PC Touchscreen Kiosks and Web Application Development and as such we feel we are in an excellent position to leverage this experience to cater to the touch-screen tablets and even smartphone market. For more information about any of the projects mentioned above, please feel free to e-mail info@eacomm.com or call us via +63 2 438 2986.
Facebook Likes/Shares Checker for a Webpage
Facebook integration is by now ‘a must’ for websites. By providing tools to share or like your site to Facebook, it gives your site a lot more opportunity to get read and seen by the 500 million ++ users of Facebook. Facebook has developed several simple to use API’s for this which can be found here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web. Statistics can be monitored in http://www.facebook.com/insights, however the data presented is far from complete. For example, something as simple as monitoring how many people has “shared” or “liked” your website is not easily determined. Fortunately there’s a handy link for checking the number of Facebook “likes” or “shares” of a given Web Page URL also provided by Facebook but not as known: http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=http://www.eacomm.com The above query will return an XML document in the following format: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <links_getStats_response xmlns=”http://api.facebook.com/1.0/” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://api.facebook.com/1.0/ http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd” list=”true”> <link_stat> <url>http://www.eacomm.com</url> <share_count>3</share_count> <like_count>3</like_count> <comment_count>13</comment_count> <total_count>19</total_count> <click_count>0</click_count> <normalized_url>http://www.eacomm.com/</normalized_url> </link_stat> </links_getStats_response> This can then be parsed by a simple application to store the statistics in a database. For example in PHP you can use the simlexml_load_file to parse this. Below is a very simple code (admittedly not very elegant, but it works) to do this: $url = “http://www.eacomm.com”; $xml = simplexml_load_file(“http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=$url”); $child=$xml->children(); $child2=$child->children(); $shares=$child2->share_count; $likes=$child2->like_count; $comments=$child2->comment_count; $total=$child2->total_count; $clicks=$child2->click_count; You can now store the shares, likes, etc. in a database and monitor for yourself how your website is performing in Facebook. Below is a form to check if your site has been ‘shared’ in Facebook: http://www.eacomm.com/fblikecheck.php Facebook Likes/Shares Checker: Enter the Web Page you want to check:
Philippine Business Directory …
Philippine Business Directory … http://fb.me/wf3XXHes
Philippine Business Directory …
Philippine Business Directory – Top 50 most Shared/Liked Companies: http://bit.ly/bOx7JD
Artes de la Filipinas: Private Collections available from BuyOnline.ph
EACOMM Corporation’s Artes de las Filipinas: Private Collections by Ms. Christiane de la Paz is now available for purchase online at http://www.buyonline.ph. This provides online purchasers more options for payment such as Bancnet/Megalink cards, Globe GCash or Credit Card. The book is also available through Artes de las Filipinas’ Online store (payment by Paypal only), in Amazon.com, as well as select Powerbooks and Fully Booked branches in Metro Manila.
New look and features for PhilippineCompanies.com
At over 10,000 visitors/day PhilippineCompanies.com is now one of the top 1000 websites in the Philippines. This coincides as well with the site surpassing 50,000 companies listed in its database.  In our continuing effort to improve the website, the following changes have recently gone live: PhilippineCompanies.com has moved to our Cloud-based Virtual Private Servers which would allow us to scale more easily as the site continues to grow. The upgrade should significantly increase the website loading time as well. The site has been redesigned to what we think is a cleaner and sleeker look. A new section that has gone live but still under constant improvement and development is the Stock Market section of the site. This area provides links to stock information and news for Publicly Traded Philippine Companies. Visitors can now download the PhilippineCompanies Toolbar to have faster access to the PhilippineCompanies search engine. Expect several other new features in the next few weeks!
Animahenasyon 2010 Teaser and Poster
Produced by Glow Animation for the Animation Council of the Philippines
EACOMM Managed Web Hosting Web…
EACOMM Managed Web Hosting Website: http://hosting.eacomm.com/
Junior Software Engineer
EACOMM Corporation’s Research and Development team is looking for fresh graduates to work as Junior Software Engineers on the following tasks: Assist the software architects and software engineers in the conceptualization, design and implementation of innovative new web applications Learn and use the latest web technologies Candidates must be knowledgeable in: Software Design/System Analysis Linux operating system PHP/MySQL HTML/CSS2.0 AJAX/Javascript Basic Flash actionscripting Knowledge in other web programming languages such as Python, ASP.NET, etc..a definite plus. Candidates must be a graduate of a computer science, computer engineering or equivalent course from a reputable university. Excellent English communications and comprehension skill is required. Please submit your resumes via email to: admin@eacomm.com
Managed Virtual Private Server (VPS) / Cloud Server Hosting
EACOMM Philippines is now offering Virtual Private Server Hosting to complement its shared and grid hosting offerings. Features include: Real-time scaling of server resources. Our VPS Cloud Infrastructure allows you to increase and decrease the specifications of your server with little or no downtime. Just give us a call and we will upgrade or downgrade your cloud server specifications in a matter of minutes. Full Root Access with your choice of Linux distribution including Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Metered bandwidth, pay only for what you use! Daily and Weekly Backups Optional assistance in configuring your server as a web server, email server, VoIP PBX, or even a remote Linux workstation! Housed in US-based Data Centers with 99.99% assured up-time. EACOMM VPS SERVER PACKAGES: RAM HDD Monthly Cost* Test Server 256 MB 10 GB PHP 900.00 Personal Server 512 MB 20 GB PHP 1,700.00 Small Business Server 1024 MB 40 GB PHP 3,300.00 Enterprise Server 2048 MB 80GB PHP 6,500.00 *All Prices are VAT Exclusive BANDWIDTH COST (INBOUND): PHP 6.00/GB +VAT (i.e. uploading content to your server) BANDWIDTH COST (OUTBOUND):Â PHP 15.00/GB +VAT (i.e. visitors to your website) OPTIONAL SERVER SETUP ASSISTANCE: Starts at Php 5,000.00+VAT FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US AT: EACOMM Integrated Solutions Division Telephone: +63 2 438 2986 Email: solutions@eacomm.com
2010 Summer Internship
EACOMM is now accepting applicants for student interns/ojt’s for the following positions: Graphic Designer/Photographer: We are currently looking for aspiring professional photographers and graphic designers looking to build on their portfolio by assisting us in various internally developed projects. Main tasks include web and print graphic design as well as off-site photography of artworks, sculptures, houses, and others. (2 positions available) Web Programmer: We are looking  for trainee web programmers familiar with PHP/MySQL and/or ASP.NET to work on various internal software application projects. (4 positions available) Flash Programmer: Trainee familiar with flash action scripting to develop simple flash-based games. (1 position available)  Applicants should email their resumes to admin@eacomm.com along with any relevant links/portfolios of previous works relevant to the position being applied for.