Author: info@eacomm.com

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:

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!

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):  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.

Animahenasyon 2010 is now accepting entries

The Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. (ACPI) is calling all budding and professional animators from across the country to participate and submit their animated works to Animahenasyon 2010: 4th Philippine Animation Festival, as it formally opens and accepts entries to this year’s festival. Entry forms may be downloaded from the ACPI web site at http://www.animationcouncil.org. The deadline for submission of entries is on September 15. Animahenasyon 2010 is co-presented by Ateneo de Naga University and will be held in this premier 3D animation school from November 23 to 26 in Naga City, Philippines. Holding the animation festival in Naga is part of ACPI’s thrusts to strengthen the regional animation of the country, and is also part of the Council’s year long 10th anniversary celebration. In an effort to build an audience, awareness and development of original contents, ACPI puts together its flagship project through an annual animation festival called Animahenasyon that showcases original animated works of both aspiring and professional animators in the country through a competition. The festival is composed of the professional and the student/amateur divisions that will have different running time categories: 1 to 5 minutes; 6 to 20 minutes, 21 to 60 minutes, and the full-animated feature (more than 60 minutes). There are also categories for music video, title sequence, public information, demo reel, and TV series. There will also be animated works in exhibition (full-length, special citation, and past Animahenasyon winners). Last year’s grand prize winner of Animahenasyon was Mutya (Muse) by Nelson “Blog” Caliguia, Jr. It is a touching tale of an unlikely friendship between the forest spirits or “anitos” and a one-of-a-kind girl who can see them. It also tackles the timely issue of environmental degradation and the dire consequences of industrialization to the environment. “Mutya” also won the best animated short (6-20 minutes) in the professional division and was awarded the Hero TV’s choice for best capturing the theme “finding the hero within.” Coming from a family of animators, Blog produced “Mutya” as a tribute for his late mother, Mina, who passed away in 2008. It is also largely based on the original story that his mom wrote. This is the second time that Blog won the grand prize in Animahenasyon. He first received this recognition in the very first Animahenasyon festival in 2007 for his entries “Inday Wanda,” and “Doodle of Doom” that he co-directed with Jason Confessor. Animahenasyon serves as a venue for Filipino animators to present their world-class ideas, and opens doors of opportunities for them to meet with and be inspired by the finest names in the industry. It also aims to create greater awareness of the Philippine animation industry and its contributions to the global entertainment business, while tapping locally produced content for promotion in animation markets here and abroad. ACPI’s vision is to make Philippines as the prime provider of animation and content creation services to the global marketplace. On the other hand, ACPI’s mission is to be the center of excellence for animation and content creation services through building more efficient and effective collaborative business practices that will elevate the country’s economy and culture. As an organized body, ACPI aims to promote the Filipino talent both locally and internationally. With the cooperation of its members as well as the Philippine government, it is envisioned that the member studios and schools will be considered competitive both creatively and technologically. ACPI is a non-stock and non-profit organization whose member companies specialize mainly in, but not limited to, 2D, Flash or 3D animation. It aims to promote the animation industry globally with the intention of creating an identity for the Philippines to be considered amongst the preferred countries that service the animation industry. For more information about Animahenasyon 2010, please call 483-9501, 8172727 local 108 or email the secretariat at animationcouncil@gmail.com, or visit www.animationcouncil.org.

Philippine Property Finder goes Live Beta

Philippine Property Finder is finally going on live beta testing this week after months in ‘development limbo’.  The website offers some interesting features such as: Map-based searching – The visitor can use a Google Maps-based interactive map of the Philippines to check for property listing in various locations. For example clicking Ayala Avenue, Makati in the Map will yield this search result. Web-crawler – PhilippinePropertyFinder.com is essentially a real estate search engine much like what Google is to the web as a whole. It returns results from some of the top Philippine real estate property listing sites and redirects its visitors to the original websites where the actual property advertisement was posted. To date, it has crawled over 130,000 property listings. Featured Properties – The site also offers the option to post directly into its database for free. Property postings direct to the website are allowed rich html content as well uploading of up to three images. Functionality of this feature is patterned after Craigslist‘s, no membership required posting system. Property Statistics – Perhaps the most exciting feature of PhilippinePropertyFinder.com is its capability to generate statistical data on real estate prices and trends by analyzing the data it has collected. This data is summarized in here: http://www.philippinepropertyfinder.com/statistics. Individual search results are also provided statistical data such as average selling price, average floor area, average rental rates and average rental area for the location being searched. This gives the user a better idea on the prices he/she expects to pay in renting or purchasing property in a specific location.  Click here for an example search of Quezon City and corresponding statistical data obtained from property listings in that area. We’re excited to offer more detailed and interesting data on real estate as our database grows bigger! Real Estate Archives – A comprehensive listing of ALL the properties listed in our site since our search spider started it’s regular crawl on November, 2009. Click here to view the Philippine Real Estate Archive.

Imagesphilippines.com new search options

Celebrating its 8th year on-line, ImagesPHILIPPINES.com is now offering alternate search options for people looking for Philippine pictures, photographs and artworks. Going live this week is an option to search for photographs of and about the Philippines from Flickr.com and Google Images. The option is available by clicking the alternate search options links on the upper left of the search results webpage. Seen to complement the over 5,300 images from our over 130 contributors that are available for licensing in the website, the Flickr and Google search options effectively puts an unlimited number of photographs accessible to the thousands of monthly visitors of imagesphilippines.com. Use the forms below to try it out for yourself! Search Images from the Imagesphilippines Database: Search for Images from Flickr.com: Search for Images from Google Images: Top  Keywords Searched We’ve been monitoring keyword popularity in ImagesPhilippines since it’s inception but we’ve removed the top keywords list since the last layout change in favor of a keyword tag cloud. Due to persistent requests from our visitors, we are now reviving the top keywords list. As of February 8, 2010 the top ten keywords are: people Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images city Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images philippines Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images manila Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images costumes Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images historical/events Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images beaches Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images boracay Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images landforms Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images church Search Flickr.com | Search Google Images You can view the complete Top 100 Searched Keywords in ImagesPhilippines.com here.

PHP Developers Summit 2010

EACOMM Corporation is proud to be one of the  sponsors of the PHP Developer’s Summit 2010 to be held on January 30, 2010 from 8am to 5pm at the Grand Ballroom of Hotel Rembrandt, Tomas Morato, Quezon City. The event is organized by the PHP User Group Philippines Incorporated in partnership with Microsoft Philippines. Sign up now at http://conference.phpugph.com/

Season’s Greetings from EACOMM Corporation

EACOMM Corporation would like to greet all its clients, partners and friends a Very Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year! Note that in celebration of the holiday season, EACOMM Corporation will be closed starting December 23, 2009. Resumption of normal operations will be on January 4, 2010. For urgent queries, requests and technical support please email: admin@eacomm.com.

Artes de las Filipinas: Private Collections Book Signing and Launch at Nuvo City

EACOMM Corporation in cooperation with Nuvo City is inviting everyone to join us in celebrating a Book signing and launch event on December 12, 2009 6pm-8pm at the Nuvo City Lifestyle Center, E. Rodriguez corner Calle Industria, Bagumbayan, Quezon City for Artes de las Filipinas: Private Collections. Event Partners include PAGCOR, Ambiance by Pido, and Indios Bravos. For more information contact Ms. Maribel Garcia-Villanueva at +63 2 438 2986 or email info@artesdelasfilipinas.com. View Larger Map