A source from inside one of the Metro Manila contact centers of Dell tipped us of an imminent closure of Dell Global Center both in Pasay City and Quezon City. Reasons aren’t clear but it seems that the US recession and weak dollar may have a hand in the decision.

Define irony.
Irony is US voting machines being assembled in the Philippines, says this report.
Hence, irony can be defined as the technology making US elections possible comes from the bastion of free and honest election in this side of the world.
ROTFLMAO!

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the exodus of Pinoy techies. I was inspired by a despedida for some developer friends leaving, and college classmates’ reunion last Christmas. I finished BS CS in 1995, back when lots of people joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), got assigned to the US, and eventually [...]

The title says it all. A new web IM called Wablet developed locally by FBM Software with headquarters in Las vegas, took some below-the-belt comments after a thorough review over at TechCrunch specifically because the app was done in the Philippines.
Nothing to be surprised really but some westerners tend to be biased against anything [...]

Just so we can set things straight for our foreign visitors: NOT all outsourcing companies in the Philippines are like Wicked Innovations who was called by a UK company a “scam”. The Philippines is still one of the best outsource locations.
Elwin of Inq7.net was trying to get in touch with WickedInnovations (according to his column). [...]

As judged by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). In terms of the Philippines performance, we were able to land 2 local grown outsourcers in the list.

Gabby Dizon, who’s into game development and outsourcing, has a good interview at PinoyPC. He talks about the challenges of outsourcing gaming to the Philippines, and his interesting partners.
His current project with Hyboreal Games has no description yet, but it looks like dystopic science fiction to me.
We featured his company FlipSide Games earlier.

The local MDI group operates a multimedia blog service for celebrity content.

Be certified for what exactly? You guys still believe in IT Certifications? Does it assure you to land a better job? Does it promise you a salary increase?
IT Certification alone does not guarantee you anything these days. It’s just the mushrooming IT education industry that’s talking you into getting a class or two.
Still it’s just [...]

Solid news for everyone in the BPO industry. Hopefully, this will mean more higher paying and more interesting jobs for BPO professionals.