Tree Update

We Celebrate Holidays Here

It's 76 days before Christmas but it's also 21 days before Halloween.
Look, that's why the tree at the center celebrates both holidays.

What's in the Pantry

Hey Christine,

Thanks for telling me that the bake sale at Rockwell started early this year.
I really like the desserts there and they're hard to find because they're usually home-made by some lonely housewives from Forbes,etc.
I'm starting to appreciate my Saturday morning classes because the bake sale in Power Plant is only available on Saturdays.
Hopefully, Nadia will meet me there next Saturday so she could be introduced to Gayuma's B.T.S.(Ahem, according to Jeff it's B.W/S. ;-) )


Anyways, attached are pictures:
1. Dark Chocolate and Almond brittle from Kitchen's best by Roselyn - worth the Px/gram
2. Choco caramel cheese cake ball from...tsk. tsk. no label - good cheesecake, bad branding.
3. Gayuma's BTS, by the way they'll open a restaurant open some time next year - yay!
4. Mini-Cupcakes from the Sweet Life by Ange
(couture cupcakes: Marie Antoinette: Vanilla Cupcake with Tequila Rose Buttercream
Sugar Daddy - Moist choco cake with Bailey's Buttercream
Satine - Red Velvet cupcakes with Cream Cheese etc.)



And since wala akong naabutan sa office. Too bad. I won't be bringing everything home though because my lola's diabetic and my mom's just going to lecture me about it.

Symbian - Future OS Giant

The future looks good for mobile and Symbian - their goal is to be the number 1 operating system in the world. Take note, not just a leader in the domain of the smart phone OS.

"Today, the PC is the preferred device for accessing the Internet, but that will change in 2012, when it will be surpassed by mobile devices, IDC said. " (from NetImperative)

Strategically, Symbian is now an open source platform c/o the Symbian Foundation composed of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics, etc.

Ateneans vie for Microsoft Imagine Cup

Ateneo seems to be on a roll this year as they won the spot in the national leg of the Microsoft Imagine Cup and are on their way to Paris, France for the world finals this July 3 t0 8.
Good luck next week guys!

The group is composed of Salvador Reyes Jr. (IV BS CS - and alumni of the J2ME program at AJWCC), Wilhansen Joseph Li (III BS CS) and Rodrick Simon Tan (III BS ME).

Liking iGoogle and Twitter together

I'm in like with iGoogle right now.
It's a non-intrusive "homepage" that let's me explore widgets.
Very dummy friendly.
I just inserted a neat twitter tool in my iGoogle that changes colors according to the time of day.

Well we'll see the reason I didn't like the other kinds was when it became too cluttered.

Go Yahoo Go!

I met with Yahoo today and discovered that Yahoo Go! is an application - a widget platform for mobile phones and not an operating system like Android.

We tried exploring Android last year but our dude decided to switch topics because he didn't want to replace his current mobile phone OS. We decided to focus on exploring application technologies that run on existing platforms.

The cool thing about Yahoo Go! is that one of their goals is to help developers to build an application once and allow them to run in ALL mobile phones.

That'd be soooo great. Making an application run in Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and Samsung is a tiresome process.

Jeff Jongko officially joins the SMS Lib Project Team

Check out the SMS Lib site as they welcome Jeff to the team.
Hey Jeff, congratulations! We're so proud of you!

SMS Lib is an important component to Jeff's projects at the Center.
He's our mobile master. Now combining his power with another Java developer from Greece, they'd be unstoppable.

Prepaid Everything for Pinoys

Wow, even insurance is now prepaid.

Sparx prepaid insurance cards are bite-sized insurance (bites of P100 and P300) for kids and yuppies.

They're also giving away graphic novels called Private Iris and games to their subscribers.

Interesting. And so Pinoy.

The Winning Picture

Ironically, the winning picture was shot in the parking lot since Alfred got stuck in traffic during the awarding ceremony. Ergo, the winning picture has me and Christine as hand models holding up the award for Best School Application and Category Finalist.

Ateneo team wins Globe 3G Competition

The Department of Information Systems and Computer Science and the Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center is proud to announce the awards received by Ateneo in the First Globelabs 3G Multimedia Challenge 2008.

With an initial 28 teams who attended the training, down to 15 teams for the testing phase, the Ateneo Team was one of the top 5 and the only school who was able comply with all the requirements for the mobile learning application.

The team created a killer application CLAN (Classroom Anywhere) converging file sharing, instant messaging, whiteboard, quiz generator and course administration using 3G SIP IMS technology for the mobile
phone. The mobile learning application won:

First Runner-up
Best in Category Finalist: mLearning
Best School Application

Awarding was held at the CAV Wine Shop & Café,Bonifacio High Street
The Fort last June 6, 2008.

Congratulations to the TEAM:

Maria Donna S. Enriquez, IV BSCS
Alfred Timothy B. Lotho, IV BSCS

Team Leader: Mr. Jeffrey J. Jongko, Software Manager -AJWCC, PT
Faculty - DISCS

Advisers:
Anna Christine M. Amarra, Software Engineer - AJWCC
Ma.Regina E. Estuar, Ph.D., Research Director - AJWCC, FT faculty - DISCS
Coni Rose C. Cruz, Product Officer - Blue Blade Technologies
Mr. Hans Roxas-Chua, Business Director, AJWCC, PT faculty - DISCS

We thank the Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center and Blue Blade Technologies, Inc. for their guidance and support to our students and faculty.