Digital Life by Chin Wong
Dirty Cow
IMAGINE there was an invisible hole in your wall through which strangers could come and go and gain access to...
Upgrading to Yakkety
I UPGRADED the operating system on my MacBook Air last week and I figured I ought to do the same...
Upgrading to Sierra
I FINALLY got around to upgrading my 11-inch MacBook Air (circa 2014) from El Capitan to Sierra this weekend, crossing...
The quiet Yak
DESPITE its name and impending release this week, there isn’t a whole lot being written or said about Ubuntu 16.10,...
Boos for Yahoo
JUST when we thought Yahoo could sink no lower, came the news last week of a massive data breach in...
Fact-checking social media
IT was the quintessential example of how easy it is to be duped by internet hoaxes. On March 26, 2011,...
TPP: a threat to our digital rights
THE Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade bloc that the Philippines plans to join, but the accord that binds...
Free trade, competition – and danger
AN academic discussion of a relatively obscure trade agreement last week turned into a springboard for exposing the anti-competitive practices...
Better Gmail
THERE are now more than 1 billion active users of Gmail, 75 percent of whom access their mail on a...
Speed boost for Ubuntu
MY Linux desktop PC (dual core 3GHz Pentium D and 4GB RAM) has been showing its age recently so I...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.