Cope With Tech - by Eric John Emberda

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Before we engage in buying a product or availing a service, we try to know beforehand if it's worth the risk. Before we give our money for something, we need some sort of guarantee for that something. Often times when I want to know something about a product or service, I start blog-hopping. It's amazing how this blogging craze is contributing to the Information age. It's now very easy to find opinions about certain products or services. Take note however, that those are only opinions. Well, it's tiring to go blog-hopping because it is time consuming. We are not also guaranteed with correct information or at least credible opinions. One good thing though is the existence of review sites. Review sites are websites that contain different ratings for different products or services. Although these ratings are also opinion-based, there is a huge probability for its credibility. What's good also is that we don't have to visit different websites. A review site is a one...

Calling all IT professionals and IT enthusiasts. There will be an incoming Technology tour at Cebu this coming April. This is a great opportunity for both business and career enhancement. Interested? email me for your reservation . Please state your name and contact number.

Business school has taught us about Management. There are five functions of Management (Henry Fayol): 1. Planning 2. Organizing 3. Leading 4. Coordinating 5. Controlling Planning is the cognitive process of thinking about actions or accomplishments beforehand. This provides direction to a manager as to where to direct necessary actions and anticipate problems. Organizing which is next to planning is where the manager assigns tasks to different individuals or groups within the organization, for them to help carry out the plan. Leading is where the manager directs the actions of the organization. This reminds me of some statements given to us by our HBO instructor: which of the following statements is true? 1. All Managers are Leaders. 2. All Leaders are Managers. Come to think of it, I still don't know the answer lol. Coordinating : Whereas leading is where the manager commands, coordinating is where the manager tries to make things or people work together. Can you be called a leade...

It was to be expected (in my opinion). The Wallstreet Journal reports that Yahoo's board plans to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid by sending a letter tomorrow stating their position. Although I don't agree with them that the proposal undervalues Yahoo that much. I do agree that Microsoft has taken advantage of Yahoo's recent weakness in share price. An interesting scenario they picked up though: "Search Advertising Partnership with Google Inc." Hmmm... wouldn't that be quite a monopoly?

I have read some blogs criticizing paid blogging. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it. For me, it is a result of innovation. Entrepreneurs will always try to find ways to market their products or services. To do this, they need to at least introduce their products or services. Technology has played a key role to this. Blogging is a result of technology. The Internet community is increasing and hence, the opportunity for business. How does it work? Business owners want to introduce their products or services to potential customers. To do this, their website need to become popular over the web. One measure of popularity is how they rank with search engines. Like for example when someone tries to google up Software Solutions, a particular Software Company's website gets on top of the list. To be on top of the list, this particular Software company's website must have many other sites pointing to it. To do this, they either pay site owners to place a link to their si...

In my previous post, I talked about Google vs. Microsoft and how Microsoft's bid for Yahoo might cause them to face antitrust issues again. But what is antitrust? I don't know how to explain it in simpler terms but antitrust is a law that seeks to regulate business competition. It exists to lessen if not eliminate monopolies (one company has exclusive possession or control over a market of products or services). Microsoft was accused of monopolizing the PC operating system market. They were also accused of monopolizing the Internet Browser market because they bundled Internet Explorer with their Windows operating system. I don't know what this recent unsolicited action would lead them. Antitrust lawsuit for monopolizing the Internet market? There is a great possibility.