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(April 5, 2003) RedHat 9.0 is now available from Bitstop. The entire set is P450.00.

(March 28, 2003) Downtown Dagupan is one Big 11mbps HOTSPOT. Users can bring their HP IPaq 5450 PDA with built-in 802.11b and bluetooth and experience surfing at 11mpbs along AB Fernandez Ave. where Bitstop has deployed a Cisco BR350 wireless access point.

Bitstop thanks Mr Alex Villafania, staff writer of Metropolitan Computer Times for loaning us the HP IPaq unit and Mr Jimeno of HP Support who provide troubleshooting for the VPN setup.

Why is this important? You can now bring your 802.11b(Wireless LAN) powered PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) and be conected to the Internet at full 11mpbs speed!

If you own a PDA and would like to have a FREE limited time trial, please drop by our office and we will set it up for you! Offer is limited to the first 10 people to avail of this….Of course, you get the priority if you bought your PDA from us 🙂

(March 28, 2003) Bitstop was invited to deliver a presentation on the status of the internet in region 1. This forms part of the activities of One Internet Day 2003 celebrations organized by Digital filipino.

Here is our presentation. The report is based on the inputs from the major ISPs Telcos and Educational Institution in Region I. Our thanks to PLDT, Digitel, BASIC, Comclark, Mozcom Vigan, NULaoag, DWCLaoag, Lyceum Northwestern, VMUF, University of Luzon, St Paul Vigan, MMSU, DMMSU etal.

(March 28, 2003) Mr.Arnold G. Barria a graduate of AMA University, passed the 070-215 (Windows 2000 server) exam today. He is the newest Microsoft Certified Professional to pass at i.Mind’s certification review and testing center.

(March 27, 2003) There are only a few seats available for the Microsoft TechNET Seminar scheduled on April 3, 2003 at the Baguio Country Club from 9:00am to 5:30 pm. There is no registration fee and a limitation of 2 delegates per company.

Topics include:

• Building Business Intelligence with Office XP and SQL 2000 Analysis Services

• SQL Server 2000 Security features and considerations

• Best Practices for .NET Development

• Best Practices for Building Web Services with VS.NET

This seminar is best suited for database and systems administrators and developers.

Please email Cristina de Venecia to reserve your seat.

Special Thanks to Mr Peter Ang of Laser Mktg for helping with the venue.

(March 27, 2003) We congratulate Mr. Jonathan P. Miclat and Mr. Jomel C. Vergara, trainors of Ateneo Information Technology Institute, and Mr. Wilson Chua of Bitstop Inc. who have successfully hurdled exam 312-50 to attain the Certified Ethical Hacker certification.

The AITI staff are also certified EC Council trainors and will be conducting a course on April 21 – 25, 2003. See announcement below for more details.

(March 20, 2003) Bitstop thanks our suppliers for testing the EPoX USB Bluetooth Dongle, Promise Supertrack SX6000 and the SuperSwap 1000 hot-swappable drive casings.

• The USB Bluetooth Dongle can make a data call to our NOC using the Nokia 7650. It allows you to send, receive, print and fax from any other bluetooth enabled device.

• Turn fault-tolerant Promise ATA RAID arrays into professional, hot swappable storage subsystems for network servers or workstations. The removable hot swap assembly permits replacing a failed drive without powering down the server or opening the PC so data is always available

(March 20, 2003) InfoChat’s Jerry Liao just informed us that Pressroom Online has been featured in INQ7! Bitstop was also told by several companies that they are accessing this bitstop hosted site. Most notable among them are Yehey and Globe Telecoms!

Click Here to view the article.

(March 19, 2003) Mr. Jesus Romero of Globe and Mr. Wilson Chua of Bitstop affixed their signatures to the agreement that calls for Globe to supply the leased line from Bitstop to St. Paul in Tuguegarao. St Paul’s University shall be enjoying an E1 internet connection from BNS this coming first semester of Schoolyear 2003.

(March 18, 2003) Ateneo Information
Technology Institute and EC council is proud to offer the following
courses:

• ETHICAL HACKING & COUNTERMEASURES*
  April 21 – 25, 2003 (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
  Click here to read recent write ups about CEH (Tip courtesy of box.ph)

• E-COMMERCE ARCHITECT
  May 5 – 9, 2003 (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.)

Interested Parties are urged to contact AITI at:

The Ateneo Information Technology Institute
5/F Ateneo Professional Schools Building
130 H. V. Dela Costa St., Salcedo Village
1227 Makati City
840-0912, 840-0892 & 840-0266
aiti@aps.ateneo.edu