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Click on the graphic below to view the webcast at 1:00pm today. Feed courtesy of NBN’s Ed Finlan.

  Photo has Francis taking the picture of Jon in front of the venue of this year’s Apricot 2004 in Malaysia.

 

  Redwood taps Bitstop to handle the software and hardware technical support for its line of Supermicro servers in the northern luzon area.

Supermicro servers are the same servers used by search engine Google, and a host of other universities for cluster computing.

Bitstop is honored to have been appointed by Redwood.

Bitstop is proud to be part of the Baguio Colleges Foundations’ IT Week celebration. This will be on March 8 to 10, 2004

Bitstop will be conducting a workshop on Enterprise-wide Anti-virus Strategies and deployment. This is a hands on workshop that will teach system administrators install an evaluation copy of Sophos Enterprise Anti-virus system onto a simulated LAN.

Bitstop and AMDG will be conducting a WARCRAFT tournament on March 9 at BCF. Interested participants are asked to contact Dean Raymund Dilan at BCF.

From 10:00am onwards to 5:30pm today, Ateneo is hosting SIGGRAPH Manila. This event is simulcast in the top schools here in the North like St Paul University, Cagayan, Northwestern University, Laoag, Lorma Colleges, La Union, Lyceum Northwestern University and University of Luzon in Dagupan.

Click here to join the webcast (GMT+8). You can also join the discussion at this moderated forum site (Please register in advance) 

 

Congratulations to the NitroMania winners!

Bitstop is proud to be tapped by Ateneo to webcast its SIGGRAPH manila event on Feb 20, 2004. The webcast will be aired also at St Paul University in Tuguegarao, Lyceum Northwestern University and University of Luzon in Dagupan, Lorma Colleges  in San Fernando and Northwestern University in Laoag.

Featured speakers include Mr Alain Chesnais, current president of ACM Siggraph, the world’s leading organization dedicated to the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive technics, and Mr YT Lee, associate professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Topics include Real-Time High Fidelity Graphics for Archaeological Site Reconstructions and Extracting 3D Models from 2D sketches.

For more info on how to join, please email noc@bitstop.ph.

Photo shows Mr Marlon Macam and Mr Joseph De Leon Lamando , owner of Lamando’s Computer Center located at #104 Mabilao, San Fabian, Pangasinan, as he ordered complete licenses of Counter Strike, WarCraft 3 and Frozen Throne expansion.

Gamers will be able to play online against other players on the ‘net. For more details, please call Lamando’s Computer Center at 522-5594. Players at Lamando’s Computer Center can join the clan wars to be organized by the PNGA.

AMDG (Asian Media Development Group) represented by Mr Ronald Allan M. Aquino, Sales Manager appointed Bitstop as its distributor in the region for its Vivendi line of software products like CounterStrike, War Craft and a host other popular games.

AMDG is currently offering its Extreme Deal Promo for the month of February and to Network Gaming centers only. This promo allows a cybercafe to own one license pack (Half Life Counterstrike, War Craft Reign of Chaos, and its expansion pack, Frozen Throne) for a suggested retail price of only 2,000.00. The cybercafe can use the license for up to 2 computers in a LAN play, but only 1 for online games!

All cybercafes/network gaming center that places orders with Bitstop will automatically become members of the PNGA. (ABS-CBN interview)

Northwestern University, Laoag, now has the largest lease line connection in Ilocos Norte with a 512kbps of bandwidth.

The first Regional Student Assembly on Information Technology Education dubbed as “SAITE 2004” with the theme “The KSP (Knowledge, Skills & Power) of a Techie” was held on February 2 3, 2004 at the Olongapo City Convention Center, Olongapo City.

SAITE 2004 featured well-known academic and industrial leaders as plenary speakers. It’s aim is to provide a venue for educators, students and professionals to share and upgrade their knowledge in IT.  Mr Chua’s topic covered hacking and countermeasures.

Photo below shows Sec Gordon, Dept of Tourism and former SBMA Chairman, together with PSITE Region 3 President, Mr Rey Arimbuyutan and Bitstop president, Mr Wilson L. Chua.