PSU Instructors gain MOUS certificates

(Nov 21, 2002) Aurelie Peralta, Marlene Mangonon, Jesusa Macanlalay and Claudine de Guzman successfully passed their first MOUS exams. Mr. Peralta and Ms Mangonon are now recognized Microsoft Office User Specialists (MOUS) in Excel 2000 while Ms. Macanlalay and Ms. de Guzman attained their Word 2000 Mous certification.

Bitstop congratulates PSU Urdaneta for supporting and encouraging industry certifications among their staff.

Wanted: MS Word and Excel Expert!

(Nov 21, 2002) If you are a college student and proficient in MS Word and Excel, you may win office software licenses and MS Press books for your school, an XBox for yourself and the chance to represent the Philippines in the USA competition! Click here to read the mechanics of the competition. Hurry! The deadline for registration is on Dec 4, 2002.

Bitstop Host PICS Website

(Nov 21, 2002) Bitstop is proud to have been choosen by the prestigious Philippine Internet Commerce Society to host their web page.

The Philippine Internet Commerce Society is a non-stock and non-profit, SEC-registered (#A1998-06511) organization that shall

  • Undertake activities to enhance and facilitate on local, regional and national levels the advancement and development of Internet and electronic commerce.
  • Serve as the private sector advocate of Internet and electronic commerce.
  • Contribute to the advancement of the state-of-the-art Internet and electronic commerce.
  • Provide a forum for the dissemination, acquisition, exchange of information on matters of mutual interest to its members as well as for the discussion of their common problems relating to Internet and electronic commerce

Mozcom & Bitstop to reduce SPAM by 90%

(Nov 21, 2002) Bitstop’s Francis Vidal and Mozcom’s Orly Andico are presently exploring ways by which we could eliminate up to 90% of the spam in our email systems.

Initial results have been encouraging. We are now eliminating up to 47% of incoming emails based on spam filtering in place.

We are now seeking out feedbacks on the new system. Please email abuse@dagupan.com with copies of email you think we should mark as spam.

EC Council Press Conference


(Nov 18,
2002) Bitstop is inviting interested parties to join us in the
International Council of E-commerce Consultants’ press conference.
This is to be held at RCBC Plaza, Level 5, Podium 4, room 530.

The affair will be spearheaded by Mr. Wilson Wong, of WordWare Malaysia who will be flying in to also open the Bitstop booth at the First E-commerce Congress and Exhibit at Hotel Intercon, Makati on Nov 20, 2002.

Phil Society for Music Education Now Up

(Nov 15, 2002) The Philippine Society for Music Education (PSME) is an all-embracing non-profit association that is primarily intended to improve music education in all its areas, to share new knowledge and ideas on music and music education.

Its aims are to promote a close relationship and increase the liaison among music educators, scholars, researchers, composers, performers, critics, administrators, business firms, the mass media, and related fields to encourage and advance the standards of musical activities as will be reflected in contemporary Philippines.

Bitstop Attends Cisco University

(Nov 7, 2002) Bitstop wishes to thank Cisco Phils and our lecturer, Mr Arthur Tunggul Siahaan for inviting us to learn at the Cisco University in Dusit hotel. Mr Francis Vidal and Mr Wilson Chua, Bitstop’s Cisco Wireless Specialists attended the affair.

The lecture showcased the new Cisco 1100 and 1200 series that can do 54mbps! (802.11a,g,b) We learned new security features against the flip bit attack and the man-in-middle attack against wireless networks.