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LEO RIINGEN
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[Title] => Taguig starts putting up cyber labs in public schools
[Summary] => The Taguig City government has started the roll out of fully-equipped cyber labs in all their 12 public high schools, and even three public elementary schools, as they make a bid to produce high school graduates that are information technology (IT) savvy and ready for employment in four years.
[DatePublished] => 2012-08-02 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1664250
[AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda
[SectionName] => Education and Home
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[Title] => Hats off to Globe
[Summary] => A common misconception about successful business people is that they have no time for fun.
[DatePublished] => 2012-02-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135752
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1306974
[AuthorName] => Enrico Miguel T. Subido
[SectionName] => Gadgets
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[ArticleID] => 761215
[Title] => 'iPhone 4S users should choose most reliable network'
[Summary] => Among all of Apple’s recently introduced products, perhaps the most talked about is the iPhone 4s.
[DatePublished] => 2011-12-24 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[SectionName] => Telecoms
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[ArticleID] => 637190
[Title] => Project increasing highly skilled IT workers number launched
[Summary] => The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Informatics Philippines and the Business Processing Association of the Philippines launched yesterday a project that aims to increase the number of highly skilled information technology (IT) workers in the country.
[DatePublished] => 2010-12-09 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1804518
[AuthorName] => Ghio Ong
[SectionName] => Education and Home
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[Title] => TESDA recognition spurs school to maintain high quality of IT courses
[Summary] => Leading information technology (IT) school chain Informatics welcomed the recognition given by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) over the high job acceptance rate of its graduates, particularly those who were awarded TESDA scholarship grants in 2009.
[DatePublished] => 2010-11-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => Promote IT to boost tech-voc skills, government asked
[Summary] =>
An educator called on the national government to emphasize information technology (IT) education to boost their campaign to promote technical-vocational (tech-voc) skills learning as a good alternative to going to college for Filipino youths.
[DatePublished] => 2007-05-02 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1664250
[AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda
[SectionName] => Headlines
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[Title] => A PDA in your phone
[Summary] => Recently incorporated Xplore Phils. Inc. is a one-product company that had its beginnings in the shopping district of Bangkok.
"I was looking for a cellphone that I could give my wife as a present or pasalubong," said president and chief executive officer Leo Riingen. "I was immediately drawn to this cellphone that is also a PDA (personal digital assistant). I thought to myself what a cool idea. Instead of putting the cellphone in the PDA, which is too big to fit inside your pants’ pocket, here is a product that puts the PDA in the cellphone."
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-20 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1212707
[AuthorName] => Carla Paras-Sison
[SectionName] => Business As Usual
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[Title] => A school in the mall
[Summary] => Informatics Holdings Phils. Inc. president and chief executive officer Leo Riingen. likes to watch things, particularly businesses, grow. "That is why I did not want to handle an already big business like San Miguel Corp. I wanted to build a business from scratch," he said.
And that’s what Riingen has done for the Philippine franchise of Informatics Computer Institute, the number one in IT education and training in Singapore.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-25 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1125263
[AuthorName] => Angelica A. Angel
[SectionName] => Business As Usual
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[Title] => A degree in the right direction
[Summary] => As fresh graduates jostle for the limited number of jobs available in the market, they will learn one lesson that was probably left out of their school curriculum...
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-03 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1328371
[AuthorName] => From the Philippine Star’s YS
[SectionName] => Young Star
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[Title] => Courses via the Web get gov’t push
[Summary] => To help Filipino youths compete with the rest of the world in information technology, the government’s Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is helping promote courses on the Internet.
CHED Commissioner Manuel Punzal said they have formed a technical panel to discuss the guidelines for online courses now being offered by different schools.
"We are now formulating guidelines for this new system of education," he said. "It appears that many universities abroad are now offering courses on the Internet. Filipinos have to catch up."
[DatePublished] => 2001-06-08 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804896
[AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo
[SectionName] => Technology
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December 24, 2011 - 12:00am
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Ghio Ong | December 9, 2010 - 12:00am
November 11, 2010 - 12:00am
