On June 30, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will not only take his oath as the highest official in the land, but will also make history as the first Philippine president whose inauguration will be livestreamed on the Internet.

Yahoo! Southeast Asia will provide a live video stream of the Aquino inauguration, in partnership with broadcast network TV5, MediaQuest and FutureGen.

This will be made available on the Purple Thumb election site of Yahoo! Philippines, together with a live blog that will give up-the-minute updates and allow readers from all over the world to post their comments.

Just as in the Purple Thumb coverage of the first automated elections in the Philippines, bloggers and citizen journalists can take part in Yahoo!’s social media coverage by using the hashtag #PurpleThumb together with their election-related tweets. These #PurpleThumb Twitter updates will be automatically posted on the live blog, where they can be read by the millions of readers who visit the Yahoo! Philippines site.

More info: ph.yfittopostblog.com/2010/06/29/live-video-stream-of-aquino-inauguration-on-june-30/

APACTechForum is organizing the Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualisation on Nov 25 and 26th at the Suntec Convention Center in Singapore.

Key speakers include Mr Stefan Groschupf, founder of Katta, the open source Lucene index project, Mr Manish Pratap, HP, Mr Omar Asad, CTO, Riverbed Technologies, Mr Satish Murthy, NetAPP, Mr David Loke, ReadySpace and a host of other key speakers.

Interested parties can visit the cloud computing conference site.

Futuregen is attending this event organized by the Singapore Computer Society on “The Demystification of Digital Media”, friday, November 6, 2009 from 6:30 to 8pm at the SCS Resource Center.

Source: http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_videoDetail.aspx?v=3816&id=2197f1c0-e386-4bbc-841f-ce185823678e

Who is OpenNet?
OpenNet has been appointed by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) in September 2008 to provide and manage a truly open passive high quality fibre grid services for Singapore’s Next Gen NBN.

Leveraging SingTel’s existing extensive high-quality ducting network, OpenNet will turn it into an ultra-fast broadband network serving the nation with almost 100% coverage by 2012, at least two years ahead of IDA’s initial schedule.

Sixty percent of households and buildings will get wired up by 2010, with 95 percent coverage expected by 2012. From 2013, OpenNet will meet all reasonable requests to install fibre access points in homes, offices and buildings throughout Singapore.

Being the key operator that will lay the foundation of the Next Gen NBN, OpenNet is committed to deliver a resilient fibre network that is truly open, better and faster.

Futuregen attended a highly entertaining seminar on EQ (Emotional Quotient) by Mr Sidwell, organized by the CCAS (Call center Association of Singapore).