HERE’S an excerpt from Alex Villafania’s story for INQUIRER.net Infotech:

MANILA–Filipino biologist Baldomero Olivera has been awarded Scientist of the Year for 2007 by the prestigious Harvard Foundation in the United States for his contributions in the field of biology.

Olivera, who currently works as Distinguished Professor of Biology from the University of Utah, has made groundbreaking research on neurotoxins of the extremely poisonous Conus, a type of cone snail found in the tropical waters of the Philippines.

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RODOLFO VILLARICA, who is called the “Father of the Philippine Internet,” gave a very interesting speech last night during the Philippine Internet Commerce Society’s 5th National E-Commerce Congress and Exhibit, which was also a celebration of the 13th anniversary of the Internet in the Philippines.

Villarica recounted the chain of events that eventually launched the Philippines into cyberspace, and paid tribute to two individuals who gave invaluable support but whom he had previously failed to acknowledge for their role in making this dream a reality.

Villarica also hailed the efforts of the late Ricardo Gloria, the former education secretary who played a key role in bringing the Internet to the Philippines.

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WE’VE added three more blogs to our growing INQUIRER.net Blogs network: Current, the Eleksyon 2007 Blog and Babe Republic.

Current is a joint blog from Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Manuel Quezon III and Inquirer editor John Nery, which will tackle current events and the issues of the day as reported in the Inquirer print newspaper.

Tired of letting the candidates do all the talking?

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HERE’S an INQUIRER.net Video clip of VMV Hypoallergenics CEO Laura Verallo de Bertotto shares how her company used the Web to expand its business in a presentation at the Philippine Internet Commerce Society’s 5th National E-Commerce Congress and Exhibit.

LAWYER Claro Parlade, who is a senior partner at Parlade Hildawa Parlade & Eco and executive director of the Cyberspace Policy Center for Asia Pacific, talks about the impact of technology on franchising at the Philippine Internet Commerce Society’s 5th National E-Commerce Congress and Exhibit.

Here’s a clip from INQUIRER.net Videos: