OUR community evangelist Alex Villafania is in Singapore now, covering the Yahoo! Southeast Asia Advertising Summit.

Yahoo! had interesting things to say about user behavior in Asia, particularly the shift from traditional media to rich media, and here’s an excerpt from Alex’s story:

Citing figures from a survey conducted last year by research firm Synovate, a Yahoo! executive said a growing number of Asians are spending more time using the Internet than any other medium. Singapore and Taiwan are currently leading the pack, followed by Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. Television remains the main information source for Filipinos but the Internet has outranked newspapers, magazines and radio.

Though traditional advertisers dictate that marketing budgets go to traditional media, such as TV, radio and print, the gap is closing for online advertising, particularly with the rise of new content such as online video.

“Rich media will become premium content,” said Yahoo! Southeast Asia managing director Ken Mandel in his opening remarks at the Yahoo! Southeast Asia Advertising Summit here.

Here’s a video Alex took for INQUIRER.net VDO, as Mandel emphasized that “consumers want more than search.”

HERE’S an interview INQUIRER.net multimedia reporter Erika Tapalla conducted in Cebu, where Accenture expanded its operations to offer business process outsourcing services.

Accenture Delivery Center Network for BPO Global managing director Pankaj Vaish talks about the expansion. Video taken by Strategic Edge vice president Ana Marques at the Accenture facility in Cebu City, Philippines.

HERE’S another video sent in by our technology reporter Lawrence Casiraya for INQUIRER.net VDO from the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, China.

The new version of the Classmate PC, which will go on sale in the next two months, was rolled out in schools in China. Video shows Chinese students using the new Classmate PC in a demo during the Intel Developer Forum.

And here’s a photo Lawrence took.

OUR technology reporter Lawrence Casiraya is in Shanghai, China covering the Intel Developer Forum. Apart from writing articles for Infotech, he’s also been sending videos for INQUIRER.net VDO. Who says you can’t multitask?

Check out these two clips he sent.

This video clip shown at IDF gives you a taste of the functions of the Aigo mobile Internet device.

This one is a preview of several new notebook designs, including two “Netbook” models from Lenovo and Founder. The Netbook is a low-cost, low-power laptop designed primarily for Internet connectivity and targeted at emerging markets. Intel said these laptops will arrive in June.

By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

FOR the nth time, I got hit by a computer virus. This time, though, it was a nasty hit.

I was happily surfing the Internet last weekend when my antivirus software started detecting it. I am not yet sure if it is a Trojan (a malicious program that leaves a backdoor open in your system for hackers to take control), or a computer worm (self-replicating malware). But it was clear. It was annoying and it took control of my laptop.

As one saying goes, there are many ways to skin a cat. The most effective and yet desperate way to get rid of a computer virus is to format the computer. Wipe the hard drive clean, and start afresh. But that would mean losing all your important files, data, and programs — not to mention wasted man hours in reinstalling the operating system, drivers, etc. So that wasn’t an option. I had to find a way to take out the computer virus with surgical precision.

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