By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net

WE know what a gigabyte is, but what the heck is an exabyte?

Well, you’d better get used to the term, as the amount of digital content that’s out there is growing at such a rate that “gigabyte” will seem ridiculously small in the near future.

Ronnie Latinazo, country manager of EMC Philippines, pointed out that the digital universe in 2006 reached up to 161 exabytes of digital content (that’s 161 billion — yes, billion, gigabytes).

INQUIRER.net reporter Lawrence Casiraya took that photo of Latinazo using a camphone. We’re here at the Renaissance Hotel for the EMC press briefing, and I’m blogging this via our PLDT WeRoam office account.

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By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

TAIPEI, Taiwan–The Computex Trade Show is arguably the biggest technology trade show in Asia. For this year, the Taiwanese government made sure that the event will be as flashy as it could be not just to entice potential business partners, but also to capture the imagination of computer and electronics enthusiasts looking for the latest gadgets, some of which are not yet even available in the market.

This year’s Computex 2007, from June 4 to 8, is the biggest that Taiwan had to offer with 1,333 exhibitors and 2,926 booths sprawled in four huge halls surrounding the world’s tallest skyscraper, the 1,670.68-foot Taipei 101.

Taiwan External Trade Development Council chairman Gary Tseng said they are expecting 30,000 buyers and would grow the trade show’s revenues by at least two percent.

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By Jose B. Javier, Contributor
INQUIRER.net

AS the publication Euromedia puts it, “If it’s April, it must be Las Vegas. And if it’s Las Vegas, it’s the NAB” or the National Association of Broadcasters of America Convention.

The latest annual gathering of broadcasters from around the world was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center from April 16-19.

The buzzwords in this year’s gathering were “interoperability” and “re-purposing content” as manufacturers of broadcast equipment tried their best to demonstrate why and how their systems were the natural choices if the networks wanted seamless delivery of production outputs. For the second straight year and in what has become a “high-definition”-bound world, HDTV equipment from content acquisition, post-production, management and delivery dominated the exposition.

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