Monitoring the traffic flow in the metropolis’ major thoroughfares is now at the motorists’ fingertips with the latest addition to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s digitized traffic information system.
A free app, with free extra content—and, for the first two months, a chance to win an Inquirer tablet package for free.
The website of the Department of Education was up and running again on Saturday after being attacked early this week by pro-Taiwan hackers.
The country’s two major telecommunications providers have denied claims that weak signals played a major role in the delayed transmission of results in Monday’s elections.
The website of the Department of Education is still down after a cyber attack by hackers believed to be sympathetic with Taiwan in its row with the Manila government over the killing by the Philippine Coast Guard on Thursday last week of a Taiwanese fisherman in the Balintang Channel.
On the verge of her second defeat in elections, administration candidate Risa Hontiveros has taken to Twitter to show there’s more to life than making it to the Senate.
Off-color jokes involving the possible entry into the Magic 12 of former senator Richard Gordon, whose nickname is “Dick,” trended worldwide on Twitter on Election Day.
Social media served as the platform for expressing thanks to supporters as independent and minor political party candidates practically conceded defeat in the senatorial race.
It’s inevitable that some machines would fail on Election Day, the head of Smartmatic International, the service provider of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the midterm polls, said Monday.
Some of the Inquirer editorials this election season have proven controversial or gone viral, including one on senatorial candidate Nancy Binay and another on the so-called White Vote.
The website of the Commission on Elections bogged down the last few days but the public need not worry as it is not connected to the system to be used on Election Day, a Comelec official said Saturday.
Still unsure whom to vote for? INQSnap can help. The newly upgraded Inquirer Mobile app, which now includes the INQSnap augmented-reality function, allows the reader to view revealing videos about the candidates for the Senate, compare their positions on hot-button issues, even read in full their answers at the Inquirer Senate Forums—all by “snapping” Sunday’s front page.
Independent senatorial candidates and those from the minor political parties wound up their campaigns on Saturday by using free social media networks, exhorting their supporters and undecided voters to keep up the fight.
