Top Stories published by racoma.org in 2005

Keep your traffic violation tickets: LTO could scam you!

Got this via email. Apparently, some employees of the Philippine Land Transportation Office, with all its computerization projects, have found a way to perpetrate yet another corrupt practice–this time in the light of having ICT…


GMA 7 to launch new free-TV channel QTV

GMA 7, one of the Philppines’ larger television networks, is set to launch QTV (QualityTV) on November 11, 2005. Channel 11 is operated by ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. (chaired by Bro. Eddie Villanueva), which is to lease its full airtime to GMA.


The Filipina online

I previously posted on the Yan ang Pinay movement now propagating in cyberspace (now with button links in my left sidebar), where people are basically encouraged to write about Filipinas and even Filipinos in general. This is in the aim of improving the status of the Filipina online…


MRT 3 sucks at ticketing system!

I take the Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT 3 — official website, route map) almost everyday going to and from work. And I can say they’re beginning to suck big time in how they handle ticketing! Well, they sucked since the start, but lately they’re beginning to really screw up…


Nude MMS photos at Addict Mobile Blog homepage

From Pinoy.tech.blog: Addict Mobile PR Nightmare.

Nothing wrong with offering MMS-powered photoblogs. It’s when users start doing the unthinkable that a great idea … becomes a PR nightmare.

W3C to ban span and div tags?

According to projectseven.com,

a source disclosed that the standards-setting body World Wide Web

Consortium (W3C) plans to remove the span and div tags from XHTML 2.0

specifiaction.


WiFi poaching? Who’s liable?

John C. Dvorak reacts to news of an individual arrested for stealing WiFi signal: How can this be illegal when the computers often latch onto the wrong signal by themselves?

WiFi poaching, also called wardriving, is essentially piggybacking on others’…

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