It’s been a good year under Salalima’s watch It came to our surprise that Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Rudy Salalima tendered his resignation on September 21 “out of delicadeza”. For the normal Filipino, however, they would ask: What makes the DICT important anyway? Why do they rarely hear about this government […]
Free internet for everyone! There will now be more free WiFi hotspots provided by the government, as President Duterte has officially signed the Free Internet Access in Public Places Act (Republic Act 10929), into law. The law will allow more public WiFi hotspots in public places, namely: national and local government offices public basic […]
Here’s 5 Things You Need To Know About The Free WiFi Project The Department of Information and Communications Technology and the National Telecommunications Commission along with its telco partners Globe and PLDT, is launching free their Free, High-speed WiFi Project on EDSA today, June 12, Independence Day. The project will give an estimated 500,000 daily […]
A Contingency Plan for Travellers over the Holy Week Holy Week is nearly upon us and while some of our kababayans may take this time to connect to their religiosity, others use the break to escape the urban jungle that is Metro Manila or take a vacay away out of the country all together. If […]
Another Giveaway! Congratulations to the winner of last week’s giveaway for the Firefly Mobile Aurii Envy, King Dave Salazar! If you didn’t win the giveaway, don’t worry we’ve got another one coming your way. This week, we’re giving away a copy of The Jinri Experience signed by Jay Tablante and Jinri Park herself. To join, all […]
Great news to tech-savvy travel junkies! Last night, Philippine Airlines and Skyroam launched myPAL Roam, a global mobile hotspot that provides easy, fast, secure and affordable mobile data around the world. For just Php 490 per day, you get unlimited internet access (subject to the 1Gb fair use policy) with a maximum download speed of […]
Say goodbye to the overpriced “airport taxi” cabs in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) as the airport management has now allowed regular taxis to pick up passengers from all its four terminals. The directive was implemented starting today, July 18. According to the report from the Philippine Star, the pick-up areas for the regular […]
We’ve flown enough in the past few months to know that free WiFi in the PH’s major airports are agonizingly slow. That’s why we’re happy to hear that the new Transportation Secretary, Arthur Tugade has announced that the government is bringing 1GBps of free, hi-speed WiFi to all PH airports for free. “In due time all […]
No overspending, no bill shock We regularly travel overseas to cover events, and one of the most frustrating things that we have to deal with (aside from the very legitimate threat of finding a bullet in our bag in NAIA) is internet access. You have a few options that are open to you when you […]
Attack on Titan Fans… Rejoice! If the impending price cut still won’t convince you to buy a PlayStation 4 come October, then this might. Official game play footage for the Attack on Titan (Shingeki No Kyojin) game for the PlayStation 4 was just shown during the Tokyo Game Show and it is simply… breathtaking. We’ve […]