Grab Taxi Mobile App for Fast and Safe Taxi Hailing

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Have you guys seen taxi cabs deployed with GPS-enabled mobile here in Metro Manila? There's even a small number of taxi cabs in Cebu that has those setup which was said to have been issued by a certain telecom company. Apparently, the gadgets are used for GPS-roving-mapping purposes.

There is also a World Bank funded study where they are conducting an ongoing transit app competition. They are trying to map traffic now so we know how to fix it fast and easy.

GrabTaxi, EasyTaxi, TaxiHero,....there's so many taxi startups but so litlle time. It wont be long now before every taxi driver will be equipped with a GPS-enabled smartphone and taxi app.

Well, the only app I've tried so far was GrabTaxi, originally MyTeksi from Malaysia, and it was an awesome piece of app.

Mobile Messaging Apps Rumored To Be Used for Spying On Us

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Is the rumor about the popular free messaging app WeChat from China true?

The rumor says that China is the most dangerous in the World for Cyber Hacking and they could easily hack our phone using WeChat and replace the numbers of our friends and steal our private information including our photos,financial information like credit cards and bank accounts, etc... Is this just a scare against WeChat? Although they are not saying for us not to use, install or uninstall this app but they are asking us to please be careful and mindful when using it.

There was this blog posted discussing this that was later discovered that it mainly rips off Techinasia and only adds one editorializing paragraph which sorts of doing the hacking (in this case, plagiarizing).

But get the real facts out there. There's FB Messenger from the USA, Viber from Israel, LINE from Japan/Korea, WeChat/Tencent from China, etc. So if it's any close to being real, then we might as well choose which country you want to spy on your data.

Mobile Application Competition

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COMPETITION UPDATE: Competition day has been moved on August 23, 2013 at Sky Ranch, Tagaytay City. Deadline of submission of entries is on August 8, 2013.

Be a sure winner when you qualified on the FINAL 10 ENTRIES.

1st Prize : Php 30,000.00
2nd Prize : Php 20,000.00
3rd Prize : Php 10,000.00
Consolation Prize : Php 5,000.00 each (for 7 non-winning teams)

FREE BOARD and LODGING will be provided for the FINALIST on Aug. 23 for the Awarding Ceremony on Aug. 24, 2013. Showcase your mobile app now!

for more info: https://slc2013-mobile-app-competition.eventbrite.com/