MANILA, Philippines - Even the police ranks are apparently not safe from illegal drug syndicates.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday admitted that 216 policemen tested positive in a nationwide random drug testing conducted last year, only 80 of whom were dismissed from service. 25 percent of the police force will be subjected to random drug testing this year as part of the ant-illegal drugs campaign within the ranks. The Philippine National Police will not accept any usual excuses from their cops that they are positive because they belongs to an undercover operations.
PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Nicanor Bartolome said 79 policemen are currently undergoing summary dismissal proceedings while 26 others have been pre-charged administratively and are facing dismissal.
Aside from them, 24 policemen were suspended, two were dropped from the rolls while five others voluntarily resigned as a result of last year's drug testing, Bartolome said.
Bartolome noted that most of those who tested positive either for shabu or marijuana are newly recruited non-commissioned officers with a rank of either Police Officer 1 or Police Officer 2.
Bartolome noted that 25,134 police personnel were subjected to surprise drug testing from January to December last year. This number comprises 25 percent of the 125,000-strong National Police force.
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
Palm back the game with touchscreen Pre, WebOS
Palm was under serious pressure to hit a home run.
Running Palm's gorgeous (if belated) new platform, dubbed WebOS, the touchscreen Pre could well be Palm's savior, and perhaps its biggest hit.So, as for the Pre itself . It's got a big, 3.1-inch 480 by 320 touch display (yes, with multitouch and an accelerometer), weighs in at 4.8 ounces, and comes with a curved, slide-out keypad. Yes, it does Wi-Fi and 3G (EV-DO Rev. A, to be exact), as well as GPS , stereo Bluetooth, 8GB of internal storage, a 3MP camera, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a removable battery.
But the key to the Pre is its OS, and WebOS—previously code-named "Nova"—is one of the hottest mobile platforms I've seen yet, rivaling both Android and Apple's iPhone OS.
At a glance, WebOS doesn't look all that different from the icon-driven, touch-based Android and iPhone platforms, complete with a row of icons along the bottom for your standard e-mail, calendar, and calling features.
More importantly, though, is WebOS's way of letting you handle and sort all your open applications like a deck of cards. If you're composing an e-mail, for example, you can flick up, call open a new application, and then return to your e-mail at any point. All open applications appear as windows , and you can flick back and forth, reorder them, and discard them at will.
WebOS also introduces a concept dubbed "Synergy," which all applications can continuously get info from the Web. The best example: WebOS's unified contact list, which seamlessly displays all your contacts and grab their e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and IM handles from Facebook, Gmail, Exchange, you name it.
And then there's the WebOS "Dashboard": a flexible space at the bottom of the screen for calling, messaging, and appointment alerts. As you're working in other applications, you might see the first line of a text message or IM, or the Dashboard might open a bit bigger for a calendar alert, complete with "dismiss" and "snooze" options. When alerts appear, you're free to keep working in your open application, or you can go ahead and open the alert—and if you want to answer an IM, you can swipe to that "card" in WebOS, and then return to your previous application card. Great stuff.
A few other interesting notes: Pre's main screen, you can just start typing on the QWERTY keypad to call up a universal search menu; you'll instantly see any matching contacts, or you can quickly jump to Web results from Google, Google Maps, and Wikipedia.
"Touchstone," a little hockey puck of an accessory with a killer feature—wireless charging. Just place the Pre on top of the Touchstone device to power it up.
Running Palm's gorgeous (if belated) new platform, dubbed WebOS, the touchscreen Pre could well be Palm's savior, and perhaps its biggest hit.So, as for the Pre itself . It's got a big, 3.1-inch 480 by 320 touch display (yes, with multitouch and an accelerometer), weighs in at 4.8 ounces, and comes with a curved, slide-out keypad. Yes, it does Wi-Fi and 3G (EV-DO Rev. A, to be exact), as well as GPS , stereo Bluetooth, 8GB of internal storage, a 3MP camera, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a removable battery.
But the key to the Pre is its OS, and WebOS—previously code-named "Nova"—is one of the hottest mobile platforms I've seen yet, rivaling both Android and Apple's iPhone OS.
At a glance, WebOS doesn't look all that different from the icon-driven, touch-based Android and iPhone platforms, complete with a row of icons along the bottom for your standard e-mail, calendar, and calling features.
More importantly, though, is WebOS's way of letting you handle and sort all your open applications like a deck of cards. If you're composing an e-mail, for example, you can flick up, call open a new application, and then return to your e-mail at any point. All open applications appear as windows , and you can flick back and forth, reorder them, and discard them at will.
WebOS also introduces a concept dubbed "Synergy," which all applications can continuously get info from the Web. The best example: WebOS's unified contact list, which seamlessly displays all your contacts and grab their e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and IM handles from Facebook, Gmail, Exchange, you name it.
And then there's the WebOS "Dashboard": a flexible space at the bottom of the screen for calling, messaging, and appointment alerts. As you're working in other applications, you might see the first line of a text message or IM, or the Dashboard might open a bit bigger for a calendar alert, complete with "dismiss" and "snooze" options. When alerts appear, you're free to keep working in your open application, or you can go ahead and open the alert—and if you want to answer an IM, you can swipe to that "card" in WebOS, and then return to your previous application card. Great stuff.
A few other interesting notes: Pre's main screen, you can just start typing on the QWERTY keypad to call up a universal search menu; you'll instantly see any matching contacts, or you can quickly jump to Web results from Google, Google Maps, and Wikipedia.
"Touchstone," a little hockey puck of an accessory with a killer feature—wireless charging. Just place the Pre on top of the Touchstone device to power it up.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Wal-Mart / Apple's iPhone
Wal-Mart will start selling Apple's popular iPhone , the chain said, confirming earlier reports by employees.
Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will become the second independent retail chain after Best Buy Inc. to sell the iPhone. It is also sold at Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. stores.
Wal-Mart will sell the phones for $2 less than the regular price with a two-year contract: $197 for the 8-gigabyte model, or $297 for the 16-gigabyte model. Best Buy is discounting the phone by $9.
Reports that Wal-Mart would sell the phone, but not the exact launch date or the terms, surfaced early this month through store employees who had been briefed.
Have you experience the iPhone? Is it nice to browse?
I never experience using iPhone yet.
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