As of this posting the Unofficial leading senators are as follows:

1
POE, GRACE
14,613,651

2
LEGARDA, LOREN
13,372,983

3
CAYETANO, ALAN PETER
12,647,376

4
ESCUDERO, CHIZ
12,639,129

5
BINAY, NANCY
11,925,426

6
ANGARA, EDGARDO
11,492,476

7
AQUINO, BENIGNO BAM
11,078,239

8
PIMENTEL, KOKO
10,595,909

9
TRILLANES, ANTONIO IV
10,178,022

10
VILLAR, CYNTHIA HANEPBUHAY
9,918,993

11
EJERCITO ESTRADA, JV
9,842,877

12
HONASAN, GRINGO
9,498,613

13
GORDON, DICK
9,070,166

14
ZUBIRI, MIGZ
8,492,277

15
ENRILE, JUAN PONCE JR.
8,213,435

SanDisk Brings Fast Flash Memory Technology
to the World’s Thinnest 2.5-inch Solid State Hybrid Drives from WD
MANILA, Philippines – May 8, 2013 – WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company, and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that the two companies are collaborating to introduce hybrid storage devices that feature best-in-class flash memory technology from SanDisk and best-in-class hard drive technology from WD.
 SanDisk is supplying a SanDisk iSSD™ storage device for the WD Black™ solid state hybrid drive (SSHD), the world’s thinnest …

First in a Family of High-performance and Slim Drives for Ultra-portable Devices Feature Innovative Mechanical Designs and Solid State Hybrid Drive Technology
MANILA, Philippines – May 2, 2013 – WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and world leader in storage and connected-life products, today announced it is shipping the world’s first ultra-slim 2.5-inch, 5 mm hard drives and solid state hybrid drives (SSHD) , which are designed for integration into the slimmest devices and space-constrained computing environments. With 500 GB of storage capacity and models with high performance-enabling solid state hybrid drive technology, …

While Apple’s market share of app downloads constantly fell from 81% in 2008 to 39% at the end of 2012, Android’s app downloads increased year over year reaching 42% at the end of 2012.
Both platforms now combine 82% of all app downloads. Will this duopoly last for the next years or will the market see another major change in the market structure as witnessed 5 years ago when the dominance of Symbian started to fade away?
The most likely scenario is that the duopoly will give way to a more heterogeneous …

VARIOUS CITIZENS’ GROUPS are engaging in the participatory process for crafting the Department of Environment and Natural Resources budget for next year as part of the 2014 General Appropriations Act (GAA) proposal now being prepared by the Aquino administration.
This was announced today by La Liga Policy Institute, member of the Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI), a budget advocacy network led by Social Watch Philippines (SWP) which is the DENR’s budget partner among civil society organizations (CSOs). La Liga serves as convenor of the Environment Cluster of ABI, consisting of more than …

THE LOCAL Development Council (LDC) of Alaminos City in Pangasinan province recently passed a landmark resolution mandating the institutionalization of citizen’s direct and active participation in identifying and planning local programs, projects and activities, and in allocating local government unit’s budget for these.
The resolution recommends to the City Council the approval of proposed City Ordinance entitled “Institutionalizing the preparation of Citizens’ Agenda in the annual preparation of the Annual Investment Plan (AIP) in the City of Alaminos.”
It defined Citizen’s Agenda as “the list of proposed programs and projects that embodies …