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Competitive pressures forcing Apple to up its ante

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Apple no longer stands head and shoulders over the competition; desires to reveal innovation leadership Competitive pressures forcing its hand on product cycles, which has led to better products for clients Periscope with the aid of Edwin Yapp FIRSTLY, a very happy new year to you, pricey readers, and might this 12 months be a terrific 12 months so that it will gain all of your desires and goals.   Over the past two weeks, I've been chickening out to take inventory of the 12 months and even as I'm now not large on making resolutions, I do believe that it's crucial to continuously compare our goals and objectives and to look if they may be turning out the way we want them to.   Which brings me to my first column of the year, primarily based on two interesting tales that caught my eye over the weekend.   The first is a Reuters document, which stated Strategy Analytics as pronouncing that Samsung Electronics is expected to widen its lead over Apple in international telep...

Sime Darby claims 1500 downloads of its iPhone app

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More than 1,500 downloads since release in August, 2012 Online advertising and marketing to be important consciousness of the hospital moving forward THE Sime Darby Healthcare (SDH) iPhone software recorded extra than 1,500 downloads and managed to time table over ninety affected person-medical doctor appointments because it was first launch in August 2012.   The cellphone app allows customers to discover and make appointments with docs, the Sime Darby Healthcare Group stated in a declaration.   Developed by means of Medeguide Holdings Limited, the app profiles over 180 medical doctors from Sime Darby Medical Centers, displaying key information of the docs together with their specialities, the conditions they treat, and the processes they perform, at the side of a Google Map of the hospital.   Users can request appointments with their decided on doctors by way of submitting a brief on-line form or calling the hotline range directly from the app. The loose app is available for dow...

Facebook IPO: This time it’s personal

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First full day of buying and selling ends with inventory below provide fee The stop is nigh, the stop is nigh, cry the hawks THE Facebook initial public offering (IPO) final Friday (May 18) generated the identical amount of hype and hope that the Google’s IPO did lower back in August, 2004. The latter delivered cheer lower back to the tech industry after the debacle of the dotcom bust; at the same time as the Facebook list marks a new technology, some would like to agree with. Google offered greater than 19 million stocks at US$eighty five each the use of a completely unique public sale format. On the primary day of buying and selling, the inventory commenced at US$100.01 and ended at US$a hundred.34, up US$15.34 or 18%. The entire exercising raised US$1.67 billion, at the time the biggest IPO ever with the aid of an Internet enterprise. By evaluation, the hawks are out over the Facebook listing, portray it a disaster. Trading on the Nasdaq inventory change became not on time due...

Party like it’s 1999: Malaysian students triumphant at Intel meet

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ISEF is global’s largest pre-college and science honest Malaysians students with a haul of awards really worth a total of US$10K+ MALAYSIAN college students had their quality ever showing at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair considering that 1999, hauling in diverse awards with a mixed value of US$10,500.   Faye Jong-Sow Fei from SMK Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak acquired a First Award of US$three,000 within the Environmental Management Category for her undertaking entitled ‘Bio-Waste Materials as Eco-Friendly Mordant in Fabric Dye Process.’   She was additionally the Top Winner of the Best of Category with prizes along with US$five,000 and US$1,000 coins for her school and the affiliated honest she represents, Intel Malaysia said.   In addition to that, Faye Jong walked away with an all-fee-paid ride to wait the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Warsaw, Poland this August, the agency said after an occasion held in Putrajaya these days to celebr...

Week in Review: It's all about the money

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High tech startup QEOS land RM10m in project funding Malaysian Business Angels Network launched, concentrated on RM100 million in angel investments by means of 2020 IT'S ALL approximately the money this week. RM10 million and a capacity RM100 million.  [RM1 = US$0.33]   The RM10 million is correctly inside the bank account of Quantum Electro Opto Systems (QEOS), thanks to a maiden funding via Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM). The high speed LED startup objectives to use the investment to develop its valuation to US$one hundred million by using the cease of 2013 says its chief government officer, Dr Gabriel Walter.   Gabriel, who has been constructing the company considering 2008, is positioning QEOS to be received in some unspecified time in the future by means of one in every of the larger global tech players. It is an uncommon method as a long way as Malaysian organizations go. The only time I can remember a Malaysian startup being acquired through a international tech play...

Pikom outlines its focus for year ahead

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Chairman Woon Tai Hai ambitions to tighten the deliver while deciding on fate of Digital Lifestyle Expo Building Pikom’s thought management status every other precedence PIKOM, the national ICT affiliation of Malaysia, currently re-elected Woon Tai Hai (p.c) to a second time period as chairman. Two years is the most term that Pikom lets in for this position, mainly due to the fact that is a volunteer put up but one which comes with a variety of visibility and heavy duties.   It is a post that has constantly been filled via seasoned entrepreneurs or successful professional executives, each businesses being busy people in their very own proper.   Woon, as an instance, has to stability his Pikom duties together with his duty to KPMG in which he's government director and head of KPMG's Business Performance Services exercise.   The remaining thing wanted is for someone to occupy the post for selfish reasons. Hence Pikom has settled on two years as the appropriate time spent i...

TM adds Office 365 to its ‘Office in a Box’ offering

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TM and Microsoft in % to provide Office in a Box with Microsoft Office 365 Offers cloud-powered communications and Microsoft’s productivity suite thru VADS TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd has brought Microsoft Corp’s Office 365, the cloud version of the US generation massive’s productivity suite, to its existing Office in a Box bundle.   The new and greater bundle would allow Malaysian SMEs (small and medium enterprises) to collaborate extra efficaciously, TM said in a declaration.   The newly released Office in a Box with Microsoft Office 365 is a collaboration between the two groups which offers cloud-powered communications and Microsoft’s productivity suite thru TM subsidiary VADS.   Malaysian SMEs can revel in TM’s enterprise-grade broadband connectivity, with speeds ranging from 1 Mbps to 4 Mbps and soon to be available, eight Mbps, aggressive call costs and unique price-brought offerings as properly.   “Day by way of day, cloud computing is becoming important for maximum folks,” state...

Malaysia’s racial policy rears its head in ICT sector

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A clear instance of the road to hell being paved with right intentions? National initiative to assist bumiputera technopreneurs in danger of being hijacked A NEW initiative to upgrade Malay or bumiputera marketers within the information and communications era (ICT) area is in danger of being hijacked with the aid of Malaysia’s race-based totally choice guidelines.   On Nov 7, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak (p.c) introduced the PUsh (Pemangkin Usahawan or Entrepreneur Catalyst) initiative to “prop up” the performance of bumiputera entrepreneurs inside the ICT and Creative sectors, with the purpose of creating “three massive worldwide groups by 2015,” English day by day The Star said .   PUsh was installation by way of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation (MyNEF) in collaboration with the Malaysian Association of Bumiputera ICT Industry and Entrepreneurs (NEF) and in cooperation with numerous authorities groups, including the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Bu...

Telco Deep Dive: It’s always sizzling in the telco space

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On May 26, Digital News Asia (DNA) launched its first Deep Dive file, which checked out the telecommunications space in Malaysia. Over the following two weeks, we are able to be publishing the articles from the PDF document on our portal, plus different tales. To download the Telco Deep Dive, click on here . In this article, DNA founder Karamjit Singh takes a brief study the enterprise and explains the purpose in the back of the Telco Deep Dive document. Definitely shaping out to be ‘Year of Battles’ for telcos Changing customer behaviours and new technology THE movement is heating up within the Malaysian telecommunications market.   This now not the primary time I have started a telco article with that line! I wager the action is forever warm within the Malaysian telco market, specially on the mobile front.   According to Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) statistics, as of Dec 31, 2013, Malaysia had more than forty two.95 million cellular subscribers, com...

Friendster gets its game on

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Friendster formally relaunched, backed by using US$1.5m marketing campaign Sets bold goal to boom no of Malaysian contributors FRIENDSTER, which was received through Asia’s leading e-fee and e-way of life issuer MOL Global Pte Ltd (MOL) in 2009, was officially re-released Thursday, May 17. With around one hundred million users, MOL is touting the pioneer social networking website because the location’s biggest on line community. In preserving with the truth that the Philippines is the maximum lively market for Friendster with 40% of general active customers, the legit relaunch there was held on April 25. The relaunch had an immediate impact in the Philippines with among a 15% and 20% soar in lively users a month after its relaunch. MOL is looking at an aggressive leap in energetic users in Malaysia too, says its organization leader executive officer Ganesh Kumar Bangah, a power subsidized through an aggressive two-month US$1.5-million advertising and promoting finances for the Ma...

eBay's denial aside it's still Malaysian user data

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CSM says no legitimate reports concerning attack so far, will look at if there are Leaked information is legitimate but origins unknown, will be from Malaysian business enterprise  ONLINE public sale house eBay may also have denied that information claiming to be from its database breach being supplied online have been valid debts, however the reality stays that the leaked statistics carries information of over 10,000 Malaysian customers.   In response to queries from Digital News Asia (DNA), CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM) leader executive officer Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab (percent)  said that Cyber999 has not acquired any official document concerning this assault.   Cyber999 is a service operated via the Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) for Internet customers to file or improve computer safety incidents. It comes below the purview of CSM, an employer underneath the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.   “However, as we're aware about the report being...

Deep Dive: It’s sizzling in the telco world

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DNA introduces its inaugural Deep Dive collection First time virtual handiest cognizance produced on telco zone I AM excited to convey to you DNA’s inaugural Deep Dive report, and it's far on the sizzling telecommunications industry in Malaysia.   As I mentioned in one of my articles in the 16-page PDF Telco Deep Dive , the telco market right here, specifically at the cellular side, has always been interesting – but it has grow to be even greater so this yr.   With spectrum refarming due for 2015, each one of the incumbents is probably a little frightened approximately how their spectrum is going to be allocated via industry regulator the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).   Meanwhile, past spectrum, the enterprise’s massive Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) has decided to re-input the mobile arena via its acquisition of Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd (P1), making all the incumbents even extra apprehensive.   It is going to be even more of a battlefield now for t...

Maxis kicks off ‘It’s not OK to be OK’ company transformation

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Re-energising brand identity to mirror greater colourful manner of working Says has set excessive bar to improve network, merchandise, guidelines and approaches MAXIS Bhd, many of the telcos lately fined through enterprise regulator the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) for dropped calls and having published a four.nine% decline in net income for 2013, has released a new business enterprise philosophy and emblem identification.   This flow indicates simply how extreme the business enterprise is ready transforming itself into a consumer-centric organization, Maxis stated in a statement.   ‘It’s Not OK to be OK’ could be the new attitude driving standards of transport and manner of operating, both internally and externally, it said.   In addition to the release of the brand new philosophy, Maxis has additionally introduced refreshed visible identities for its Maxis and Hotlink brands.   ‘It’s Not OK to be OK’ is now not a slogan however an mind-set … It is a...

Malaysia may be losing its mojo as investment destination

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Japanese companies invested in 806 businesses in Malaysia; 1,000+ in Singapore, almost 2,000 in Thailand HSIS aims to grow revenue by 25% this 12 months and with the aid of another 20% in 2015, says CEO IN THE eyes of Japanese buyers, Malaysia might not be as attractive as it became all through the Eighties or 1990s, said a top legitimate of Hitachi Sunway Information Systems Sdn Bhd (HSIS).   According to Cheah Kok Hoong (percent) , the institution leader government officer, Japanese corporations invested in 806 corporations in Malaysia in 2012.   The variety is notably lower than maximum of its regional friends that year. For example: Japanese corporations invested into 1,777 corporations in Thailand and 1,069 companies in Singapore, he said, citing various sources.   “The records speaks for itself. Is Malaysia nevertheless a great region for funding? Perhaps in a few regions, but no longer in all areas anymore,” he instructed a media briefing on May 19.   Meanwhile Cheah state...