As you already know, Apple will launch the iPad in March 2010.

The iPad models will cost USD499 (16GB), USD599 (32GB) and USD699 (64GB).  Below are the key features: Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s the latest interview by Aishah Mustapha from TheEdge with Ganesh Kumar Bangah, the new CEO of social networking service Friendster.

Video is broken into 3 parts:

Part 1:

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Have you heard about the new Intel Atom chip? The new N450 processor is 60 percent smaller and 20 percent lighter but it is very much disappointed by the slow 1.6Ghz clock speed and its capabilities versus the older Atoms.

Well lets make it straight to the point, the new N450 chipset is no much different from at the older chips, at least from what it could do. The biggest difference here is this, the new N450 integrates a memory controller and graphics core with the processor, features that are designed to boost performance and save power. Read the rest of this entry »

Looks like Amazon.com plus a number of other web sites such as Wal-Mart and Expedia is under continuous DDoS attack.

Neustar, the company that operates those web server under the brand name UltraDNS said that it managed to handle the attack. Read the rest of this entry »

The on going rumours has been confirmed that Frienster will be acquired by an Asian firm. The deal, expected to be worth over US$100 million, would allow MOL Global to acquire 100% of Friendster.

Although the acquisition would allow Friendster to enhance its presence in Asia, and MOL to get more people to use their payment channel, I don’t see why this deal will benefit the users of Friendster.

First of all, Friendster already has an existing partnership to offer Friendster Wallet and Friendster Gift Shop that involves accessing to MOL’s payment channels. Secondly, MOL has no background on social networking. How would a payment gateway provider like MOL make improvements on Friendster?

What Friendster needs now is more contents and to be specific, localised contents in each country across Asia.

Original Friendster investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, IDG Ventures and other individual investors.

Press Release after the jump. Don’t forget to check out the new Friendster portal at Friendster.com

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Spammers are once again turning their efforts to trusted social networking sites to lure in unsuspecting victims, and this time it´s Facebook.

Symantec Security Response has observed that spammers are attempting to use Facebook´s popularity to spread Trojan.Bredolab, a threat that has been consistently and widely distributed this year.  This trojan is capable of downloading password stealers, bots, rootkits, backdoors and misleading applications.

Spammers are misleading users by sending a false Facebook notification email about their password.  Along with the message is a .zip file that contains Trojan.Bredolab.

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