Cutting-edge technology is fuelling Olympic fever in South Korea, with employees using hand-held TVs or mobile phones to follow the Games live during work or off-duty hours.

The nation of 49 million people was third in the medals table as of Tuesday night, with five golds. It also has six silvers and one bronze medal.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs admitted it was a “mistake” to roll out the company’s MobileMe service at the same time it launched the iPhone 3G and other big products, tech news site Ars Technica reported late Monday.

Ars Technica cited an internal memo sent by Jobs to employees that acknowledged MobileMe had flaws and was released too soon. In the memo, Jobs said the launch of the service could have been handled better, the article said. He also acknowledged the service was “not up to Apple’s standards.” And he said the individual MobileMe services could have been launched slowly instead of all at once.

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A courier and records management firm located in Shah Alam is claiming a world first: That it is ahead of all other companies in its field in using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to store, manage, and retrieve documents.

Sure-Reach Records Management Sdn Bhd grew out of the company’s original business — a worldwide courier service that began in 2003. Read the rest of this entry »

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Now you can watch over 25 local and international channels free on you PC.

Introducing Yoonic, a broadband based TV service. Users can now watch a wide range of channels for free including FashionTV, RTM1 and RTM2, also programmes like Korean serials such as One Fine Day, Sweet Spy and Sad Love Story, and local shows such as Islam Nusantara and Kota Warisan.

Other contents like CNN, Bloomberg and CNBC are currently being negotiated to make it available on Yoonic.

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WiMAX is being touted as the next megatrend among users of the Internet, ­including governments and ­businesses.

Applied research body Mimos Bhd is keen to see how the ­technology can help spur the growth of local industries. Read the rest of this entry »

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New mobile phones being developed by Google Inc and more than 30 partners based on software called Android will arrive in the fourth quarter, a schedule that some cellular carriers and program makers are struggling to meet, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Google had said in November that the phones would come out by the second half of 2008, the Journal reported. Read the rest of this entry »

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