January

• Internet access and international telephone calls throughout Malaysia and most of Asia were disrupted for weeks due to an earthquake in Taiwan that damaged the underwater Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 link. Everything returned to normal in February after repairs by ship were completed.

• TIME Engineering Bhd signed an agreement with MSC Management Services, a subsidiary of Multimedia Development Corporation, to provide wireless broadband nationwide via WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) and WiFi. Read the rest of this entry »
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“The stereotype for each OS is well known: Mac OS X is elegant, easy-to-use, and intuitive, while Ubuntu is stable, secure, and getting better all the time. Both have come a long way in a short time, and both make excellent desktops. So we have two great desktop operating systems out at roughly the same time. Let’s see how they stack up against each other.”

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I just got the news that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is available for public download. It’s not the final version but at least, its the first release and should be extremely close to the real one. It’s a large download - 32-bit version is between 440 and 550 MB, and the 64-bit version is between 730 and 880 MB - and you might need to uninstall it completely when the full Vista SP1 Final is ready.

Download here.

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MIMOS Berhad has introduced a touch screen PC, claimed as the world slimmest PC, in Putra World Trade Center (PWTC) few days back. Weighting about 800gram, MAkCik PC is aim to reduce the technology gap between cities and rural areas in the country.

Keeping the price affordable in mind, the “smart” people in MIMOS has made MakiCik PC as affordable as they can.

MakCik PC will be priced between RM500-RM1100 and will be available in certain models with different specs. It does not come with keyboard, and has a 16inch of wide screen.

According to MIMOS, some version of MakCIk PC will be equipped with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX connectivity. The so called “Aunty PC” will have built in Flash memory and comes with preloaded softwares such as VoIP from MIMOS .

It is still unknown on what operating system will be available on MakCik PC although rumors has claimed that Vista will be made available on it.

I wonder why it is called “MakCik PC”, but it is a good move by MIMOS to make PC affordable to all Malaysians.

MIMOS did not announced when MakCik will be available in the market.

Watch the launch by PM here:

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For people who appreciate finer laptop accoutrements such as a backlit keyboard and a slot-fed DVD drive, Apple has crafted another tasty offering in the form of the 17-inch MacBook Pro. Sleek, powerful, and able to run Windows as well as the Mac operating system, the MacBook Pro makes a strong case for becoming anyone’s ultimate notebook.

Equipped with a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 processor, the maximum 4GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and nVidia’s new top-of-the-line notebook graphics card, the nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, our $2949 test unit set new speed records. The MacBook Pro outperformed the rest of the notebooks we tested, all of which claim Windows as their primary–nay, their only–operating system. We loaded Windows Vista Home Premium on the Apple notebook, and it snagged a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88. In games it achieved a blazing frame rate of 141 frames per second in Far Cry (with antialiasing turned off).

At 6.6 pounds and just 1 inch thick, the MacBook Pro is the lightest 17-inch notebook available. But it has no memory card slots and only three USB ports, and it comes configured with an ExpressCard/34 slot instead of the more versatile ExpressCard/54 slot. Though it has Bluetooth and 802.11n Wi-Fi, built-in cellular broadband is not an option. On the other hand, video editors will be happy to have not one but two FireWire ports. Battery life was disappointing: Apple pegs it at 5.7 hours on one charge, but in our tests we got less than 2 hours, 45 minutes.

Nevertheless, the MacBook Pro is elegantly designed and remarkably mobile for a 17-inch notebook.

– Carla Thornton, PC World

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