Govt’s laptop initiative takes off this month

The distribution of laptops under the National Broadband Initiative (NBI) will be done in stages, from this month to year end, the Dewan Negara heard.

Information, Communications and Culture Deputy Minister Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum said the move will involve the co-ordination and co-operation of government agencies, small and medium industries, and service providers. [...]

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A response from the ex-CEO of Ruumz

When I first wrote “If I was the CEO of Ruumz…“, it was never my intention to make Ruumz of the ex-CEO of Ruumz to look bad. Instead I wanted to hear from the ex-CEO himself.

The objective was to get the truth out there because I knew that the nice people who work in the corporate communication of P1 and Green Packet wouldn’t want to reply to this(Note that they did not even bother to reply my post).

I would love to reply to what James Chong(the ex-CEO of Ruumz) has said since almost everything he said are debatable but I would leave the question mark out there for P1 and Green Packet as I know that they are reading all these. [...]

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NSN to acquire certain wireless infrastructure assets of Motorola

Comment by Julien Grivolas,principal analyst at Ovum

“NSN has announced plans to acquire Motorola’s GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE, and WiMAX wireless assets for $1.2 billion. NSN will acquire several R&D centers as part of the deal, and approximately 7,500 Motorola employees are expected to be transferred to NSN. The companies expect to complete the acquisition by the end of 2010, subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approval.

NSN is again an active player driving wireless network equipment industry consolidation

NSN stated a number of times during the past two years that there were still too many players in the wireless equipment industry and that its goal was to remain one of the top three players in the future. To achieve this goal, NSN was convinced that it had to reinforce its position in the US in particular. Having historically been out of the CDMA business, NSN had a weak position in the US market despite some deals in the mobile core segment (such as an IMS deal with Verizon Wireless for its LTE project) and in the optical area. After its failed attempt to acquire Nortel’s CDMA/LTE assets, Motorola was NSN’s last potential target to achieve this goal. Huawei and ZTE were also in the mix but would have struggled to close such an acquisition for political reasons. [...]

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DiGi to offer iPhone 4

If you want your iPhone 4 to be on DiGi’s network, register your interest now.

DiGi said it will offer iPhone 4 in coming months while Maxis said it will offer iPhone 4 in coming weeks(since 8th of June 2010). [...]

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If I was the CEO of Ruumz…

Update 1: July 23, 1.30pm “A response from the ex-CEO of Ruumz“.

Note: This post represents my personal opinion, nothing else.

Launched on 15 January 2009, Ruumz is a social networking portal that promised to offer a better “social networking experience” than the other social networking portals out there such as Facebook and Friendster.

Sadly, more than a year later Ruumz has failed to accomplish that.

The social networking company behind Ruumz, RuumzNation Sdn Bhd is still “alive” at the time of writing although a large number of the team have “disappeared” or resigned.  Some of them where offered VSS while the rest have been absorbed into P1.

Although the domain Ruumz.com is only set to expire in January next year, I’m not sure if Green Packet or P1 will continue to keep the portal alive. However I’m not writing this to talk about the future of Ruumz, but I’m more interested to talk about what the company could have done during the past one year.

You have a plan, execute it! [...]

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Keep your Blackberry safe with BlackBerry Protect

Research In Motion(RIM) recently announced a new application called BlackBerry Protect that allows you to control, locate and protect your phone, remotely.

The security application which is still in Beta until later this year gives access to a Blackberry user to remotely control their device, via the Blackberry Protect web portal. [...]

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Facebook Mobile has 150 million users

Out of 500 million Facebook users on the web, about 150 million are on mobile. There were only 100 million Facebook Mobile users in April 2010. [...]

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