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Telekom Malaysia has signed up with 20 content providers to offer IPTV service on HSBB. As I blog about the HSBB IPTV service before, TM will offer about 32 channels for IPTV which is currently available for free till June 2010 for current trial subscribers. More details should be revealed tomorrow.

Here’s a video interview by The Telecom Channel on how Telecom Italia handle the massive growth in mobile data traffic. Video after the jump.

The Malaysiakini mobile app called Mobilekini has been available in the Apple App Store since 5th December 2009.

It is finally released- The free Opera Mini 5 and the paid Opera Mobile 10.

Mobile social networking ruled on Saturday as the techno-hip at South By South West (SXSW) used location-based services on smartphones to track down everything from panels to parties. Foursquare and Gowalla dueled for supremacy here while fresh rivals such as Tweetsii and Toodalu vowed to eclipse them. FourSquare and Gowalla launched last year at SXSW, a renowned gathering of musicians, ...

The Opera Mini Beta 5 is now available for Windows Mobile 5 & 6 devices. Previously, Windows Mobile users will have to use the Java version if they want Opera Mini on the phone. To get Opera Mini Beta, point your Window Mobile browser to m.opera.com/next. Video: Introduction to Opera Mini 5

Here comes the second Content Malaysia gathering(this was the first one & photos).It will take place tomorrow, details: Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010Time: 3:15pm – 6:00pmLocation: Centro @ KL Sentral What’s going to happen there?There will be a registration point for Maxis 1Store at this week’s Content Malaysia gathering. In other words, no need to spend time submitting online. Just ...

If you use WordPress, now you can easily create new posts, add media, manage comments, and more using the free mobile apps available for Blackberry, Android and the iPhone. These apps works for WordPress.com and self hosted WordPress(.org). Downloads: WordPress for Blackberry WordPress forAndroid WordPress for iPhone WordPress for Symbian- coming soon Developers: Check out this page

Features of Kaspersky Mobile Security 9 (KMS9): Privacy Protection-With the touch of a button you can mark a contact as ‘private’, meaning that no trace of them will appear in contact lists, SMSs and call logs. Other people using your mobile will only see what you want them to see. Supports contacts from both the onboard memory and SIM cards ...

Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox mobile web browser, only available for the Maemo platform(currently N900 and N810). Some of the features include “Awesome Bar”(smart address bar), Password Manager, One-touch bookmarking, Location-Aware Browsing, add ons and more. Simply go to mozilla.com/m on your N900 or N810 and download Firefox directly to your phone. You can also download it ...

Celcom is in talks with Friendster to bring the social networking service to Celcom’s mobile subscribers. I have no details regarding the deal, but it should be announced within the next few weeks, maybe a month. Those who don’t know, Friendster has been acquired by Malaysian-based MOL Global last month.

The Maxis 1Store was launched in June 2009, an application store for mobile developers to promote their apps to Maxis users. However it was not really “open” at that time as it was focused more in promoting the winning entries from the Mobile Content Challenge(MCC) 2009. Plus in my opinion, Maxis 1Store did not really made any huge impact on ...

Nokia plans to make walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones as part of a new version of Ovi Maps, available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. The new version of Ovi Maps will include all essential car and pedestrian navigation features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries in 46 languages, and traffic information for over 10 countries, as ...

Looks like Celcom will be bringing the Blackberry App World to Malaysia. They expect this to happen within next one to two months. Over 10,000 applications for Blackberry are available on App World. Read my official story.