Contents & Applications

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.

The Health Ministry is introducing an SMS-based system to notify patients of their appointments to reduce queues at hospitals. Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the pilot project had been implemented at the Mamodiah Outpatient Clinic here. The queue management and appointment reminder would also send out an SMS when there are five patients before their turn. Full ...

Although all of our main mobile operators(Maxis, DiGi & Celcom) has some sort of anti-spamming and anti-spoofing solution, Malaysians are still not free from scams involving SMS. There are still a number of reports that mobile users are being charged for the content or service that they did not request. Who is supposed to take the responsibility this? The Telcos?(Who ...

You can download 9 free Blackberry apps from the Celcom website for free. Anyone could download it since you just need to enter your email address and Celcom will send you the download link for your Blackberry. Some of the apps are- Facebook, Flickr, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Nav4All and more. http://www.celcom.com.my/cep/bb-apps-download/index.html

Media Prima via its “New Media” team(ALT Media) will be launching a mobile site for its TV station- 8TV, later today. Point your mobile browser to mobile.8tv.com.my and watch 10 8TV most popular content(Mandarin News, Blogger Boy, 8 Style…) on your mobile phone. The content is free and you are recommended to subscribe to a data plan, unless they(ALT Media) ...

It is a good time to be an entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry, provided strategic partnerships are formed and maintained, especially in the field of applications development, said industry leaders. A panel, comprising representatives from key players in the local telco industry, including Maxis Communications, Ericsson and WiMAX service provider Packet One Networks Malaysia Sdn Bhd (P1), agreed that the ...

How many of you uses mobile internet on your mobile phone? If you do then which will you prefer, do you want connectivity or speed? When I say connectivity, I mean any type of mobile connection starting from GPRS up to HSDPA regardless of the mobile technology as long as you have a mobile connection on your phone. As for ...

If you have a smartphone and use it for web browsing, email or file transfer, you are advised to install a mobile anti virus (AV) software. Below are some recommended mobile AVs: Kaspersky Mobile Security This is one of the best mobile security out there. Kaspersky Mobile Security also known as KMS offers Antivirus protection (Real Time), Powerfull Firewall, Anti ...

I know this post is extremely late and there has been lots of email since January about this. I apologize for that as I never had the time to write my predictions for 2009. Here’s a very short list on what to look out for in the local telecom industry this year: Aggressive 3G services I know that everyone has ...

Dear readers, I am writing an article about mobile contents/applications in Malaysia to be featured in Mobile World. Below are some questions that I hope you can help me answer from a mobile user perspective: Do you use mobile content? If yes, what type of content or applications on your phone? What type of mobile contents do you expect to ...

As I have reported previously, now there are over 7 locations in Penang that is covered by WiMAX !!! The WiMAX trial run service will be available at five sites covering a major part of George Town, including Komtar, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, Lebuh Macallum/Magazine Road, Gottlieb Road, Perak Road/Burma Road bordering upper Jelutong, Bukit Tengah and Bukit Mertajam. So ...

Remember when I first talked about Packet One’s social networking site about 5 months back? Well the Malaysian based social networking site is now launched. Here’s some of the pictures taken at the Ruumz launch party, last Thursday (15, January 2009) @ Mist Club, Bangsar. Ruumz LogoJames Chong, Chief Executive, ruumzNation Sdn BhdThe Team behind RuumzAdvertlets BloggersSome pretty girls(ruumate) snapping ...