Internet
How hungry is MDeC to make a difference?
MDeC has to step out of its box and it absolutely must step up its game. It can do this next year when it gets the next drawdown of its funding from the Government under the 10th Malaysia Plan. Pick the best entrepreneurs and send them to Silicon Valley to test their ideas against the best in the world, argues DNA founder and CEO Karamjit Singh.
Alcatel-Lucent introduces new fiber optic tech
Alcatel-Lucent is introducing the Photonic Service Engine (PSE), a new chip for fiber optic networks that the company claims offers double the capacity and four times the speed of today’s networks, built on innovations from Bell Labs.
Petition to stop controversial amendment handed to Govt (includes videos)
The Centre for Independent Journalism has handed a petition against recent amendments to the Evidence Act 1950 to de facto Deputy Law Minister Datuk V.K. Liew in Parliament. The petition collected more than 3,300 signatures and called on the Malaysian Government to withdraw Section 114A of the Evidence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2012 because it threatens freedom of expression online and presumes the guilt rather than innocence of Internet users publishing content online.
Philippines eyeing TV ‘white space’ for broadband
The Philippines Government has embarked on a project to tap unused “white space” frequencies in between TV channels to deliver broadband connection, particularly in rural areas.
Working on the next-gen Internet
Changes have to be made to make the Internet more effective and more cost-effective to accommodate the data explosion that is happening. Bell Labs and other researchers as well as Internet bodies are working on content-centric networks, not the location-centric networks that are being built today.
Petfinder bags DiGi WWWOW award of the year
A Malaysian pet welfare portal has captured the top spot among 14 category winners at the recently concluded 2012 DiGi WWWOW Internet for All Awards last week.
Evidence Act, censorship, control issues and other #facepalms
The idiocy and hypocrisy, though sometimes admittedly merely a poor understanding, from various quarters on certain key issues have just swirled around and collected neatly in front of Digital News Asia executive editor A. Asohan.
Dotcom (.com) still rules
It may be the Asia Pacific century and Asia does have the fastest growing Internet adoption in the world, but when it comes to getting an internet domain for your business, .com still rules over other top level domains (TLDs).
TM revenues up 11%, profits up 53.5%
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) announced that Group revenue for the first quarter ended March 31 2012 rose 11% YoY (year-on-year) to RM2.384 billion (US$752 million) from RM2.148 billion (US$667.9 million) in the corresponding period last year.
Net censorship: Do the ends justify the means?
Mention the “c” word these days, and everyone gets edgy and nervous. After all, the issue of censorship is always a prickly issue, regardless which country you’re from.
