Malaysia’s financial literacy provider, MoneyTree and Malaysia’s largest financial comparison website, iMoney have entered into a regional collaboration that will expand both organisations’ depth and breadth of services in the region. [L-R: Wong Yu Vee, Director of Operation, MoneyTree, Michael Reyes, Founder and CEO of MoneyTree, Lee Ching Wei, CEO …
November, 2013
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13 November
Singapore Prime Minister Office Website Intact & Not Hacked
IT security vendor, Trend Micro Incorporated shares that the recently compromised Singapore Prime Minister Office (PMO)’s website remains to be intact, with visits unaffected. Through analysis by its threat experts, Trend Micro found that the attack was not a result of a hacking attack, but an exploitation of vulnerability within …
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12 November
PIKOM elected new Council for 2013/2014
PIKOM, the National ICT Association of Malaysia, held its 27th Annual General Meeting (AGM) recently and elected its new Council 2013/2014 led by the new Chairman, Cheah Kok Hoong. Cheah Kok Hoong, Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hitachi Sunway Information Systems, has more than 20 years of experience across …
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7 November
Shopify, a new online store now launched in Malaysia
Shopify, a new global online store is now open and available to Malaysians. Shopify is an ecommerce platform that allows individuals and businesses to create online stores. With hundreds of store templates to choose from, business owners who sign up on the ecommerce platform can swiftly set up their stores …
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6 November
Seagate Announces New Executive Appointments
Seagate Technology has announced two strategic executive appointments to further Seagate’s effectiveness in delivering its core product technology portfolio, customer engagement and operational excellence. Dave Mosley, who most recently served as Executive Vice President of Operations and R&D, has been named President, Operations and Technology, responsible for Seagate’s global hard …
October, 2013
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24 October
Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2014 launched in Malaysia
Trend Micro Malaysia has launched its new 2014 version of online security. The Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2014 is the latest iteration of the flagship all-in-one security solution, equipped with Web-threat protection that identifies and blocks dangerous links in websites, social networks, emails and instant messaging. It also detects …
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24 October
Fujitsu Launches Fujitsu M10 Servers in Malaysia
Fujitsu has announced the availability of Fujitsu M10 servers in Malaysia. [Michael Warren, Fujitsu’s newly appointed President in Malaysia and the M10] Built-in with Fujitsu’s 16-core SPARC64 X processor and tapping on Fujitsu’s 60 years of mainframe development, the new Fujitsu M10 servers promise high reliability, availability and serviceability for …
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22 October
David Pogue to Lead Yahoo’s Consumer Tech Coverage
Yahoo has announced that technology columnist, best-selling author and television host David Pogue (picture) will join Yahoo to spearhead the company’s consumer technology content. The technology company said that David will lead a major expansion of consumer tech coverage on Yahoo and will publish columns, blog posts, video stories and …
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19 October
Oracle Introduces New x86 Servers
Oracle Corporation, a leading IT solution provider, has launched its new x86 servers, based on the latest Intel Xeon processors E5-2600 v2 product family, for business organizations. The Oracle’s new Sun Server X4-2, Sun Server X4-2L and Sun Blade X4-2B systems are now available in the market for a broad …
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19 October
Google Ads Coming to Facebook
Google and Facebook have announced that Google’s Double Click will be joining Facebook’s ad exchange, the FBX. In the next few months, according to a blog post by Payam Shodjai, a DoubleClick senior product manager, advertisers will be able to use DoubleClick Bid Manager to buy ads on the Facebook …
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19 October
File Sharing site IsoHunt to shut down & pay $110m Settlement
Popular file sharing torrent site, IsoHunt is to shut down following a court settlement. The site’s owner, Gary Fung, who is a Canadian, has agreed to pay $110m (£68m) to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), ending a seven-year legal battle. IsoHunt, a search engine for BitTorrent files, helped users …
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19 October
Windows 8.1 Update released to counter the issues raised with Windows 8
Microsoft has released the Windows 8.1 update to all Windows 8 users globally, including for Malaysia. More than 100 million copies of Windows 8 have been sold since launch said Sunny Ooi, Director of Consumer Group, Microsoft Malaysia. “With Windows 8, we introduced an era of highly mobile, touch-enabled, and …
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16 October
Microsoft Innovate for Good program for Entrepreneurial Malaysian Youths
Microsoft Malaysia has launched its inaugural Innovate for Good event – a Microsoft YouthSpark program in partnership with TakingITGlobal that enables youth to collaborate, inspire and support each other while using technology to make a difference in their communities, and provides the tools and resources needed to bring their ideas …
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12 October
Sunway Group’s Data Center buys RM 1 Million worth of Hitachi Storage
Sunway Group’s IT Shared Services Center has recently purchased RM 1 Million worth of Hitachi Storage. Hitachi Sunway Information Systems Sdn. Bhd (HSIS) announced that it has sealed its first significant IT storage sale since its joint venture establishment between Hitachi Systems, Ltd. and Sunway Technology Sdn Bhd earlier this …
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11 October
Google Search Malaysia Website Redirects, DNS Hijacked
Google Search Malaysia domain has been hijacked at about 11pm, 10 October(Malaysia time). The method, commonly known as DNS Hijacking, basically redirects visitors to google.com.my to a totally different site. The hackers who claimed responsibility calls themself 1337. In the “geeks” world, 1337 is short for “elite” or “leet”, which …