LG’S NEW WIRELESS CHARGER EMBODIES INNOVATION IN DESIGN

BARCELONA, March 7, 2012 – LG Electronics (LG) unveiled its newest advanced wireless charger, WCD-800, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012. The WCD-800 is designed in the shape of a cradle to allow to the phone to be positioned vertically to make video calls and send text messages or horizontally to view TV programs and HD movies while charging.

“As smartphones become the defacto medium for consuming multimedia content and communicating, it is not unusual to find oneself having to recharge a phone a couple times a day,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “It only made sense to turn that charging time into a positive user experience by making the Smartphone useful while sitting in the cradle.”LG’s newest charger also eliminates the inconvenience of the cable that must be plugged into the Smartphone when recharging. With the WCD-800, charging is accomplished by simply placing the phone on the deck of the 75.8mm wide cradle. The charging area is double the size of LG’s previous wireless charger, the WCP-700.

Using electromagnetic induction, the WCD-800 relies on electric currents produced by the magnetic fields of the electric coils located under the charger. Despite its unrivaled convenience, the WCD-800 exhibits efficiency and effectiveness equivalent to that of conventional wired chargers.

LG’s wireless charger is compatible with all devices compliant with the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC)’s Qi standard, the global standard for wireless power.

The WCD-800 will be introduced first in Korea followed by North America in the first half of the year.

For more details, please log on to LG’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/lgemalaysia

RM10 WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO A MOTHER AND CHILD

Groupon Malaysia and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) join hands to support the nutritional needs of mothers and children in Asia

KUALA LUMPUR, 7 March 2012 – In time for International Women’s Day, Groupon Malaysia and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have ventured into a unique partnership to raise awareness and support for nutrition activities that benefit mothers and children in Asia, through the ‘Groupon for Women’ initiative for WFP’s Mothers-to-Mothers campaign. The campaign which is also supported by Ms. Marion Caunter hopes to garner the backing of Malaysians to contribute for a worthy cause.

Available from 8 to 12 March, the ‘Groupon for Women’ deal which will be featured at URL: http://wfp.groupon.my is a way to allow Malaysians to come together and make a difference in a life of a mother and child in Asia. The full proceeds of each ‘Groupon for Women’ deal will go to WFP’s nutrition activities in 14 countries in Asia.

"By empowering women with food and nutrition, we can fight hunger in the first 1000 days of an infant’s life. We are grateful to Groupon Malaysia for providing an e-commerce platform for Malaysian women to support women in need," said Ms. Monica Marshall, Deputy Director of Private Partnerships for WFP. "For many mothers and their children across Asia, the nutritious food that they receive from WFP could be the only proper meal they will eat all day. For 50 years, WFP programmes have helped women break the cycle of hunger and poverty and fulfil their children’s future potential. "

Commenting on the campaign, Chief Executive Officer of Groupon Malaysia, Joel Neoh said, “We are proud to be part of this worthy cause which supports the nutritional needs for mothers and children in Asia. Our commitment in providing our subscribers with the best life experiences goes beyond simply providing outstanding deals daily, but also allowing them to make a difference in the lives of others. With the ‘Groupon for Women’ deal, we certainly hope to empower the community here in Malaysia to support women and invest in Asia’s future.”

Present in over 70 countries worldwide and 14 countries in Asia, WFP is committed to building the brains and bodies of the next generation by nourishing children and mothers with nutritious meals. Malnourished mothers often give birth to underweight babies, who are 20% more likely to die before the age of five. Each RM10 ‘Groupon for Women’ deal helps provide a vital nutritious meal, making a difference for a pregnant or new mother and her child.

Groupon Malaysia and WFP aims to ‘sell' at least 3000 deals, which would provide over 1,300 nutritious meals for pregnant and nursing mothers and children aged six to 23 months in Asia.
To contribute to WFP’s Mothers-to-Mothers campaign through the ‘Groupon for Women’ initiative, visit http://wfp.groupon.my.

MAXIS LAUNCHES HOTLINK BAGUS – THE ALL-IN-ONE PREPAID PLAN WITH THE LOWEST EVER RATES

Kuala Lumpur, 7 March 2012. Hotlink, Malaysia’s no. 1 prepaid service from Maxis Berhad ("Maxis"), today launched Hotlink BAGUS, the innovative all-in-one prepaid plan that gives customers access to the lowest rates in five integrated value propositions – Voice Calls, SMS, Surfing, IDD (International Direct Dialling) and Roaming – for just RM5. With an additional commitment of RM5 (BAGUS 5), customers will enjoy even lower rates, as well as free data of 10MB. The launch, which took place in the presence of over 700 Hotlink and Maxis dealers from all over the country and the media, was simultaneously orchestrated nationwide at 16 other major locations in both Peninsular and East Malaysia – Penang, Johor Bahru, Kota Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Ipoh, Alor Setar, Melaka, Seremban, Kuantan, Kuala Terengganu, Sandakan, Tawau, Miri, Sibu and Bintulu.

“We are very excited about launching Hotlink Bagus which will give our customers the best mobile experience with the best rates, and offer them solutions for their increasingly varied communication needs, whether they are at work, home or on the go. Giving our customers constant value has been the hallmark of our leadership,” said Sandip Das, Chief Executive Officer, Maxis Berhad. “We have also always believed that we not only have 14 million customer subscriptions, but also as many relationships. Customers live in a challenging and changing world, and it is our role to provide them with innovative, enabling and reliable services that meet their aspirations and make their lives easy and enriched all the time. Recently, we launched very attractive IDD rates and now with Hotlink Bagus, customers can expect an exciting line-up of products from Maxis this year,” he said.

Meanwhile, Suren J Amarasekera, Maxis’ Joint Chief Operating Officer, said, “Hotlink BAGUS is very unique product that it offers five integrated value propositions – Talk, Text, Surf, IDD AND Roaming – all in one pack at the lowest rates, the lowest that Maxis has ever offered to its customers, be it youth, students, migrants, tourists and working adults. This will have a huge impact on customers’ lives especially in terms of convenience and savings.

“The ‘Now You Can’ theme has been a pillar of the Hotlink brand essence - empowering our customers to have the freedom to do anything that they want, and this has been evident from various past campaigns and products such as the first People Powered Concert in collaboration with Yuna, Football Hot Tickets, Bonanza Mania, Facebook Pass and Hot IDD132. Today, Hotlink BAGUS stays true to this philosophy by introducing a product that is simple, convenient, affordable and certainly empowering,” he said.

Both existing and new Maxis prepaid customers can benefit from Hotlink BAGUS. Existing customers can migrate to Hotlink BAGUS Plan by keying in *108*21# on their mobile phones and pay a migration fee of only RM1 to experience the low rates under Hotlink BAGUS. For new customers, they will only need to purchase the RM5 Hotlink BAGUS starter pack. The FIVE value propositions of Hotlink BAGUS:

1. Talk
Under the Hotlink BAGUS plan, customers can enjoy almost 50% savings on all calls to Hotlink and Maxis numbers, by just maintaining a RM10 balance in their Hotlink BAGUS plan. With BAGUS 5, even lower rates of12sen/min will apply, translating to savings of up to 70%.

2. Text
Under the Hotlink BAGUS plan, customers will enjoy up to 50% savings on all text/sms to Hotlink and Maxis numbers instantly with hotlink BAGUS plan without any hassle. With BAGUS 5, customers will enjoy just 1 sen / SMS, translating to savings of up to 90%.

3. Surf
The Hotlink BAGUS plan offers customers bite-sized passes at affordable rates. The plan essentially allows for flexibility in managing customers’ mobile internet surfing needs. Under this category, BAGUS offers the lowest 1-day Mobile Internet Pass at RM2 for 100MB, or 1-Week Mobile Internet Pass at RM8 for 100MB (equivalent to 500 web pages or 1,000 emails).

4. IDD
In December 2011, Maxis launched its IDD132 to 10 countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, China, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Pakistan, Vietnam) and since then, there has been a surge in minutes of use (MOU) to all these countries, particularly Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and India. With such a demand, in February 2012, Hot IDD132 was extended to 50 countries. Today, IDD under the BAGUS plan offers the lowest call rates (30 second charging block) and savings of up to 70% to the world (233 countries), all day long, seven days a week, and even lower rates for selected migrant countries which include Nepal, China, India, Myanmar and Pakistan.

5. Roam
With the Hotlink BAGUS plan, customers can enjoy the lowest Prepaid Data Roaming rates at RM5/MB (up to 50% savings) to 10 countries (all operators) for international surfing needs. The 10 countries include Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.

An comprehensive media campaign is being undertaken in conjunction with the launch of BAGUS, which includes press advertisements, billboards, ‘BAGUS’-themed vehicles and outlets, collaterals, as well as presence on Facebook and twitter.

To learn more about the new BAGUS prepaid plan and starter pack, please visit your nearest Hotlink dealer or visit www.nowyoucan.my.

Dell Enhances Enterprise Solution Portfolio with PowerEdge Servers Designed to Deliver Unprecedented Performance and Manageability

Malaysia, March 7, 2012 – Dell today announced a portfolio of blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers optimized for use in demanding enterprise environments. As the only one of the top five server vendors to grow server revenues in Q4 2011 with 9.7 percent year-over-year revenue growth , Dell continues to innovate to deliver features that are industry firsts and make the PowerEdge 12th generation servers the company’s highest performing, most manageable servers ever. With this new server series, customers ranging from small businesses to hyper-scale data centers can help maximize efficiency by streamlining and automating operations, help achieve better business application performance and business continuity.

“Dell designed the new PowerEdge servers with input gathered from more than 7,700 customer interactions in 17 countries across four continents,” said KT Ong, General Manager, Commercial Business, Dell Sales Malaysia. “Our customers told us that they need end-to-end solutions to handle the complex workload problems they face every day. As such, we built our new generation of servers, systems management and workload solutions to address the needs of business end users who require maximum performance to run mission-critical applications and IT departments which demand more efficient, secure and reliable operations.”
PowerEdge 12th Generation Server Portfolio
The new PowerEdge R820, R720, R720xd and R620 rack servers, the M620 blade server, the T620 tower server and C6220 based on a shared Dell infrastructure server built on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 product family are the foundation of a complete, flexible IT solution including Dell’s extensive portfolio of storage, networking and client components and professional IT services. The next-generation PowerEdge servers, along with systems management and workload solutions, are designed to deliver performance and management gains to effectively power the most demanding applications, including collaboration, IT and web infrastructure, high performance computing, decision support and business processing.

Maximize Efficiency
Dell updated the industry’s first embedded systems management tools, the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) with Lifecycle Controller 1.0, which shipped in more than 3.5 million 11th Generation PowerEdge servers since its introduction in 2009, according to IDC. Now the second generation, iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller 2.0, enables customers to uniformly manage the deployment, updating, monitoring and maintenance of the server lifecycle. New capabilities include:

• Reclaim time with agent-free monitoring of over 400 sensors, including memory, RAID, storage and network devices, in multivendor operating system and hypervisor environments without installing software agents or drivers, which can save up to $2.5 million in server maintenance.
• Deploy servers quickly with new bare-metal deployment and provisioning that requires up to 86 percent less engineer time and up to 86 percent fewer manual steps .
• Help improve productivity with the enhanced Lifecycle Controller Log – significant improvements using Dell’s 11th generation embedded server management features saved Virtacore up to 43 days of system administrator time per year.
• Remotely enable and configure an extensive selection of network components delivered with PowerEdge 12th generation servers.
• Customize solutions with a new library of more than 65 scripts leveraging industry standard protocols.
• Dell and partners Microsoft, VMware and BMC have integrated iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller 2.0 with their systems management frameworks to provide mutual customers the benefits of automated one-to-many embedded management features while preserving their existing IT investments and processes.

Dell also announced OpenManage Essentials, a new management console, which monitors the health of Dell servers, storage and switches. By interfacing with the Dell KACE K1000 Management Appliance, OpenManage Essentials sends user-defined server, storage and network health status alerts to the K1000 service desk.

The new PowerEdge 12th generation servers are designed to maximize infrastructure efficiency, with innovations including:
• Increase performance per watt up to 101 times over Dell servers ten years ago, enabling large data centers to save up to $1.8 million per year on server power alone.
• An expanded Fresh Air offering for all PowerEdge 12th generation servers, based on customer feedback. Operate up to the highest excursion temperature (113° F/45°C) warranted in mainstream servers in the industry and save up to an estimated (US) $3,000,000 in capital savings.
• Server fans in the R720 and T620 models that use less energy to cool the system than it takes to power a nightlight.
• OpenManage Power Center – leveraging Node Manager developed by Dell and Intel – controls and optimizes energy usage at the server, rack, row and room level from a single interface.
• The industry’s first power supply unit to be awarded the highest level of energy efficiency, the Titanium certification, based on independent testing by 80 PLUS.
• The ability to pack in up to 300 percent more SQL Virtual Machines per rack for higher data center utilization compared to previous generation Dell servers.
• The unique Select Network Adapter portfolio to protect investments with a choice of networking I/O, connection speed – including 10GbE, across the portfolio – and vendor, without using a valuable PCI slot all deeply integrated with iDRAC7 with Lifecycle controller 2.0.
• New all-in-one appliances built on PowerEdge 12th generation servers. Dell vStart for Dell Private Cloud, including Dell VIS Creator software, enables IT and business end users to accelerate application and IT service delivery. The Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance, which is based on the new Dell PowerEdge servers, will be the first data warehouse appliance available on Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and will help mid-market and departmental users easily organize, access and analyze data, enabling them to make more informed decisions.

Achieve More
The PowerEdge 12th generation servers enable customers to increase application performance, availability and scalability, with new capabilities that:
• Improve responsiveness and provide fast customer insights, delivering up to 18 percent more Microsoft® SQL® Server transactions per second than HDD storage, with new industry leading technologies like Dell Express Flash, the first server design with front accessible, hot swappable PCIe solid state disks.
• Deliver up to three times the number of mailboxes with the capacity and capability for Microsoft Exchange with up to two times more message processing with Scalable Storage.
• Accelerate Oracle database applications with up to 86 percent reduction in transaction response time performance with Dell Compellent Data Progression Automated Tiered Storage feature.
• Consolidate Oracle RAC database workloads at a rate of up to 8:1, with up to 84 percent increase in power savings.

Ensure Business Continuity
Customers running PowerEdge 12th generation servers can count on continual access to the IT services that power the business, with new features that:
• Maximize security by authenticating the integrity of updates using digitally signed firmware, safeguarding access to passwords and certificates with iDRAC Credential Vault, and using Data Wipe to remove critical data from retired or repurposed servers.
• Ensure redundancy and maximize uptime with an array of reliability, availability, and serviceability features including hot swappable fans, disks and spare power supplies, plus unique capabilities such as Failsafe Hypervisor and Memory Page Retire.

Quotes
“Today’s IT organizations are balancing pressures to become more energy efficient and stretch existing manpower further, while supporting ever increasing amounts of data. Customers are looking to make server hardware investments that deliver the best of management and performance. The 12th Generation PowerEdge servers build on Dell’s early lead in introducing embedded systems management into x86 servers with new features designed to streamline and automate data center operations.” – Matt Eastwood, Group Vice President, Enterprise Platform Research, IDC

“Dell’s PowerEdge 12th generation servers take advantage of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family’s leadership performance and breakthrough I/O capabilities to offer optimized solutions for customers’ most important workloads. In small scale deployments, private clouds, and enterprise datacenters, customers will also benefit from key innovations such as Dell OpenManage Power Center, which is built on top of Intel’s Node Manager solution for monitoring and implementing policies for greater energy efficiency.” – Prakash Mallya, country manager of sales and marketing, Intel Malaysia.

Availability
Five new Dell PowerEdge servers are available today on dell.com.my or through any of Dell’s PartnerDirect Channel Partners. The PowerEdge C6220 will be available later this month. vStart for Dell Private Cloud will be available in Q2.

U MOBILE BIDS FOR A GREENER FUTURE

Telco Reaches Out to Youths in Advocating the Importance of Environmental Preservation

Kuala Lumpur, 7 March 2012 – Orange is certainly the new green as U Mobile Sdn Bhd, Malaysia’s most dynamic and innovative telco set-out to inspire and educate youths on the importance of preserving and protecting the environment as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative.

A team of U Mobile staff members took time off from their daily schedules to be part of the company’s first CSR initiative this year, educating secondary school students on environmental issues and the roles they play in protecting Mother Nature from severe pollution and deterioration.In addition to giving informational talks on the environment, U Mobile will be sponsoring recycling bins to schools, enabling students to cultivate great habits of environmental preservation and encourage them to recycle and reuse wastes. The telco will also be providing educational boards and environmental preservation signage to schools to sustain its effort in educating students to foster greater awareness and understanding towards the issue.

Speaking about the CSR initiative, Lisy Lee, U Mobile’s Head of Corporate Communication said, “Apart from reducing carbon footprint within our business practice by sharing network infrastructure with other telco in the market, we also strive to extend our commitment to preserve the environment by inspiring and educating youths to make a difference within communities that we’re involved in.”

This initiative is also an extension of U Mobile’s role in being a good corporate citizen and in continuing its effort for the initiative; U Mobile will be touring to a list of other schools for similar activities and engagements.

For more information on U Mobile’s exciting product and service offerings, log on to U Mobile’s website at www.u.com.my.

Opera Mini lands in the BlackBerry App World

Opera and BlackBerry: Faster, cheaper, easier

Oslo, Norway - March 7, 2012. The Opera Mini browser has now added another stamp to its passport and cleared BlackBerry customs by arriving in the BlackBerry App World.

BlackBerry users can go directly to App World and download the Opera Mini 6.5 browser.

Although just landing this week in the easily accessible BlackBerry App World, the world's most used mobile browser, Opera Mini, is big on the 'Berry. By downloading it manually from m.opera.com, BlackBerry users have been saving data and money on their BlackBerries for years. Now, it's even easier to download via App World.

More than 160 million people have discovered how the Opera Mini browser can spice up their mobile web experience. Not only does Opera Mini deliver the Web faster to your phone, it also displays the page just as it looks in your desktop browser.

Opera Mini's zoom gracefully dives into the content for easy reading and interaction. Opera Mini provides a smooth browsing experience and great social sharing capabilities.

All that, and data savings too! By using Opera technology, the Opera Mini browser only needs to transport ten percent of the data to your phone - a lifesaver while traveling, struggling with crowded networks, for your data cap or if you pay per megabyte downloaded.

BlackBerry users might specifically find enticing the use of hot keys that makes page-up and page-down viewing much faster.

"By adding another destination to Opera Mini's passport, we are extending our reach," said Lars Boilesen, Chief Executive Officer, Opera Software. "As the world's most popular browser, we want to take every opportunity for people to have access to our browsers, regardless of the device."

BlackBerry App World is available in more than 100 countries.

Equipment Spending Growth Flat in 2012; Record Fab Equipment Spending Expected for 2013

SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 6, 2012 — Semiconductor fab equipment spending is expected to remain level (0 percent increase) in 2012 according to the latest SEMI World Fab Forecast report. Eight companies, including Samsung and Intel, will keep their fab equipment spending level above $2 billion in 2012. Fab equipment spending is estimated at $38.85 billion for 2012 and a record $45.50 billion for 2013.

While the outlook for fab equipment spending in 2012 was negative two months ago, key spenders like Samsung increased spending to record levels; Hynix increased spending in 2012 by 23 percent to about US$ 3.75 billion, while UMC increased spending from $1.6 billion to $2.0 billion. In addition, Intel increased spending much more than expected, to a historic high of about $12.5 billion. If macroeconomic factors improve and other companies adjust their capex plans, then equipment spending for 2012 could even cross into positive territory.

Fab Equipment Spending (new and used)

In US$ Million	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
including Discretes & LED	$25,960	$14,446	$33,568	$38,965	$38,850	$45,498
Change %	-32%	-44%	132%	23%	0%	17%
300mm only	$22,473	$12,031	$26,058	$29,986	$34,270	$40,580
Change %	-28%	-46%	117%	15%	14%	18%

Figure 1: Source: SEMI World Fab Forecast February 28, 2012 edition

The spending trend is expected to continue into 2013 especially for the Foundry, System LSI, MPU and NAND sectors. Companies continue to invest in upgrades and leading edge technologies, and few are ramping up fab capacity. SEMI’s latest World Fab Forecast (February 28, 2012) lists 192 facilities with equipment spending in 2012.

2010 was a good year for fab construction but 2011 was even better with a 24 percent increase YoY to $6.4 billion. For 2012, spending on construction is expected to decline by about 28 percent to $4.5 billion. Data of the World Fab Forecast show an even further decline in 2013.

Coming out of the downturn from 2010 on, yearly capacity growth is 5 to 10 percent and is expected to stay modest for the foreseeable future. However, SEMI’s fab data shows rapid increases in fab equipment spending for some segments leading also to an increase in installed capacity.

While installed capacity for DRAM is expected to level out, Flash capacity is growing rapidly between 2010 and 2013. The dedicated foundry sector will also undergo growth in installed capacity with the key contributors like TSMC, Globalfoundries and UMC. The recently released SEMI Fab database report enables data analysis by technology node, product type, region, company and fab by fab.

Lower construction spending compared to recent years, especially on new fabs, raises some concern about available capacity beyond 2013. Overall, the industry has tried to control installed capacity since coming out of the 2009 downturn. Now due to increasing demand, some segments, such as Flash, Foundry, and System LSI, are experiencing a boost in installed capacity.

The SEMI World Fab Forecast uses a bottom-up approach methodology, providing high-level summaries and graphs; and in-depth analyses of capital expenditures, capacities, technology and products by fab. Additionally, the database provides forecasts for the next 18 months by quarter. These tools are invaluable for understanding how the semiconductor manufacturing will look in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and learning more about capex for construction projects, fab equipping, technology levels, and products. Learn more about the SEMI fab databases at: http://www.semi.org/MarketInfo/FabDatabase and http://www.youtube.com/user/SEMImktstats

SEMI’s Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Subscription (WWSEMS) data tracks only new equipment for fabs and test and assembly and packaging houses. The SEMI World Fab Forecast and its related Fab Database reports track any equipment needed to ramp fabs, upgrade technology nodes, and expand or change wafer size, including new equipment, used equipment, or in-house equipment.

Synology Announces the Official Release of DiskStation Manager 4.0

Fueled by the latest technologies to facilitate personal and business productivity

Taipei, Taiwan—March 6, 2012—Synology today announced the official release of DiskStation Manager 4.0 (DSM 4.0). In just 50 days the DSM 4.0 beta program hit a new record in excess of 90,000 downloads, achieving an average of one download per minute. Synology appreciated enthusiastic beta participants for their valuable feedback in contribution to a better NAS server experience.

“DSM 4.0 marks a significant milestone for Synology, representing its efforts to provide users with best-of-breed technologies, an easy approach to master their own clouds, and productive business solutions with no additional cost,” said Rosiel Lee, product manager of Synology Inc. DSM 4.0 offers:

Easy-to-use cloud services – Cloud Station offers users a simple and auto way to keep their files in sync, including the change history for data recovery. QuickConnect allows users to sync without the hassle of port forwarding. Unlike licensed cloud services, Cloud Station can grow with users’ demands and there is no recurring fee. In addition, DSM 4.0 pushes event triggered notifications via Microsoft Windows Live Messenger®, Skype™ and DS finder, assuring effortless system monitoring.

Robust business features – Users can now add a DiskStation to a VLAN environment, flexibly creating segmented networks on the same physical wire. A DiskStation can also work as a DHCP server to distribute IP addresses to different devices. DSM 4.0 supports iSCSI LUN backup, which features point-in-time technology, incremental backup and space reclaim to create instantaneous copies and optimize task efficiency. Synology’s complete VPN support allows for a cost-effective private network to securely share information across multiple locations. What’s more, Windows® ACL settings can be edited quickly on the intuitive interface of DSM.

Smart management – DSM 4.0 provides a more efficient approach to software installation and upgrade by turning applications, such as Photo Station and Download Station, into packages that can be added in need. Integrated with HTML5 and CSS 2D Transforms, Pilot View and Instant Preview helps users easily switch between applications. Desktop widgets display a variety of system resources to simplify server management.

Powerful surveillance solutions – Surveillance Station now supports over 1,000 IP cameras and streams surveillance footages faster. In addition, users can deploy a single fisheye camera to cover all the angles without blind spot. Live-view Analytics carries out real-time analysis on multiple channels to keep them alert with critical events.

Enriched mobile support – Synology takes the lead to support Amazon® Kindle Fire and bring DS finder to Windows Phone 7. DS photo+ and DS file are also available for Android® tablets. More mobile users can carry terabytes of data stored in their DiskStation on-the-go.

Additional new features include application portals, proactive virus scan, hotspot support, configuration backup enhancements, Picasa Web Albums™ and Twitter® support on Photo Station, etc. Please visit http://www.synology.com/dsm/index.php for more information.

Availability

Synology DSM 4.0 is free to download for users who own a DiskStation x08 series and onward. Supported models include:
DS712+, DS212, DS212+, DS212j, RS212, RS812, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS3612xs, RS3412xs, RS3412RPxs, DS3611xs, RS3411xs, RS3411RPxs, DS2411+, RS2211+, RS2211RP+, DS1511+, RS411, DS411, DS411+II, DS411+, DS411j, DS411slim, DS211+, DS211, DS211j, DS111, DS1010+, RS810+, RS810RP+, DS410, DS410j, DS710+, DS210+, DS210j, DS110+, DS110j, DS509+, RS409+, RS409RP+, RS409, DS409+, DS409, DS209+II, DS209+, DS209, DS209j, DS109+, DS109, DS109j, DS409slim, DS508, DS408, RS408, RS408RP, DS108j

The download is available at http://www.synology.com/support/download.php

The live demo site is available at http://www.synology.com/products/dsm_livedemo.php

YES INTRODUCES THE ALL-NEW UNLIMITED SUPER POSTPAID PLANS

The fastest 4G mobile internet service with voice now comes with postpaid subscription, giving customers the best combo of value and performance

KUALA LUMPUR —March 06, 2012 —Driven by a strong demand for value and performance by consumers, Yes, one of the most advanced 4G networks in the world, is proud to announce the official launch of its all-new Unlimited Super Postpaid Plans today.

The Yes Unlimited Super Postpaid Plans are the best postpaid internet plans in the country offering unmatched combinations of performance and value. The plans were created to meet the needs of different segments of users from low-data to high-data users, both for personal and work purposes. The four plans are designed to give consumers flexibility and freedom based on their usage pattern:SUPER 48: RM48 monthly susbcription for data usage up to 1.5GB generally for light users and casual surfers who also check e-mails, read news, and download apps on the go.

SUPER 68: RM68 monthly susbcription for data usage up to 4GB mainly for steady social users who update their status with pictures and videos.

SUPER 98: RM98 monthly susbcription for data usage up to 6GB more for power users with multi-devices who juggle work with play and often send and download large e-mails or play online games.

SUPER 168: RM168 monthly susbcription for data usage up to 10GB ideally for business executives and video users as well as content lovers who watch and share a lot of online videos and love to video-chat.


All plans come with unlimited data usage, speed as fast as 20Mbps across all plans and free Yes devices with commitment. Subscribers can also enjoy the lowest calls and SMS rate at 9 sen per minute / SMS and the best IDD rates with Yes Life. With one Super Postpaid plan users can connect multiple Yes devices to get the internet and telephony services and receive only one bill.

“All our customers love the amazing speeds, stability, and consistency of our 4G network but some of them want the convenience of unlimited data usage and use-now-pay-later option of a postpaid subscription. We listen intently and we’re pleased to offer them with exactly what they want. Yes now offers a complete portfolio of price plans that provides the best value and performance, either postpaid or prepaid, any which way you look at it,” said Wing K. Lee, Chief Executive Officer, YTL Communications.

“We believe that customers want a fair deal. When we designed our Super Postpaid plans, regardless of what customers pay us on a monthly basis, all of them will get to enjoy benefits of full 4G speed”, he added.

The Yes Unlimited Super Postpaid Plans are now available today at our Yes Stores, Yes Kiosks and Yes Retail Partners. For more information, visit www.yes.my.

Teach your Grandma to become a smartphone expert in 1 week

If you’re thinking of buying grandma a smartphone, or if she already has one but doesn’t know all the cool things she can do with it, here’s a step-by-step guide to get her up to speed in one week. Yes, with a little practice and patience, even grandma can go from a mobile newbie to smartphone expert!

Monday: Start with what she knows.
Ease her in by doing some of the things she did with her old phone: make a phone call, add a contact and send a text message.
● Quick Tip: Tell her, just like a desktop or laptop computer, smartphones can send email -- a great alternative to pricey text messages! When adding contacts, don’t forget to add email addresses along with phone numbers.

Tuesday: Baby steps.
Tell her she may think of it as a mobile phone, but in reality a smartphone is a tiny yet powerful computer. She can use it to go online, browse her favorite websites and download apps. To get started, try a web search: the next time she can’t remember the name of the lead actor in her favorite movie, ask her phone.
● Quick Tip: Tell her that when it comes to typing on small keyboards, practice makes perfect. Of course, she can always speak her query by using Google Voice Search -- click the mic in the search bar and start speaking!

Wednesday: Discover apps.
Tell her that a mobile application, or an app for short, is a software program designed to run on a smartphone. The sheer number and diversity of available apps is overwhelming: play games like Angry Birds, keep track of thoughts with Evernote, customize screens with Beautiful Widgets and follow online news sites with Pulse. If it’s an Android device, Android Market is the one-stop app shop.
● Quick Tip: Tell her Google mobile services puts the power of search, Google+, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube in the palm of her hand. These apps are free to download, and are the first step in transforming a mere mobile phone into a supercharged smartphone.

Thursday: Create content and share with her friends.
Tell her that her smartphone comes with a high-tech digital camera and video recorder -- and because it’s connected to the internet, she can share everything she creates with family and friends. Take pictures and share them instantly over e-mail or through social networks, and shoot videos and upload them to YouTube.
● Quick Tip: Just like a point-and-shoot camera, tell her to focus her picture before snapping the shutter. Most smartphones let users tap the screen to focus on a particular point, but certain models have built-in face detection to locate faces in the frame and automatically set focus.

Friday: Venture out into the real world.
Tell her that her phone is a friend when she is out and she doesn’t know the locale, when the trains run, or lost the bus schedule. Google Maps for mobile is an atlas, compass, phonebook, and travel guide rolled into one. She can use Google Maps to get step-by-step directions to her next destination, and choose between driving directions, walking directions, or (in some cities) public transit.
● Quick Tip: When using Google Maps, improve location accuracy by enabling GPS through the settings menu on her smartphone. When done using Google Maps or other location-based apps, disable GPS to help conserve her phone’s battery life.

Saturday: Make her phone work for her.
Tell her that to simply type or say the word ‘makan’ into Google. Because she is searching from a smartphone, Google assumes that she wants places nearby. Her phone will give the names of the closest ones, and even put them on a map along with reviews from other diners, hours, photos and other information.
● Quick Tip: The Google Places app is a local recommendation engine. Find, rate and share places and discover new ones. With each rating, Google learns a bit more about her tastes, so she'll get better recommendations when she searches.

Sunday: Walk the bleeding edge.
Tell her that smartphones are packed with future tech, but walking the bleeding edge isn’t nearly as intimidating as she might imagine. Google Translate for mobile lets her instantly translate between more than 50 languages. Soundhound can listen to a song and identify its name and artist after just a few notes. Instant Heart Rate uses her phone’s camera to track color changes on the fingertip that are directly linked to her pulse!
● Quick Tip: Google Goggles is a mobile app that employs advanced image recognition technology to identify objects and return relevant search results. Goggles can identify products, famous landmarks, storefronts, artwork and popular images found online -- it can even solve Sudoku puzzles!

Carlsberg Introduces UEFA EURO 2012 Mobile App for Fans

KUALA LUMPUR, March 6, 2012 – With less than 100 days to go until the opening game of the UEFA EURO 2012™ football tournament, official sponsor Carlsberg has unveiled the brand new Carlsberg UEFA EURO 2012™ mobile application, giving fans access to exclusive content and all the latest news in the run up to and during this summer’s Finals.

The Carlsberg UEFA EURO 2012™ app is free to download from the Android and iTunes stores and has been developed in partnership with Motain, leader in sports publishing and creator of some of the most popular European football apps on the market. The app will be available in multiple languages and will be one of the most sought after of the year as fans strive to stay up to date with all the latest from the tournament in Poland and Ukraine.Features will include daily international news, live game commentary, a range of constantly updated football statistics, a bar finder, exclusive videos and football content featuring Carlsberg’s global ambassador Peter Schmeichel and the opportunity to vote live for the Carlsberg Man of the Match Award.

The Carlsberg UEFA EURO 2012™ app will, for the first time, offer fans the chance to vote for the Carlsberg Man of the Match live during all UEFA EURO 2012™ matches. By voting, fans will have the chance to influence who is presented with the Carlsberg Man of the Match Award after the game.

Soren Ravn, Managing Director of Carlsberg Malaysia, said, “It is no secret that football and beer often go hand in hand. And from local outlets to international tournaments, Carlsberg is the game’s beer of choice. Malaysians are among the most enthusiastic football fans around and this app is bound to create much excitement, especially among Carlsberg consumers.”

“There will be many great EURO moments and the Carlsberg UEFA EURO 2012™ app will provide a great opportunity for fans to fully experience this much-anticipated sports event. We will continue to reinforce our leading position in Malaysia with Carlsberg brands and complement this by tapping synergies within the Carlsberg Group Global network for UEFA EURO 2012™ to deliver memorable EURO moments in different ways.”


Lucas von Cranach, Motain Managing Director, added, "We are very happy to be working with Carlsberg. The brand's long-term engagement with the European Football Championships and their loyalty in supporting football in general are a perfect match with our vision to deliver best-in-class football content to the football fan community.”

The Carlsberg UEFA EURO 2012™ app adds to Carlsberg’s already extensive fan activity on Facebook, and will include exclusive content provided through its official tournament sponsor status. Users will be offered the chance to win tickets for UEFA EURO 2012™ matches by playing in the application.

To find out more Carlsberg’s activities and heritage in football, please go to www.carlsberg.com or to take part in Carlsberg’s Fan Challenge visit www.facebook.com/Carlsberg.

HP offers more reason to be jolly in the recent festive season with a Supermarket Sweep for its customers

Up to 14 winners got a chance to grab all they could in HP’s Ho-Ho-Yeh contest

MALAYSIA, Kuala Lumpur, 5 March 2012 – HP Malaysia’s, Personal Systems Group (PSG) rang in the recent festive season with a supermarket sweep worth nearly RM50,000 for 14 lucky contest winners at Tesco Mutiara Damansara recently.

To participate in the HP Ho-Ho-Yeh contest, customers simply needed to purchase certain models of HP notebooks or desktop PCs from authorised HP resellers during the November–December period.HP Ho-Ho-Yeh Supermarket Sweep contest winners happily showing off their trolleys full with goodies at Tesco Mutiara Damansara recently.

The winners were placed in three categories: Category 1 for purchases worth under RM1,999; Category 2 for purchases worth between RM2,000 and RM3,499; and Category 3 for purchases worth RM3,500 and above.

Category 1 winners were entitled to a two-minute sweep worth up to RM2,000 while Category 2 winners got a two and a half minutes sweep worth up to RM3,000. Category Three winners, on the other hand, were entitled to a three-minute sweep worth up to RM5,000.
Siew Yoke Mei who participated at HP Ho-Ho-Yeh Supermarket Sweep contest walks home with a TV, Blu-ray disc player, notebook computer and a digital camera during her three-minute sweep worth up to RM 5,000 at Tesco Mutiara Damansara recently.

Making an impressive haul was Siew Yoke Mei, who was eligible for the RM5,000 limit.

She said that strategic planning was crucial to her netting items worth a total RM5,024.

“I came to the store with my husband a day before the actual supermarket sweep and we had noted down exactly which items to go for,” she said.

Siew focused her attention to the electronics section where she managed to take home a TV, Blu-ray disc player, notebook computer and a digital camera, among other electronic items.

“I do grocery shopping every week and I know how much time it takes to shop. There is no way I could go to all the other sections within the time limit so I only focused on one area which was the electronics section,” she added with a satisfied grin.

Vishnu Appanah also had a chance to take home up to RM5,000 worth of goods but only managed to grab about half that value.

“I ran out space in my supermarket trolley and had to get another one. This took time so I couldn’t take more items,” he explained.

Nonetheless, Vishnu, who purchased an HP EliteBook 8450 to participate in the HP Ho-Ho-Yeh Supermarket Sweep contest, still managed to grab a flatscreen TV as well as a number of other household items.

“I’m very happy with what I managed to get especially since it’s the festive season at the moment. I will be able to enjoy all the items I got with my family over the holidays and that’s more than I could ask for,” Vishnu said.

Another contest winner who planned her strategy before the actual supermarket sweep was Masrifah Norhafidah Abu Massuut.

“I came to the store last night to survey the place and did my planning beforehand,” she said.

“As they sounded the buzzer indicating my turn to start, the first thing I did was go for the TV set located to the left of the entrance,” Masrifah, who purchased a HP Pavilion g4 notebook to qualify for the contest, added.

Unlike Siew who focused on the electronics section, Masrifah also managed to grab a number of household items from the other sections of the supermarket and took home a total of RM2,249 worth of goods.

Generally, the contest winners found the supermarket sweep a lot of fun.

They said that it was great to see that a company like HP rewards its loyal customers, and especially so on such festive seasons like Christmas and Chinese New Year.

For the 14 lucky contest winners, it was a great way to start the new year.

Google, SKMM, .My Domain Registry and ITrain Help Sabah & Sarawak Businesses Get Online

Get My Business Online (GMBO) is a new initiative by Google Malaysia to bring more businesses online and and provide a boost to the local online ecosystem in partnership with Suruhanjaya Komunikasi & Multimedia Malaysia (SKMM), .My Domain Registry and ITrain.

Through GMBO, any business with zero online presence should take no longer than one working day (upon domain approval) to get their business websites up and running with no strings attached.
YB Datuk Noroden Majais, Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister's Office (4th from left) and Sajith Sivanandan, country manager of Google Malaysia (3rd from left) together with representatives from SKMM, .My Domain Registry and ITrain at the launch of the Sarawak leg of the Get My Business Online (GMBO) initiative last week.

To set up a website, a business owner can visit the GMBO site at http://www.getMYbusinessonline.com.my/ and enter their business details such as license number, business phone number, and a few other items such as street address and opening hours.

GMBO’s overall goal is to help at least 50,000 Malaysian businesses including those based in Sabah & Sarawak, to set up a website and be active online within this year. The first 10,000 SMEs that sign up and go live with their sites get everything absolutely free; including domain name and hosting for a year.
YB Dato Dr Yee Moh Chai, Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah (5th from left) and Zeffri Yusof, Google Malaysia's head of communications & public affairs together with representatives from SKMM, .My Domain Registry and ITrain at the launch of the Sabah leg of the Get My Business Online (GMBO) initiative last week.

For example, Kedai Ummie, which distributes traditional layered cakes and other goodies including local crafts in Kuching, is just one of the many small-medium business owners in Sarawak. Through GMBO, Pn Hajarinawati Othman of Kedai Ummie Entreprise has a new GMBO website at http://www.kedaiummie.com.my/ -- where her customers can now find her online.

For example, Living Quarters Laundry, which provides laundry pick-up and delivery services in Kota Kinabalu, Penampang and Putatan, is just one of the many SMEs in Sabah. Through GMBO, Mr. Mario Rayner Laban of Living Quarters Laundry Collection and Delivery Service has a new website at http://www.livingquarterslaundry.com.my/ -- where his customers can now find him online.

The Typhoon and the Moon: A Story in Breakthrough Technology

Warton, United Kingdom – Building one of the most advanced jet fighters in the world is a challenge for any aerospace company – but the one thing you might think you don‟t have to worry about when you start such a job is the pull of the moon.

But that is exactly the challenge faced by workers at BAE Systems on the Lancashire coast every time the Typhoon build process begins – because the moon‟s gravitational pull actually causes the ground to move beneath their feet.

So fine are the tolerances now used to build the Typhoon that even the movements of the tide could throw the jet fighter tolerances out.

Martin Topping, Typhoon final assembly operations manager explains: “Every time the moon pulls the tide in and out, the ground under our feet actually moves by between one and two millimetres. That might not sound a lot, but given the tolerances we are working to on Typhoon, two millimetres is two millimetres too much.”

To get round the problem BAE Systems has spent over £2.5million putting in special automated alignment facilities which use laser-trackers and computer-automated jacks. But what really ensures that each Typhoon‟s airframe is built as close to perfection as is humanly possible are the giant „floating‟ concrete rafts on which the aircraft and measuring equipment sit.

“Each of these concrete rafts is over three metres deep and 18 metres long,” says Martin. “All 9 automated jacks and both laser trackers are positioned on one surface ensuring all movement is relative, achieving a near perfect alignment whatever the moon may be doing.”

The result is one of the most perfectly aligned fast jet airframes in the world. Although 15 metres long from tip to tip, every Typhoon that leave BAE Systems in Warton varies from true no more than the thickness of a match stick – and that helps its „fly by wire‟ computer system accurately control the aircraft, designed to be unstable but hugely agile.

Because of this build accuracy there is minimal need to „trim‟ the flying surfaces and pilots can fly the fighter to its maximum potential. On a typical sortie, this build precision will save enough fuel to fill up an average family car (60 litres).

AIMS：呼吁数据中心关注绿色议程 政府援助予电力补贴是成功的关键

吉隆坡, 5日讯- AIMS集团（“AIMS”），全国首屈一指的中立数据中心呼吁本地数据中心关注数据中心的社区的绿色议程。

这是当在数据中心为了升级其现有的基础设施以保持竞争力, 同时帮他们的客户保持低成本的连带议程。

据AIMS总裁周国兴表示，数据中心的绿色议程是科技部门的首要绿色倡议的一部分。

“然而，当然有一些相关因素除了能同时让数据中心保持常青，也兼顾着其竞争力。例如，电费就是其中最大的成本，组成了将近百分之三十的数据中心成本。”

“除了在日常运作中所采取的节约成本措施，，更高的政府补贴也肯定能帮助不少。

马来西亚原有天择的条件来建立数据中心， 包括其其丰富的土地资源，多语种的人力资源，稳定的互联网连接，并远离天灾的地势。

Chiew说，“事实上，PEMANDU已明确地提到了它的目标，那就是欲将大马推广称为一个区域性的数据中心据点，以让马来西亚成为数据中心投资者的首选目的地;同时将在2020年间， 把现今的0.5million 平方尺的空间扩展到为5.0million 平方尺的地方，以应付数据中心在亚太地区的强劲增长。”

AIMS在减低电力消费所下的努力

为此目标，AIMS以及大多数的数据中心供应商，已经作出不断的努力，以减少这些数据中心支持系统的耗电量： -

•安排数据中心的服务器机架左右移动于冷热空气之间，以更有效地降低电费和提高系统效率百分之二十以上。

•引入虚拟化科技，以便让一台机器做更多操作事项（通过巧妙地分配服务器资源来执行相同的功能），节约电能和金钱消费，同时以最大的限度减少对环境的影响。

•更换数据中心的光源， 采用联网发光二极管（LEDs）作为半导照明体来提供光线，也同时也更优质的照明质量。

“我们需要思考关于科技电力的消耗量，不只是如何降低耗电量，但如何应付海量数据的暴增。”周结尾。

AIMS的最新动向

现今， AIMS拥有两个数据中心 – 分别位于吉隆坡和Cyberjaya。AIMS的扩张计划中就包括Cyberjaya的柔佛的两个数据中心。在2010年， AIMS也从英国标准协会（British Standard Institution）取得了ISO27001:2005认证。 AIMS的信息安全管理系统了通过严格的独立审计，具有充分和恰当的安全控制来保护其数据和正服务着超过250 个客户的服务器。

AIMS的年度企业社会责任活动就包括了每年的“地球一小时”的参与。

PS3 Mega Man & Pac-Man characters in Street Fighter X Tekken are free for download

5 March 2012 - Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong (SCEH) today annouced PlayStation®3 (PS3TM) exclusive characters, Mega Man & Pac-Man will be available for download (free) from 13th March for PS3TM title “Street Fighter X Tekken” Chinese & English version.
The PS3™ title “STREET FIGHTER X TEKKEN” Chinese & English version, will be released on Mar 6th, 2012 (Tue), with a limited initial premium “Iron Curtain Pack” voucher card. There are also several bundle packs to be released on the same day.

University of Malaya and Microsoft Malaysia Collaborate to Invest in Human Capital Development by Empowering Students with Genuine Productivity Tools

Microsoft Malaysia underscores its National Plan commitment to transform Malaysia through education by empowering all 25,000 UM students with Microsoft Office software

Kuala Lumpur, 5 March 2012 – The University of Malaya together with Microsoft Malaysia and Prestariang are taking on the Government’s call to invest in human capital development by empowering all 25,000 University of Malaya students with genuine versions of the Microsoft Office 2010 productivity suite, an essential tool for success in today’s business environment, through a collaborative effort known as the “Hedstart Program”.

The launch of the Hedstart Program at University of Malaya’s campus this morning was hailed as a significant achievement and an excellent example of a private-public partnership that moves forward the government’s agenda towards transforming Malaysia, in tandem with the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s vision to enhance creativity, innovation and competitiveness among students.Launch of the Hedstart Program held at University of Malaya where Microsoft Malaysia hopes to underscore its National Plan commitment to transform Malaysia through education by empowering all 25,000 UM students with Microsoft Office software. From left: Ybhg. Prof Datuk Dr. Rohana Yusof Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Student Affairs), University of Malaya; Dr. David Asirvatham, Director, Centre of Information Technology, University of Malaysia; Dr. Abu Hasan Ismail, Chief Executive Officer, Prestariang System Sdn Bhd; Mr. Aanth Lazarus, Managing Director, Microsoft Malaysia.

Recently, the Prime Minister said that creating a high income nation will mean higher wages throughout the economy as growth is derived not only from the capital but from the greater productivity through the use of skills, innovation, improved coordination with international standards and intellectual property rights.

“The Hedstart Program is the answer to this call, and we are proud to empower 25,000 of our students with genuine Microsoft Office 2010 software which we believe will impart world-class knowledge and resources to develop students to become highly skilled and confident to face the globally benchmarked accreditation,” said Datuk Prof. Dr. Rohana Yusof, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Student Affairs), University of Malaya.

She also added that University of Malaya welcomed the collaboration with Microsoft Malaysia to rollout this campus-wide milestone that will further improve their education ecosystem and increase the competitiveness and capabilities of their students. “Microsoft Malaysia’s continuous support to provide quality education and eagerness to invest in the country’s education strategy is not only vital to create an excellent education platform for the future generation but also essential for Malaysia to achieve a developed status by the year 2020.”

According to Ananth Lazarus, Managing Director of Microsoft Malaysia, the decision to collaborate with the University of Malaya is part of Microsoft’s overarching National Plan – a long-standing commitment to help accelerate Malaysia’s transformation into a technologically advanced, high-income country, based on three strategic commitments – namely to transform education, businesses and Malaysian lives through the power of technology. He explained, “The effort we have put in through the Hedstart Program is grounded in our passion and promises encapsulated in a National Plan to help transform Malaysia together with the various communities and stakeholders who are also committed to the country’s future.”

“For the past 20 years, Microsoft, through its people, partnerships and technology, has been Malaysia’s trusted and long-term partner in accelerating the country’s education ecosystem through initiatives such DreamSpark, which provides students with Microsoft software design and development tools at no charge; the Imagine Cup, known as the “World Cup” of student technology competitions; the Partners in Learning Initiative, where we have trained more than 200,000 teachers as part of our continuous effort in helping successful pedagogy delivery through the use of IT; as well as various other programs aimed at transforming education for Malaysians. Our investment and commitment has made an impact on more than one million students,” continued Ananth.

He added, “In bringing the very best business productivity tools of tomorrow for today’s students at the University of Malaya, I am confident that this is good progress towards transforming the educational landscape of Malaysia and further cultivate potential leaders of tomorrow for the betterment of the country.”

This collaboration could not have been possible without Microsoft Malaysia’s partner, Prestariang Berhad, one of the leading software licence distribution and management organisations in Malaysia who been a catalyst to this successful partnership.

“Focusing on ICT training and certification, our role is to advocate, educate and prepare students with the right productivity tools. Universities present the best platform for us to reach out and spread this valuable message across to students. Together with Microsoft Malaysia, we are working very closely with other higher learning institutions in Malaysia to nurture thousands of students to adopt genuine software by the end of this year. It’s an amazing feat and we are in the midst of replicating this initiative to other higher learning institutions to drive compliance which is crucial to our nation’s progress,” said Dr. Abu Hasan Ismail, Chief Executive Officer, Prestariang.

Through the Headstart Program, students will not only own a Microsoft Office 2010 productivity suite which they are able to retain after graduating, but will also be able to access more than 200 software under the MSDN Academic Alliance program. Ultimately, Microsoft seeks to equip students in public universities with this valuable software under the campus agreement program with the Ministry of Higher Education.

Tagit Introduces aggregated mobile payment services with its mobility platform

Addresses rising mobile banking & commerce demand in Asia, Middle East and Africa

Singapore, March 5, 2012 – Tagit, leading mobile solutions innovator and provider, has announced the availability of the latest release of its proprietary Mobility Platform to meet rising demand for mobile commerce and payment services in Asia, Middle East and Africa. The latest release of Tagit’s Mobility Platform will enable banks, enterprises, payment networks and aggregators that are ramping up mobile commerce initiatives to rapidly integrate and seamlessly deliver secure mobile payment services in one single, integrated application at lower total deployment cost.

Gaining traction in the Middle East, Tagit has recently partnered with Knet, the National Payment Switch in Kuwait to provide end-consumers with one integrated application for all their payment transactions, the first-ever hosted transaction-based service in the Middle-East. In collaboration with its Kuwait partner, MPay, Tagit will be rolling out Knet’s first mobile payment service through their Tasdeed Service which will enable e-government, telecom and mobile payments.

Tagit’s robust, scalable and highly secure platform architecture enables payment switch operators and aggregators to create the ecosystem that will facilitate mobile commerce and transactions in a rapid fashion. By plugging into Tagit’s Mobility Platform, payment switches and its network bank members can readily innovate and expand on mobile service offerings for their end customers.

Leveraging existing network and connectivity, banks can expedite time-to-market for mobile commerce services, improving customer’s overall banking experience. Once on the Tagit platform, end users will have access to multiple payment options and perform a variety of transactions such as utility payments, topping up telephone prepaid cards, online shopping and fund transfers in one single application, across mobile devices, using one payment network.

“Demand for mobile commerce is on the rise in Asia, Middle East and Africa where there are still areas that have unmet banking needs. Through our partnerships with payment aggregators and networks, we are finding solutions to expedite the delivery of mobile commerce and banking services to the consumers using one integrated platform,” said Naffi Singh, CEO & Co-founder of Tagit. “Our ongoing project in Kuwait heralds a new era in mobile banking and payment services, and is testament to continued market uptake for mobile commerce. Our pipeline of projects in Asia and Africa keep us optimistic with the growth of mobile commerce and banking sector in these regions, “added Singh.

Tagit has recently partnered with a leading bank in Singapore to launch the first-of-its kind cardless cash transaction service using the mobile phone. The mobile banking app has a feature called “Mobile Cash” which allows users to withdraw and transfer money to third parties through the ATM network even without an ATM card.

WD REACHES AGREEMENT WITH TOSHIBA CORPORATION TO DIVEST CERTAIN 3.5-INCH HDD ASSETS

Kuala Lumpur – 5 March 2012 –Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today reported that it has reached an agreement with Toshiba Corporation to divest certain assets to address the requirements of regulatory agencies that have conditionally approved or are continuing to review the company’s planned acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST). The asset package covered by the agreement will enable Toshiba to manufacture and sell 3.5-inch hard drives for the desktop and consumer electronics markets and will enhance its ability to manufacture and sell 3.5-inch hard drives for near-line (business critical) applications. The divestiture transaction is subject to review by regulatory agencies in certain jurisdictions.

WD also reported that it has agreed, subject to completion of the divestiture transaction, to purchase Toshiba Storage Device (Thailand) Company Limited (TSDT). TSDT manufactured hard drives but has not resumed operations after the recent Thailand flooding. The principal assets of TSDT are its Thailand property, facilities and employees. Subject to completion of the transaction, WD plans to integrate these facilities and employees into its Thailand operations. The financial terms of the two agreements were not disclosed.

The closing of the transactions with Toshiba is conditioned on WD’s closing of its planned acquisition of HGST, which remains subject to several closing conditions, including the receipt of certain remaining antitrust approvals. Subject to obtaining these approvals, the company is targeting the transactions with Toshiba to close in March 2012.

Malaysia’s FanXT Wins Asia Level Business Competition in New Delhi, India

MARCH 2, 2012 – FanXT has made Jalur Gemilang flying high in the land of India by emerging as the champion at the TiE Global All Asia Business Plan Competition (AABPC) in New Delhi beating over 1200 participants all over Asia Pacific and 34 other teams on Saturday, 11th February 2012. FanXT is a fantasy sports brand created by Just Mobile Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian technology company.

FanXT presented a winning business plan on a fantasy sports game which aims to be the worldwide leader in fantasy sports.This year’s first annual competition brought in over 1,200 applications from 13 participating chapters from across the world. The All-Asia Finals took place February 10-11th in New Delhi, India. The competition began with a semi-final round consisting of 33 teams presenting to 2 distinguished panels of judges and were narrowed down to six. On the second day during the final round, these six teams presented to a new jury. One of the main judges is Gautam Gandhi, New Business Development at Google.

On the success of the event and congratulating the teams, Mr. PK Agarwal, CEO, TiE Global, said “It is rewarding and exciting to see the enormous talent being generated in Asia. We witnessed, first hand, the making of the Asian Century.”

FanXT team who presented an excellent and promising business plan emerged as the winner and was presented with the Asia Rising Star award of Rs. 1 lakh (approx. RM 6,000) and also guaranteed a place at the Rice University Business Plan Competition on April 12-14, 2012 with all paid expense. It is the largest and richest business plan competition in the world, hosted at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

This event was organised by TiE New Delhi, one the most active TiE chapters around the world. “We would like to congratulate TiE New Delhi on organising such a momentous competition and being the first to win this competition, we could not have asked for more”, said the founder of FanXT, Melvin Wong.

Canon Launches The EOS 5D MARK III – A Powerful Full-Frame DSLR That Set New Standards In Photography And Videography

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 March 2012 – Canon, a world leader in digital imaging, has announced the launch of the new EOS 5D MARK III, the highly-anticipated successor to the popular EOS 5D Mark II. The EOS 5D MARK III is a class-leading full-frame DSLR targeted at advanced amateur photographers and independent filmmakers.

In conjunction with the significant announcement, Canon Malaysia today played host to more than 100 guests including some of the movie industry’s top leaders like Namewee, Director Chiu, C.L. Hor, Joon Han, Adrian Teh, Zaidan Zainudin, and special guest from New York Michael Helfman in a special preview of the EOS C300 and launch of the EOS 5D Mark III. Guests were given the opportunity to be one of first to touch and feel the highly anticipated models of the Canon 5D Mark III and Cinema EOS C300, the all-new interchangeable-lens digital video camcorder that combines exceptional imaging performance with outstanding mobility and expandability to meet the demanding production needs of today's motion picture industry“We are very excited to launch the Canon EOS 5D Mark III and the EOS C300 today at the right place and at the right time. We have seen how fast Malaysia’s movie industry is growing and we believe that the 5D Mark III is able to meet the most critical demands of all photographers and cinematographers alike. It offers the best combination of being affordable and also packed with revolutionized features that will redefine the way you take photos and shoot movies,” said Simon Wong, Director of the Imaging Communication Products Division of Canon Marketing (Malaysia).

Interestingly, this year marks the 75th anniversary of Canon Inc. and each guest received a special commemorative gift in the form of the miniature Hansa Camera. The Hansa Camera is the very first commercial camera produced by Canon in 1936. Notably, this year also sees Canon Marketing (Malaysia) celebrating its 25th anniversary in the Malaysian market.

Class-topping image quality is generated by a full-frame 22.3-megapixel CMOS sensor with a rapid drive that can shoot up to 6 frames per second (fps). Powered by Canon's state-of-the-art DIGIC 5+ image processor, the EOS 5D MARK III is capable of incredible ISO speeds of up to 25600 (expandable to L:50, H1: 51200, H2: 102400). A newly expanded 61-point Auto-Focus (AF) system makes it easier to track subjects with higher levels of precision and speeds.

Designed for the needs of advanced amateur photographers, filmmakers and professional photographers in all areas of photography, the EOS 5D MARK III is a powerful camera that blurs the line between mid-range and professional-grade cameras by providing amazingly fast, and stunning full-frame image capture at an affordable price.
Superior Image Quality
At the heart of the EOS 5D MARK III is a new 36 x 24mm full-frame CMOS sensor, with approximately 22.3 effective megapixels; up from the EOS 5D Mark II's 21.1-megapixels. Just as the EOS 5D Mark II earned a reputation for taking high quality still images and Full HD movies, the Canon has once again raised the bar with the EOS 5D MARK III.

But the benefits of this new sensor goes beyond just pixel count – its standard ISO sensitivity has been expanded two-stops to reach ISO 25600 (up from the EOS 5D Mark II's 6400). This can be further expanded to an astounding ISO 102400. This added light-receiving efficiency was made possible by a new gapless micro lens array and improved photo diodes. While the numbers themselves are impressive enough, photographers will be truly amazed by the EOS 5D MARK III's ability to take photos at ISO 25600 with roughly the same noise levels as the EOS 5D Mark II at ISO 6400. This balance of ISO sensitivity and high signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio, as well as a new customizable “Auto ISO” function, grants photographers freedom of expression even in low light.Assisting the EOS 5D MARK III in achieving such clear images is the DIGIC 5+, Canon's latest and most powerful image processor. The DIGIC 5+ processor is 17x faster than EOS 5D Mark II’s DIGIC 4. The new processor uses a newly developed advanced algorithm to achieve the highest possible image quality at low noise. The overall enhancements made in the EOS 5D MARK III improves movie shooting performance and increases continuous shooting speeds to approximately 6 fps at full 22.3-megapixel resolution.

On top of these new developments, the EOS 5D MARK III is also capable of real-time chromatic aberration correction, in-camera RAW processing, and lens distortion correction (using in-camera RAW processing).
Enhanced AF System
The EOS 5D Mark II featured a 9-point AF system, but the new EOS 5D MARK III greatly improves a newly designed 61-point High Density Reticular AF System; the very same one found in Canon's flagship EOS-1D X. With this new AF system, the number of cross-type points has been increased to a maximum of 41 (f4.0 sensitive), with f/2.8 sensitive dual cross-type points as the central five points. The central cluster of 21 AF points are also f/5.6 sensitive cross-type sensors.

With the enhanced AF coverage, not only will it be easier for photographers to compose portraits and track fast-moving subjects, but the system is also advanced enough that photographers are able to use f/4.0 lenses and still achieve the same rapid AF speed as an f/2.8 lens on the EOS 1D Mk IV. The new AI Servo AF III tracking speed and accuracy is similar to the EOS 1DX, allowing the 5D Mark III to be a very capable camera for sports, action and wildlife photography.

Incredibly rapid response
When it comes to photographing sports and wildlife, speed is a necessity for serious photographers. The EOS 5D MARK III's CMOS sensor has been upgraded to make use of eight data channels (twice as many as the EOS 5D Mark II), which works in tandem with the enhanced data processing speeds of the new DIGIC 5+.

The EOS 5D MARK III's shutter-release time lag has significantly decreased with better mechanisms to power the reflex mirror to render it more efficient. The EOS 5D MARK III employs a new level-type device to suppress mirror bounce; with this, the DSLR is able to achieve a time-lag response of only 59 milliseconds, equaling the EOS 7D's class-leading speed, and providing ample time for AF and AE computations.

With these technologies supplemented by the aforementioned 61-point AF system, photography enthusiasts can rest assured that the EOS 5D MARK III will not miss the perfect shot when it comes to moving subjects.

Superb moving pictures
The EOS 5D Mark II was the first EOS camera equipped with the EOS Movie function, and quickly revolutionized the film-making industry when it saw use in the production of commercials, TV dramas and movies. In designing the EOS 5D MARK III, Canon's developers worked with professional cinematographers to come up with a new version of EOS Movie that produces videos of an even higher quality.

Between the new CMOS sensor and the fast processing speeds of the new DIGIC 5+, the EOS 5D MARK III is able to solve a common video problem by significantly reducing color artifacts and moiré in areas containing striped patterns. The power of the DIGIC 5+ also grants the EOS 5D MARK III an increase in S/N ratio, so that videos shot in dimly-lit environments will have noticeably reduced noise, even at higher ISO speeds.

For increased editing flexibility, the EOS 5D MARK III is able to shoot at all the popular frame rates and quality, ranging from Standard Definition all the way to Full HD, in 30P/25P/24P. As a response to the feedback and requests from film editors, the EOS 5D MARK III supports both ALL-I and IPB compression modes to suit different post-production work-flows. ALL-I results in larger files, but editing is made easier as the frames are individually compressed. IPB compresses frames in groups, which reduces file sizes but increases decoding times.

Professionals who shoot live events such as weddings will sometimes need to record longer takes. The EOS 5D MARK III makes this possible as videos it will automatically create a new video file and continue shooting once a file reaches 4GB (the maximum file size for FAT file systems). There is no lapse in shooting between files, so editors will be able to cleanly splice these files together without any glaring jump cuts.

Creative features
Beyond the class-leading image quality, the EOS 5D MARK III has also been designed with a set of creative features to help photographers push their creative limits. One such tool is the new High Dynamic Range mode, which combines three images shot at different exposures to form one single detailed image. It does this by taking one shot at the recommended exposure, one that is deliberately over-exposed and then one that is under-exposed. The over-exposed image provides visual data for the subtle gradations in shadowy areas, while the under-exposed image provides visual data for bright areas that would be blown out under normal exposures. The combination of these images forms a single image that contains clear details and tones in all areas.

Other creative functions include the ability to take multiple exposures to super-impose different images on top of one another. This can lead to artistic juxtaposition of different images, or it can be used in conjunction with the EOS 5D MARK III's speedy 6 fps continuous shooting mode to recreate the appearance of motion in a shot of a moving subject.

Ease of use
The EOS 5D MARK III has a new 3.2” tempered-glass 1.04 million dot Clear View LCD II monitor, with a wide 3:2 aspect ratio, making it easier to frame shots, review images and navigate menus. To reduce glare when in sunny outdoor locations, there is an optical elastic polymer between the LCD and protective panel that reduces reflections. Furthermore, an AR coating on the surface provides additional glare reduction.

Built for steadfast high performance in the harshest shooting conditions, the EOS 5D Mark III sports a greatly improved shutter durability, with lightweight yet sturdy shutter blades withstand an amazing 150,000 shutter cycles. An increased resistance towards dust and water also feature largely in the EOS 5D Mark III's overall reliability.

To benefit users who primarily use their cameras for shooting movies, the EOS 5D MARK III's Quick Control Dial includes an inner ring that is triggered by an electrostatic touch sensor. With this silent control, cinematographers are able to change settings while shooting movies without any risk of accidentally recording any clicking sounds from the control dial.

A redesigned battery grip
Supplementing the EOS 5D MARK III is the new BG-E11 battery grip, ergonomically designed to facilitate vertical shoots and longer battery life. It is made of the same magnesium alloy as the EOS 5D MARK III, with identical dust and water resistant qualities, and comes with a multi-controller and a customizable multi-function button. The battery access of the grip has been relocated to the side, allowing for a curved form that provides a comfortable grip for horizontal and vertical shooting.

On the strength of its image quality alone, the EOS 5D MARK III would already be a class-leading camera. But Canon has not rested on its laurels and has upgraded the EOS 5D MARK III with a host of new features, making it a remarkable full-frame mid-range DSLR that will surely meet the needs of advanced amateurs and cinematographers. The 5D Mark III has evolved into an extremely versatile DSLR with very significant improvement in image quality (including video image quality), and inheriting a professional level AF system. It is now able to meet the most stringent demands of all types of photographers and videographers, including sports, landscape, portraits and wildlife.

The Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR will be available in the market at the end of March at an estimated retail price of RM11,500 for the body only and an estimated RM15,500 for the 5D Mark III kit set that comes with the F24-105L IS lenses (subject to change).
Online pre-booking will be available soon at http://eosworld.canon.com.my/ so interested parties can be the first to place the order for the Canon EOS 5D Mark III.

To commemorate the Canon Inc. 75th anniversary, Canon Malaysia is giving away limited-edition HANSA Canon miniature to the first thousand customers who purchase an EOS 1D MKIV, EOS 7D, EOS 5D MKII, and EOS 60D. This promotion will start from 2nd March 2012 onwards. Register your warranty online and Canon will deliver the gift right to your doorsteps (while stock lasts).For further details, do visit your nearest Canon Authorized Dealers or log on to Canon Camera (Malaysia) Facebook page.

EOS 5D MARK III Specifications:
• Dimensions: 152 x 116.4 x 76.4mm
• Weight: 860g (body only)
• Image sensor: 22.3 mega-pixel 36 x 24mm CMOS sensor
• Imaging processor: DIGIC 5+
• ISO speeds: 100-25600 (expandable to L:50, H:51200, H2: 102400)
• AF system: 61-point high density reticular AF system
- max 41 cross-type sensors
- Central 5 points : Diagonal cross-type sensors
• Continuous shooting speed: 6 fps
• Release time lag: approx. 59 ms
• Viewfinder : Approx 100% coverage, 0.71x magnification, 21mm eyepoint
• LCD: 3.2”, 1.04 million dots Clear View LCD II
• Shutter durability : 150,000 cycles
• Recording media : CF + SD
• Battery : LP-E6