Lots to talk about this week, especially Malaysia’s inability to have a coherent and concrete plan for broadband penetration. Malaysia is big on ecommerce. We wonder where Malaysian’s do their online shopping and in what demographics? Again detail-less. In other news, Windows was inspired by the Mac OSX. The war is over! Really? Who Cares. And don’t miss out chumby!

p1 gets seat on WiMax board
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/11/12/technology/20091112165607&sec=technology

Telco’s said LTE is the Future
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/10/27/technology/20091027113052&sec=technology

Broadband is important says the govt. Way to go captain obvious
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/11/11/technology/20091111104156&sec=technology

Govt call for more telecommuters
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/11/6/technology/20091106122736&sec=technology

Malaysia is big on E-Commerce
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/11/3/technology/20091103095606&sec=technology

Google Chrome OS to be release Next week
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/13/google-chrome-os-to-launch-within-a-week/
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/182152/google_chrome_os_a_nice_place_to_visit_but.html

Finally Microsoft Admits Borrowing from Apple
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/11/microsoft-group-manager-windows-7-borrowing-mac-look-and-feel/

http://gizmodo.com/5402589/microsoft-manager-admits-mac-influence-amidst-other-nonsense?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

and i wondered where the rebuttal might be coming in
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47740

140 Review
1. Microsoft Essentials are Good enough
http://lifehacker.com/5401453/stop-paying-for-windows-security-microsofts-security-tools-are-good-enough?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29

2. Nokia Booklet 3G
http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/11/nokia-booklet-3g-reviewed-verdict-rubbish-performance.html
http://gizmodo.com/5401607/nokia-booklet-3g-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

3. Nokia N900
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/nokia-n900-is-finally-shipping/

4. Transition Contacts
http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC091104-0000070/
http://gizmodo.com/5401364/i-wear-my-suncontacts-at-night?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

5. Chumby One

We have changed the format a little, thanks to some feedback from the listeners especially @cikbedah. We have gotten a little more polished.. Just a little this week, where we fly by all the news and topics this week in technology. Let us know what you think? Leave your feed back here

theITChannel has segments now:
1. One on Three (Interviews with interesting tech people)
2. Tech News (News around this region or around the world)
3. 140 Review (Quick Draw on what our intuition tells us about these gadgets)

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April Yim for the interview. She can be found at http://www.twitter.com/aprilyim or http://www.vervesincomposition.com/

and Cherzleen for the wonderful feedback - http://www.twitter.com/CikBedah

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We did a short show this week. Well short as in we talked about 2 topics. Go ahead and enjoy the show...

Stories this week: 1. A week of outages. Looks like lots of outages this week. Facebook, Sidekick, Twitter.
a. Are we relying to much on technology?
b. What is the backup when these happens?
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10373349-36.html
- http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/twitter-warns-users-not-change-log-in-data-until-further-notice-815
- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/oct09/10-15sidekick.mspx
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4245
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10375186-56.html
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/12/ibm_new_zealand/

2. E-Books how useful are they? Everyone seems to be pushing it. We talked about this last week and we are revisiting the viability of e-Books and e-book readers. Including an announcement by Google to launch a new Bookstore/Remote Download. With Google coming in, it will help other ebook readers compete with amazon as an alternative ebook provider. Online Stores Rules.

Google's Announcement
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-10-15-google-editions_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173749/google_online_bookstore_fuels_ereader_war.html

E-Books Avaliable/Announcements
http://gizmodo.com/5379050/ebook-craze-goes-outside
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/12/5-inch-bebook-mini-now-shipping-in-the-us-for-199-hands-on/
http://gizmodo.com/5378234/why-i-think-e+ink-readers-are-dumb

3. Malaysia Step up to protect Personal Data
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/10/8/technology/20091008134431&sec=technology

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Here are the topics we rambled about this week:
1. Google Wave Revisit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&feature=autoshare
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/09/google-wave-is-easier-to-understand-than/

2. Windows Launch Party
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/09/unboxing-the-windows-7-launch-party-kit/
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/28/2136255/Mainstream-Press-Cringes-At-Win7-Launch-Parties?from=rs
http://lifehacker.com/5077690/get-windows-7s-best-features-right-now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ&feature=player_embedded#t=148

3. Kindle to go worldwide
http://www.pcworld.com/article/173392/amazon_already_taking_international_kindle_orders.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/amazon-confirms-international-kindle-dx-is-on-the-way-too/

4. HTC Touch 2 and HTC Leo http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/10/and-the-htc-leo-is-official.html
http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/10/some-pictures-from-the-htc-touch2-offer.html

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Here are the topics we rambled about this week: 1. Google wave preview launches
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/missed-the-google-wave-beta-weve-got-hands-on/
http://lifehacker.com/5370738/google-wave-first-look

2. Chrome OS Launching next month?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/01/chrome-os-coming-to-netbooks-as-early-as-next-month/

3. Apple buys MapMaker ditches Google Maps
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/apple-gets-a-mapmaker-where-does-that-leave-google/

4. Microsoft Essentials Free, A Threat and Down Play
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/first-look-microsoft-security-essentials-impresses.ars
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/kaspersky-pragmatic-about-microsoft-s-free-security-639336
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/interviews/352018/microsoft-free-security-essentials-is-a-threat-to-symantec
http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/10/microsoft-security-essentials-impresses.html

5. Maxis Brand Refresh
http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/09/maxis-launches-hotlink-brand-refresh.html

Here is what we talked about. Have a listen to what we have to say about these topics:

1. Google Sidewiki http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-other-as-you.html

2. Microsoft Courier http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet http://mashable.com/2009/09/22/microsoft-courier/

Additional Information: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/inkseine/index.html http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/alpineinker/archive/2008/10/01/microsoft-research-codex.aspx

3. Google Push Email http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/push-gmail-for-iphone-and-windows.html

4. Celcom’s Downtime http://nst.com.my/articles/4svc-2-2a/Article/index_html http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/9/25/nation/4782983&sec=nation http://www.lowyat.net/v2/latest/celcom-users-face-major-service-disruption-4.html

5. Ruumz http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/9/8/technology/20090908150057&sec=technology

7. Beware Illegal Dowloaders or they will pull the internet rug from under your feet http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/9/25/technology/20090925094503&sec=technology http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/9/16/technology/20090916134824&sec=technology

Topics we talked about:

1. Happy Internernational Talk Like a Pirate day - Pirate Pickup Lines:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html#pickup

2. Microsoft Visual Seach - Bing
http://mashable.com/2009/09/14/bing-visual-search/

3. Microsoft Zune HD - Does it have it to challenge the iPod?
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/18/review-zune-hd/

4. Palm Abandons Windows Mobile
http://www.precentral.net/palm-abandons-windows-mobile

5. Twitter readies the new ReTweet API - Facebook - Twitter Wars Heat Up
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/closing-in-on-launch-twitter-tweaks-its-retweet-api-and-a-picture-of-how-it-will-look/

6. Twitter Change Terms of Service ala Facebook
http://www.techcrunch50.com/

8. Top 10 Google Searches in Malaysia - The Sad state of Malaysia Tech News
http://technu.nst.com.my/Current_News/techNu/Monday/Notebook/20090914104527/Article/index_html

We came back with a bang with Toh of http://www.mytechnews.info/ Sheldon Goh - http://sheldongoh.deviantart.com and Andrew Kok - http://www.twitter.com/andrewkjs/

We took a look at the "Its only Rock and Roll" Apple event and didn't think it was that eye opening, jaw dropping as its usually is. We ended up talking more about Norah Jones than the event itself. How weird is that?
http://gizmodo.com/5356723/apple-roundup-ipod-nano-video-cam-itunes-9-jobs-gets-healthier
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/steve-jobs-says-ipod-touch-didnt-get-a-camera-because-its-a-g/>

We also talked about the premium content and how google is helping newspapers to use micropayments to charge for their premium paid content.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/google-developing-a-micropayment-platform-and-pitching-newspapers-open-need-not-mean-free/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/google-plans-tools-to-help-news-media-charge-for-content/

Pixi wasn't that impressive and yes the Palm Pre is not even in our shores, yet we urge Palm to reconsider the markets beyond the US and how asia can help them sell more.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/source-palm-to-unveil-pixie-phone-this-week/

We took a swing at the unnecessary statement from Symantec urging users to think twice when using freeware. No advice was really given and there were no compelling reason as to why we should not be considering a freeware program when it comes to security or any other software that Symantec meant to say.
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/9/9/technology/20090909164516&sec=technology

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1. Ebay to Sell Skype
http://www.techmeme.com/090901/p4#a090901p4
http://www.meettheboss.com/ebay-acquisitions-and-investments.html

2. Microsoft Word was banned and then unbanned
http://gizmodo.com/5352493/microsoft-word-ban-postponed-stays-on-shelves-for-back-to-school
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8237497.stm

3. Android Market Place
http://gizmodo.com/5352346/android-market-16-update-finally-brings-app-screenshots

4. HTC launch
http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/09/htc-launches-the-hero-in-malaysia/

5. Nokia World 2009 Product Announcements
http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/09/product-announcements-at-nokia-world-2009/