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)

So there you have it. Enjoy the show

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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/

1. Green Dam Filter
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/34341-malaysia-mulls-green-dam-despite-chinas-failure

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/8/6/technology/20090806211439&sec=technology

http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/08/07/is-malaysias-net-clampdown-at-odds-with-knowledge-economy/

2. Twitter got Hacked to silence one man
http://mashable.com/2009/08/07/twitter-facebook-2/

3. The Apple Tablet
www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/01/someone-has-seen-the-tapplet-and-is-making-vague-statements-about-it/

Via http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10303158-250.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Toh of MyTechnews.Info can be found at:
MyTechNews.info
Twitter: MyTechNewsInfo

Andrew Kok one of the many moderators of LowYat.Net forum can be found at:
Twitter: AndrewKJS

This week we are fortunate to have Toh on the panel together with Andrew and myself.

Toh of MyTechnews.Info can be found at:
MyTechNews.info
Twitter: MyTechNewsInfo

Andrew Kok one of the many moderators of LowYat.Net forum can be found at:
Twitter: AndrewKJS

Today's News:
1. Happy 3Gs Day
2. SMS vulnerability patched in the Apple iPhone 3.0.1 firmware release
3. Ebay in litigation with Skype founders. Hope they don't kill this podcast.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/31/ebay-in-litigation-with-skype-founders-over-key-technology/

For iPhone 3G newbies or people who wants to know what iPhone Apps we run. Here is a list:

1. Essential Apps
Shazam/Modomi for Music Lovers
AccuFuel for the Drivers
Skype
ZYB Sync
MotionX GPS
RunKeeper Free/Pro
Google iPhone App
AirSharing/File Aid/Fliq
Evernote
Stanza

2. Social Networking
TwitterFon
Tweetie
Twitterlator Pro
TweetDeck
Nambu

Facebook

Pixelpipe
Moby

TwitVid - 3Gs only

BrightKite

3. IM
Fring
IM+
Skype
Yahoo Messenger

4. Games
Flight Control
Hero of Sparta
I am Ninja

Bejeweled 2
Frenzic

iFighter

TapDefence
Boomshine
Space Deadbeef

Racing Thunder

Scramble
WordWarp

Tap Tap Revenge 2

Super Monkey Ball

Others:
1. BuUuk
2. Amazon
3. Kindle
4. Exposure/Photo Fx/Night Camera/Color Splash/Type Drawing
5. DSL Remote
6. Remote
7. Drinks Free
8. FML
9. PayPal
10. Air Cam
11. Air Video
12. 12 Seconds
13. FlyCast/iMeem

A feature we don't recommend trying - Filming underwater
http://news.cnet.com/8300-17938_105-1-1.html?keyword=iPhone+3GS&tag=mncol

iphone blogs/iphone app blogs
1. http://www.ismashphone.com/ 2. http://www.theiphoneappblog.com/ 3. http://www.theiphoneblog.com/

Other news:
1. Apple does better than Microsoft in terms of revenue
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/23/microsoft_suffers_worst_fiscal_year_ever_while_apple_rises.html

2. Palm Pre releases WebOS 1.1 - Brings back iTunes sync http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/palm-webos-1-1-now-available-fixes-itunes-sync/

3. Windows 7 gets RTM
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx

4. WoW Movie by SAM Raimi
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/22/warcraft_movie/

5. TwitPay
Twitter Pay solution with integration with PayPal
https://twitpay.me/

1. Maxis 3Gs launch http://www.maxis.com.my/iphone3gs/stepone.asp http://maxis.com.my/iphone3gs/rateplan3.asp 2. Office 2010 http://www.techmeme.com/090713/p11#a090713p11 http://lifehacker.com/5313850/microsoft-office-2010-in-videos 3. Microsoft Turning a corner http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2009/07/microsoft-has-turned-corner.html 4. IE6 must die for the web to Move on http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/

Google OS http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/08/google-chrome-redefining-the-operating-system/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/google-drops-a-nuclear-bomb-on-microsoft-and-its-made-of-chrome/ http://gizmodo.com/5309736/google-chrome-os-for-pcs-look-out-windows-and-os-x http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/08/google-announces-chrome-os/

Browsers at it again: Firefox 3.5 IE8 Safari 4.0 http://www.codexon.com/posts/firefox-3-5-rc-vs-ie8-chrome-and-opera-benchmarks http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2009/06/browser_bits_safari_4_exits_be.html http://stairwellblog.com/2009/03/ie8-browser-showdown-with-safari-4-and-firefox-3/ http://www.favbrowser.com/firefox-35-vs-safari-4-vs-opera-10-vs-chrome-2-vs-ie8/ http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10276351-12.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10260313-12.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10275396-2.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related http://digg.com/tech_news/Five_Reasons_Mozilla_Firefox_3_5_Rocks_The_Channel_Wire Microsoft Integrates Twitter Search into Bing http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-hats-off-to-microsoft-for-the-bing-twitter-thing-2009-7 Will google respond? Windows 7 pricing http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/windows-7-pricing-announced-cheaper-than-vista.ars Chat with MOSTI minister about internet speed http://thestar.com.my/livechat/maximus/ Pirate bay went legit. Got bought for 7.8 Million http://mashable.com/2009/06/30/breaking-the-pirate-bay-sold-for-7-8-million/

This week we were just getting back from missing 2 weeks. One episode was lost due to a technical problem and I was away for a week. But we are back :) getting past our 3 months anniversary :) We rambled about the iPhone mainly here's the User Guide: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPhone_User_Guide.pdf 10:18 PM http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/06/devteam-released-redsn0w-universal-iphone-30-jailbreaking-tool-for-windows-and-mac.html 10:20 PM http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/06/how-to-jailbreak-iphone-os-30-on-windows.html

1. Revisit Wolfram Alpha after the launch http://www.wolframalpha.com 2. Nokia n97 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O2Li74EYew http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n97-2615.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N97 http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10110873-1.html http://gizmodo.com/5100707/nokia-n97-hands-on-the-first-high+end-n+series-touch-phone 3. Windows7 RC http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/windows-7-rc-1-now-available-for-public-consumption/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/windows-7-rc-and-xp-given-extensions-on-life-well-into-2010/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/windows-7-release-candidate-1-impressions-insights-and-expecta/ 4. Microsoft CIBAI http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=78035 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cibai

Bambos Kaisharis, Head of Marketing for Nokia Singapore, Malaysia and Brunie engaging the Bloggers/Podcasters. Here is the full audio segment of the engagement.

Will update with the video segment later.

1. Palm Pre Dying? http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/01/analyst-palm-pre-she-is-dying/ 2. Palm Mini-Pre http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/30/more-info-on-the-second-palm-mini-pre-code-name-pixie/?awesm=tcrn.ch_11f&utm_medium=tcrn.ch-twitter&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_source=twitter.com 3. iPhone Video a Game Changer? http://gizmodo.com/5235474/next-iphone-to-have-onboard-video-editing-software http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2009/04/will_video_on_the_iphone_change_the_game.html 4. Microsoft Tellme http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsofts_TellMe_on_Windows_Mobile_Is_voice_the_new_touch_43998657.html How different from Google iPhone App 5. Wolfram Alpha - New Search Engine for Science/Mathematics Data http://www.wolframalpha.com/ (Only for selected beta testers) http://lifehacker.com/5236012/wolfram-alpha-search-engine-answers-questions-looks-amazing

This week we recorded an Interview with Nesa Sivagnanam who went for an Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Unconference in the UK. Interesting insights on the inner workings of the unconference and her experience there.

Today there was a lot of drop calls. Our conspiracy theory the last podcast was that I realised that Streamyx normally performs well in the beginning of the month but end of the month it sucks terribly. So far its been true :) Anyway we had a blast talking about Nokia's new Messaging service on OVI which is till in beta. Will throw up the instructions later on how you set it up. Topics we spoke about today: 1. Nokia's New Mobile Email Launch - OVI Mail - http://www.ovi.com/services/ - http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/ovi-mail - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovi_(Nokia) - http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/22/nokias-mail-on-ovi-email-beta-now-live-worldwide/ 2. Buuuk http://buuuk.com/about.html http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=297106176&mt=8

Did 2 Interviews to get the low down on BarCamp KL.

1st Interview with Daniel Cerventus and Fadhil:
http://www.barcamp.my
http://www.jomcode.com

Twitter:
@cerventus - http://www.twitter.com/cerventus
@fadhil - http://www.twitter.com/fadhil

2nd Interview with Pretamrai and Anthony Umann:
@preetamrai - http://www.twitter.com/preetamrai
http://www.preetamrai.com/

Preetam took 6 sessions in BarCamp KL and noteably, the Travel Tips and Netbook Tips

@llamasonic - http://www.twitter.com/llamasonic
Anthony spoke about Government 2.0 in the lighting sessions

Enjoy

Its all about barcamp KL.

Barcamp
http://www.barcamp.my

Slides for Barcamp
http://slideshare.net/barcamp.my/

Slides of Colin's Talk
http://bit.ly/81ZwC

Carolyn's Qikcast:
http://www.qik.com/thechannelc

Have fun, part 2 coming up...

Earth Hour Malaysia 2009 - March 27 8.30pm - 9.30pm

Maxis iPhone Launch

DiGi Broadband Launch

Cat Shit One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4QBZfjtqs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fprofile.php%3Fid%3D669512781&feature=player_embedded