What a weekend it has been, for sure ! The digerati of Malaysia, and the world, were ready for the much delayed launch (over 2 years !) of YES, YTL Communications’ entry into the broadband space after being granted a license to operate a WiMAX network by MCMC. Fueled by months of pre-launch publicity, a series of human story TVCs and a pre-launch event with some selected bloggers. It all came to be that on 6pm of November 19th, 2010,...

Social media is fast becoming a staple of any corporation’s public relations or marketing box of tools to reach out. It is not surprising, for it allows them access to customers and potential new customers much more cheaply than any other medium. Not too many of them know how to actually do this, though, and possessing a Twitter account or having a Facebook page by itself is not enough. While there have been wildly successful social...

There was an old Twilight Zonesome show episode, which took place just before the invasion of Berlin, and Hitler realising his war was lost, about to get into a time-machine so he could go back and change the course of the war. However, he was interrupted by a disheveled, and slightly deranged man who was yelling and warning him not to do it. He had his SS guards shoot the man, and promptly gets into his time machine. Much flashing of...

A dentist pulled out a hypodermic to give his patient a painkiller. ‘No way! No needles! I hate needles,’ the patient said. So the dentist started to hook up the nitrous oxide and once again the bloke objected. ‘I can’t do the gas thing. The thought of having the gas mask on is suffocating me!’ The dentist then asked the patient if he had any objection to taking a pill. ‘No problem,’ the bloke said. ‘I’m fine with...

We all know what P2P is. Most of us do use it, even if we won’t admit it. The lazy ones among us would perhaps pick a few DVDs off the fella who brings the albums to the mamak stall. But then, he too downloaded it and burnt it on a DVD for your convenience. But now, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob wants to make sure that if you do use P2P (or torrents as he says specifically), you would be...