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YESterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

YESterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

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,...

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Ad infinitum

Ad infinitum

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...

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Ismail Sabri wants to block you from your ISP

Ismail Sabri wants to block you from your ISP

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...

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Bandwidth Asymmetry

Bandwidth Asymmetry

The internet is a wonderful thing, it has actually made things literally come a lot closer and done wonders for the publishing and content world. No more are content producers beholden to publishers and TV networks or movie studios. They’re now able to close that gap to the end consumer, just as the ordinary joe can now also produce content and compete with traditional content producers. This has allowed individual and...

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