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,...

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...

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...

The introduction of the iPad has taken the world by storm, judging by the clamour of fan boi proportions to own, touch or even glimpse a stranger using one. With that much interest, it would not take a prophet to say that the iPad would soon be the device du jour of the trendy set and wannabe geeks. And it did become the device to be seen with, or the device to own. Even if the tech savvy crowd, the real geeks, panned it to high heaven....

I was with a couple of friends, both longtime journalists, and we were discussing the impact of the internet on political awareness and activism last Friday. In the end, we agreed that the internet is a tool, which enhances any inbuilt predilections of political awareness or activism. However, the speed in which the internet does this is much faster than any legacy medium, barring voice communications or SMS/MMS. Even so, both SMS and MMS...