Nov
25
2009
It hopes to achieve target by leveraging on AirAsia and Tune group
KUALA LUMPUR: Mobile service operator Tune Talk Sdn Bhd is targeting to achieve 400,000 subscribers by year-end by leveraging its links with low-cost carrier AirAsia and the Tune group.
Nov
24
2009
PETALING JAYA: Billionaire T. Ananda Krishnan and his company, Astro All Asia Networks, are in preliminary talks with Australian Internet protocol TV start-up company Fetch TV for a possible tie-up, said a source.
Nov
20
2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW (California), Nov 20 — New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said yesterday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the web.
Nov
9
2009
NEW YORK – Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.
Oct
19
2009
September 19, 2009 – THIS week, U Mobile Sdn Bhd made headlines when Japan’s NTT DoCoMo said it is calling it a day as an investor in the smallish Malaysian celco. It is the second time this year that U Mobile (formerly known as MiTV Networks Sdn Bhd) is in the spotlight because of a shareholder exit.
Oct
18
2009
September 18, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR: Preliminary talks are said to have taken place between U Mobile Sdn Bhd’s major shareholder and a Singapore telecommunications company for the latter to come in as a strategic investor with up to 30% equity stake in the former.
Oct
16
2009
PETALING JAYA: As Tan Sri Vincent Tan is buying out the two foreign shareholders in U Mobile Sdn Bhd, Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd (MPHB) also intends to increase its stake in the celco to 45.59%.
Oct
3
2009
- Ebay & Skype
Just when eBay thought it had figured out a way to unload a majority interest in Skype, along came the Scandinavian founders of the world’s biggest provider of Internet telephony to sink the $1.9 billion deal — and perhaps Skype itself.
Oct
2
2009
- Network Demand
A study of the global state of broadband has put the UK 25th out of 66 countries in terms of the quality and reach of its networks.
The research for Cisco found that countries such as Latvia and Bulgaria were better prepared than the UK for next-generation net applications.
The UK was listed among countries whose broadband is “meeting needs for today”.
South Korea and Japan continue to dominate the league table, largely due to their commitment to fast networks.
Oct
2
2009
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 – Malaysia was ranked a poor 48 out of 66 countries for Internet broadband quality in a study conducted by Oxford University and sponsored by Cisco.
The global study on broadband quality conducted by Oxford’s Said Business School listed Malaysia among countries which had Internet speeds which were “below today’s applications threshold.”