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A walk down the Yellow Brick Road of Malaysia's Corridor of the future

by Bernice Low, Malaysia

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Bursa Malaysia CIO has resigned (updated)

Jul 18, 2008 11:13

Posted in The Edge Daily's email alerts for July 17, 2008:

Bursa Malaysia Bhd chief information officer (CIO) Yew Kim Keong has resigned from the stock exchange after taking responsibility for the hardware failure in the trading system that resulted in an unprecedented one-day trading halt on July 3. For the full story, get your copy of The Edge Financial Daily tomorrow.

Read the scoop here at The Edge Daily. Interestingly, there's no mention of this on The Star or New Straits Times either. Have the two papers been beaten to the punch on this story?

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Devil phone in KL?

Jul 16, 2008 11:14

According to the mainstream media scuttlebutt, telco Maxis is likely to be the successful suitor that brings in the iPhone to Malaysia. The Edge Daily has the story here, quoting the Malaysian Insider.
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Looking for Gremlins?

Jul 4, 2008 12:24

They're on vacation herrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Bursa Malaysia was shut down for the entire trading day after what Bursa said was a computer glitch that was ultimately traced to a faulty harddisk in the system that resulted in a system-wide failure of Bursa's equities trading system.
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Battle for digital minds (updated)

Jul 3, 2008 12:29

Updated at 4.20pm: Malaysian alternative media news sites have been experiencing extremely sluggish traffic--Malaysiakini is running a stripped-down site; Malaysia-Today.net is both sluggish to load up and not showing the latest news updates. And even the usually fast-loading Malaysianinsider.com Web site seems to be suffering from slow loading. The Star.com.my also seems to be experiencing unusually heavy traffic. Where is the glitch?
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Wired, longkang style

Jun 30, 2008 11:33

While having lunch with a friend recently, I heard about this new broadband provider in the market called MetroFon, a subsidiary of a fiber-optic manufacturing company called Rimbunan Hijau. He was getting his office wired up by MetroFon after hearing that it offered that holy grail of Internet connection, fiber-optic connection. Yes, fiber from the exchange all the way to your office with an unlimited (read: No choking) 2mbps up and download speed.

Okay, admittedly, this is nothing revolutionary when you consider residential households in, say, Hong Kong are getting 10mbps as a matter of standard. But for Malaysia, it's something. According to him, the cost was also not outrageous, with installation somewhere in the region of RM2,000 (figures unconfirmed, so do check with MetroFon on the usual fineprint).
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About Bernice Low

Bernice Low is a screenwriter and pen-for-hire. At age 11 (in the era of BB--Before Blog) Bernice started her own newspaper, the Daily Jelly. It lasted two days before she was stopped from using school newsprint supplies for frivolous activities. She loves Cartoon Network's Bill and Mandy, has a thing for TV doctors House and MacDreamy, and is the proud owner of a 32-inch flat-screen TV. She believes diamonds and iPods are a girl's best friend. Her blog is her latest guilty pleasure.