Police investigates two online news portals on alleged defamatory reports
Police reports were lodged against MalaysiaKini and Malaysian Insider for their allegedly defamatory reports carried on 3 and 4 November in connection with the arrest of a quantity surveyor who is being investigated for insulting the Sultan of Johor in a Facebook posting, the New Strait Times reported. The police will investigate all statement quoted in the reports together with the writers. Police said they are exercising to lodge...
Two major ICT events of ASEAN will be held in the Philippines
The 13th ASEAN Telecommunications and IT Senior Officials Meeting (Telsom) and the 12th ASEAN Telecommunications and IT Ministers Meeting (Telmin) will be held in Cebu, the Philippines from 12 until 16 November 2012. The ICT ministers and senior officers from the ASEAN members including dialog partners from China, Japan, India, Korean, the European Union and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will gather in this event to...
Malaysian mobile billing solution bags global ICT award
GreenBilling, a mobile billing solution developed by IDOTTV Sdn Bhd received 2012 WITSA (World Information Technology and Services Alliance) Global ICT Excellence Award at the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Montreal, Canada recently. The mobile billing solution provides a secure channel for service providers to bill end users directly via their mobile phones while offering greater personalisation and an easy...
Bank Rakyat Indonesia eyes Rp 2.5 trillion income from e-banking
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), one of the largest government-owned banks in Indonesia is eyeing the increased use of e-banking (internet banking and mobile banking) next year, which able to help BRI to increase its fee base income of e-banking sector from Rp 1.5 trillion (RM0.479 billion) late of this year to Rp 2.5 trillion (RM0.798 billion) in 2013. With the soft launch of BRI Mobile three months ago, this single platform combines...
Facebook executives sold more than 758,000 shares of Facebook
Reuters reported that Facebook Inc. Chief Operating officer Sheryl Sandberg sold her 353,000 Facebook shares last Wednesday and netted about US$7.44 million (RM22.8 million) while Facebook general counsel Theodore Ullyoy sold about 149,000 shares and chief accounting officer David Spillane sold 256,000 shares. Both of them netted US$3.13 million (RM9.6 million) and US$5.4 (RM16.5 million) respectively. The sales were part of...
Al-Qaeda’s Arabic site still running after English site shut down last week
With the help from The Star, the English version of terrorist website hosted in Malaysia was shut down last week but its Arabic language version, Tawhed.ws still up and running. Internet sources believed this world’s largest terrorist website is hosted in New Jersey, the United States and some investigations still ongoing. by Terry Brown
ASEAN and UNCTAD review the e-commerce laws in the region
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will co-organize a workshop in Cebu, the Philippines on 10 and 11 November 2012, to bring senior policymakers from ten ASEAN countries to assess the e-commerce laws in the region and make recommendations on it to further its harmonization. The outcome of the workshop will be reported to the twelfth ASEAN...
MasterCard says majority of Malaysians prefer to pay by cash
The entire sales period of 1Malaysia Mega Sales Carnival (1MMSC) 2012 generated US$2.1bil (RM6.40bil) with 22 million transactions via MasterCard, whereby 88.7 per cent by local card holders and the overseas cardholders accounted for the remaining spending, reported by Bernama news agency. The top 5 foreign spenders were Singaporean, American, Australian, Indonesian and British. Jim Cheah, MasterCard Worldwide Vice-President and...
DAMN! I Love Indonesia launches e-commerce site
DAMN! I Love Indonesia (DILI), a brand of Indonesian themed urban street wear founded by the former TV presenter Daniel Mananta on 28th October 2008, introduced its new e-commerce website, DammILoveIndonesia.com in collaboration with Octovate Group. The store sells apparels, accessories and merchandises of DILI brand and targeting customers aged 18 to 35 who living in the big cities. The CEO of Octovate Group, Benhard Subiakto,...
Kaspersky recognized as best solution to prevent cyber threats
Among the eight top Internet security vendors assessed by Dennis Technology Labs in Q3 2012, the Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 was named as the leader in its class and received the highest score of 390.5 out of 400 to earn Dennis Technology Lab’s top AAA award. The assessment was conducted to focus on the products’ ability to protect against real-life Internet threats such as testing how effective the products’ detection...
