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WiMax in Klang Valley to rollout in Q3 |
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Written by zen
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:15 |
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The government’s project to implement WIMAX in the country will start by the third quarter of the year. The project is undertaken by local MSC Malaysia status company, Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd. According to Michael Lai, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, the commercial rollout of the broadband services will start then. He added that for the past 2 months, the company has since been making trial runs on some locations like the Kuala Lumpur City Center, Subang, Sentul and Setapak. He said “If everything goes as planned, our WiMax launch will be the world’s first large-scale deployment of an 802.16e 2.3-gigahertz WiMax network outside Korea,” He also said that there will be various applications offered under the WiMax umbrella like surveillance over WiMax, connectivity over WiMax, voice and video over WiMax. He said “The service will be formally launched once we complete our user trials and are happy with its consistency and performance at various locations in the Klang Valley,”
-Zen, Malaysia Today |
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MDeC helps IT professionals in certification. |
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Written by zen
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:07 |
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According to Ng Wan Peng, the vice-president and head of the Capability Development Division of MDeC (Multimedia Development Corporation) the custodian of the MSC Malaysia initiative, local MSC Malaysia-status companies who send their ICT professionals for technology-based certifications can apply for up to 75% reimbursement of the exam fees or up to RM2,500 maximum. This under the MSC Malaysia CDPPD (Capability Development Programme Professional Development) scheme is aimed at encouraging more IT Professionals to obtain qualifications and to help local ICT professionals under the MSC Malaysia wing ease their financial burden. She said that no-vendor based certifications are eligible for reimbursement of up to RM1000 or 75% of the exam fees. Wan Peng said “Individuals pursuing professional ICT certifications have been facing higher examination fees because certain certifications require candidates to sit for multiple exams,”
-Zen, Malaysia Today |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:08 )
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City of Philadelphia to revive Wi-Fi project |
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Written by zen
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 14:12 |
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With a new group of investors available, Philadelphia will revive the original plan to provide Wi-Fi throughout the city. The effort is to make the city the largest Wi-Fied area in any US city covering 135 square miles. The service is provided free-of-charge. Launched in 2005, the project came to a halt and was nearly terminated when EarthLink, the company in charged of installing the transmitters abandoned it. So far, there are 6000 subscribers among the 1.4 million people under the EarthLink programme.
The network will be taken by Network Acquisition Company LLC. The company, made up of mainly local investors will complete the project which is now at 80%. EarthLink could not solve the problem with beaming the signals into homes and the new company will allow people to buy a repeater that costs USD$200.
Michael Nutter, the Mayor of Philadelphia stressed that the economic opportunities that can be derived from having increased internet access in the city is behind the reason of the revival. He said "We now have the potential to reach more people with this network than in any other city in America,"
EarthLink had difficulty beaming the signal into homes, which City Councilman Bill Green cited as a reason the EarthLink model failed. But he also praised EarthLink for helping to save the network. -Zen, MalaysiaToday.com |
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Skype v4.0 to be video centric |
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Written by zen
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 14:11 |
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The new Skype version will allow users to use bigger photos instead of thumbnails so that making free or low cost phone calls over the internet can be seen as well as to see. The web communications leader will begin public testing of the new version with most focus on video chatting. The new version will also include features that will be very useful for the less technical users like detection of computer settings and easier calls made.
Skype, which is constantly under fire by telcos for allowing users to make computer-to-computer phone calls for either free or extremely low rates have so far generated $382 million in 2007, a figure many believed will reach USD$500million by 2008. There are currently over 300 million users of which 12 million of them are simultaneously using it at any time of the day.
According to Josh Silverman, the Presidetn of Skype and a veteran in eBay said "Skype users are communicating in many different modes -- often at the same time. We thought it was time for software to take that into account. Now video is really bringing together all those modes of communication."
Skype version 4.0 will have high quality video which allows users to chat using full screens instead of the conventional small window by the orner.
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