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Malaysiakini "pretty tight" with funding
News Malaysia's most popular Web newspaper, Malaysiakini.com, is in dire straits after a venture-capital project it had been banking on fell through.
Open source has "strategic role": M'sia
News The Malaysian government has repeated its support for the use and development of open-source software, saying that it has a "strategic role".
M'sia buys rights to speck-sized chip
News The Malaysian government has bought rights to tiny chips that can embed radio IDs into currency, bullets and human bodies.
Malaysia bars Web site reporters from govt events
News Malaysia barred reporters from an Internet-based news Web site from attending government events, Agence France Presse reported, citing the home affairs ministry.
Malaysiakini.com faces financing woes
News Malaysia's most popular Web newspaper, Malaysiakini.com, is in dire straits after a venture-capital project it had been banking on fell through.
NTT's IP services set to heat up local Net access market
News The launch of NTT Communications Corporation's IP (Internet Protocol)-based services Monday is expected to heat up the local Internet Access Service Providers (IASPs) market.
Critics slam M'sian ban on "political" VCDs
News Critics of the Malaysian government's recent crackdown on VCDs containing political speeches of opposition politicians have described the move as as an effort to crush dissent against the ruling coalition, the National Front.
Be ready to face the risk in e-biz urges Prime Minister
News Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is urging Malaysian companies to be ready to face the risk if they want to participate in a competitive arena like e-commerce.
M'sia moves to step two in creating an info rich society
News Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today, that Malaysia is now ready to move to the second step in creating an information rich society.
M'sian authorities reneges on "hands-off" policy
News A proposed online content code which seeks to establish codes of ethics over the Internet gives rise to concern as the Association of the Computer Industry (Pikom) feels that the government is going back on its "hands-off the Internet" policy.
Malaysian govt inches closer to 500 MSC firms goal
News The country's first licensed certification authority (CA), Digicert, became the 343rd Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) status company today, and the government's goal of 500 such companies by 2003 a little closer to reality.
Nobel prize winner to address IT forum in KL
News IAP updateMalaysian technology experts and IT industry players will have a peep into the future when 1999 Nobel laureate Horst Stormer addresses a technology forum here in November.
Nationwide competition to boost entrepreneurial spirit
News Venture 2001, a business plan competition to nurture and grow the entrepreneurial spirit among Malaysians is set to be launched next month.
Motorola to move RM38m software center to Cyberjaya
News Motorola will spend about RM38 million to move its software center activities from Kuala Lumpur to Cyberjaya by the end of next year.
MDC chief accuses unnamed people of wanting to undermine IAP
News MDC which was in the firing line recently after a local daily yesterday criticized its performance, hit back by accusing "unseen hands" of wanting to jeopardize the upcoming IAP meeting scheduled to begin this week.
