Malaysia
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M'sia wins votes for green IT incentives
News Industry players welcome US$443 million fund in 2010 budget to drive green IT, but opposition party unimpressed with government's initiatives to boost broadband.
Tags: Local Government, Taxes, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Funding, Business, Green IT, Small And Medium Enterprise, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband
2010: Software spend up, IT budgets down
News Software budgets in the Asia-Pacific region in 2010 will grow 4.4 percent over last year, while overall IT expenditure will dip by 3 percent, new Gartner study shows.
Tags: IT budgeting, Business applications, IT Budget, India, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Australia, Gartner Inc., Malaysia
Asian mobile apps need better usability
News Developers in region hoping to bring apps to global audience should work on developing cleaner and more intuitive user interfaces, says Nokia exec.
Tags: Mobile applications, Software engineering/development, Nokia Corp., Mobile App, Phone, App, advertisement, revenue, mobile, Mobile applications
M'sian broadband wars heat up
Blogs Consumer broadband service in Malaysia has been around for almost 10 years now, but it wasn't until 2005/2006 that the s...
Is censorship the answer?
Blogs Mention the "c" word in Malaysia these days and all hell breaks loose. Censorship is indeed a highly charged word today,...
M'sia mandates local software use for govt
News Malaysian government agencies urged to use local applications, in move that can boost country's software market but send wrong signal to foreign players.
Tags: Local Government, Software engineering/development, R&D, Content management, Twitter Inc., Najib, Microsoft Corp., software, Information And Communication Technology, digital content
Malaysian govt defends action in Web censorship
News Ministry says MCMC has been "transparent, fair and balanced" and condemns allegations multimedia commission acted like Nazi police "Gestapo".
Tags: Local Government, Politics, Regulations, Web sites, Commission, multimedia, Web sites, Information And Communication Technology, Video, Malaysia
M'sian content sector grows, challenges remain
News Malaysia's creative content space makes good strides but still needs to resolve several issues to better compete with peers in region, say industry players.
Tags: Local Government, Games, Multimedia, GameBrains, International Data Corp., Animation, Singapore, Broadband, Malaysia, animation company
M'sia govt cancels Net censorship plan
News update Malaysia's prime minister Najib Razak denies previously-confirmed plans to censor Internet content, says country will rely on "existing laws".
Tags: Web sites, Local Government, M'sia, Malaysia, Government, child pornography, Prime Minister, Internet, Web, Web sites
M'sian operator to offer WiMax services in S'pore
News Malaysia's Packet One signs deal that, if approved, will allow company to assume WiMax license to operate facilities and offer wireless broadband access in Singapore.
Tags: WiMax, Personal broadband, Pacnet Ltd., network, mobile, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Singapore, Malaysia, FTTH
M'sia to censor Internet content
News Malaysia reportedly has plans to filter pornographic Web sites from being viewed in the country, but denies it will police blogs and other sites.
Tags: Regulations, Politics, Policy and management, Singapore, Malaysia, Government, Agence France-Presse, China, Internet, blog
Red Hat takes developer efforts to Malaysia
News CEO Jim Whitehurst lauds country's open source deployments in public sector, and launches Red Hat program to drive adoption and innovation.
Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Red Hat Inc., Open-source Software, Training, Singapore, software company, Malaysia, public sector, ISV
S'pore offers certification for social marketing
News Singapore company provides training and certification course designed to teach companies how to use social media sites as marketing platforms.
Tags: Marketing, Internet, Certification, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Asia, Social Media, Tool, Singapore, Small And Medium Business
Malaysia to enforce data protection law
News Eight years in the making, country's Personal Data Protection Bill will finally be tabled in parliament this month and expected to be in force early-2010.
Tags: Data security, Privacy, Local Government, Regulations, Data Protection, E-government, Conference, Safe Harbor, European Union, Singapore
Bahasa or English? One step forward, two steps back?
Blogs A couple of weeks ago, the Malaysian government ignited a controversy when it reversed a five-year-old government policy...
