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Maxis will be launching their new 3G Mobile Service this coming Friday, 1 July 2005 at the new Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre near KLCC building.

I wonder what will be installed for the event. If you know, please update me.

There are 2 dates:

1 July 2005 (11am to 2pm)
2-3 July 2005 (11am to 9pm)

Some updates on Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR, June 28 (Bernama) — Maxis Communications Bhd has updated on its content partnership with Astro and a range of seven new generation 3G handsets for its Maxis3G mobile service to be launched on July 1, following the rollout of Maxis 3G Connect datacard, and amidst growing market expectation on 3G services.

Maxis is working closely with Astro, Malaysia’s leading digital satellite TV broadcaster, to bring 3G consumers a new and exciting range of content, especially video-based content, it said in a statement, here Tuesday.

Its Chief Operating Officer Edward Ying said: “We want to ensure that our customers continue to be at the receiving end of new and innovative services. 3G is very much about content – and customers will expect new developments, constantly.”

In its effort to deliver quality 3G experience and content delivery, Maxis is also working with the world’s leading handset manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson to provide customers with a wide choice of Maxis3G handsets at a range of prices starting from RM1,600.

Beginning July 1, customers will have a choice of the Motorola A1000, Nokia 6680, Nokia N90, Sony Ericsson Z800, Motorola V975, Motorola E1000 and Motorola C975 that have been specially designed for simple, intuitive access with one-key access to the Maxis3G portal and the Internet.

Maxis said that the range of handset was part of Maxis’ strategy to integrate handsets, networks, content and services to produce an easy to use end-to-end customer proposition.

See www.maxis.com.my

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Here is your chance to win the cool O2 XDAIIs phone you always wanted. All you need to do is to take the Citrix Access Challenger by answering the 3 questions

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Casio introduced their new slim 5MP Exilim EX-S500 about two weeks ago. Casio setup a site showing how they made the Japanese commercial for the EX-S500.

Casio actually hired Japanese Opera singers to promote the new camera. Looks like Japanese Opera is superior to western opera in some aspects. Anyway, the Casio site (Japanese) features a video of the commercial itself and another video showing the shoot from behind the scenes.

Read more at Behind the Scenes of Casio Exilim EX-S500 Gadget Model Shoot

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That annoying Crazy Frog has finally been knocked off the number one spot after four weeks at the top.

Moving down to the number two spot, the frog has given way to allow 2Pac and Elton John to go straight in at number one with Ghetto Gospel.

You’re Beautiful, by James Blunt, moved down from number two to three, while new entries included Slow Down, by Bobby Valentino, at number four and Roc Ya Body (Mic Check 1 2), by MVP, at number five.

Coldplay still top the album chart with X and Y, while Back to Bedlam, by James Blunt, rose one place to number two.

Dynamite, the new album by Jamiroquai is at number three.

In Your Honour, by the Foo Fighters, dropped two places to number four, while Forever Faithless, the greatest hits of Faithless, stayed at number five.

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The software maker said on Friday that it will build support for RSS into the next version of Internet Explorer, as well as into Longhorn, the Windows update scheduled to arrive next year.

“We really think that RSS is going to be key to how people use the Internet in the future,” said Gary Schare, a director of strategic product management for Microsoft’s Windows unit. “Because of that we are betting really big on RSS in Longhorn by integrating RSS throughout the operating system.”

Read more at Microsoft confirms RSS plans

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JUNE 24, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) – An industry standards group that includes chip makers Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV has published a document detailing the requirements a fuel cell technology would need to power a mobile PC, the group said in a Thursday statement.

The new guidelines from the Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group should help speed the development of longer lasting fuel-cell power sources for notebooks and other mobile computers, a development viewed as important for the growing popularity of Wi-Fi and other wireless Internet technologies.

The development of wireless power supplies has lagged mobile Internet efforts. Batteries still last only a few hours in notebook computers before needing a recharge, but the group says fuel cell systems could last for days.

The guidelines will help developers of fuel cells for mobile devices, such as Millennium Cell Inc. and Tekion Solutions Inc., by outlining key technical requirements for fuel cells to work well inside a mobile PC.

The technology is available today to put a fuel-cell system inside a notebook PC, but it wouldn’t be able to supply enough power for the average user, said Andy Keates, power sources enabling manager at Intel and a member of the group.

“You could build a 10-watt to 12-watt [fuel-cell] power supply now, which is fine for a PC not doing very much, like using Word,” he said. But turn on the DVD player, which requires 20 watts of power, and you run into trouble.

Next year, the first external fuel-cell power sources will likely be available, Keates said, and will likely find use among people working in remote areas without reliable power, like field researchers or the military.

The main trouble with fuel-cell systems is they’re too big to be put inside notebook PCs, that’s why it’s easier to build an external fuel cell power supply, Keates said. A fuel-cell system requires more space than a battery because it includes the fuel cell itself, as well as supporting systems similar to a car engine, like a fuel pump, cooling system, and starter battery.

Batteries require few supporting systems.

Another engineering hurdle is that fuel cells operate differently than batteries, the group said. Fuel cells provide a steady supply of power, whereas power demand in notebook computers is very uneven, driven by bursts of power demand as different parts of the notebook, like the DVD drive or hard drive, are tapped for use, the group said. The stored charge of a battery matches this kind of uneven power demand, but fuel cells need careful management.

The group takes no position on which power supply technology might win the battle for notebook supremacy, said Keates.

“The industry has a lot of opinions about which one is going to be the winner. The fuel-cell companies are very confident, but the lithium-ion battery makers point out their 15 years of service and constant improvement. It’s an open race,” said Keates.

The fuel-cell guidelines cover size and power issues as well as electrical, mechanical, control, thermal, environmental and regulatory aspects of fuel cell designs for mobile PCs, including those made for use inside a device, and external fuel cells.

The Extended Battery Life Working Group was formed in 2002 as a collaborative effort to lower barriers for new power technologies aimed at mobile PCs. It includes PC-related companies such as Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc. and laptop contract manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc., as well as battery and fuel cell developers. It took the group six months to develop the fuel-cell specifications, Keates said.

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With final certification testing looming, Intel says it is working with ArrayComm to enhance WiMax antenna technology. According to the company, the goal of the partnership is to increase the range and produce higher data rates for smart antenna technologies that leverage the mobile WiMax standard (802.16e).

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Improving Smart WiMax Antenna Technology is Intel’s Immediate Goal

A survey of 90 enterprises finds better total cost of ownership and fewer risks with Microsoft’s streamlined security tools.

Security is one of the chief concerns of IT decision makers. Along with purchase price, interoperability, maintainability and deployment costs, security is a critical factor in determining which platform to deploy across an enterprise or to serve a particular role.

For proprietary and open source software (OSS) alike, administering security updates are a reality in the enterprise and a significant factor in total cost of ownership (TCO). In order to get an accurate picture of how costs associated with patch management figure into the TCO equation, Microsoft recently commissioned Wipro Technologies Ltd., an independent consulting firm, to study the cost of updating Microsoft and open source software in a real-world environment for desktops, servers and database servers.

Wipro surveyed 90 companies in the U.S. and Western Europe with 2,500 to 113,000 employees where both the Windows and open source operating systems were simultaneously being run. When the costs of updating are distributed across the size of the environment and evaluated on a per-asset basis, the study shows Microsoft software to be less expensive to patch than open source equivalents. These findings confirm what many customers are experiencing in their deployment scenarios.

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Check this out. More hard disk space for portables ! Hurray. Soon..I’ll be able to scan all my useless pictures that I capture daily without worrying about “low harddisk space” problems.

Read more at Engadget

Bink.nu has just posted some screenshots of what appears to be Internet Explorer 7 running on a version of Longhorn at Gnomedex. The screenies highlight some of the new RSS features scheduled to be put in IE7, and were obviously taken by a digital/phone camera. A video of IE7 highlighting RSS support can be streamed from Channel9 (~22 Minutes in for actual footage of IE7 on Longhorn)

Upon closer examination of the screenshots one can make out the basic layout of the new browser. Microsoft has added a search tool to the top right of the browsing window similar to the one found in Safari/Firefox. A single tab located directly above the menus appears to be running in each of the screenshots. Back/Forward buttons can be found on the top left of the screen with the home, favorites, history and what seems to be a RSS subscription button sitting down by the drop-down menus.

IE7 is scheduled to hit beta early this summer around the same time as Windows Longhorn. In an article posted on eWeek today, Microsoft revealed that RSS will be integrated into the heart of Longhorn. A representative commented that the company is “betting big on RSS” this time around and that “it needs to be in places other than readers and browsers.”

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