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Chipmaker Intel Corp is further expanding its successful IT-assisted teacher-training programme in Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR: LG Electronics — a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications — is conducting a fun holiday survey online on what people want most this holiday season.

Malaysia beat outsourcing giants China and India to play host to the Asian leg of an ­international outsourcing conference, called Outsourcing World, which will be held in May, next year.

Rural folk need to see value in using the Internet before they will actively sign up for broadband access, said industry research group Frost & Sullivan.

Trading ­activities between Asean ­countries will be easier and more cost-effective when an electronic trading system is implemented by year end.

The key drivers of outsourcing, such as cost savings, global talent scouting and an ageing ­workforce, remain despite the effects of a worldwide economic slowdown, says Pikom.

KUALA LUMPUR: Digital music retailing has just gotten a lot simpler. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the recording labels and music publishers on Friday has streamlined the process of acquiring digital music rights.

PETALING JAYA: Several Dell, Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard notebooks with Sony-made batteries are being recalled after 40 global incidents of overheating involving those models.

KUALA LUMPUR: The billions of dollars spent on researching ­cyberwarfare can be put to better use because cyberwar is never going to be as effective as conventional war, said an IT ­security expert.

On top of the newer and deadlier versions of the same kind of threats that are out there on the Internet, there is now a new type of danger altogether — “click-jacking.”

Information in Internet kiosks can be hacked in just 10 seconds, warns Paul Craig, principal security consultant of Security-assessment.com, a New Zealand-based company.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs has launched its Sikap Tulen IT Mall campaign, with the aim of stamping out software piracy in IT retail outlets in the country’s malls.

KUALA LUMPUR: IT services and systems provider FSBM Holdings Sdn Bhd has received the Prime Minister’s Choice award for outstanding contribution to the local information and ­communications technology (ICT) industry.

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Applied research organisation Mimos Bhd is working on commercialising a medical semantics application on a wrist-watch-sized computer which was developed at its labs over the last six months.

Multimedia Development Corporation — guardian of the country’s MSC Malaysia initiative — is keeping a close eye on the alleged fraud in the United States involving a prominent MSC Malaysia-status company, Entellium Corp.

A straw poll of handphone users found that many are happy that Mobile Number Portability (MNP) has been introduced.

Following the availability of OpenOffice 3.0 on Monday, the OpenOffice.org website crashed due to “unprecedented demand” at about 7pm Malaysian time when it was released.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Multimedia Develop-ment Corp (MDeC) is determined to continue pushing MSC Malaysia-status companies into the international arena despite the prevailing grim economic outlook.

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