China leads US in tech that matters most: report

China is now leading the world in 37 out of 44 key technologies, including hypersonic missiles, artificial intelligence, drones and electric batteries, according to a recent Australian research report. China ranks first globally in defense- and space-related technologies in terms of high-impact research, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said in the report. ASPI is a defense and […]Continue Reading

Digital camera sales clicking back to life

Digital cameras, which almost wiped out film cameras and were then nearly wiped out in turn by the iPhone and other cell phone cameras, are making a surprise comeback. Led by sophisticated models with interchangeable lenses, unit sales are stabilizing and the value of sales is rising. This is good news for Japanese camera makers, […]Continue Reading

Digital worlds diverge at World Mobile Congress

BARCELONA – A record 85,000 attendees at the Mobile World Congress saw two radically different visions of the digital future. Developed market telecom companies think of 5G mobile broadband as a consumer technology and worry that their market is close to saturation. China’s flagship digital infrastructure company, Huawei, thinks of 5G as an industrial technology […]Continue Reading

Lenovo’s New Yoga 9i Launches In Malaysia

It has a 13th Gen Intel Core i7 and 16GB of RAM 
It also has the world’s first Bowers & Wilkins rotating soundbar Lenovo recently announced that the refreshed 14-inch Lenovo Yoga 9i is now available in Malaysia with a starting price of US$1,686 (RM7,299). It features the latest 13th Gen Intel Core…Continue Reading

China digitizing health care up and beyond Covid-19

In early December 2022, China announced that it was terminating the itinerary code, which had tracked people’s movements in public spaces to determine if they had been to areas of high risk for the transmission of Covid-19. The itinerary code worked alongside China’s health code (jiankang ma) which tracked individuals’ Covid-19 status, including vaccination status and previous […]Continue Reading

AWS to invest US$6bil in Malaysia by 2037 for its Infrastructure Region

Enable customers to run workloads and securely store data in Malaysia
Reflects commitment to being picked as Cloud Service Provider for MyDigital Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, today announced a US$6 billion (RM25.5 billion) investment into building an AWS infrastructure Region in Malaysia. The investment will be spread over…Continue Reading

Catcha Digital appoints Patrick Grove as Chairman

Replaces Larry Gan whose tenure hit the regulatory limit
Seasoned entrepreneur and investor in digital media space Catcha Digital Bhd announced yesterday that it has appointed Patrick Ykin Grove as its new Chairman, effective from 1 March 2023.
Patrick, who is a major shareholder, co-founder and Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of Catcha Digital, is…Continue Reading

CelcomDigi, SK Telecom sign MoU to develop Malaysia’s metaverse ecosystem

To collaborate on developing, offering metaverse & AI use cases
Will enable co-creation of metaverse content, services for Malaysians CelcomDigi Bhd and SK Telecom, South Korea’s leading wireless telecommunications operator, have sealed a MoU to explore and develop Malaysia’s first operator-led mobile metaverse platform. 
In a joint statement, both firms said under the…Continue Reading