Malaysia's data centre operators are set to generate a revenue of RM1 billion by 2017 and RM2.4 billion by 2020, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) Chief Executive Officer Datuk Yasmin Mahmood said. In 2014, revenue generated by Malaysia's cloud services and data centre industry grew 26 per...
The Malaysian Government is planning new targets for using digital technologies to drive the country’s economic growth beyond 2020. The new targets are being drafted by the Multimedia Development Corporation, which is leading the government’s Digital Malaysia initiative. The goal for 2020 was to promote “the pervasive...
Malaysia has a new plan for healthcare that will give citizens access to their health data online and share vital statistics from wearable devices with their doctors. It is part of a vision to have shared health records for each citizen, giving them uniform quality of...
After what seems to be an endless dawn, the Internet of Things has become less related to hype and more about the obvious effect it will have on connected society. The eureka! moment for IoT may never come as every item in the world is...
You can call Wei Chuan Beng a betting man. Having launched REDtone Bhd in 1996 as a networking company, he foresaw the convergence of the IT and telco worlds, and ended up betting RM15 million in R&D to create a product that could serve the...
Why would a company spend $1 billion to build a city where no one will live? Because, presumably, a lot of other organizations will pay to test their technology there. Washington, DC-based telecommunications and defense equipment vendor Pegasus Systems devoted a reported $1 billion to build...
New ideas are often opposed before they are adopted. When new ideas are ultimately embraced, and lead to success, it’s always as if this opposition never existed at all. The growth of the cloud is happening in the same way. The opposition is fading away and...
Security is always a major concern for people that are living in a neighbourhood and for people that are looking to relocate. This concern is justified as the crime rate in Kuala Lumpur is statistically on the rise, and the Malaysia 2015 Crime and Safety...
Cybercriminals often latch onto current affairs or yearly events in inventive ways to maximize their profits. That, apparently, also includes sending extortion attempts to online florists shortly before Valentines Day. On Friday, cybersecurity company Incapsula claimed on its blog that at least one of its online...
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