Lemak Lemang

A walk down the Yellow Brick Road of Malaysia's Corridor of the future

by Jeff Ooi, Malaysia

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Web extension to Letters to Editors

Jan 24, 2008 09:40

Praveen Rajan and his friends recently set up TwoSen.com to keep track of letters written to the major English newspapers. The Web site automatically aggregates the letters on a daily basis.

He said he was surprised by the number of complaints published in the Press on a daily basis. However, the manner in which the media organisations operate, exacerbated by space and time constraints, tends to fizzle out issues raised by the readers.

"I, too, have written to the papers several times, and have found that many service providers tend to react rather than be proactive," Praveen said.
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Alert over Uncyclopedia on Malaysia

Jan 15, 2008 13:39

Malaysia's Internal Security Ministry, which is the custodian of laws governing print media, has found its fingers on the online pie.

There was a directive that alerted newspaper editors on an online resource, the sarcasm-filled Uncyclopedia, warning readers of "untruths, insults and ridicule" about the country.
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Going gaga over Port 25

Dec 7, 2007 10:38

Internet users are up in arms over the performance of Malaysia's near-monopoly broadband provider TM Net.

This time, the angry customers involve business users who are plugged into TM Net's dynamic IP addresses and World of Warcraft (WoW) fans.

The trigger point for customers' anger has been linked to TM Net's decision to implement an anti-spam measure by giving zero notice to its subscribers. Business users had their outgoing emails crippled, Web and email-hosting providers got scolded by their crippled clients, and WoW fans cursed and swore at the unreliability in broadband connection.
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Christmas shopping list and a PC Suite

Nov 30, 2007 13:02

It's time again to finalize the Christmas shopping list... or at least a wishlist for window shopping.

I used to include hardware upgrades for the desktop once every two years in my shopping list. Just did once last year this time, so I am going to hold tight to the wallet for a while and perhaps look elsewhere.

Hardware upgrades almost come with tedious headache when one has to deal with data (read POP3 email archives, etc..--which I inherit for posterity's sake--and driver migration, though this has been greatly lessened over the last few years with much kaizen in this segment. But upgrades? We still itch on, especially seeing the year-end bonus vis-a-vis tax rebates untapped for the next Income Tax returns.
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Secure digital network, and you can't run

Nov 21, 2007 21:00

Many months ago, I was jokingly asking a senior executive from a mobile network operator if he could assign me a "secure" cellular phone number that was off the radar screen of network surveillance. He said I was reading too much into espionage novels.

Mobile users beware! It is now confirmed that your voice calls and SMS exchanges over the digital cellular network can be tracked and revealed in public--at least in Malaysia.
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About Jeff Ooi

Jeff Ooi is an Internet and e-Business consultant based in Kuala Lumpur who's spent the last four years blogging internationally on the tech scene, on anything and nothing. Which doesn't really explain why most of his own technology is about three years out of date. He doesn't even own a PDA after his Palm V crashed. He's on 3G, though... Lemak Lemang refers to coconut-flavored sticky rice stuffed in a bamboo container.