IT News Week 3 of Nov 2018

For IT News Week 2 of Nov 2018 - Disk 2, behold the launch of Realme, the 'Proud to Be Young' smartphone. For this week / last week, here are / were the biggest news:
  • Nov 13, 2018 - Cyberview Wins 2018 Asia HRD Award for Transformational Workplace Culture Development
  • Nov 13, 2018 - TM Forum Launched New Report : ‘Redefining the CTIO: Essentials for the digital age’
  • Nov 13, 2018 - SEOUL - LG Honored with CES 2019 Innovation Awards
  • Nov 13, 2018 - Huawei AppGallery Stepping Up Its Game
  • Nov 13, 2018 - Western Digital Enters In-Memory Computing Segment with ULTRASTAR® Memory Drive
  • Nov 13, 2018 - Tango to The Beat with Jabra Elite Series
  • Nov 12, 2018 - Digi Steps it Up with Pilot Wellness Programme to Get Malaysians Moving
  • Nov 12, 2018 - VMware Extends Integrated Hybrid Cloud Offering to Deliver Greater Deployment Flexibility and Choice
  • Nov 11, 2018 - Shopback Recorded Ten Times Online Traffic Spike And Seven Times Sales Growth In The First Hour of 11.11
  • Nov 9, 2018 - Kaspersky studies Vulnerability in Hacking brains for memory manipulation and theft

Nov 13, 2018 - Cyberview Wins 2018 Asia HRD Award for Transformational Workplace Culture Development

Cyberview Sdn Bhd brought home the Movers & Shakers Award from the 2018 Asia HRD Awards for their amazing efforts in transforming the workplace culture at Cyberview. The prestigious event that took place at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam recognises its managing director, Mohd Najib Ibrahim for his outstanding work towards transforming Cyberview as a high-performance organisation.

Cyberview Sdn Bhd was recognised by the MCIEA for the Best Project Award in building the Raja Haji Fi Sabilillah Mosque, the first mosque with a Platinum Rating in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

Inspired by leading tech giants, Cyberview provides its employees with a working space option that presents an informal atmosphere to allow them to unwind and relax during and at the end of the work day. The space serves to cultivate a friendly, engaging atmosphere where employees can gather to brainstorm innovative ideas. The company also has an on-site Childcare Centre that promotes a family-friendly environment. Other amenities include a nursing room for new mothers, games/gym area as well as a mini library that that serves as a source of knowledge for employees.

Nov 13, 2018 - TM Forum Launched New Report : ‘Redefining the CTIO: Essentials for the digital age’

The report explores the increasing convergence of network and IT functions within CSPs as a critical part of digital transformation, and the challenges facing CIOs and CTOs as a result. Based on the responses from global CTIOs over the course of six months, the report concludes that a single technology strategy is required to bring together all network and IT functions successfully. Delivery through a one leader is also essential.

CTIO – a labyrinth of complexity

The report also found that the remit and responsibilities of CSPs’ technology leaders are changing dramatically, as are the people fulfilling the roles. The key characteristics of a CTIO differ from the traditional roles and responsibilities of the CIO and CTO. The report identifies these key differences and relates this role change to digital transformation success, identifying the need to bring together not only network and IT expertise but marketing and strategy within one single technology leader.

Nov 13, 2018 - SEOUL - LG Honored with CES 2019 Innovation Awards

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA™) is recognizing LG Electronics (LG) for its groundbreaking innovations in technology and design with CES 2019 Innovation Awards – led by Best of Innovation wins and multiple honors for flagship smartphones, wearables, LG OLED TVs, soundbar and home appliances.

Leading the company’s multiple CES 2019 Innovation Award winners are the LG V40 ThinQ smartphone, LG G7 ThinQ smartphone and LG Watch W7. Other CES 2019 Innovation Award-winning LG products include advanced new laundry appliances, advanced TVs, audio systems, computers and more, all being introduced at CES 2019.

Nov 13, 2018 - Huawei AppGallery Stepping Up Its Game

Huawei’s very own official Android application distribution platform, the Huawei AppGallery, recently made its debut at the KL Level Up 2018, further firming its presence in the Malaysian market with the rise of Huawei smartphone users. Anchored on the theme “Beyond Entertainment”, the annual Southeast Asia games event was led by Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) with an aim to grow the games industry as Malaysia continues to be one of the biggest and fastest growing market in Southeast Asia.

With thousands of games on board, gaming is one of Huawei AppGallery’s top category. Fresh from the oven, AppGallery just launched the latest games for the month of November featuring Vainglory 5v5an, the highly-rated MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game to thrill fans.

Nov 13, 2018 - Western Digital Enters In-Memory Computing Segment with ULTRASTAR® Memory Drive

Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC),announced the new Ultrastar® DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive is the company’s first product that enables customers to better optimize in-memory system capacity/performance for running demanding applications that drive today’s real-time analytics and business insights.

Ultrastar DEC ME 200 Memory Extension Drive

The Ultrastar memory drive provides cost-efficient, near-DRAM performance for companies to expand memory pools sizes up to 8X the DRAM capacity, while offering substantial CAPEX and OPEX savings. With larger memory pools, application developers can take advantage of memory-aware performance and capacity optimizations, and expand faster data processing across many applications and workloads. The Ultrastar memory drive is ideal for in-memory applications such as Redis™, Memcached, Apache Spark™ and large-scale databases, providing higher capacities over current storage-class memory products.

“Today’s requirement for faster analytics, data processing, cloud services and high-performance computing (HPC) is increasing demand for in-memory computing across a variety of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications and IT, and retail,” said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president, IDC. “By expanding in-memory capacity, the Ultrastar memory drive helps alleviate the high cost of adding extra DRAM, as well as addresses the physical limitations of available DIMM slots, where scaling is either cost-prohibitive or nearly impossible.”

Nov 13, 2018 - Tango to The Beat with Jabra Elite Series

The year end festive mood has already begun and Jabra, the sound solution specialist is happy to reward its customers with amazing prizes.

What better way than with a smartphone to pair with awesome audio!

It takes two to tango - so here goes! Bacon is perfect with eggs and coffee goes well with cake! Now awesome audio “tangos” nicely with cutting edge smartphones. And what better audio experience than from renowned sound specialist, Jabra who will be rewarding its loyal customers with a range of smartphone prizes worth up to RM20,000.

To be eligible for this contest, all one needs to do is:
  1. Purchase a Jabra Elite series from any outlet in Malaysia
  2. Like the AMT Technologies Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ AmtPcDistributorsSdnBhd/
  3. Alert AMT with the official receipt via a Facebook message
  4. Lucky draws are held every Friday on a Facebook live session
  5. Promotion period is from: 19 November 2018 - 18 February 2019


Nov 12, 2018 - Digi Steps it Up with Pilot Wellness Programme to Get Malaysians Moving

Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi) today announced the launch of Digi Stepz, a wellness pilot programme that allows Malaysians to stay fit by measuring their average daily steps through fitness wearables and, the best part be rewarded for staying active. The programme, in partnership with insurance provider AXA AFFIN Life, online healthcare solution provider and reward partners, BookDoc as well as lifestyle management application provider, Naluri, is open to all Malaysians between the ages of 18 and 39, where participants can enjoy rewards and cashbacks from various merchants based on the accumulation of their daily steps.

Launch of Digi Stepz: From left to right: AXA AFFIN Life’s Chief Customer Experience Officer (CCXO) GG Kam, Digi Chief Digital Officer Praveen Rajan, BookDoc Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dato Chevy Beh and Naluri Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Azran Osman-Rani. Digi Stepz is a wellness pilot programme that encourages Malaysians from all walks of life to lead a healthier lifestyle by staying fit and healthy.
The programme aims to encourage Malaysians from all walks of life to lead a healthier lifestyle by staying fit and healthy.

Digi Stepz runs for a month-long period beginning from 3 November until 2 December 2018 at all participating Digi Stores in Klang Valley.

Nov 12, 2018 - VMware Extends Integrated Hybrid Cloud Offering to Deliver Greater Deployment Flexibility and Choice

VMware, a leading innovator in enterprise software, unveiled new capabilities to its intelligence-driven VMware Workspace ONE platform at VMworld 2018 Europe earlier this week. These include providing modern management and security advancements for customers’ heterogeneous environments as well as richer employee experiences across more apps and devices. As more organizations take up a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy and employees turn to multiple devices, OSes, services and apps to work in the manner that suits them best, embracing technology heterogeneity across the Workspace ONE platform will help organizations reduce IT costs and complexity, automate management and security and provide a better employee experience.

Separately, VMware also announced a new release of its integrated hybrid cloud offering to help customers more easily deploy and operate across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5, customers will gain access to greater deployment options, new Kubernetes support, and the latest innovations from VMware’s leading infrastructure and management portfolio. It offers the fastest way for customers to build an integrated hybrid cloud by delivering a comprehensive set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking, security, and cloud management to run enterprise applications in hybrid cloud environments.

Nov 11, 2018 - Shopback Recorded Ten Times Online Traffic Spike And Seven Times Sales Growth In The First Hour of 11.11

Malaysia, when the clocks ticks 00.00am on 11.11.2018, thousands of shoppers rush to check out their items online and ShopBack Malaysia witnessed an immediate traffic spike online - at least 10 times - comparing to normal days.

Shopback Regional Data as at October 2018 (more on Shopback Media Factsheet)


As the largest Cashback platform in Malaysia, ShopBack has been assisting shoppers to buy their items using the cheapeast way possible via giving out cashback - in hard cold cash form which shoppers can save the money into their bank account.

Besides Alibaba’s group Taobao, Tmall and AliExpress, all other popular sites like Lazada, 11street, ZALORA, Booking.com, Expedia, Fave, Hermo, etc are working with ShopBack to boost their sales since 2015, especially during huge campaign like 11.11 Global Shopping Festival. Shopee Malaysia also come onboard to offer up to 6% of cashback to ShopBack users, starting from 7pm yesterday.

 Nov 9, 2018 - Kaspersky studies Vulnerability in Hacking brains for memory manipulation and theft

In the future, cyberattackers may be able to exploit memory implants to steal, spy on, alter or control human memories.

Scientists are learning how memories are created in the brain and can be targeted, restored and enhanced using such implantable devices. However, vulnerabilities exist in the connected software and hardware and these need to be addressed if we are to be ready for the threats that lie ahead, according to a new report by researchers from Kaspersky Lab and the University of Oxford Functional Neurosurgery Group.

The researchers found a number of existing and potential risk scenarios, each of which could be exploited by attackers. These include:
  • Exposed connected infrastructure
  • Insecure or unencrypted data transfer between the implant, the programming software, and any associated networks
  • Design constraints as patient safety takes precedence over security.
  • Insecure behavior by medical staff 
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