For IT News Week 5 of Nov 2018 - Disk 2, the launch of Sony Glass Sound Speaker is interesting.
For this week / last week, here are / were the biggest news:
Dec 6, 2018 - Sarawak Shell Berhad Receives Gold Award For Best Practices In Lean Management From MITI.
Sarawak Shell Berhad (SSB) was recently awarded the prestigious Malaysian Productivity Corporation (MPC) National Gold Certification for excellent practices in the area of Lean Management by the Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI) Malaysia. This is the first time such recognition has been accorded to an oil & gas company in Malaysia.
This certification is in recognition of SSB’s outstanding efforts for the continuous improvement in its lean management deployment journey which started in 2016.
Datuk Iain Lo, Country Chairman, Shell Malaysia commented on the award, explained that when the oil price dropped drastically towards the end of 2015, they knew they had to embrace an effective way of working to lean our processes, remove wastes and instil discipline in our cost management, to remain competitive
Sarawak Shell Berhad’s General Manager, Jill Chieng who represented Datuk Iain Lo, Country Chairman Shell Malaysia received the award from Y.B. Dr. Ong Kian Ming, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI) Malaysia who was representing the Minister of International Trade and Industry Malaysia. Also in attendance to witness the award presentation were Tuan Hj Abdul Rahim Yusoff, the Deputy Director General of MPC and Khoo Choo Beng, the General Manager for Business Excellence, Sarawak Shell Berhad.
Shell – www.shell.com.my
Dec 6, 2018 - Singapore - Cloudera Announces Preview of Cloud-Native Machine Learning Platform to Accelerate the Industrialization of AI
Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE: CLDR), the modern platform for machine learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, today announced a preview of a new, next-generation, cloud-native machine learning platform powered by Kubernetes. The upcoming Cloudera Machine Learning expands Cloudera's offerings for enterprise self-service data science. It delivers fast provisioning and autoscaling as well as containerized, distributed processing on heterogeneous compute. Cloudera Machine Learning also ensures secure data access with a unified experience across on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments.
Capabilities include:
Dec 6, 2018 - Liege, Belgium - Government of Belgium and Alibaba Group to Jointly Promote Inclusive Global Trade under eWTP Initiative
The Federal Government of Belgium (“Government of Belgium”) and Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA; “Alibaba Group”) announced they have agreed to promote inclusive trade under the Electronic World Trade Platform (“eWTP”) initiative. Both parties will work closely to co-build a more inclusive and innovative trade platform that will facilitate greater and more equitable access to cross-border trade opportunities, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the eWTP was signed by Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Employment, Economy and Consumer Affairs Kris Peeters and Senior Director of Alibaba Group James Song. It was witnessed by Prime Minister of Belgium Charles Michel and Alibaba Group President of Global Business Angel Zhao.
The partnership with the Government of Belgium will be Alibaba’s initial effort to promote inclusive global trade in Europe, building on the success of similar eWTP partnerships in Asia and Africa over the past two years.
Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel said this initiative serves to improve the competitiveness of Belgian and European firms on the global stage.
Dec 5, 2018 - Western Digital Delivers New Innovations to Drive Open Standard Interfaces and Risc-V Processor Development
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced at the RISC-V Summit three new open-source innovations designed to support Western Digital’s internal RISC-V development efforts and those of the growing RISC-V ecosystem.
In his keynote address, Western Digital’s Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink unveiled plans to release a new open source RISC-V core, an open standard initiative for cache coherent memory over a network and an open source RISC-V instruction set simulator.
Western Digital has taken an active role in helping to advance the RISC-V ecosystem, including multiple related strategic investments and partnerships, and demonstrated progress toward its stated goal of transitioning one billion of the company’s processor cores to the RISC-V architecture.
Dec 4, 2018 - Astro, Digi and Media Prima bring together quality education content with JomStudi
Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad (Astro), Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi), and Media Prima Berhad (Media Prima) have collaborated to introduce JomStudi, a digital learning hub that aggregates quality educational content to be made accessible to all students especially those in the underserved areas.
Launching in January 2019, JomStudi is an initiative led by the private sector and supported by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). JomStudi was conceptualised as a response to the changing learning landscape where the internet has become the go-to tool for students to get information. Through JomStudi, students will have easy access, anytime, anywhere to quality education content that follows the syllabus format set by the Ministry of Education provided by Astro’s Tutor TV and Media Prima’s exam-based FullAMark. The platform is developed and managed by Digi.
JomStudi will be “self-learning oriented” with features that will help enhance a student’s learning experience such as:
Dec 4, 2018 - Myriota launches on Spaceflight's SmallSat Express mission aboard Falcon 9 to aid the fight against Australia’s drought
Myriota is rolling out its next generation technology that will continue to grow direct-to-orbit communications for hundreds of millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices thanks to today’s launch on SpaceQuest’s BRIO satellite.
Launched as part of Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express mission, the satellite will be delivered to orbit on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket; adding to Myriota’s growing constellation by testing and demonstrating its IoT network.
Photo caption: David Haley next to the Booster at SpaceX HQ in California
Dec 3, 2018 - Huawei AppGallery Partners with DiGi, Hotlink, Maxis and U Mobile to Offer Users Direct Carrier Billing Service
Huawei smartphone users can now enjoy a quick and smooth payment process on Huawei’s official Android application distribution platform, Huawei AppGallery. It allows direct carrier billing partnerships with DiGi, Hotlink, Maxis, and U Mobile to offer subscribers of the telco companies to purchase digital content with ease.
Huawei smartphone users also get to enjoy amazing rewards by purchasing any in-app games on AppGalley Carnival Collection or any themes of Carnival Themes collection, with payment transaction via direct carrier billing service now.
The payment integration provides telco companies and app merchants an all-in-one mobile ecosystem that is seamless and secure for Huawei smartphone users. The direct carrier billing service aims to enhance customer experience and empower users with more control of their spending habits on apps
Dec 3, 2018 - Carbon Black Delivers MITRE ATT&CK™ Coverage with Zero Delayed Detections & Zero Tainted Detections
Objective, transparent and open testing in cybersecurity is critical in driving the industry forward. As a result, MITRE issued its first-ever Adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) assessment, evaluated by testing vendors’ ability to quickly detect specific adversary tactics and techniques.
Carbon Black was recognized for the following achievements –
For this week / last week, here are / were the biggest news:
- Dec 6, 2018 - Sarawak Shell Berhad Receives Gold Award For Best Practices In Lean Management From MITI
- Dec 6, 2018 - Singapore - Cloudera Announces Preview of Cloud-Native Machine Learning Platform to Accelerate the Industrialization of AI
- Dec 6, 2018 - Liege, Belgium - Government of Belgium and Alibaba Group to Jointly Promote Inclusive Global Trade under eWTP Initiative
- Dec 5, 2018 - Western Digital Delivers New Innovations to Drive Open Standard Interfaces and Risc-V Processor Development
- Dec 4, 2018 - Astro, Digi and Media Prima bring together quality education content with JomStudi
- Dec 4, 2018 - Myriota launches on Spaceflight's SmallSat Express mission aboard Falcon 9 to aid the fight against Australia’s drought
- Dec 3, 2018 - Huawei AppGallery Partners with DiGi, Hotlink, Maxis and U Mobile to Offer Users Direct Carrier Billing Service
- Dec 3, 2018 - Carbon Black Delivers MITRE ATT&CK™ Coverage with Zero Delayed Detections & Zero Tainted Detections
Dec 6, 2018 - Sarawak Shell Berhad Receives Gold Award For Best Practices In Lean Management From MITI.
Sarawak Shell Berhad (SSB) was recently awarded the prestigious Malaysian Productivity Corporation (MPC) National Gold Certification for excellent practices in the area of Lean Management by the Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI) Malaysia. This is the first time such recognition has been accorded to an oil & gas company in Malaysia.
This certification is in recognition of SSB’s outstanding efforts for the continuous improvement in its lean management deployment journey which started in 2016.
Datuk Iain Lo, Country Chairman, Shell Malaysia commented on the award, explained that when the oil price dropped drastically towards the end of 2015, they knew they had to embrace an effective way of working to lean our processes, remove wastes and instil discipline in our cost management, to remain competitive
Sarawak Shell Berhad’s General Manager, Jill Chieng who represented Datuk Iain Lo, Country Chairman Shell Malaysia received the award from Y.B. Dr. Ong Kian Ming, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI) Malaysia who was representing the Minister of International Trade and Industry Malaysia. Also in attendance to witness the award presentation were Tuan Hj Abdul Rahim Yusoff, the Deputy Director General of MPC and Khoo Choo Beng, the General Manager for Business Excellence, Sarawak Shell Berhad.
Shell – www.shell.com.my
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| Y.B. Dr. Ong Kian Ming, third from left presenting the award to Jill Chieng, Sarawak Shell Berhad’s General Manager, fourth from left. |
Dec 6, 2018 - Singapore - Cloudera Announces Preview of Cloud-Native Machine Learning Platform to Accelerate the Industrialization of AI
Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE: CLDR), the modern platform for machine learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, today announced a preview of a new, next-generation, cloud-native machine learning platform powered by Kubernetes. The upcoming Cloudera Machine Learning expands Cloudera's offerings for enterprise self-service data science. It delivers fast provisioning and autoscaling as well as containerized, distributed processing on heterogeneous compute. Cloudera Machine Learning also ensures secure data access with a unified experience across on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments.
Capabilities include:
- Seamless portability across private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud powered by Kubernetes
- Rapid cloud provisioning and autoscaling
- Scale-out data engineering and machine learning with seamless dependency management provided by containerized Python, R, and Spark-on-Kubernetes
- High velocity deep learning powered by distributed GPU scheduling and training
- Secure data access across HDFS, cloud object stores, and external databases
Dec 6, 2018 - Liege, Belgium - Government of Belgium and Alibaba Group to Jointly Promote Inclusive Global Trade under eWTP Initiative
The Federal Government of Belgium (“Government of Belgium”) and Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA; “Alibaba Group”) announced they have agreed to promote inclusive trade under the Electronic World Trade Platform (“eWTP”) initiative. Both parties will work closely to co-build a more inclusive and innovative trade platform that will facilitate greater and more equitable access to cross-border trade opportunities, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the eWTP was signed by Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Employment, Economy and Consumer Affairs Kris Peeters and Senior Director of Alibaba Group James Song. It was witnessed by Prime Minister of Belgium Charles Michel and Alibaba Group President of Global Business Angel Zhao.
The partnership with the Government of Belgium will be Alibaba’s initial effort to promote inclusive global trade in Europe, building on the success of similar eWTP partnerships in Asia and Africa over the past two years.
Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel said this initiative serves to improve the competitiveness of Belgian and European firms on the global stage.
Dec 5, 2018 - Western Digital Delivers New Innovations to Drive Open Standard Interfaces and Risc-V Processor Development
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced at the RISC-V Summit three new open-source innovations designed to support Western Digital’s internal RISC-V development efforts and those of the growing RISC-V ecosystem.
In his keynote address, Western Digital’s Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink unveiled plans to release a new open source RISC-V core, an open standard initiative for cache coherent memory over a network and an open source RISC-V instruction set simulator.
Western Digital has taken an active role in helping to advance the RISC-V ecosystem, including multiple related strategic investments and partnerships, and demonstrated progress toward its stated goal of transitioning one billion of the company’s processor cores to the RISC-V architecture.
Dec 4, 2018 - Astro, Digi and Media Prima bring together quality education content with JomStudi
Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad (Astro), Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi), and Media Prima Berhad (Media Prima) have collaborated to introduce JomStudi, a digital learning hub that aggregates quality educational content to be made accessible to all students especially those in the underserved areas.
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| Working together to bring quality education content with JomStudi: (from left) Putri Yasmin Megat Zaharuddin, Astro’s Vice President of GenNext; Albern Murty, Digi’s Chief Executive Officer; YB Tuan Gobind Singh Deo, Minister of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia; Datuk Kamal Khalid, Media Prima’s Group Managing Director and Nor Faizah Othman, MDEC’s Chief Financial Officer. |
Launching in January 2019, JomStudi is an initiative led by the private sector and supported by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). JomStudi was conceptualised as a response to the changing learning landscape where the internet has become the go-to tool for students to get information. Through JomStudi, students will have easy access, anytime, anywhere to quality education content that follows the syllabus format set by the Ministry of Education provided by Astro’s Tutor TV and Media Prima’s exam-based FullAMark. The platform is developed and managed by Digi.
JomStudi will be “self-learning oriented” with features that will help enhance a student’s learning experience such as:
- Reward Badges: Students collect different badges as a reward for completing their assignments.
- Personalised dashboard: Students have a complete view of their progress on the different activities they are currently doing or have done.
- Zero Data: Free access to JomStudi content from 2.00pm to 8.00pm daily, exclusive for all Digi customers.
Dec 4, 2018 - Myriota launches on Spaceflight's SmallSat Express mission aboard Falcon 9 to aid the fight against Australia’s drought
Myriota is rolling out its next generation technology that will continue to grow direct-to-orbit communications for hundreds of millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices thanks to today’s launch on SpaceQuest’s BRIO satellite.
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| Dr. David Haley |
Launched as part of Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express mission, the satellite will be delivered to orbit on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket; adding to Myriota’s growing constellation by testing and demonstrating its IoT network.
- The launch is set to validate new Myriota technologies through testing and demonstrating its IoT network
- It is an important step towards the business creating the world's first real-time 24/7 direct-to-orbit IoT platform
- The launch will enable businesses like Goanna Ag to deliver better connectivity, precise irrigation scheduling and optimised water use efficiency for Australian farmers
- The business has also reached the milestone of receiving 250,000 data messages received since May 2017.
Photo caption: David Haley next to the Booster at SpaceX HQ in California
Dec 3, 2018 - Huawei AppGallery Partners with DiGi, Hotlink, Maxis and U Mobile to Offer Users Direct Carrier Billing Service
Huawei smartphone users can now enjoy a quick and smooth payment process on Huawei’s official Android application distribution platform, Huawei AppGallery. It allows direct carrier billing partnerships with DiGi, Hotlink, Maxis, and U Mobile to offer subscribers of the telco companies to purchase digital content with ease.
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| Pay using telco account |
Huawei smartphone users also get to enjoy amazing rewards by purchasing any in-app games on AppGalley Carnival Collection or any themes of Carnival Themes collection, with payment transaction via direct carrier billing service now.
The payment integration provides telco companies and app merchants an all-in-one mobile ecosystem that is seamless and secure for Huawei smartphone users. The direct carrier billing service aims to enhance customer experience and empower users with more control of their spending habits on apps
Dec 3, 2018 - Carbon Black Delivers MITRE ATT&CK™ Coverage with Zero Delayed Detections & Zero Tainted Detections
Objective, transparent and open testing in cybersecurity is critical in driving the industry forward. As a result, MITRE issued its first-ever Adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) assessment, evaluated by testing vendors’ ability to quickly detect specific adversary tactics and techniques.
Carbon Black was recognized for the following achievements –
- The only next-generation vendor with zero delayed detections and zero tainted detections in the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation
- Fastest out-of-the-box detection, thus requiring zero human intervention
- Every detected event was presented easily in the console without requiring external tools for validation
- These capabilities are delivered in just one product, the Cb Response
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