For IT News Week 4 of Jun 2018.
Jun 28, 2018 - Jabra Launched New Elite Product Range
Jabra introduced the newest additions to its Elite product range, the Jabra Elite 45e, Jabra Elite 65e and Jabra Elite Active 65t.
The series of headphones and ear-buds are engineered for superior sound to provide the best combined voice and music experience. With this series, headphone users no longer have to make a choice between great music headphones or a headset designed for voice and calls, now they can have both with whichever Elite product they choose.
In addition to the best-in-class voice and music experience, the new Elite products also come with the security of a two-year warranty against dust and water ingress.
Key features of the Elite Range:
OPPO’s telco partner, Maxis is offering more valuable R15 Pro plan packages to benefit Maxis users. Starting from 28 June 2018, users will be able to get the OPPO R15 Pro by subscribing to Maxis Zerolution for RM46 per month with zero upfront payment, on top of the MaxisONE 188 Plan (subject to terms and conditions).
Jun 28, 2018 - Oracle extends Cloud-based Warehouse Management to Give Customers Enhanced Logistics Performance and Global Inventory Visibility
Oracle announced the extension of their Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS) Cloud capabilities. The latest improvements include yard management, enhanced solution extensibility, and integrations to their Inventory Management Cloud, enabling increased logistics performance and global inventory visibility.
Legacy transportation and warehouse management systems are often unable to provide insight into trailers in the yard, which creates a significant gap into visibility that can lead to fulfillment delays. Oracle WMS Cloud yard management capabilities directly address this challenge, making it easier to locate shipments in trailers in order to expedite unloading for high priority inventory.
Other Features:
The Global Transparency Initiative, announced in October 2017, reflects Kaspersky Lab’s ongoing commitment to assuring the integrity and trustworthiness of its products.
As part of its Global Transparency Initiative, Kaspersky Lab is adapting its infrastructure to move a number of core processes from Russia to Switzerland. This includes customer data storage and processing for most regions, as well as software assembly, including threat detection updates. To ensure full transparency and integrity, Kaspersky Lab is arranging for this activity to be supervised by an independent third party, also based in Switzerland.
By the end of 2019, Kaspersky Lab will have established a data center in Zurich and in this facility will store and process all information for users in Europe, North America, Singapore, Australia, Japan and South Korea, with more countries to follow. This information is shared voluntarily by users with the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) an advanced, cloud-based system that automatically processes cyberthreat-related data.
Jun 27, 2018 - HLB Launches Digital Business Solutions Suite Complete with SMELite Financing Services
The entrepreneurship journey for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia can be daunting as market increasingly demands greater agility and speed from these businesses. Understanding their challenges, Hong Leong Bank Berhad (‘HLB’ or ‘the Bank’) has launched an innovative and comprehensive suite of digital business and financing solutions that will serve the need of SMEs from cash management, advertising and promotion (A&P) solutions as well as property financing and working capital scheme to support SMEs for their day-to-day business operations.
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In addition to HLB’s own platform, HL ConnectFirst Lite, the Bank also collaborates with reputable, best-in-class partners Biztory, Kakitangan, SimpleTax and Digital Advert to put together a holistic, total Digital Business Solutions to empower the SMEs of today.
Following a few beta tests and support from customers, HUAWEI Nova Lite, Nova 2 Plus and P10 lite users can now immerse in the much anticipated EMUI 8.0 update beginning today. Malaysia’s second largest smartphone brand, today announced a new system update that enables customers to enjoy ultimate smartphone experience that is reflective of HUAWEI’s mobile engineering.
The system update of EMUI 8.0 is able to predict one’s intentions, and provide recommendation to the functions you need. This way, users can enjoy a personalised smartphone experience and use the phone efficiently. For instance, the software will suggest users an eye comfort mode when the screen is too bright, helping to filter out blue light rays to relieve visual fatigue by turning the screen yellowish – a unique technology invented by HUAWEI.
Jun 27, 2018 - Digital Innovation Inspires 55% Increase in Tour De France Second Screen Audience
Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organiser of the Tour de France, has partnered with Dimension Data since 2015 to help engage a new generation of young fans. Aged between 18 and 35, they now make up 73% of the Tour de France’s 6.5 million-strong social media audience.
As the official technology partner of the Tour de France, Dimension Data has consistently innovated to transform the viewing experience of the world’s biggest cycling event through the use of technology and innovative videos and data storytelling, and this year will be no different.
Through this innovative partnership, A.S.O. has already seen impressive results across all its digital platforms. Visits to the website have increased by 15% year-on-year, and Tour de France online video views have risen from 6 million in 2014 to 71 million in 2017. This reflects the growing trend of younger audiences favouring digital content over traditional broadcast, providing a more immersive experience of the iconic race.
In order to produce the all-important race insights, Dimension Data analyses over 150 million data points per stage of the Tour de France and uses analytics to provide fans with daily real-time data visualisations on official social channels such as @letourdata.
Jun 27, 2018 - SG - Silver Peak Announces $90 Million Investment from TCV to Accelerate SD-WAN Growth
Silver Peak®, a global leader in broadband and hybrid WAN solutions, today announced a $90 million strategic investment from TCV. The investment enables Silver Peak to expedite execution of its go to market expansion plans and cement its position as a global leader in SD-WAN and cloud-first WAN edge solutions. TCV is one of the largest providers of capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry and has backed industry-leading companies including Airbnb, ExactTarget, Genesys, Netflix, Rapid 7, Redback Networks, Splunk, Spotify, and Zillow. With the investment, TCV general partner Tim McAdam will join the Silver Peak board of directors.
“With more than $100 billion spent on the WAN every year by enterprises, much of it on technology that pre-dates the cloud, Silver Peak has an enormous opportunity as we deliver disruptive new WAN edge solutions for enterprises,” said Silver Peak Founder and CEO, David Hughes. “TCV has a proven track record for identifying high-growth markets and investing in those innovative companies with the right solution and the right team in place to achieve market leadership. Our partnership with TCV will help accelerate our growth trajectory, increase our competitive advantages and extend our market leadership. We are excited to work with the TCV team.”
Jun 26, 2018 - Her Majesty The Queen presents Award to young people from Malaysia dedicated to changing the world
Her Majesty The Queen has today presented Siva Nagappan Visvesvaran and Wen Shin Chia from Malaysia with a Queen’s Young Leaders Award at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London, in honour of the work they are doing to transform lives in their community. The Queen was joined at the Award ceremony by Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in recognising their success.
The Queen’s Young Leaders Awards programme, now in its fourth and final year, celebrates the achievements of some of the most exciting young change-makers from across the Commonwealth. This year’s cohort from 38 Commonwealth countries are finding solutions to global issues such as climate change, food scarcity, gender-based violence, mental health, and access to education.
The now complete Queen’s Young Leaders network forms a unique, dedicated and powerful group of young people from 53 Commonwealth countries who will connect, collaborate and change lives together for years to come. To further support them in their future endeavours, a £200,000 Legacy Fund has been created. It will be open to all 240 Queen’s Young Leaders and 282 highly commended runners-up to apply for grants that will help elevate their work and enable them to work together to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing the Commonwealth.
Jun 26, 2018 - Western Digital Unveils New SSD Storage Solutions for Photographers in Malaysia
Designed for avid photographers and drone enthusiasts who require durable and high-performance media capture solutions, Western Digital Corporation today launched two new portable SSDs in Malaysia, including the My Passport Wireless SSD and the SanDisk Extreme® Portable SSD.
- Jun 28, 2018 - Jabra Launched New Elite Product Range
- Jun 28, 2018 - Maxis introduces Zerolution plan for OPPO R15 Pro
- Jun 28, 2018 - Oracle extends Cloud-based Warehouse Management to Give Customers Enhanced Logistics Performance and Global Inventory Visibility
- Jun 28, 2018 - Kaspersky Lab Opens first Transparency Center
- Jun 27, 2018 - HLB Launches Digital Business Solutions Suite Complete with SMELite Financing Services
- Jun 27, 2018 - HUAWEI Nova Lite, Nova 2 Plus and P10 Lite Users Greeted by Power-packed EMUI 8.0 Update
- Jun 27, 2018 - Digital Innovation Inspires 55% Increase in Tour De France Second Screen Audience
- Jun 27, 2018 - SG - Silver Peak Announces $90 Million Investment from TCV to Accelerate SD-WAN Growth
- Jun 26, 2018 - Her Majesty The Queen presents Award to young people from Malaysia dedicated to changing the world
- Jun 26, 2018 - Western Digital Unveils New SSD Storage Solutions for Photographers in Malaysia
Jun 28, 2018 - Jabra Launched New Elite Product Range
Jabra introduced the newest additions to its Elite product range, the Jabra Elite 45e, Jabra Elite 65e and Jabra Elite Active 65t.
The series of headphones and ear-buds are engineered for superior sound to provide the best combined voice and music experience. With this series, headphone users no longer have to make a choice between great music headphones or a headset designed for voice and calls, now they can have both with whichever Elite product they choose.
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| Jabra Malaysia Country Manager KC Yap |
In addition to the best-in-class voice and music experience, the new Elite products also come with the security of a two-year warranty against dust and water ingress.
Key features of the Elite Range:
- The best voice experience: unique, market-leading microphone technology ensures the best calls and voice interactions on the market.
Plus support for all major voice virtual assistants including new integration with Amazon Alexa-on-the-go. - Personalised music experience: users can adapt the sound to suit their personal preferences with the Jabra Sound app.
- Biggest choice of wearing styles: true wireless, neckband, soft neckband, headband – always the best voice, music and calls.
- Unbeatable durability: two-year life proof warranty against water and dust ingress**, two-year warranty for Active & Sport variants against sweat and dust.
OPPO’s telco partner, Maxis is offering more valuable R15 Pro plan packages to benefit Maxis users. Starting from 28 June 2018, users will be able to get the OPPO R15 Pro by subscribing to Maxis Zerolution for RM46 per month with zero upfront payment, on top of the MaxisONE 188 Plan (subject to terms and conditions).
Jun 28, 2018 - Oracle extends Cloud-based Warehouse Management to Give Customers Enhanced Logistics Performance and Global Inventory Visibility
Oracle announced the extension of their Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS) Cloud capabilities. The latest improvements include yard management, enhanced solution extensibility, and integrations to their Inventory Management Cloud, enabling increased logistics performance and global inventory visibility.
Legacy transportation and warehouse management systems are often unable to provide insight into trailers in the yard, which creates a significant gap into visibility that can lead to fulfillment delays. Oracle WMS Cloud yard management capabilities directly address this challenge, making it easier to locate shipments in trailers in order to expedite unloading for high priority inventory.
Other Features:
- Improved User Experience - A new browser-based user interface look and feel helps to simplify the user experience.
- Global Support - Ten additional languages are supported
- Barcode Scanning - Allows processing of multi-element 1D barcodes and 2D barcodes
The Global Transparency Initiative, announced in October 2017, reflects Kaspersky Lab’s ongoing commitment to assuring the integrity and trustworthiness of its products.
As part of its Global Transparency Initiative, Kaspersky Lab is adapting its infrastructure to move a number of core processes from Russia to Switzerland. This includes customer data storage and processing for most regions, as well as software assembly, including threat detection updates. To ensure full transparency and integrity, Kaspersky Lab is arranging for this activity to be supervised by an independent third party, also based in Switzerland.
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| (L-R): Oleg Abdurashitov, Head of Public Affairs, Kaspersky Lab APAC, Stephan Neumeier, Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab, APAC and Yeo Siang Tiong, General Manager, Kaspersky Lab, Southeast Asia at Kaspersky Lab's Global Transparency Initiative in Malaysia. |
By the end of 2019, Kaspersky Lab will have established a data center in Zurich and in this facility will store and process all information for users in Europe, North America, Singapore, Australia, Japan and South Korea, with more countries to follow. This information is shared voluntarily by users with the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) an advanced, cloud-based system that automatically processes cyberthreat-related data.
Jun 27, 2018 - HLB Launches Digital Business Solutions Suite Complete with SMELite Financing Services
The entrepreneurship journey for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia can be daunting as market increasingly demands greater agility and speed from these businesses. Understanding their challenges, Hong Leong Bank Berhad (‘HLB’ or ‘the Bank’) has launched an innovative and comprehensive suite of digital business and financing solutions that will serve the need of SMEs from cash management, advertising and promotion (A&P) solutions as well as property financing and working capital scheme to support SMEs for their day-to-day business operations.
(L-R):
- Bryan Soong, Founder of Biztory
- Dato’ Vimmy Yap, Founder of Simple Tax
- Charles Sik, Managing Director, Personal Financial Services, Hong Leong Bank
- Puan Irnyza Binti Ngah, Chief Operating Officer, Hong Leong Bank
- Datuk Mohd Zamree Mohd Ishak, President & CEO, Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia Berhad
- Domenic Fuda, Group Managing Director & CEO, Hong Leong Bank
- Terrence Teoh, Head of GSME Banking, Business & Corporate Banking, Hong Leong Bank
- Effon Khoo, Founder of Kakitangan.com
- Wong Pi Yee, Managing Director of Publicis Media
- Yow Kuan Tuck, Managing Director, Business & Corporate Banking, Hong Leong Bank
In addition to HLB’s own platform, HL ConnectFirst Lite, the Bank also collaborates with reputable, best-in-class partners Biztory, Kakitangan, SimpleTax and Digital Advert to put together a holistic, total Digital Business Solutions to empower the SMEs of today.
- HL ConnectFirst Lite is a user-friendly online banking platform which allows SME customers to conduct online banking transactions easily. This platform offers complimentary cash management solutions of Current Account facilities and Merchant solutions.
- Biztory, an e-accounting and invoicing software solution
- Kakitangan, an e-HR platform that manages human resource functions such as the payroll system
- SimpleTax, an online Sales & Services Tax and Income Tax advisory tool
- Digital Advert, an industry pioneer service that offers affordable outdoor digital advertising package to an access of 3,500 digital screens in Malaysia.
Following a few beta tests and support from customers, HUAWEI Nova Lite, Nova 2 Plus and P10 lite users can now immerse in the much anticipated EMUI 8.0 update beginning today. Malaysia’s second largest smartphone brand, today announced a new system update that enables customers to enjoy ultimate smartphone experience that is reflective of HUAWEI’s mobile engineering.
The system update of EMUI 8.0 is able to predict one’s intentions, and provide recommendation to the functions you need. This way, users can enjoy a personalised smartphone experience and use the phone efficiently. For instance, the software will suggest users an eye comfort mode when the screen is too bright, helping to filter out blue light rays to relieve visual fatigue by turning the screen yellowish – a unique technology invented by HUAWEI.
Jun 27, 2018 - Digital Innovation Inspires 55% Increase in Tour De France Second Screen Audience
Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organiser of the Tour de France, has partnered with Dimension Data since 2015 to help engage a new generation of young fans. Aged between 18 and 35, they now make up 73% of the Tour de France’s 6.5 million-strong social media audience.
As the official technology partner of the Tour de France, Dimension Data has consistently innovated to transform the viewing experience of the world’s biggest cycling event through the use of technology and innovative videos and data storytelling, and this year will be no different.
Through this innovative partnership, A.S.O. has already seen impressive results across all its digital platforms. Visits to the website have increased by 15% year-on-year, and Tour de France online video views have risen from 6 million in 2014 to 71 million in 2017. This reflects the growing trend of younger audiences favouring digital content over traditional broadcast, providing a more immersive experience of the iconic race.
In order to produce the all-important race insights, Dimension Data analyses over 150 million data points per stage of the Tour de France and uses analytics to provide fans with daily real-time data visualisations on official social channels such as @letourdata.
Jun 27, 2018 - SG - Silver Peak Announces $90 Million Investment from TCV to Accelerate SD-WAN Growth
Silver Peak®, a global leader in broadband and hybrid WAN solutions, today announced a $90 million strategic investment from TCV. The investment enables Silver Peak to expedite execution of its go to market expansion plans and cement its position as a global leader in SD-WAN and cloud-first WAN edge solutions. TCV is one of the largest providers of capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry and has backed industry-leading companies including Airbnb, ExactTarget, Genesys, Netflix, Rapid 7, Redback Networks, Splunk, Spotify, and Zillow. With the investment, TCV general partner Tim McAdam will join the Silver Peak board of directors.
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| David Hughes, CEO, Silver Peak |
“With more than $100 billion spent on the WAN every year by enterprises, much of it on technology that pre-dates the cloud, Silver Peak has an enormous opportunity as we deliver disruptive new WAN edge solutions for enterprises,” said Silver Peak Founder and CEO, David Hughes. “TCV has a proven track record for identifying high-growth markets and investing in those innovative companies with the right solution and the right team in place to achieve market leadership. Our partnership with TCV will help accelerate our growth trajectory, increase our competitive advantages and extend our market leadership. We are excited to work with the TCV team.”
Jun 26, 2018 - Her Majesty The Queen presents Award to young people from Malaysia dedicated to changing the world
Her Majesty The Queen has today presented Siva Nagappan Visvesvaran and Wen Shin Chia from Malaysia with a Queen’s Young Leaders Award at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London, in honour of the work they are doing to transform lives in their community. The Queen was joined at the Award ceremony by Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in recognising their success.
The Queen’s Young Leaders Awards programme, now in its fourth and final year, celebrates the achievements of some of the most exciting young change-makers from across the Commonwealth. This year’s cohort from 38 Commonwealth countries are finding solutions to global issues such as climate change, food scarcity, gender-based violence, mental health, and access to education.
The now complete Queen’s Young Leaders network forms a unique, dedicated and powerful group of young people from 53 Commonwealth countries who will connect, collaborate and change lives together for years to come. To further support them in their future endeavours, a £200,000 Legacy Fund has been created. It will be open to all 240 Queen’s Young Leaders and 282 highly commended runners-up to apply for grants that will help elevate their work and enable them to work together to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing the Commonwealth.
Jun 26, 2018 - Western Digital Unveils New SSD Storage Solutions for Photographers in Malaysia
Designed for avid photographers and drone enthusiasts who require durable and high-performance media capture solutions, Western Digital Corporation today launched two new portable SSDs in Malaysia, including the My Passport Wireless SSD and the SanDisk Extreme® Portable SSD.
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| (L-R) Ms. Wong Yen Lin, Senior Sales Manager, Channel Business, Mr. Albert Chang, Regional Product Marketing and Ms. Margaret Koh, Director of Sales, Asia South holding the new WD My Passport Wireless SSD and SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD. |
- My Passport Wireless SSD
- The My Passport Wireless SSD is an all in one portable drive that helps preserve photos and videos captured on cameras or drones.
- The My Passport Wireless SSD is backed by a two-year limited warranty and will be available by end of July at all leading IT retail outlets across Malaysia & online stores including Lazada, 11street and Shopee. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) starts from RM 1,099.00 for 250GB, RM 1,499.00 for 500GB, RM 2,299.00 for 1TB and RM 3,699.00 for 2TB.
- SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD
- The rugged SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD delivers high-speed transfers with up to 550MB/s read speeds****, making it perfect for saving and editing high resolution photos and videos.
- The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD has a three-year limited warranty and is available now at all leading IT retail outlets across Malaysia & online stores including Lazada, 11street and Shopee. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) starts from RM 529.00 for 250GB, RM 829.00 for 500GB, RM 1,699.00 for 1TB and RM 3,299.00 for 2TB.
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