mamakk!!!

via Engadget:

Remember last year when we found out some dudes had set up gadget shop under the Engadget name in Midvalley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, without our permission? And then a fellow Engadget reader actually OUTED them on camera, as they denied even knowing what Engadget is? Well, that store eventually went out of business (or changed its name), so it was a happy ending — until now.

Looks like DVDs are not the only things that Malaysians pirate.

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Rapeepat Jumnongjit wrote:

In Malaysia an education in computing is popular with girls and computing is considered a suitable career for women. In Norway, however only few girls choose computing as major subject. It is often said that a girl at a computer is like a fish out of water. The question that is often asked is: Is it the girls or the subject that there’s something wrong within the problem which must be addressed?, and must be changed? This has, at times become quite a politicised debate, Lagesen points out.

didn’t know this…I thought it’s still quite a male-dominated scene?

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Jayce wrote:

Hey… Check this out. After income tax e-filing personal data being leaked issue, here come Telekom TM Net. Malaysia Boleh!!!

By changing number randomly at address (find out yourself), you can see others TM Net bill. Cool huh? I just discover that I am the one that pay the bill every month promptly.

woah…this is huge…did anyone else try?

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via Journal Gazette:

PITTSBURGH – In her native Malaysia, Mary Tiong developed a reputation for selling leftover computer monitors for a large manufacturer behind the industry’s best-known brands. She earned a nickname: The Monitor Queen.

From her new base in Pittsburgh, Tiong continues to move large quantities of monitors. But now, she ships thousands of discarded models with computers back to Malaysia, where they are rebuilt and sold in poor countries, mostly in Southeast Asia.

Tiong, 41, says her company, Second Life Computer Remanufacturing, has environmental and philanthropic goals: It helps stem a rising tide of electronic waste in the United States and fulfills a need for basic computer equipment in the developing world. But she hopes to expand her operations by establishing a training program to teach local students how to rebuild aging computers, which often can be used for office work, Web surfing and e-mail – and saved from the scrap heap.

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nogedik wrote:

Exabytes.com masih di tangga teratas dengan jumlah market share sebanyak 12.7371% dan sebanyak 9,757 domain yang telah direkodkan dalam hosting mereka. info sebegini membolehkan kita membuat analisa tentang sesebuah syarikat hosting. selamat mengkaji..

Further digging also revealed that Malaysia’s ranked 33 in the world w.r.t. the number of webhosting companies in the country (142 companies). However, there are still alot of resellers and small-timers out there like mamakk’s host who are not counted in the statistics I guess.

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