“Discover How Digital Technologies can raise productivity and growth for our...
Digital Malaysia is the nation’s programme to advance the country towards a developed digital economy by 2020. It will create an ecosystem that promotes the pervasive use of ICT in all aspects of the...
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E-books rising
Music and movies have been successfully digitized and if you ask any young person today how they would prefer their music and movies, they would more than likely say as MP3s and MP4s (respectively)....
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Knowledge and information sets the stage
In my previous article, I suggested that there needs to be more discourse about the emergence of the digital industries, as we see the cultural and creative industries evolve. My point with that...
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Let’s Teach Kids to Code
Code.org, the new non-profit aimed at encouraging computer science education launched last month by entrepreneur and investor brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi, has assembled an all-star group of the...
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20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013
From automated cars to smarter smartphones, here are the ideas that will shape the future by Fast Company. Our Notes: Things have changed dramatically in the span of a decade. If you’re reading this,...
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The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Biotech Companies
http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2012/industry/biotech Our Notes: We are just at the beginning of biotech revolution…the future is full of possibilities, astounding possibilities....
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MyTeksi, the APP that is Changing How Malaysian’s are Catching a Taxi
MyTeksi is a young Malaysian for-profit social startup made up of a small but enthusiastic team that is deploying digital technologies to revolutionize the taxi industry. Runner-up in the 2011 Harvard...
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Smartphones are great, but…
The young boy animatedly explained his invention, a complicated-sounding contraption that used low-cost materials to improve solar cell efficiency. Articulate and composed, he was enthusiastic while...
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Starting the Digital Industry Debate
In discussing digital industries in my last two articles, I spoke a lot about the knowledge and information economies. I argued that those two were the crux of the emergence of the creative and...
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Combat Piracy With Business Practices
You could say Internet content piracy began with music after the emergence of Napster circa 2000. Back then bandwidth was not big enough to support movie file-sharing and e-books had yet to emerge. MP3...
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How to control your online reputation?
The internet is such a wonderful tool that enables a flat playing field all startups. An entrepreneur can be in Malaysia and sell to the world. It does not discriminate if you are a boy or girl, race...
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What Drives Digital?
Digital is sexy. Announce it and you’ve immediately joined a community networked at the speed of bytes. It is the present and future, where movement means streams of personal updates criss-crossing...
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Idris Jala’s Interview
The Internet and the web have transformed communication and created a new generation of industries. As a result, more of our work and communication today rely on online apps and devices, enabling a...
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How to Back up Everything Online
Although you cannot back up your memory directly into a machine, there are tools out there that can help you preserve your memory and data for future keeps. If you think your data is safe on your...
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An Interview with Marina Mahathir…
This week we had an opportunity to get connected with Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, a respected and passionate Malaysian known for highlighting issues of public interest, to find out her views about...
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Making a case for social production
My last article on here discussed the idea of social production, as introduced by law professor Yochai Benkler, which refers to the sharing of information based on collaboration. I suggested that the...
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The cost of innovation and the cost of learning has gotten so cheap thanks to the democratizing power of tech. As more people have access to technologies and have opportunities to collaborate on issues...
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What will become of the PC?
With pessimistic headlines like RIP, PC and Dell Outlines The Death of the PC, you’d be forgiven if you thought the end for the PC is truly near. But articles like Enough Already with the “Death of the...
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Smartphones are great, but…
The young boy animatedly explained his invention, a complicated-sounding contraption that used low-cost materials to improve solar cell efficiency. Articulate and composed, he was enthusiastic while...
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Wearable Tech Coming
Gadgets always start off as being huge and cumbersome. Remember the first mobile phones or early personal computers? Over time, they became more convenient. This usually involves shrinking the devices...
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