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Eight Asian carriers signed a memorandum of understanding for a new regional club cable, the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) which will finally be capable to 4Tbps.

The 4Tbs subsea system will land at nine locations between Singapore and Japan and would go into service in 2011, NTT Communications said.

As well as NTT Com, the cable has investment from China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, KT, PLDT, Telekom Malaysia and VNPT.This new cable will increase the potential capabilities of bandwidth between major Asian countries and this planned cable also avoids the earthquake-prone and cable-heavy area to Taiwan’s south, where six cables were cut in an earthquake on Boxing Day 2006, slowing regional internet bandwidth to a crawl.

In the news,it indicates that the popular cable in Asia-APCN2 has only been utilized its 15% of potential capacity,but a rapid growth may be foreseen in a near future as high speed broadband is going to be introduced everywhere in Asia.

I always blame that Telekom Malaysia lacks international bandwidth,but I think it’s hard to be improved immediately.However,now I believe that TM could get a quick enhancement on its international bandwidth once if it does want to do so as there are still lots of available bandwidths in APCN2.

We need this new cable because it will be more stable and powerful than current ones.Will it then benefit the consumers of Telekom Malaysia?Strongly doubtful!

The Dragon Boat(Duanwu) Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.In Chinese tradition,people will hold some Dragon Boat Race and eat tzung tzu(aka Zongzi;glutinous rice dumpling) to recall the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

Nowadays the festival has become a day for family reunion.Thus,it has been treated as a very important festival,which is almost of the same importance as Spring Festival.

 Happy the Dragon Boat Festival,my family and friends!

With the introduction of the latest Skype 4.1 beta,I find that the most attractive feature is screen sharing.

That’s is a very useful feature.By using this,Skype users could make presentation in front of home PCs or help friends to solve their computer problems in real time or just show off a killer move in a game.It could be realized in a second by pressing the share button in the Skype window.It’s easy enough,right?!

Of course,as a popular communication tool,Skype will never forget to refine the audio and video call quality and to do bug fixes as well as accessibility improvements to meet the demand of the public.

Get the new stuff now and you’ll have no regret.

Following the steps of Apple and BlackBerry,Nokia finally opened its online apps store yesterday-Ovi Store.

Nokia intends to integrate all applications and gadgets into this platform and to do some localizations for customers from different countries.However,when I visited the website yesterday,it loaded very slow perhaps because of a rapid high consumption.

Well,I think if Nokia seriously continues to improve this service,it will be much more successful than Apple Store because till now Nokia is still holding the largest group of users all over the world.

Will Nokia win this battle?Let’s wait and see.

I had a trip to Genting last weekend.I say it was quite special because on the way going Genting,I visited Chin Swee Caves Temple and there I got a quite dramatic image of the HELL.

It’s really interesting and horrible.I know that it’s a way to tell people to be good always.I took the whole set of photos about the hell and Samsara.You could get it in my facebook there.

I like this wonderful lesson.How about you?