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Several days ago,TM held a press conference and over there it claimed that High Speed Broandband(HSBB) will release to the public on March 24 at Dataran Merdeka.Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Najib Tun Razak will join in the event and officially launch the National Broadband initiative,which HSBB is the flagship project.    -Sourced by Bernama

I think that will be impressive as the new HSBB will run at least 3 times faster than the current fastest plan to the consumers.TM also promised that this time the plans will not be as expensive as the existing plans.

I know that some people living in Subang Jaya,Shah Alam,Taman Tun and TTDI have already been selected as beta users to try out the service and based on some leaking news,the result is quite good.

The known information shows that the plans will include some value added services,such as IPTV.Well,I’m very interested in the new service.I hope the service could reach my living area as soon as possible.Meanwhile,I welcome the HSBB users to leave some feedback here.

DiGi steps in the battle with Maxis to sell iPhone.Till now no price lists are disclosed,but many people think DiGi will offer a better price to the potential customers with some tailor-made data plans.

Since yesterday,DiGi opened up a new website to make the pre-order.

You just need to visit the page to fill up the simple forms with your particulars and you will be entitled to have more updates and priority to get an iPhone 3GS later when it’s released by DiGi.I encourage your guys to fill up the form first as it is not forcing to buy it,but you could have a chance to get the first hand information.That should be nice,right?

Remember,the pre-order is only open until 18th March,2010.Thus,if you have a piece of thought that you wanna grab an iPhone,please do it quick.Maybe you could make it realize at a very perfect price.

Good luck!

AirAsia worked out a new look website which improves the overall layout compared to the old one.All functions have been clearly indicated in the first page and so we could easily and quickly do our things within several clicks.

The latest updates from AirAsia are all gathered in the centre.We could get the promotional information here and know the future plan of the company from the latest news.

Also,the value added services have been listed in the left bar there.The fresh design saves dozens of time to place our extra orders after bookings completed.

You could find the official introduction for this new website here.I feel this is a nice change.What do you think about?

I use the online banking services for many many years because I know that Maybank provides the most flexible online functions up to date.Now Maybank claims that it has developed the mobile portal which will bring more convenience to its existing customers.

Steps to log on the service on mobile devices are quite simple:

Some services could be done by the mobile portal:

• Account Summary
  • Balance Inquiry (Savings, Current, Credit/Debit Card)
  • M2U History, Recent Transaction, Today’s Transactions, Transaction History (Deposit, Credit/Debit Card)
• Funds Transfer
  • To Own Accounts
  • To Registered 3rd Party Accounts
  • To Registered Interbank GIRO
• Payments
  • Registered Bill Payment
  • Card Payment (Own)
  • Card Payment (Registered 3rd Party Accounts)
• View Rates
  • View Forex & Deposit Rates

Well,the service is still under beta stage and so the facilities are quite limited.I think it could be enhanced once it goes through more tests and gets more feedbacks.I wonder which bank will be the next one that will introduce mobile portal to be closer to an e-world.

Google throws out a new stuff to the public-Google Public DNS.Somebody may not know what DNS exactly is.Here’s the simple explanation:

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical (binary) identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide. An often used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the "phone book" for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. For example, www.example.com translates to 208.77.188.166.(Wikipedia)

In the real world,every website/server will have an IP address.However,in order to easily access the site,we normally type in the domain name to visit it and the domain name server will translate it into that specific IP address.After all,we could get what we want to get.

Many ISPs will always provide some DNS service to their customers,even automatically configured.However,Google Public DNS could give more compared to other DNS service:

• Speed up your browsing experience.
• Improve your security.
• Get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection.

Google has a broader network all over the world.Thus,it will direct you the closest DNS server once you set Google Public DNS as your priority DNS.

To try it out:

• Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or
• Read our configuration instructions.

I previously tried OpenDNS for some while.It is also an independent service provider with quite a lot of credits from the clients.But the DNS servers are mostly located in Europe and America,the users in Asia would have delay because of the geographic conditions.Google eliminates the issue since it has several DNS servers in Asia.

I have used Google Public DNS for 3 days.It works as well as what it says.I’m so happy to see that we are having more alternatives.Thumb up!