How are you peeps doing? It has been a somewhat quiet week in the tech industry. Huawei Malaysia wasted no time bringing the Nova 4e into Malaysia even before its China counterpart officially announced it. The vivo V15Pro and V15 have also just been released recently and we got some nice photo samples. But perhaps the most interesting one is when Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp servers were down and everyone panicked. Oh, those poor Instamodels and influencers, we totally "feel" you.
But for this coming week is going to be a busy one for us. Samsung Galaxy M Series and Galaxy A Series will be revealed soon, followed by the OPPO F11 Pro, Redmi Note 7 and Realme 3! Then after that week, the Huawei P30 Series is the next big thing. So expect a lot of juicy tech news only at TechNave.com!!
Now, onward to the other news that happened over the past few days...
Celcom reached out to Pasir Gudang victims
In the recent event of the Pasir Gudang toxic waste, Celcom Axiata Berhad has reached out to the victims and distributed over 500 power banks. On top of that, they also offer free WiFi connectivity via Celcom Home Wireless. This took place at Hospital Sultanah Aminah Johor Bahru, Hospital Sultan Ismail Johor Bahru and Pasir Gudang Indoor Stadium.
Razali Abu Bakar (left), Head of Regional Retail Sales, Southern Region of Celcom Axiata Berhad, (in Blue Celcom t-shirt) together with other Celcom employees ensuring that affected victims and their families at Pasir Gudang are able to remain connected with the provision of power banks. Over 500 power banks were distributed to the affected families at Hospital Sultanah Aminah Johor Bahru, Hospital Sultan Ismail Johor Bahru and Pasir Gudang Indoor Stadium
“During this period, Celcom’s network and technical teams are working around-the-clock to ensure connectivity. We want to assure those affected that they will be able to remain connected with their friends and family,” said Idham Nawawi, Chief Executive Officer of Celcom Axiata Berhad.
Celcom’s Occupational Safety, Health & Environment team had also successfully evacuated all Celcom employees and their families who reside within the area to safe zones. In other news, Celcom was also providing digital services for the rural communities through Pusat Internet. There are currently 175 Pusat Internet nationwide, providing the communities broadband internet services, ICT and e-commerce training, and training facilities that have contributed to equality in digital opportunities, while increasing local economic levels.
New storage solutions products by Acer
Malaysia had the privilege to be the first country outside of Taiwan to reveal a brand new Acer Altos QSAN XN3004T storage solution for small and medium enterprises. Designed for computing performance and data storage needs from businesses to public institutions with four 2TB HHD storage, it starts from RM4699 and it's available at all Acer online stores and selected authorized resellers soon.
Apart from that, there's also the Altos P Series Workstations, where it sports the latest 8th Gen Intel Core processor with NVIDIA Quadro graphics card, 64GB RAM and 32TB storage which is ideal for rendering tasks for users like designers, engineers, digital content creators, financial analysts and research professionals. There are two models for this, the Altos P30 F6 from RM4280 onward and Altos P330 F4 from RM8,799 onward; both will be available for purchase immediately at select Acer authorized resellers and at Acer official online stores soon. To know more, you can visit the page right here.
Last but not least, the Acer AltosCloud VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) solution. This solution allows users to easily set up their own virtual desktop computing system and it's ideal for organisations such as call centres, hospitals and even the library set-ups of private schools, colleges and universities.
Lazada expanding out to Southeast Asia merchants
Meanwhile, Lazada has plans to boost its cross-border operations for international brands and merchants. In the last three years, their cross-border sales quadrupled so it only makes sense to expand their geographical area. This includes Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam
“Backed by the best expertise and infrastructure from Alibaba, as well as our in-depth understanding of Southeast Asia, we are able to equip our cross-border sellers and brands with the knowledge and tools to ride this massive growth in the region,” Jing Yin, Lazada Group’s Co-President, Commercial, who was speaking on Thursday (Mar 7) in Shenzhen at Lazada’s first seller conference in 2019 where more than 1,000 merchants gathered to learn on how the platform will help them to better reach customers in Southeast Asia.
The meteoric rise in eCommerce spending in Southeast Asia reflects the increasing demand for cross-border products as the GMV from Lazada’s cross-border category grew by 4.6x over the last three years across Southeast Asia. In some countries, growth was 30x in the same period. According to industry estimates, the booming eCommerce market in Southeast Asia is on track to hit USD240billion by 2025, surpassing previous estimates by USD40billion.
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‘Back to Roots’ Voyager tour by Google
Finally, Google has created a new ‘Back to Roots’ Voyager tour where everyone can follow the Temiars’ thirty-year journey from involuntary resettlement to their return home. The tour allows you to trace their resettlement route across the borders of their sacred sites, go on-ground for a look at their community today and discover what the future holds for this Orang Asli sub-group in Malaysia.
Shaped by previous Google efforts, such as 2018’s Google Earth Outreach initiative in which the Jakuns’ home village of Kampung Peta, Johor was mapped, and 2017’s ‘This is Home’ Voyager tour which featured the homes of the Semais in Pahang, the initiative will preserve the culture to create a more accurate reflection of the world we live in, and as more indigenous groups look to forward-thinking ways of protecting the past.
That's all, folks. Stay tuned for more NewsBytes at TechNave.com.
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