This week sees a bit more variety of happenings for our TechNave NewsByte 2019. There's SOCAR's promo, LG winning some awards at the first Asia Tech Awards, Mudah.my encouraging us to sell back stuff we might have bought unnecessarily, and more. Let's see what these are all about, shall we?
SOCAR end-year promos
With Christmas in a few days, SOCAR isn't about to miss out on the festivities and what better way than to throw in some promotions? What the car-sharing business has come up with are two promotions for all of its users to enjoy. These will begin from now till 31 January 2020.
First up is the 500 GrabRewards points that you when you use GrabPay for the first time to make a SOCAR booking. You will need both the SOCAR and GrabPay app, of course, so make sure to download the both then register GrabPay as your payment method. Note that the reservation value must be a minimum of RM50 to earn the 500 points. The points will be credited on the 6th of the following month after you make that reservation. For example, if you do it today then you will receive it on 6 January 2020.
Secondly, you will get 15% off on bookings made throughout December 2019 right up till 31 January 2020 when you register your bank cards as the payment method in the SOCAR app. The coupon will be auto-applied to the member’s coupon book upon registration and approval of the card in the SOCAR app. This promo is capped to RM80 and limited to one redemption per day.
LG wins big at Asia Tech Awards 2018-2019
The inaugural Asia Tech Awards 2018-2019 kicked off this year, adding a new event that acknowledges the greatest tech and innovation of the year to the calendar. And the big winner for this first year turns out to be LG.
The Korean electronics giant won two awards to cap off the year of 2019. First is the Best Food Storage Award for its InstaView Door-in-Door Series and the second is the Best Dryer Award for its Dual Inverter Heat Pump Dryer. Let's take a look at what the two offers.
The Door-in-Door Series comes with impressive features such as a well designed inner storage that ensures you use every space available and FRESHBalancer along with Moist Balance Crisper to keep food fresh with the right amount of humidity and moisture. The most innovative feature thus far is the one that allows the contents of the fridge to be viewed through the InstaView Door-in-Door panel.
Besides that, it can also be monitored through the LG ThinQ app, making it the perfect IoT setup. Through the app, you can easily set the refrigerator temperature, control HygieneFRESH+ - a feature that removes bacteria up to 99.999% and minimises bad odour in the refrigerator, as well as diagnose your refrigerator for any possible issues it may have.
As for the LG Dual Inverter Heat Pump Dryer, it is equipped with an inverter compressor and an inverter motor that offers stellar energy efficiency of A+++-10%. It is also capable of supporting a range of circulation speed from very fast to slow and also provides Eco Hybrid or Time Mode options; all of which is meant to greatly enhance the drying efficiency of a user's laundry while also giving you the option to be more energy-efficient or get those dry clothes faster.
In the meantime, the Heat Pump technology keeps clothes from shrinking or getting further damaged from heat and also comes with an Allergy Care Cycle, which dissolves 99.9% of bacteria and allergens such as house dust mites and pollen. Like the InstaView Door-in-Door series, it can be monitored using LG's ThinQ app. You can find out more about the event at asiatechawards.org.
Mudah.my and Isobar Malaysia Prompt Malaysians to "Kena Sell"
With all the online flash sales we've encountered in the last few months, it's time to ask if what we bought is necessary. Mudah.my thinks not and has launched a campaign titled ‘Kena Sales? Kena Sell!’ in a bid to help Malaysians declutter and sell unused goods on the online marketplace.
As new items make their way to users’ homes, the online marketplace is amping up its message to sell – offering users a way to earn back the money spent during the massive annual shopping spree. Set against the year-end sales period, the online platform is capitalising on the season’s noise to highlight its unique position as a marketplace that offers users a convenient platform to buy and sell anything, anytime, anywhere. The campaign, created together with Isobar Malaysia, supports Mudah.my’s mission to democratise commerce for Malaysians everywhere – reinforcing the platform’s value as a marketplace and differentiating it from e-commerce sites.
The "Kena Sales? Kena Sell!" campaign follows the online marketplace’s wildly successful "Memang Mudah" campaign, which was launched on the platform’s social media pages earlier this August. The videos have garnered nearly 21 million views on YouTube to date with its humorous storyline, where personified unused items were used to speak to the audience to help them see value in their preloved goods. For more information on how to sell on the platform, visit Mudah.my’s website at www.mudah.my.
New Netflix series Ghost Bride has some big stars
Netlix's has a new series that's more eastern in nature, a rarity as far as the streaming platform goes. The Ghost Bride is an adaptation of a New York Times bestseller of the same name created by Yangsze Choo. Set in 180s Colonial Malacca, Li Lan has been offered a marriage proposal from the wealthy Lim Family to become the "ghost bride" to their recently deceased son. The six-episode drama will be directed by award-winning Malaysian directors Quek Shio-Chuan and Ho Yu-Hang, written by an international team of screenwriters led by American-Taiwanese TV writer Kai Yu Wu, and stars Wu Kang Ren, Huang Peijia, Ludi Lin and Tian Tze Kuang.
GameBench now able to measure CPU usage on mobile devices
GameBench tools provide the easiest possible way to retrieve Normalised CPU Usage on an Android device for any app or game even if you are not the developer. In addition to the CPU Usage, the tools also report CPU Core States (Whether a CPU Core was online) and also their frequencies. For instance, an example chart for CPU Core Frequencies looks like below.
The chart shows a mobile chipset with an 8 Core CPU and with a glance you can see that the CPU Frequency was clocked up for the first 25 seconds or so and then the Android OS decided to clock all the cores to lower frequencies. In this case, the profiled app was loading resources from disk and as a result, had to operate all the cores at a higher frequency for 25 seconds. If you would like to try out CPU Usage for your mobile device, sign up for a GameBench Pro trial and have a quick go.
Citrix Workspace Live for Google Cloud
Citrix Systems has announced the availability of Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud. Using the solution, companies can deliver unified access to the G Suite apps employees need and prefer to use and fuel a simple, intelligent experience that improves engagement and productivity.
Citrix Workspace is a unified, secure and intelligent work platform that transforms the employee experience by organizing, guiding, and automating all activities people need to perform at their best. There are three main aspects to Workspace that will help.
First one is the microapps for G Suite, which can be used to streamline everything from booking
resources to sending event reminders and notifications to new team members. Next is Citrix ADC for Google Cloud’s Anthos for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. And finally, with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Machine Creation Service (MCS), IT departments can quickly and efficiently provision Windows-based Citrix workloads at scale and create a modern digital work environment in which employees can access all of the tools they need to collaborate and perform at their best.
Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud is now available for customers to use. For more information on the
solution and the ways in which it can benefit your organisation, visit www.citrix.com/google.
Tencent Partners with the Newly Established Global Esports Federation (GEF)
The Global Esports Federation (GEF) recently announced its official formation at a worldwide launch, with Tencent as one of the Global Founding Partners. The federation aims to create a value-based organisation cultivating collaboration and forging synergies, in order to develop and grow the connections between the esports community and the broader international sporting community.
This has set the future direction of esports, where the role of game publishers and providers in the field of esports is emphasised, and it also encourages conventional sports to consider ways and explore collaboration opportunities between game publishers. GEF is advocating the involvement of game publishers and providers by having Tencent E-sports join GEF.
At the same time, GEF sees an excellent opportunity for esports to learn from traditional sports in terms of experience in sports development, adhere to a "non-violence" stand, maintain fair competition, promote gender equality, prevent all kinds of malpractices and opportunistic behaviours, ban the use of stimulants, strengthen industry self-regulation, and care for players' development physically and mentally. GEF also believes that through organised and standardised activities that are in line with the Olympic values, esports will flourish in a positive and healthy direction.
Edward Cheng, who is also the Vice President of Tencent, is the one who has been appointed as Vice President of the GEF. He shared that Tencent E-sports will be cooperating with GEF focusing on areas, such as intellectual property, e-sports events’ organisations, talent education and training, business model, system and sustainable environment for the future developments of the esports ecosystem.
TikTok’s Best of 2019
2019 marks the end of another decade and a year full of creative expression. To celebrate, TikTok has unveiled the celebrities, creators, challenges, music hits and more that made 2019 a truly unforgettable year. TikTok’s Best of 2019 honours all the faces, tunes and special moments that made TikTok the standout platform to find wildly entertaining and genuine content.
This year, TikTok launched several first-of-its-kind campaigns that challenged users to grow culturally, mentally and physically. A few campaigns include the #TikTokTravel, #ExperiencePenang, #EverydayIGetBetter campaign, and more. You can find out more about TikTok or download the app for Android and iOS at www.tiktok.com.
And that's it for this week's TechNave NewsBytes 2019. Let us know if you think your news should be featured as well and stay tuned to TechNave.com.
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