The Minister of Finance, Lim Guan Eng recently discussed the allocation of funds for Budget 2019. This article will highlight on the Minister of Finance's plans for information and technology for the upcoming year of 2019.

Today Acer has recently announced the release of two new gaming monitors, particularly the Acer Predator XB273K and the Acer Nitro XV273K priced at RM4599 and RM2999 respectively. The Acer Nitro XV273K will be available at all Acer Online Stores and authorised resellers nationwide starting mid November 2018 while the Predator XB273K will be available starting mid December 2018.

HTC has announced that the HTC Vive Consumer Edition and Vive Pro Starter Kit is officially available for purchase for the price of RM2999 and RM6099 respectively. The virtual reality headsets will be officially distributed by ECS ASTAR Sdn Bhd across various partners and e-commerce websites in Malaysia.

Shopee has announced the Shopee 11.11 Big Sale which will be happening on the 25 October 2018 until 11 November 2018. The sale will feature SST absorbed deals from brands such as L’Oreal, Universal Traveller, Siti Khadijah, Vivo, Tefal and Maybelline with up to 1000 products to choose from. Not only that, there is also up to RM1.1 million worth of Shopee coins from the Shopee Shake mini-game in the Shopee app which is available on either Google Play Store or Apple App Store.

In this day and age, most users fully rely on their mobile Internet to get their daily dose of news, information and entertainment on websites and apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, as well as Instagram. Not only that, it has to also be reliable and affordable while travelling abroad as well. In order to do so, they are expected to subscribe to a mobile prepaid or postpaid plan to access the Internet through their mobile number. We will be taking a closer look at the Digi Postpaid 58 Plan, Digi Postpaid 80 Plan and lastly the Digi Postpaid 120 Plan and why I feel that the Digi Postpaid 80 Plan offers the best value among the 3 plans mentioned.

Today Digi has announced that the new MyDigi Rewards will have even more rewards and deals every single day. MyDigi Rewards, which is exclusively available on the MyDigi app for more than 11.7 million Digi customers would be able to get deals and rewards from more than 500 brands brands across Malaysia.

Customers of Xpax can claim 1GB of free mobile data whenever they reload RM10 or more just by dialing *118*1*6# performing a reload. Since all prepaid plans and reloads are exempted from SST, you will be getting the exact value of the reload with no hidden charges involved. However do take note that the 1GB of free data is only valid for 24 hours from the start of the redemption.

HMD Global has recently released a short 10 second teaser video on their Twitter account. From what we can spot in the teaser, it appears to be heavily focused on gaming due to the “Are you ready to #GameOn” tag line at the end of the teaser.

In conjunction with the Malaysia Day celebrations, YES has introduced the KONFEM 4G LTE as well as the KONFEM TURBO Prepaid data add-on where users can enjoy unlimited data at RM30 for 30 days while the latter will provide a speed boost to their 4G LTE connection speed.

Recently two Huawei 7.12-inch smartphone has been spotted on TENAA and both is expected to come equipped with with a large 4900mAh capacity battery, Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 chipset which, 16MP + 2MP rear facing camera, 8MP front facing selfie camera, 4GB of RAM, up to 128GB of internal storage, and a screen resolution of 1080 x 2244 pixels.