News & Reviews:   Office

In a continuous battle against online scams, our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is slated to officially open a new National Scam Response Centre (NSRC) office in January 2026. The new NSRC headquarters will be housed at Tower 2 of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) in Cyberjaya, shifting operations from its previous base at Sasana Kijang under Bank Negara Malaysia.

Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology might have gone too far managing its employees. The firm is putting its employees under surveillance with AI-enabled smile recognition cameras that only let the smiling ones enter rooms or book meetings. This is probably one of the most dystopic ways used to enhance the workplace culture.

It seems that Google has recently pushed out an update for Google Docs, Google Slides, as well as Google Sheets, allowing users to edit the files from Microsoft Office without the need to convert the files. Not only that, but Google also allows users to seamlessly collaborate and work on the same document in real-time.

Lenovo will be having a “Ber-Merdeka” sale in conjunction with the upcoming 62nd Merdeka celebration, where they will be having special deals on selected products. The deal will be ongoing until 30 September 2019 next and it will include electronics such as their IdeaPad, Legion, IdeaCentre lineup as well as Monitor with price starting from as low as RM419. 

Lenovo, in partnership with Microsoft, has announced that they will have Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019 pre-installed at no extra cost on selected Lenovo products. These products include the Lenovo IdeaPad C340, S340, S540, L340, as well as the Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO A340. The laptops currently goes for RM2799, RM2599, RM3499 and RM1799 respectively. The IdeaCentre AIO A340, on the other hand, is priced at RM2199.

A new partnership has been announced by Microsoft and Lenovo, which will see the company’s products to be pre-loaded with the other’s productivity apps such as Word, Skype and OneDrive.