This week we covered the Malaysian Unifi Triple Play Service from Telekom Malaysia and how it will affect Malaysia’s broadband usage and at the same time provide some competition to Astro with their IPTV service. Telekom being the monopoly in Malaysia, there isn’t really any competition for a triple play service.

We also talked about the impending iPad shipping and how we can get one here in Asia. We wonder why is Apple making it so difficult for asians to get any of these new tech. Actually almost every company does that to us. Well I hope we develop something in asia that we will not ship to the US until a later date. Go Japan!

The biggest issues or complains users make in most smart phones today is the issue of Multi-Tasking. It’s also a fine balance between functionality and battery life. We have identified situations where we need multi-tasking and when we do not need them the question remains, do we truly need it on a mobile device and should it function like a desktop multi-tasking?

We then talked about Twestival in Singapore. An Amazing event and support from the social network/media community.

Links after the jump

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1. UniFi
http://mytechnews.info/b/2010/03/misery-loves-company.html
http://mytechnews.info/b/2010/03/tm-leads-for-the-briefest-of-moments-then-decides-to-follow.html

2. iPad shipping next week
http://www.apple.com/ipad/

and how to get one in Asia or Wait?
http://mytechnews.info/b/2010/03/the-hour-is-nigh.html

Apple bought the iPad trademark from Fujitsu
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/that-was-easy-apple-buys-ipad-trademark-from-fujitsu/
http://gizmodo.com/5503047/apple-now-owns-ipad-entirely?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo)

3. Let’s address the issues of Multitasking on Mobile Devices
http://i.engadget.com/2010/03/26/entelligence-mobile-multitasking-is-mostly-a-myth/

4. Twestival Singapore 2010
http://singapore.twestival.com

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What we talked about:

1. Earth Hour 2009

2. The Long Awaited iPhone landed in Malaysia through Maxis

3. DiGi launched their 3G broadband

4. CatShit 1

the IT Channel Episode 1: Doing it in the Dark