I was reading this article on Businessweek that gave me the impression that Groupon is on the path of implosion, at least in the U.S. The crux of the matter was the rapid expansion of the company internationally which is now causing check and balances to go out of the window. Case in point, the [...]

I didn’t take part in the Singapore edition of Adidas’ King of the Road race this year, but I made it point to run in the Malaysian edition that took place earlier this morning at Sunway Pyramid. This year marked the return of KOTR in Malaysia after a year’s hiatus, after THAT race in 2009 [...]

For Malaysians who have staved off the temptation to get parallel-imported iPad 2, the wait is over as the iPad 2 will be officially available in Malaysia this Friday, the 29th of April 2011. For those not in the know, the iPad 2 features an entirely new design that is 33 percent thinner and up [...]

The iPad was officially launched in Malaysia earlier today but as official resellers such as Machines and Harvey Norman drew up lines for the anticipated queues, there were no queues at all, just slightly busier stores. This was despite the fact that these official iPads are being sold at unexpectedly cheap prices, with the lowest [...]

Do you know that now you can purchase a contract-free iPhone from selected Tesco stores in Peninsular Malaysia? The 32GB model is going for a promo price of RM 1,999 and there are installment plans available. I saw the ad earlier today in the newspaper and according to the fine print, the promotion starts today [...]

I received an e-mail from DiGi earlier this morning regarding their iPhone 4 launch because I signed up on their Register Interest form not too long ago. It looks like DiGi will be launching the iPhone 4 in Malaysia next week and with the tag line: “The most affordable iPhone 4 in Malaysia is arriving [...]

Back when I was a kid, my dad used to get me issues of Quest magazine, a partworks magazine collection about science published by Marshall Cavendish. If you are unfamiliar with the term partworks, it basically means a written publication, released as a series of planned magazine-like issues over time. In the case of Quest, [...]

Due to the Multimedia Super Corridor initiative in the late 90′s, Malaysia’s ICT industry has grown by leaps and bounds. What started as foreign ICT firms setting up shop in Malaysia led to the growth of homegrown ICT companies which are no short on innovation and ever hungry for man-power. One of the sub-industries is [...]

What do you call a theory, in which it can only be applied to a particular person, and not anyone else. Whatever it is supposed to be called, I do have a theory when it comes to video games and me. Out of every 5 PS# games that I can get my hands on, I [...]

I don’t know how true is this but I heard that retailers and importers alike got together to fix the price of the first batch of Region 3 God of War III at about RM 200 a copy. This is significantly higher than a typical Region 3 version of a game, which usually goes about [...]