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Honor users get 20% discount at Red Box every Tuesday until end of 2016
From April 19th until December 31st, 2016, Honor Malaysia and Red Box Karaoke Malaysia is partnering up to offer owners of Honor devices, a 20% discount on their total bill for their session at Red...
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YouTube now does 360-degree live streaming with spatial audio
YouTube has had its live-streaming feature available for everyone since December of 2013, after having lifted its 100 and 1,000 subscriber requirements in August and May of the same year,...
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Akamai’s Q4 2015 SOTI report: Malaysia at #73, #10 in IPv6 adoption
Akamai Technologies’ Q4 2015 State of the Internet (SOTI) report released on March 23rd showed a ton of findings, but it also has Malaysia-specific highlights. For starters, the average global...
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iPhone SE now available on Apple Malaysia’s online store
Now that most Malaysian telcos and even Apple Authorized Resellers have set May 13th 2016 as the release date of the iPhone SE, Apple itself has gone and open up its own sales for the iPhone SE....
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11street.my now offering handicrafts from participating Central Market tenants
Photo (left to right): William Wong, 11street’s Seller Development Manager; Shaun Yap, 11street’s Seller Development Manager; Jong Eon Lee, 11street’s Seller & Strategic Business General Manager;...
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Samsung Malaysia Electronics finally has an official online store, in Lazada
Samsung Malaysia Electronics has an official Samsung Authorized Partner store now on Lazada and is celebrating the launch with exclusive gifts and extended warranties. These exclusive product bundles...
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WhatsApp clients now available on OS X and Windows
WhatsApp just announced that it has released desktop applications for Mac (OS X) and PC (Windows). The Facebook-owned company said that this will give you “a new way to stay in touch any time and...
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12-inch Apple MacBook refreshed with new processors, longer battery life, and...
Apple, on April 19th, refreshes its 12-inch MacBook line to offer a newer and faster processor, as well as a new color option. The laptop succeeds the earlier 12-inch MacBook though it retains the...
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Razer Turret is a living room gaming “lapboard” and mouse, now in Malaysia
The PC gaming master race folks know all too well about this. They’re excellent gamers, but are always tied to their desktop systems and are envious of the console gaming people who have been enjoying...
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Homegrown Prepp lets you order, reserve a table, and pay, before arriving at...
If you have the phone number of your favorite restaurant, you can always book a table by calling it. Some also let you order the food over the phone. But what if you don’t know what’s on the menu, or...
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Facebook officially sets up shop in Malaysia
Facebook officially launched its office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 4th, 2016, just two weeks after it opened another office in Manila, Philippines. The KL office opened on May 5th, a day...
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Google announces its new Allo, Duo, and Spaces communications tools
At the recently concluded Google I/O 2016 event, the internet giant once again pulled another cloning experiment with the announcement of two new communication apps: Allo and Duo. Both apps are being...
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GoBear lets you compare credit card deals and travel insurance policies, now...
The team from GoBear, together with Iskandar Ezzahuddin, Country Director of Malaysia, GoBear (third from left) and Andre Hesselink, CEO, GoBear (fourth from left). GoBear is a new “metasearch” engine...
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The honor Band SS (Z1 with leather straps) is now in Malaysia
For those who are tired with Android Wear and Apple Watch, there are slightly more basic smartwatches out there like the honor Band Z1, and for what it’s worth (RM259), it could do quite a bit and...
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Spotify’s family plan is now significantly cheaper at RM22.40/month for 6...
On May 24th, 2016, Spotify’s family plan just got a whole lot cheaper, just in time for the mid-year school break in Malaysia (June 3rd–12th). You can now get ‘Spotify Premium for Family’ for just...
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The Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2, and all-new Pebble Core are now on Kickstarter
You would think that now Pebble Technology Corporation (Pebble) has been in this business for so long, it doesn’t need Kickstarter any more and would’ve just sell its wearables directly. But Pebble is...
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Google showed off updated Android N and Android Wear 2.0, introduced Daydream...
It wouldn’t be a Google I/O developer conference without the mention of Android, considering that the first I/O was held back in 2008, the year Android made its debut. Google kicked off its I/O 2016...
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AfterShokz Trekz Titanium bone-conducting headphones now in Malaysia
Photo (left to right): Mark Williams, official coach of Standard Chartered KL Marathon; Deric Seah, sales director of DISTEXPRESS; Ken Chen, chief technical officer of AfterShokz International; Daisy...
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The Huawei P9 Plus is now available in Malaysia for RM2,599
Back in April 2016, Huawei Technologies launched its P9 series of flagship smartphones which consist of only two devices at the time — Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus. We were taken by surprise a little...
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bumbung.co is a “tech-based” real estate site for Malaysian home seekers and...
bumbung.co co-founders Claire Berneron and Gadiy Lim bumbung, which claims to be Malaysia’s first “tech-based” real estate company, officially launched on May 17th, 2016. bumbung‘s website can be found...
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