Author: Digital News Asia

Samsung unveils world’s first curved UHD TV
Samsung Malaysia Electronics has unveiled what it claimed was the world’s first curved UHD television.
US$15K up for grabs in BOD accelerator challenge
Seed funding and cash prizes totalling RM50,000 (US$15,380) are up for grabs in the Board of Directors (BOD) Challenge, which was launched on April 6 and will run for 20 days.
IBM researchers enable secure notifications to mobile devices
IBM inventors have patented a cloud computing security technique that the company said enables app developers to ensure that data notifications are securely and confidentially pushed to and from mobile devices.
SEA's ‘GenMobile’ less attached to devices, more attracted to flexi-work
A survey of the new breed of employees dubbed #GenMobile found that the majority have a tendency of working non-traditional work-hours and in flexible workplaces, and own three or more connected devices (59%).
Vulnerable home routers expose ISPs to attacks, especially in Asean
More than 24 million home routers on the Internet have open DNS proxies which expose ISPs to DNS-based DDoS attacks, and the greatest concentration of such compromised routers can be found in Asean and China, said US-based Nominum.
Spotify opens its doors to Malaysian advertisers
Music streaming service Spotify has partnered with digital media representative Better Sdn Bhd to open the music service’s unique advertising platform to local brands.
Rocket Internet property portal Lamudi gets US$7mil for Asian ops
Rocket Internet said its real estate startup Lamudi has received almost US$7 million in new funding from a range of investors including Tengelmann Ventures, the investment company of retail giant Tengelmann Group.
Canon brings its Managed Document Services to the cloud
Canon has unveiled a revamped programme to deliver Canon Managed Document Services (MDS), including the availability of the MDS Cloud platform.
1337 to match-make startups with GLCs in new programme
1337 Ventures has announced its inaugural Enterprise Ignite Accelerator: GLC Edition, which aims to bring together startups developing technologies that can be deployed at government-linked companies (GLCs) with the GLCs themselves.
McAfee releases Heartbleed Checker for concerned consumers
With organisations around the globe already updating their systems to ward against the Heartbleed bug, security firm McAfee has released a free Heartbleed Checker tool for consumers.
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