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mTouche Brings Interactive TV Offering To Thailand

mTouche Technology

KUALA LUMPUR, 3 Sept 2007 – MESDAQ-listed mTouche Technology Berhad (”mTouche”) together with UK-based Cellcast Plc (”Cellcast”) has successfully brought to Thailand an installment of the interactive TV show Insomnia, through their joint venture company, Cellcast SEA Limited (”Cellcast SEA”).

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F5 Networks Completes BEA Validation Program

KUALA LUMPUR, AUGUST 23, 2007F5 Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its BIG-IP® v9 products and the FirePass® v6 SSL VPN appliance have completed the BEA Platform Validation Program and are now verified to integrate with BEA WebLogic Server® 9.2 and WebLogic Server 10 application servers.

F5 customers are now assured that the F5 BIG-IP products (including Local Traffic Manager, Global Traffic Manager, Application Security Manager, and WebAccelerator) and F5 FirePass integrate seamlessly with the BEA WebLogic servers from BEA Systems, Inc.

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US Intelligence Agencies Go Web 2.0

US intelligence agencies are preparing to launch their own social networking site, codenamed A-Space. Unfortunately for us non-spooks, we won’t get to see it because it’s going to be an internal tool.

However, members of the intelligence community are divided over the benefits of having such a social network (quoting the linked FT article):

A female employee who had arranged a high-school reunion on MySpace asked why the community had not created a similar tool. That prompted a response that she wasn’t thinking big enough. But Mr Wertheimer says two other people immediately jumped in with concerns about a “counter-intelligence nightmare” that could cost US lives.

“That is very typical within the intelligence community of the approach to social networking tools,” says Mr Wertheimer. “The positive value is…not easily quantified. The negative, the risk for people under cover… is drawn out so starkly, even though it is speculative, that they tend to carry the day.”

But he says the intelligence community needs to consider that not sharing information can also cost lives, a lesson learned from the 9/11 attacks.

mTouche’s Venture Receives Global Investment Worth US$5.25 Million

mTouche Technology

KUALA LUMPUR, 21 August 2007 – MESDAQ-listed mTouche Technology Berhad (mTouche) today announces that global venture capital firm Canaan Partners (Canaan) has invested a total of USD5.25 million in mTouche’s UK-based affiliate Cellcast plc. (Cellcast).

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Small Server For Sharing USB Resources

KeySpan USB 2.0 Server

It’s things like these that make me go, “Now why didn’t anyone think of this earlier?!”.

KeySpan has introduced USB 2.0 Server, and it is a pretty wonderful device if it works as advertised. To put it simply, it’s a network enabled USB hub that can share two USB devices over wireless or wired networks.

This obsoletes the need to plug USB devices such as printers and scanners to a computer in order to be shared. Essentially, this will reduce scattered shared USB devices as well as save energy to power up redundant PCs just for the sake of sharing USB devices.

If you’d like more information, The Seattle Times has a nice write-up about the KeySpan USB 2.0 Server.