The email claims to be from TM with subject titles such as “Verify Your TM Account” and threaten to shut down the user’s account if their account details are not “verified”.

TM would like to clarify that this email does NOT come from TM or any of its subsidiaries. TM would like to advice customers who receive the scam email message to delete it immediately, NOT to respond and DO NOT click links in the email.

If you have been contacted by anyone on this matter, please immediately report and verify this by calling TM UniFi Centre at 1–300–88–1221 for UniFi customers or call TM Customer Support Centre at 100 for TM Streamyx customers.

Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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Diablo 3 is an action role-playing game (RPG) by Blizzard Entertainment in 2012. The first Diablo game was released in 1996.

The game is available for pre-order [amz] before the release date: May 15, 2012. It has become the most pre-ordered PC game ever on Amazon.com and Blizzard.

“Today, it became the most pre-ordered PC game of all-time on Amazon.com – even exceeding pre-orders for Blizzard’s own StarCraft II and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm,” an Amazon rep said. [via]

What’s Diablo 3?

Diablo 3 is a mature content action RPG game. You choose one of the 5 character classes (Witch Doctor, Barbarian, Wizard, Monk, Demon Hunter) then kill evils you meet, complete missions, collect gold, equip your characters with armor, learn skills… Diablo 3 support single-player and multiplayer game mode.

Check out the video below:

Diablo 3 requirements

You don’t need cutting edge computer to play the Diablo 3 game. If your computer is not older than 3 years, most probably it matches Diablo 3 requirements. You need an Internet connection for single and multiplayer games.

The following is the Diablo 3 minimum and recommended system requirements:

Buy Diablo 3

Diablo 3 is available on Amazon for $60 USD. The DVD disc that comes in the box will work on both PC and Mac.

Diablo 3 collector’s edition

For Diablo fans, you may opt to buy the Diablo 3 Collectors Edition
when it is available. Beside the DVD game disc for PC/Mac, you also get:

• Behind the scenes DVD
• Collector’s Edition soundtrack
• The Art of Diablo art book
• Diablo Skull and 4 GB USB Soulstone
• Exclusive digital content:
  • Diablo III Aesthetic Artifacts
  • World of Warcraft Pet Fetish Shaman
  • Starcraft II Battle.net portraits

If you hate to wait for shipment, you may pre-order Diablo 3 (digital copy) on Blizzard website for $90 SGD.

My two cents

I am not a Diablo gamer nor a gamer. I played Diablo many years ago. It’s my teen-age-memory. Now I am tempting to buy Diablo 3. Plus, my old iMac meets the system requirement!

Any of you bought Diablo 3?

Update: Corrected the Diablo release year.

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P1 has won the GoMobile Operators Awards 2012 as Best Home Wireless Broadband Provider of the year.

According to P1 CEO Michael Lai, P1 users consume a monthly average of 17 GB of data, compare to 7 GB average monthly download in 2008.

Lai further enthused, “The honour of this (GoMobile) award foremost goes to all P1 valued customers, committed employees, supportive business partners, the Malaysian government and our Board of Directors who have been marching with us in this amazing journey of P1. Their strong conviction in P1’s success is driving the company towards wonderful achievements that we’ve never imagined ourselves. Every award that P1 receives truly inspires us to serve our customers even better than before. With this latest addition, we look forward to continue making telecommunications great for Malaysians.”

Also, P1 is having half price promotion for its consumer wireless broadband plans.

Disclosure: Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd (“P1”) is the 4G broadband sponsor of LiewCF Tech Blog. Contact me for other sponsorships.

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“The Avengers”(amz) is a great movie that I enjoyed very much. A Taiwanese company InfoThink has partnered with Marvel to come up with a set of The Avengers USB flash drives that every fan would like to collect.

• Captain America’s shield(amz)
• The Hulk’s fist
• Thor’s hammer
• Iron Man’s helmet

The Iron Man’s helmet is the coolest as the eyes (LED) will blink when the flash drive is reading/writing.

Price

Each is available for 4GB or 8GB. The price is $40 USD (8GB) on Amazon.com.

If you are in Taiwan, you may get them at a cheaper price on Yahoo! Taiwan Online Store: $900 TWD ($30 USD) for 8GB, $600 TWD ($20 USD) for 4GB.

[via DesignTaxi]

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Also, new subscribes can enter “iPunya Buy & Win” contest and stand a chance to win a Volkswagen Golf TSI and other prizes worth over RM180,000.

For P1 ForHome Plan (fixed wireless broadband), you get 50% off the original price for the first 4 months.

The ToGo plan (on-the-go broadband) now cost only RM1.30 per day for uncapped speed and 10GB monthly quota.

For customer who would like to subscribe to OnePlan (fixed and on-the-go broadband combo), you can get OnePlan 129 at RM93 (normal price is RM119) for the 1st 4 months (24 months contract).

The promotion is available for new subscribers only. Visit http://p1.com.my for more information.

Disclosure: Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd (“P1”) is the 4G broadband sponsor of LiewCF Tech Blog. Contact me for other sponsorships.

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Wanna buy Nokia Windows phone but cannot afford the Nokia Limia 800 or Lumia 710? Check out Nokia Lumia 610, the most affordable Lumia smartphone available in Malaysia now.

Price

Malaysia Nokia Lumia 610e retail price is only RM699 (~$233 USD) at Nokia’s branded stores and partner retail outlets. It is available in 4 colors: Black, White, Magenta and Cyan.

Specs

Nokia Lumia 610 is powered by single core Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 800MHz processor with 256 MB RAM and 8 GB internal storage (no micro-SD memory card slot).

The 3.7-inch display has 800×480 pixels resolution. 5 MP camera with LED flash, no front camera.

Default installed apps included: Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Microsoft Office apps(Excel, Word, Powerpoint, One Note).

Visit Nokia Lumia 610 page (Malaysia) for more information.

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DNS Changer malware is a trojan that changes the infected computer’s DNS (domain name server) settings, in order to divert traffic to unsolicited, and potentially illegal sites.

In plain English: DNSChanger could trick you into visiting fake sites and steal your data and money.

You are recommended to check your computer for DNS Changer malware immediately! Simply visit http://dnschanger.detect.my/ (Malaysia).

If your system is clean then you will get a message in green background (see screenshot). Else, you will see a alert message in red background and visit the removal page to fix and remove DNSChanger malware.

Visit http://www.dcwg.org/ for more information.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 is now official. It’s Samsung latest flagship Android smartphone and the official smartphone of London Olympics 2012.

I watched the online live video stream of the Samsung Galaxy S3 event. The presentation was bad. Made me miss the late Steve Jobs. Worse, there were already many S3 reviews published before the event started. No more surprises. The world read the articles before Samsung CEO took out the Galaxy S3 from his pocket at the event.

I found Samsung Galaxy S3’s tagline a bit funny – “Designed for humans”. May I ask which phone is not designed by human for human?

Read on for Samsung Galaxy S3 specs, features, availability, and my two cents.

Specs

As Samsung’s flagship smartphone, Galaxy S3 has the most updated hardware: 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos processor with 1GB RAM. Running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).

4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD display with a resolution of 1280×720. 8MP rear camera with and 1.9MP front camera. LTE 4G for certain market. Support NFC feature.

Some of you might be happy to know that Galaxy S3 has a 2100 mAh removable battery and microSD card slot supports up to 64GB.

The higher capacity of battery doesn’t mean more battery hours for Galaxy S3. I will explain my points later.

Design

With the great hardware, the Galaxy S3’s design looks a bit dull for me. The body is huge, with dimensions of 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm. It uses brushed plastic. Weight only 133 gram. Available in 2 colors: Pebble Blue and Marble White.

Features

Samsung has developed a number of unique features for Galaxy S3. Here are some highlight features:

1. Best shot

Samsung Galaxy S3 can take burst shots of 8 and automatically choose the best one for you. I wonder what’s the magic behind this?

2. S Voice

The Samsung version of famous Apple iPhone’s Siri. You can talk to your Galaxy S3 to to wake it up, set alarm, answer phone call, control music volume, and launch camera.

Based on my Siri experience, I hope Samsung S Voice would recognize our different dialects, else it is just another fancy useless feature.

3. Direct call

Want to call the person you are texting? Simply lift your Galaxy S3 to your ear and it will automatically call the person’s number for you. Love this!

4. Smart stay

Smart stay use the Galaxy S3’s front camera to track your eyes. If you are looking at the phone, it won’t go into sleep mode. It’s useful when you take minutes to read the content on the 4.8-inch display.

5. S Beam

S Beam is a combo of NFC and Direct WiFi to allow you sharing documents, contacts, pictures, music, videos, etc with friends nearby, wirelessly.

6. Pop up play

When you are watching video on Galaxy S3 but need to carry out another task, such as reply bosses’ emails, google for info, Pop up play allows you to resize the video window and have it floating above in another app, so that you don’t need to pause your video.

It sounds cool but it looks like a useless feature in the Samsung demo. The popup video is not too big nor too small, just enough to block your view and it becomes very annoying. You need to constantly move around the pop up video so that it doesn’t block your app.

I would rather pause video, launch app, done my task and return to full screen video view. Don’t you agree?

More battery juice?

Samsung Galaxy S3 has 2100 mAh battery, an upgrade from S3’s 1650 mAh battery. Larger capacity means longer battery life. However, Galaxy S3 has larger display and thus need to light more pixels.

Also, the “Smart Stay” feature needs to keep the front camera will take up battery juice to be activated all the time to track your eyes. (of course, we believe there’s option to disable the feature)

Therefore, I believe you will get same battery life as S2 if not lesser.

Price and availability

Samsung Galaxy S3 will be available in Europe at the end of May 2012. North America get it in June. Asia, this summer.

Samsung is yet to reveal the S3 pricing. Will update when we get the info.

My two cents

Many friends felt disappointed about Samsung Galaxy S3. Plastic body, ugly design. Little hardware upgrade from S2, only matches the recent HTC One X. Camera burst shots that we seen on HTC One, Siri-like S Voice, and useless pop up play. Though, Smart Stay is an interesting idea that we would like to test.

In a nutshell, I don’t see any reason why one would want to wait for Samsung Galaxy S3 for month(s). My friend bought Galaxy S2 just 2 days before the S3 event.

What says you?

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RIM (Research In Motion) is showcasing the BlackBerry 10 Platform at the BlackBerry World 2012. The developer toolkit is available now for developers to build and test their apps in preparation for the BlackBerry 10′s launch in latter 2012.

Check out the BlackBerry 10 platform video below:

Visit BlackBerry Developer Blog for more toolkit information.

My two cents

It seems like RIM has given up physical keyboard and adopting more finger gestures and virtual keyboard. I like the word predictions on the virtual keyboard. It certainly helps to text faster.

[via press release]

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What I learned from the video?

High reputation page (many incoming links) and relevant content can have higher ranking than high PageRank site.

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