Technology

Telbru Showcases Upcoming Fibre-To-The-Home Services

April 24, 2012

Telekom Brunei Berhad’s (TelBru) new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure is expected to eliminate "70 to 80 per cent" of existing problems users currently face when online, according to company executives. Hj Emran Hj Hasan, general manager of TelBru’s FTTH unit, said the new infrastructure will give TelBru "more control" over the system, which will be much [...]

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Rolling Thunder take home BBSS Paintball Tourney Trophy 2012

March 17, 2012

By Guest Blogger Fatin The 25th of February 2012 marked an important day in the calendar for Bruneian students around the UK. It was seen as an opportunity to celebrate ‘Negaraku Brunei Darussalam’, Brunei’s 28th National Day. This very reason united 200 students from different Brunei UK societies at Warped Cosford Paintball Site. The annual [...]

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Two ISP’s Duly Peered

March 14, 2012

A deal was inked last week to link two domestic Internet systems, Telekom Brunei Berhad (TelBru)’s BruNet and Datastream Technology Sdn Bhd (DST)’s SimpurNet which will directly connect the two Internet Service Providers (ISP) without the need to re-route the domestic Internet traffic via an overseas destination. This is known as ‘peering networking’, which is [...]

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Telbru-UBD seal collaborative relationship

September 22, 2011

UNIVERSITI Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and TelBru yesterday sealed a collaborative relationship with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to at The Core in UBD. UBD Vice Chancellor Dato Paduka Dr Hj Zulkarnain Hj Hanafi and TelBru Acting Chief Executive Officer Hj Umar Ali Hj Abdullah signed the agreement before Assistant Vice Chancellor (Corporate and [...]

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AB goes walkabout: Microsoft Accelerating Asia Pacific Summit 2010

December 14, 2010

Am in Singapore for two days of open discussion around the theme of ‘Technology and partnerships enabling governments and helping local communities and countries to grow and innovate’. The agenda will include panelists from Microsoft and their partners, and will cover a wide variety of topics from technology helping solve problems related to education, workforce [...]

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Buying a car? Used or New?

January 19, 2010

Good news peeps! WHO’s Got Talent Season 2 is BACK! The competition is open to the whole of Borneo and to all ages. Bring in your talents, upload your videos and get voted! For more info and to join the competition, just log in to www.gayabmobile.com.bn. Bigger, Better Prizes awaits! We Dare YOU! Fancy a [...]

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A Legend is Reborn: Canon EOS 5D Mark II

August 7, 2009

A message from Mr BR: FREE BOOKS. This is the last time I am stating this. I am giving away 50 copies of my new book The Golden Warisan Volume 2 (so far I have given away 4 books) to history students. All I ask is that you send me an email stating your name, [...]

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YouGotSnapped!

July 22, 2009

Professional and social photographers finally have a platform which will allow them to showcase their photos, and earn money from it. Expansys Technologies, an incubatee company from the iCenter, has developed a virtual avenue for photographers. YouGotSnapped is the first locally developed application for Facebook, those of you who follow the blog, would have already [...]

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1.92 Terabits of bandwidth soon

July 17, 2009

Update 11th November 2009: THE Asia-America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable network announced the completion of its comprehensive test requirement for the project that will link Brunei and other Southeast Asian nations with East Asia and the United States. In a press statement yesterday, Brunei’s Ministry of Communications said the completion of the project will now [...]

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A G1, an N97, and an iPhone 3GS walk into a room…

July 3, 2009

Since getting the HTC G1 Android Phone, I’ve been comparing it with the likes of the Nokia N97 and most recently the iPhone 3GS with interesting results. Here are the pics: Widgets on N97? G1 oso got QWERTY on N97? G1 oso got Which Dialpad more sexy? G1 loaded App Marketplace oredi… N97 still waiting… [...]

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b.mobile Loyalty Club Launch Part 1

June 27, 2009

These pics are more or less LIVE from the Mall, Gadong. More updates on the way

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More from CMMA 2009

June 27, 2009

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AB Goes Walkabout: CMMA 2009

June 25, 2009

Here are some pics from the recently concluded CommunicAsia Exhibition which was held in Singapore last week. The crowd this year was noticeably smaller and so were the number of exhibitors. This may be due to the economic downturn and also the whole H1N1 situation. The highlights of the show were new phones from Samsung [...]

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Dialogue with E-Business Leadership Forum

June 23, 2009

Congratulations to the winner of last year’s ‘Think Big Business Plan Competition’, Rafiqun WDSI Sdn Bhd, on signing a Memorandum of Agreement with Something Corporation PLC and ITEC Intelligent Services. The signing ceremony took place last week at the Brunei Pavilion where Brunei Darussalam participated for the first time at CommunicAsia, an annual International Communications [...]

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Da Gangsta takes it up a notch

June 6, 2009

Looking forward to this event next week Its gonna be HUGE with a whole bunch of activities for everyone! Mark June 12th on your calendars people! Congrats dude and keep it up! Bandar Seri Begawan – Ranoadidas.com will be celebrating its sixth anniversary next week, Friday, June 12. The website is currently ranked No 3 [...]

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TBC Opens in Tutong

June 5, 2009

Happy 13th Birthday to Nia, AB’s number 1 apprentice. My how you’ve grown since you were born all those years ago… Much love from the AB Gang! Tuesday, June 2, 2009 TELECOM Brunei Sdn Bhd (TelBru) continued its commitment towards excellent customer services with the revamping of its counters at the Tutong headquarters on May [...]

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Launching of E-Government Strategic Plan

May 31, 2009

Still gathering my thoughts on the new plan. Stay-tuned for my post on this. Meantime, here’s the event at the Rizqun yesterday through my eyes

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ILM Academy – Developing Mind, Enriching Potential

May 22, 2009

Talk on Brunei’s Marine Ecosystem Tonight! Conservation International is engaged to undertake a study on Brunei’s marine life. Tonight they will be sharing their findings with the local diving community and getting feedback on how we can improve/enhance Brunei’s marine ecosystem, even build up our dive tourism here! Also present will be Dr Gerry [...]

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Drobo – The storage robot

May 12, 2009

2010-2011 Fulbright Scholarship Now open for applications. Click here to find out more. Last weekend, AV Electronics launched Drobo, the first fully automated storage robot from Data Robotics Inc. It is designed to ensure that data is always protected, storage capacity is unlimited and it is exceptionally easy to expand. Exclusively available only at AV [...]

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That time when the drain collapsed…

April 14, 2009

Searching for that Lexus. A woman was killed in a hit-and-run case yesterday. According to the Royal Brunei Police Force, the accident took place along the Muara/Tutong Expressway near the Nakhoda Ragam Vocational School in Lambak Kanan around 9.15am. The police said the 47-year-old New Zealand national was cycling along the expressway heading towards the [...]