Maybank is pleased to announce that it has today entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement (“SPA”) to acquire up to 100% of Sorak Financial Holdings Pte Ltd (“Sorak”) for a cash consideration of approximately USD1.5 billion (RM4.8 billion) paving the way for Malaysia’s largest financial services group to be the controlling shareholder of Bank Internasional Indonesia (“BII”). The transaction price was agreed on a willing-buyer and willing-seller basis.
Sorak is 75%-owned by Financial Fullerton Financial Holdings Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, and 25%-owned …

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 25, 2008 – Intel Corporation has further increased its energy-efficient performance lead today with the introduction of two low-voltage 45 nanometer (nm) processors for servers and workstations that run at 50 watts, or just 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50 GigaHertz (GHz). The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor L5400 Series takes advantage of Intel’s unique 45nm manufacturing capabilities and reinvented transistor formula that combine to boost performance and reduce power consumption in data centers.
Benefiting companies with power-constrained, high-compute density environments, the Quad-Core Intel …

RENTON, Wash., March 20, 2008 – Parallels today announced that its Parallels Automation data center solution now supports Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, a fully integrated customer relationship management (CRM) system. Parallels Automation provides a complete back-office infrastructure so service providers can go to market quickly and incorporate CRM into their service offerings.
Parallels Automation provides both operational and business support systems to help service providers optimize the use of server resources. Using a single login, service providers can deliver integrated offerings that include multiple services such as hosted Microsoft Exchange, hosted …

VoiceCon Booth 801 – Orlando, Fla. - Avaya Inc, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, today introduced Intelligent Presence, breakthrough software that drives greater precision, speed and collaboration using presence-based, real-time communications. Avaya Intelligent Presence collects and integrates presence information from multiple sources for a richer view of a worker’s status that can be supplied to both individuals and business applications to improve collaboration and business execution.
Avaya Intelligent Presence solves the challenge of integrating diverse sources of presence information from different vendor platforms using multiple …

Maybank today officially opened its AEON Bukit Tinggi branch, the first branch at AEON Bukit Tinggi Shopping Centre and simultaneously launched the country’s first instant redemption facility Treatspoints for Jusco shopping vouchers at the branch. The Treatspoints redemption will be available from March 15, 2008.
AEON Bukit Tinggi, Malaysia’s largest AEON Shopping Centre, also houses the largest Jusco store in South East Asia.
Maybank AEON Bukit Tinggi branch is Maybank’s fifth branch located in a shopping complex offering a complete range of services and facilities to cater to customers of the …

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the System z10 mainframe to help clients create a new enterprise data center. The system z10 is designed from the ground up to help dramatically increase data center efficiency by significantly improving performance and reducing power, cooling costs, and floor space requirements. It offers unmatched levels of security and automates the management and tracking of IT resources to respond to ever-changing business conditions.
In addition to the z10, IBM also announced it has invested $300 million in architects, technical skills, as well as design and …

TOKYO, Japan -20 February, 2008 - Symbian Limited today welcomes NTT DoCoMo’s launch of the FOMA F905iBiz which is based on Symbian OS™ and started shipping in Japan today.
Symbian OS is the global market-leading open mobile operating system for smartphones.
The FOMA F905iBiz, aimed for corporate-use handset, is manufactured by Symbian customer Fujitsu Limited and includes the MOAP® platform compliant with the latest FOMA specifications.
Symbian continues to focus on delivering a flexible, robust and open mobile operating system which gives handset manufacturers and network operators the ability to develop differentiated phones, …

On September 18, 2007, Pat Gelsinger demonstrated USB 3.0 at the fall Intel Developer Forum. USB 3.0 is targeted at ten times the current bandwidth, reaching roughly 5.0 Gbit/s by utilizing two additional high-speed differential pairs for “Superspeed” mode, and with the possibility for optical interconnect.The USB 3.0 specification is planned to be released in the first half of 2008, commercial products are expected to arrive in 2009 or 2010.
Backwards-Compatibility and Efficiency:
USB 3.0 is designed to be backwards-compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 and employs more efficient protocols to …

Handset Leaders Including LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Confirm LiMo as the Unifying Force in Mobile Linux
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, February 11, 2008 — LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, unveiled today the first wave of handsets using the LiMo Platform™—the world’s first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. Initial LiMo handsets are today confirmed by handset industry leaders including LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung.
LiMo’s technology will …

The Nokia N95 is an absolutely jaw-dropping incredible device. It would be doing it a huge disservice to simply call it a mobile phone. What can you call a jewel of electronic wizardry which incorporates a 5 megapixel camera, satellite navigation, media player, a full suite of PDA features and, oh yes, even makes phone calls? That’s going to be a tough decision, but I believe that there is a groundswell of opinion behind the term: “Mine!”
The Nokia N95’s two way sliding format lets you go slip slidin’ away to …