the(new)mediaslut

Friend asked themediaslut,"When is Good Friday, this year?"

themediaslut replied, "Friday?" 

themediaslut had a short business trip t.o Bangkok on Tuesday and was back as early as Wednesday.

There wasn’t much of a chance for themediaslut to take photos of Bangkok but only shots of the open skies.

Everything themediaslut looks out of an airplane, it remains her how big the world is..

Boo remembers a time when discounted call cards were called discounted call cards because they offered discounted call rates via Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP.

What happened basically is that you

1) buy a secret PIN number (on a card) and then

2) call a phone number (about seven button pushes) and then

3) key in secret PIN number (more button pushes).

This secret PIN is your gateway to making cheaper calls.

But do note the number of times u have to push buttons….

Now NasionCom has created a world first with hardware (B600 and B609) and service (Nasion1) to create a mobile VoIP service with up to 70-percent savings on call charges.

Executive Director Peter Tham says, "The Nasion1 mobile VoIP service works anytime, anywhere that has GSM coverage and mobile phone users can maintain existing phone numbers, simply by switching back and forth their existing GSM service to Nasion1."

Where WiFi phones can only work when there is Internet connection, NasionCom’s phones leverage GSM technology to go onto the IP layer. Boo is soooo impressed.

When users want low cost savings, they only have to push one button, as opposed to the usual way of soooo maaaaaany button pushes. However users still need to buy airtime via prepaid cards. Good news is it takes 6 months to expire. 

When overseas, roaming charges still apply… the more Boo thinks about it, the more Boo is convinced that the only advantage of this phone is the tech that makes it a mobile gateway.

However, two new phones in question have 1.3 MP camera, MP3 audio, MP4 video playback, video recording, 128MB TransFlash memory card….. all these for less than RM1K ler! But there is no EDGE or 3G capability or even Bluetooth… so theres not much chance of using this as a data device.

The big boss DID say that the phones were focused on voice (but they wont neglect data, so see how lar later…).

This world’s first product and service is also Malaysian-made… Boo is so proud.. it took more than RM10 million in investment on R&D of the VoIP tech as well as marketing of the product. SInce the tech is NasionCom made, there was no royalty cost that’s why phones managed to keep price down.

The 21st international franchise of Playboy will be published in the world’s largest Islamic community, which has caused some to call for its banning.

As such, the long awaited anti-pornography law has suddenly rose to prominence, with many parties issuing statements lambasting the local franchisee holder for even considering its publication.

However, ever since the fall of Soeharto, the media in Indonesia has been free to publish without any government interference.

Granted, there are limits, but even those have been nearly cracked with the various “crime” and men’s tabloids that occasionally print extremely risqué photos of models.

They’ve even printed those found on the Internet and Indosence wonders how would the copyright holders feel about that?

The Indonesian publisher said that the local version will be toned down, focusing more on its editorial content, and will be subscription-based with some retail sales in select bookstores.

Playboy itself has suffered significantly since the rise of the dot coms, and the tremendous amount of free online pornography.

Once the home of “art photos” and great articles, Playboy has fallen to the lowest common denominator that has plagued other skin magazines.

Could this be the resurgence of the new Playboy?

With new anti-pornography laws threatening to punish all acts (and its publication) that are deemed indecent (such as kissing in public, dangdut hip-gyration dancing, holding hands?), out comes a book to put things in perspective.

Media Indonesia reports that Eko Prasetyo’s book, Assalamualaikum: Islam Itu Agama Perlawanan! (Islam Is A Religion Of Opposition), talks about how religious leaders today seem to be more focused on morals instead of seeking answers to more desperate questions, such as eradicating poverty.

Muhidin M Dahlan’s article points out to the various Islamic-based institutions such as schools and hospitals that charge exorbitant amounts, much more than other “Godless” organizations.

The same perhaps can be said of other faith-based institutions around the world.

Why not focus more on creating jobs, providing free education, ensuring clean and healthy communities or volunteering your time?

Or is it better to find a topic that would definitely sell more copy, and thus guarantee coverage, in order to get their names in print?

Indoscene’ll keep you updated.

themediaslut is slowly becoming truely ASEAN as she welcomes Indoscene, from Indonesia, to the slut network of blog contributors.

Indoscene looks at the unbeliveable happening in his country publication scene today as Playboy is launch in Indonesia.

themediaslut wonders, "How come Singapore got Crazy Horse but no Playboy yet?"  

With news about Singapore’s Temasek Group buying over Thailand’s Shincorp, owned by the Thaksin’s family, themediaslut wonders what are Smartbrain’s thoughts on that?

However, if Smartbrain were to be in Singapore one day, themediaslut would like to bring Smartbrain to Thaksin’s for beef noodles at the hawker center opposite the Harbour Front.

Thaksin Beef Noodle also have  a branch in Clementi and themediaslut expects this beef noodle shop to sprout around the Singapore neighbourhood soon.

The tagline for the stall was as follows, "We are bullish about beefing you.

When Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived for the opening of
Thailand Animation and Multimedia, he was not flanked by ICT Minister
Sora-At Klinpratoom, nor was he flanked by Sipa president Manoo
Oradeedolchest.

Instead it was the chairwoman of the Software Industry
Promotion Board, Kruewal Somana, who was at the premier’s side.

Kruewal
also just happens to be one of the founders of Thaksin’s TRT party, but
surely that is just a minor detail.

Her role today is as the chair of a
public organization which obviously has nothing to do with politics in
any way, shape or form.

Aside from Manoo’s absence in the
proceedings, it was also clear that something was not very right
judging from Sora-At’s face. Here we see two people smiling and one…
not smiling.

Still, to be fair, a former high-raking insider at the MICT told Smartbrain Sora-At’s default face is like that… as is Kruewal’s face, so it
would be foolish to read too much into it.

Smartbrain will see if these theories hold true and see who stays and who goes once the inevitable cabinet reshuffle takes place.

themediaslut wasn’t at Malaysia’s PC.com Awards, her clones were.

This was the host, Cheryl, supposedly of Malaysia’s WOW FM Radio… 

She not really a geek, but still Babelicious…. She called AMD MAD, but that got INTEL clapping and cheering, so themediaslut heard. 

Another joke which got the only Aussie guy in the room laughing…

Cheryl was holding a mug of beer and said, "Here’s to 2006."

"Opps, I swallowed," said Cheryl.

"I usually spit."

There goes her protein free diet!!!

Apple couldn’t send themediaslut to MacWorld, like that Ian Tan guy for The New Paper, so the next best thing themedialsut could do was sneaked into the launch of the Apple Intel desktop and Mac at the Blue Room of the Art House.. 

During the Q&A, themediaslut heard a smarty-pants of a journalist asking this question, "So will we see the Intel Inside sticker on a Mac powered by the Intel Dual Core Processor."

The two presenters, EY Yeo and Darren Sng for Apple, immediately answered, "No! We won’t see the stickers on them."

themediaslut guess Apple TV and Radio ads will not have the Intel jinggle too. 

Prices of the MacBook Pro & the Mac Desktop (In Singapore Dollars)

Performance benchmark between 20-inch iMac G5 and PowerPC with 2.1GHz processor

MacBook Pro Architecture

Other features of the MacBook Pro

Software features

themediaslut also starting to see guys reading this site. Like this meesoto guy who calls themediaslut a  "very babelicious geek".