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Sebelum ini petrol RON97 naik 10 sen kepada RM2.40 pada awal bulan Januari 2011. Kini, bermula 1 Februari 2011, ianya akan naik lagi sebanyak 10 sen kepada RM2.50. Itulah laporan thestar, " RON97 petrol up 10 sen to RM2.50, sources say ".

For Android fans who want to have a fortune at the coming Chinese New Year, you want to get the special edition Android mini collectible figure — God of Wealth (cai shen). The Android Mini God of Wealth is an Asia exclusive special edition collectible which only available in limited quantity within Asia. The cute Android figure God of Wealth wears in red, smiley face, left hand holds a golden ingot, right hand holds a couplets shows “Here comes the God of Wealth” （财神到）. Yes, it has a cute hat, too! Now you can get it from TakenShop.com for RM38.80 (~USD$12.70). May the God of Wealth brings you and your family good fortune and prosperity!

Happy birthday iPad ! Launched on January 27, 2010, it’s hard to believe that a year has passed since the launch of this iconic device. More importantly it is hard to conceive of a world without it. Very possible that if it not for the iPad there wouldn’t be a PlayBook and a Galaxy Tab and a Xoom. So while we wait impatiently for the replacement to make its debut lets head on over to after the jump and scroll down memory lane to see how much the iPad has completely revolutionised the tablet computing world. Now that the pleasantries are over and done with, when are you going to whip out the iPad 2, Apple?

Finally, the most awaited affordable Android mobile phone Huawei Ideos has finally arrived in India. This phone comes at a time when 3G Services will be launching very shortly and also when Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is in place so that even CDMA customers can migrate to GSM for using this phone. So, let’s check out what are the feature set this phone comes with. In India this phone is launched in collaboration with AIRCEL . AIRCEL has launched this phone with exclusive free Internet offers. With this phone, AIRCEL Postpaid customer gets free Pocket Internet of 2GB per month and also attractive prepaid bundle offers like FREE Pocket Internet of 750 MB with FRC (First Recharge) of Rs.67 in selected circles on 2G Speeds. Please note that this handset from Aircel is not a locked handset which means that it can accommodate any GSM SIM Card. Specifications & Features First and foremost, straightaway this mobile phone comes with Android 2.2 version out of the box which means tha...

Fellow Malaysian bloggers are earning up to RM1 million annually and their revenue are taxable income. The first news in this morning that caught my eyes is about “Malaysian bloggers earn up $1 million Ringgit (~USD$327,500) annually” . “Wow! Who is that?” According to the daily [ Berita Harian ], bloggers, who post their personal accounts are now exploiting their blogs for business transactions or advertisement placements, earning an average monthly income of RM70,000. The daily highlighted blogger Mira Abu Bakar, whose highest monthly income revenue through advertising revenue was RM12,000 in 2008. Mira, who has been operating her blog Redmummy.com since 2005, earns an average monthly revenue of RM2,000. She admitted that she had to declare her side income with the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) as she was unaware about it until she received an audit. An IRB spokesman said online businesses including via Facebook were bound by the Income Tax Act 1967 and their income were taxable ...

Ekiga It was previously known as Gnome Meeting. It can be downloaded free. We can enjoy videoconferencing and VoIP calls through Ekiga. All H.323 compatible hardware and software can be used with Ekiga. We can use it with UNIX also. To use Ekiga, we should have SIP account. Meanwhile, to make PC to phone calls, you should have account with any VoIP service provider. Although Ekiga people recommend Diamond card Worldwide Communication Service but there are many other VoIP service providers like Vonage, Axvoice, Broadvoice etc. Gizmo5 It was earlier known as Gizmo Project. This is free software for pc to pc calls. Like other applications, it also has features like call recording, missed calls, messenger style text messages etc. It can be used for computer to phone calls too. (Editor note: Gizmo5 has been acquired by Google on November 12, 2009) Skype for Linux The most commonly used VoIP application is Skype. It has approximately 500 million users across the globe. The reason behi...

Firefox 4 beta is now available for download now and it is few times faster than previous version. Users are also encouraged to give feedback about the beta version. Firefox 4 has a slicker look and tab bar is at the top by default. Some new features are Firefox settings synchronization, tabs organizer, and new add-on manager that opens in tab. A major improvement of Firefox 4 Beta is the huge performance enhancements (few times better than Firefox 3.x). Refer to the chart below: I downloaded the Firefox 4 beta 10 for Mac OS X version. In order to test Firefox 4 beta in production, I have set Firefox as my default browser (I was using Google Chrome as default web browser). In my test, loading Facebook.com is about 1 second faster than Google Chrome. The memory usage is well kept under 300MB, while Google Chrome is a memory monster! In a nutshell, I like Firefox 4 and I will try it for a longer time to see if Firefox will return to be my permanent default browser or not.

Car manufacturer Mercedes Benz on Wednesday unveiled a chocolate-themed version of its Smart car in Tokyo, just a couple of weeks before St. Valentine's Day Car manufacturer Mercedes Benz on Wednesday unveiled a chocolate-themed version of its Smart car in Tokyo, just a couple of weeks before St. Valentine's Day. It was uncovered at the International Fashion Fair in Tokyo. The car looks as if it is fully wrapped up by hundreds of chocolate bars. The body and interior of the two-seater compact car were specially designed by Japanese accessory maker Q-pot for the fashion event.

Smart Marketing in Japan The clever "vending machine" pictured above is located in Japan. You can't really buy a smart car from it, but you can get brochures and info about the various smart models. Yeah, it is anti-climactic. Smart Car: Good and Bad The smart fortwo is certainly a mixed bag. While the diesel version gets in the 60+ miles per gallon range and can be run on biodiesel, the gasoline version is only rated at a combined 36 miles per gallons by the EPA . But that doesn't take away from the smart's impact in making very small urban cars more mainstream, and making other compact cars look bigger in comparison. Upcoming Smart-like Cars The teacher might soon be surpassed by the students: Toyota's iQ urban microcar looks like it might be more practical with its 3+1 seating configuration, and it will probably have better performance and fuel economy than the smart car in the gasoline model. There's also the all-electric Mitsubishi's i M...

  The replacement from Ferrari for the 612 Scaglietti model is finally here after much hype and expectations. The concept of this car comes from the well known Maranello, thus in turn increasing the expectations from the upcoming car. The car will be called the Ferrari Four aka FF. The FF is all set to become one of the most versatile models that the company has ever produced. A four seater with ample luggage space, the car is equipped with an all wheel drive system and a shooting brake body style. This year’s March edition of The Geneva Motor Show will see the release of the much awaited car.

The long-anticipated successor to the 612 Scaglietti takes the stage as Ferrari's flagship grand tourer. It carries four seats like its predecessor, but elongates the roofline for a shooting brake/hatchback body-style that offers plenty of cabin space and – with those rear seats folded down – as much cargo capacity as a small wagon. It may be the first shooting brake to roll out of Maranello since the legendary 250 Breadvan, but that's not even the extent of the firsts pioneered in the new Ferrari Four. It also carries the company's long-in-the-making part-time all-wheel drive system: the innovation is called 4RM, and while technical details haven't been revealed, it is said to be only half as heavy as a conventional system, helping the front-engined shooting brake keep a 47:53 rearward weight bias. Coupled with a sub-4,000 pound curb weight (some 110 pounds less than the 612), the HELE stop-start system previewed in the California concept from the Paris show also he...

10. Saleen S7 Twin Turbo Top speed: 2 48 mph (399 km/h) , 0-60 mph (0-97 km/h) 2.8 seconds. Weight: 2750 lbs (1247 kg). Steve Saleen introduced the limited-production, hand-built S7 on August 19, 2000 at the Monterey Historic Races. Until 2004 it featured a naturally aspirated 7.0-liter V8 engine with 550 horsepower. In 2005, the S7 was replaced by the S7 Twin Turbo, which featured the same engine with twin-turbo system packing 750 horsepower. The body of the S7 was entirely made form carbon fiber and until today it is the only car produced by Saleen not based on an existing chassis. Base price for the S7 TT was $585,296 and it was produced in 2005 and 2006 in very limited numbers. 9. Mercedes-Benz SLR 722 Top speed: 2 09 mph (337 km/h) , 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) in 3.6 seconds. Weight: 3900 lbs ( 1768 kg) The SLR range was started in 2004 by Mercedes-Benz and McLaren. Five variants in the SLR family have been produced – two coupés, two roadster versions and finally the SLR Stirling...

In conjunction with U Mobile BlackBerryservice launch, U Mobile has reduced their PAYU data rates from 1 sen per KB to 5 sen per MB! That’s a huge difference. This takes effect immediately today 21st January 2011 on all excess usage on U Mobile broadband plans. Based on the new PAYU usage of 5 sen per MB, that’s equivalent to RM50 per GB upon exceeding your bundled data quota. For power users, it is still recommended that you go for UB68 which comes with no excess charge if you exceed 5GB of usage. You can check out more details of U Mobile Broadband Plans here .

U Mobile offering FREE 6 months subscription for early birds & U Mobile’s BIS service also available when roaming into Celcom 2G areas. On device bundle, they are offering the BlackBerry Bold 9780 for RM1700 while the BlackBerry Curve 9300 for RM1075 on 12 months contract of the monthly RM40 BIS plan. Both BlackBerries will be covered with a 24 months warranty. On the mobile usage such as voice and SMS, there’s a special Pay As You Use (PAYU) voice plan that offers. Voice calls are charged at a modest 18sen/minute to all networks while SMS is charged at 5 sen to U Mobile and 12 sen to other networks. There’s no commitment for this PAYU plan so you just pay whatever you use on top of your BIS plan. UPDATE: U Mobile is also doing an Early Bird promotion where they are giving out 6 months Free BIS service on 12 months postpaid contract. This gives you a total savings of RM240. The FREE 6 months however only takes place from the 7th till 12th month of your subscription. 10. H...

Designed by interaction designer Kristian Ulrich Larsen, the Flip phone is convincingly something we all can look forward to may three to four years down the line. The party trick of the Flip is its three screens that can transform into different interfaces depending on what the user wants to do with it. The designer says that having three screens on a phone opens up a number of possibilities in dealing with the content on the device. Like the ability to expand content onto multiple screens or having multiple apps running on separate screens, it’s possible for the user to do a lot more productive, and creative things. Video presentation and pictures of the Flip concept Android phone after the jump.