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Packet One has launched its WIMAX service, P1 w1max, in Malaysia and extended the plan promotion to December 31st, 2008. During the promotion period, the WIMAX modem (worth RM999) is free for each subscribers.

Also, you save RM10 less on monthly charge for 2.4Mbps plan. Business plans are enjoying the same charges as Personal plans.

I tested the P1 W1MAX connection during the last PC Fair and it was good. Of course, it was not a real life test. An early P1 W1MAX tester complained about the stability of the Internet connection.

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Google Blog Search’s front page has been redesigned and now it tracks and groups the related blog posts according to the number of blogs about a story and the published time.

Google blog search front page

The new Google blog search looks very much like Google News. The related blog posts are clustered, and a blog count and thumbnail are displayed on the left hand side.

Clicking the blog count will dig further to the story and a chart on the right is showing the “hotness” of the story based on the number of blogs covering the story in the past 16 hours.

On the left most sides, the blog posts are categorized in different topics: Politics, US, World, Business, Technology, Video Games, Science, Entertainment, Movies, Television and Sports.

However, unlike Google blog search results, no feed is available for each blog topic. You can’t get the latest updates via feed or email.

For some tech geeks, the new Google blog search front page may look like a killer to Techmeme but Matt of Google showed the different.

Do you like the new Google blog search front page?

Google Inc. launched Google News in Malaysia on September 18th, 2008, providing 14.9 million Malaysian Internet users the latest news from more than 4,500 English-language sources, including a wide range of Malaysian media outlets.

Google News for Malaysia is available at http://news.google.com.my. With this launch there are now 56 regional editions of Google News available in 20 different languages.

Just like Google News, you can personalize the news page for your own preferences. What’s different is that Google News for Malaysia has “Malaysia” and “Southeast Asia” news sections.

Other Malaysian news are also given higher priority in related news sections such as Sci/Tech, Business, Health, Entertainment, and Sports.

What do you think of Google News for Malaysia?

[hat tip: Jana Ponnudurai]

Google Audio Indexing (GAudi) is the new member of Google Labs. The project allows users to search what people are saying inside YouTube videos.

GAudi uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken.

How to search audio in video?

Goto Google Audio Indexing, simply type a query in the search box and press the “Search videos” button. The results of your search will appear in the left column. Clicking the result will display the video on right column.

Currently. Google Audio Indexing only return results from (USA?) politicians videos. Google will do audio index on every YouTube videos and make them “speech-searchable”.

More information about Google Audio Indexing

Google Chrome is the open source web browser developed from scratch by Google. Available in beta in more than 40 languages, Google Chrome is a new approach to the browser that’s based on the simplicity and power that users have come to expect from Google products.

Features of Google Chrome

At the first launch, you will notice that Google Chrome has a very simple user interface. It has no menu bar, no status bar, and no search bar. All you got is a window frame and a tab at the top of address bar.

Screenshot of Google Chrome with multiple tabs and most visited sites (click to enlarge)

What’s inside Google Chrome is the Webkit web browser engine (same as Apple Safari) and the fast javascript engine, V8. Here are some of the features of Google Chrome:

Address bar — the address bar is combined with search and history quickly takes you where they want to go in just a few keystrokes.

New tab page — when you open a new tab, you will see a page that includes thumbnails of your most visited sites, searches, recent bookmarks and closed tabs.

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