The email claims to be from TM with subject titles such as “Verify Your TM Account” and threaten to shut down the user’s account if their account details are not “verified”.

TM would like to clarify that this email does NOT come from TM or any of its subsidiaries. TM would like to advice customers who receive the scam email message to delete it immediately, NOT to respond and DO NOT click links in the email.

If you have been contacted by anyone on this matter, please immediately report and verify this by calling TM UniFi Centre at 1–300–88–1221 for UniFi customers or call TM Customer Support Centre at 100 for TM Streamyx customers.

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Diablo 3 is an action role-playing game (RPG) by Blizzard Entertainment in 2012. The first Diablo game was released in 1996.

The game is available for pre-order [amz] before the release date: May 15, 2012. It has become the most pre-ordered PC game ever on Amazon.com and Blizzard.

“Today, it became the most pre-ordered PC game of all-time on Amazon.com – even exceeding pre-orders for Blizzard’s own StarCraft II and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm,” an Amazon rep said. [via]

What’s Diablo 3?

Diablo 3 is a mature content action RPG game. You choose one of the 5 character classes (Witch Doctor, Barbarian, Wizard, Monk, Demon Hunter) then kill evils you meet, complete missions, collect gold, equip your characters with armor, learn skills… Diablo 3 support single-player and multiplayer game mode.

Check out the video below:

Diablo 3 requirements

You don’t need cutting edge computer to play the Diablo 3 game. If your computer is not older than 3 years, most probably it matches Diablo 3 requirements. You need an Internet connection for single and multiplayer games.

The following is the Diablo 3 minimum and recommended system requirements:

Buy Diablo 3

Diablo 3 is available on Amazon for $60 USD. The DVD disc that comes in the box will work on both PC and Mac.

Diablo 3 collector’s edition

For Diablo fans, you may opt to buy the Diablo 3 Collectors Edition
when it is available. Beside the DVD game disc for PC/Mac, you also get:

• Behind the scenes DVD
• Collector’s Edition soundtrack
• The Art of Diablo art book
• Diablo Skull and 4 GB USB Soulstone
• Exclusive digital content:
  • Diablo III Aesthetic Artifacts
  • World of Warcraft Pet Fetish Shaman
  • Starcraft II Battle.net portraits

If you hate to wait for shipment, you may pre-order Diablo 3 (digital copy) on Blizzard website for $90 SGD.

My two cents

I am not a Diablo gamer nor a gamer. I played Diablo many years ago. It’s my teen-age-memory. Now I am tempting to buy Diablo 3. Plus, my old iMac meets the system requirement!

Any of you bought Diablo 3?

Update: Corrected the Diablo release year.

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P1 has won the GoMobile Operators Awards 2012 as Best Home Wireless Broadband Provider of the year.

According to P1 CEO Michael Lai, P1 users consume a monthly average of 17 GB of data, compare to 7 GB average monthly download in 2008.

Lai further enthused, “The honour of this (GoMobile) award foremost goes to all P1 valued customers, committed employees, supportive business partners, the Malaysian government and our Board of Directors who have been marching with us in this amazing journey of P1. Their strong conviction in P1’s success is driving the company towards wonderful achievements that we’ve never imagined ourselves. Every award that P1 receives truly inspires us to serve our customers even better than before. With this latest addition, we look forward to continue making telecommunications great for Malaysians.”

Also, P1 is having half price promotion for its consumer wireless broadband plans.

Disclosure: Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd (“P1”) is the 4G broadband sponsor of LiewCF Tech Blog. Contact me for other sponsorships.

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Also, new subscribes can enter “iPunya Buy & Win” contest and stand a chance to win a Volkswagen Golf TSI and other prizes worth over RM180,000.

For P1 ForHome Plan (fixed wireless broadband), you get 50% off the original price for the first 4 months.

The ToGo plan (on-the-go broadband) now cost only RM1.30 per day for uncapped speed and 10GB monthly quota.

For customer who would like to subscribe to OnePlan (fixed and on-the-go broadband combo), you can get OnePlan 129 at RM93 (normal price is RM119) for the 1st 4 months (24 months contract).

The promotion is available for new subscribers only. Visit http://p1.com.my for more information.

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DNS Changer malware is a trojan that changes the infected computer’s DNS (domain name server) settings, in order to divert traffic to unsolicited, and potentially illegal sites.

In plain English: DNSChanger could trick you into visiting fake sites and steal your data and money.

You are recommended to check your computer for DNS Changer malware immediately! Simply visit http://dnschanger.detect.my/ (Malaysia).

If your system is clean then you will get a message in green background (see screenshot). Else, you will see a alert message in red background and visit the removal page to fix and remove DNSChanger malware.

Visit http://www.dcwg.org/ for more information.

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RIM (Research In Motion) is showcasing the BlackBerry 10 Platform at the BlackBerry World 2012. The developer toolkit is available now for developers to build and test their apps in preparation for the BlackBerry 10′s launch in latter 2012.

Check out the BlackBerry 10 platform video below:

Visit BlackBerry Developer Blog for more toolkit information.

My two cents

It seems like RIM has given up physical keyboard and adopting more finger gestures and virtual keyboard. I like the word predictions on the virtual keyboard. It certainly helps to text faster.

[via press release]

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What I learned from the video?

High reputation page (many incoming links) and relevant content can have higher ranking than high PageRank site.

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Have you received your Google Drive invites yet? I got mine as soon as it was launched but many friends couldn’t get their Google Drive activated until few hours later.

Instead of a seamlessly upgrade from Google Docs to Google Drive, they receive a “Google Drive is coming soon” message and a “notify me” button.

Maybe it is due to massive user requests and Google have to roll out the new service gradually. You’ll get Google Drive sooner or latter.

Google Drive invites?

Image: Friend asked for Google Drive invites

My friend asked me if I have any “Google Drive invites”. I don’t see any thing like “send an invite” on Google Drive user interface as shown below:

Image: Google Drive screenshot

I will send out Google Drive invites if it is available later.

Tip: You might like to try your luck by poking Google employee on Twitter to get your Google Drive activated faster.

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BlackBerry OS 7 has been voted the most secure mobile OS for enterprise use, according to new research from Trend Micro (PDF).

The independent study evaluated today’s four leading mobile operating systems: BlackBerry OS, Apple iOS, Windows Phone, and Android.

The evolution areas are built-in security, authentication, data protection, device protection, application security, device wipe, mobile device management, corporate managed email, support for ActiveSync, security certifications, device firewall, virtualization.

BlackBerry OS has scored the best among the all. “Corporate-grade security and manageability make this platform the option of choice for the most stringent mobile roles.”, says report.

The 2nd place is Apple iOS. Windows Phone, though new in market, gained 3rd place. Android is the last, with lowest security and manageability in the segment.

[via press release]

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Google launched Google Drive today with 5 GB free cloud file storage. Like other cloud storage such as Dropbox (referral link) and Microsoft’s Skydrive, Google Drive allows you to sync, access and share files on the web, on your computers, and mobile devices.

Google Drive video:

For example, when you save a file in Google Drive’s folder on your PC. It will automatically uploaded to Google Drive server. Then, you can access the file on the web, your mobile device and other authorized computer(s).

Google Drive has merged Google Docs that you can share files and edit them together. File revisions are automatically saved and keep for 30 days.

With the Google search power, you can search for content by keywords, filter by file type, and more. Google Drive can even recognize objects in image and text in scanned documents (OCR).

Google Drive is seamlessly integrated with Google products. You can easily share videos and pictures in Google Drive to Google+. Instead of attaching an email attachment, you can now send a link from Google Drive in Gmail.

Google Drive on the web supports over 30 file types that you can open right in your browser without the associated software installed on your computer.

Upgrade options

Every Google Drive account comes with 5GB free storage. Google Docs and files converted to Google Docs format do not take up storage space. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for USD$2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or 1TB for $49.99/month. Up to 16TB available! Your Gmail storage will also expand to 25GB when you upgrade to a paid account.

Availability

Image: Google Drive folder on Mac OS X

Google Drive is available for PC and Mac, as well as Android devices. iPhone and iPad apps are coming soon in weeks. Linux users need to wait for Google’s future announcement…

My two cents

I am kind of disappointed that Google do not make iPhone/iPad app available at the launch date. (Maybe the app held by Apple?)

As far as I observed, the Google Drive app for Mac is only for you to upload files and access Google Drive files. It does not offer file sharing and revision view features like Dropbox app.

Google Drive is best when you work on the web: access files anywhere, open files without software, etc. Great for Chrome OS, the Google’s operating system.

Update: Some users do not get their Google Drive immediately. Read more here.

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