TM will be launching its next generation high speed broadband retail service at Dataran Merdeka Kuala Lumpur on 24th March, 2010.

The launch will be from 7pm onwards and there will be plenty of events lined up, including interactive exhibitions at Dataran Merdeka and will remain open to the public until the evening of Thursday, 25th March, 2010.

With the launch, the service will only available in limited areas, namely Shah Alam, Subang Jaya, Taman Tun Dr Ismail and Bangsar. At the moment, we have no idea yet how much it will be to subscribe to this new HSBB service. I don’t think it is going to be affordable to many of us YET but it is really appealing to enjoy broadband speeds of 10Mbps and upwards!

HHmm I wonder when it will land in Ipoh. By then, the price will probably be more competitive. Hopefully!

Facebook managed to be the number one visited website in the United States for one week from 7th to 13th March, 2010. Even though this isn’t the first time that Facebook clocked higher visitors than Google, according to Hitwise, this is the first time it managed to hold the lead for one full week.

However, do note that only the homepages of both websites were taken into account and if the full suite of Google web properties were calculated, it would thump all the other websites hands down.

I would say that the popularity of Facebook lies in the game applications that seriously, take up too much of our time. I must admit that because of the games, I too spend more time than necessary on Facebook. I don’t like it but I am hooked, for now, that is.

If you have a Facebook account, then you should be alert that an email seemingly from “The Facebook Team” is making the rounds currently. This email has the subject title “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation NR.9300” and it contains an attachment that has a virus.

Luckily, I have a good email client which not only marked that email as spam thus assigning it to the Spam folder, it also was able to detect the virus and removed the attachment before it hit my inbox.

I am sure many of us who spend a lot of time online is registered with Facebook so we must always be vigilant and look out for such emails coming in since phishers who managed to access our Facebook accounts would then be able to access many of our accounts with other websites from email to financial sites.

I have a few documents that I wanted to share on my blog so I decided that the best way to do so was to scan the documents, save them into a PDF file and allow readers to download them from my blog. This is easier said than done because I could not scan and edit and save in a PDF file directly because each scanned document had to be edited and I couldn’t do so just before saving the files into a PDF file.

So after scanning and editing each document, I was left with multiple JPG files per book. I had to figure out how to compile them. I know that we could do that with Adobe Photoshop but I do not have that program. Actually, most of my installed programmes are freeware anyway.

So I spent the whole of last night searching for suitable free programs that could do this for me but they all have limitations either in the number of pages that it could compile or in the file size. My scanned documents were large because I selected high quality output. I figured that some people would want to print out after downloading.

I have to say after searching one whole night and couldn’t figure out how to compile my images into one PDF file, I asked a friend who game me a solution so easy, I need to share it here.

Just open MS Word, insert picture one by one and select “print to PDF” which actually saves your file into a PDF file from the print option. Of course, you will have to install software that would allow one to print to PDF. My friend recommended CuteWriter but I dislike it because it installs the ASK toolbar onto my computer even though I unchecked the option. I opted for the free version of PrimoPDF. It also will install a lot of stuff to your computer but that’s not spyware like a browser toolbar!

I have to admit that the internet is a great platform that allows us to express ourselves but like everything in life, we have to know our limits. The Daily Mail (online) ran an article that says that one in three British students admitted to being bullied online especially on social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace, that have led to some suicides.

The internet is a great medium but it’s the people who misuse it that cause so much trouble. There is no doubt plenty of information online but as a user, we should know the right information from wrong. Life should just revolve around the internet, even though I see adults taking online life way too seriously too.

As for bully victims, suicide is not the way out because bullying goes by phases, victims change. The best thing about being bullied online is that we could just disconnect from the virtual world. Yes, we can do it even though most of the perpetrators are known to the victims, either through school or extra curricular activities.

Yahoo! Messenger version 10 is out and ready for download. A major new feature is its video call, taking advantage of faster broadband speeds and cheaper broadband connections around the world to cut the cost of traditional video calling on smart phones.

I just checked my own currently installed version of Yahoo! Messenger and it is just version 9. Even though I hardly use Yahoo! Messenger to chat now, heck, I hardly even chat at all, I still do keep it logged on most of the time that my computer is connected to the internet.

Now should be a good time to upgrade my version of Yahoo! Messenger to v10, if only to try out its new video call feature. Of course, I don’t like to do it with my online friends but would only video call people whom I really know personally. The web has too many strange people!

Anyway, if you have already tried it out, do drop me a comment to let me know how you like it. I don’t really like to install resource hungry applications onto my computer!

Following the footsteps of Google and Bing, Yahoo! has partnered with twitter in a bid to make its search engine more “real time” and will integrate the microblogging service across its entire Yahoo! suite of products.

It is not yet known how this will be implemented but from what we currently know, it will be one up against Google as Yahoo! users will be able to send out tweets from within a Yahoo! website. Google Buzz currently does not support this.

Currently, Yahoo! has already indexed tweets but the other integrations will only be expected to be launched later in the year. However, one could expect to receive tweets even via Yahoo! Mail. I think that one could easily be overwhelmed with tweets, most of which are nothing of importance at all.