The Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur has long been a political trophy for the government and the opposition and the competition took a fierce turn after 2008. Journalist: Stephanie Sta Maria Video journalist: Hisyam Salleh

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Fighting the good fight for Lembah Pantai

Foursquare | Image Source : Socialmediaexaminer.com Smart businesses are taking Foursquare’s geo-location game to the bank.

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Foursquare : Geo-Location Game for Cashing in on Checking in

Nokia and BlackBerry-maker RIM continued to lead the smartphone market in the second quarter, but it was Android-running phones from HTC, Samsung and others that aggressively drove up sales figures, IDC reports. IDC has seconded recent second-quarter smartphone sales estimates that device shipment numbers have been soaring upward, with particular momentum coming from handsets running Google’s Android mobile operating system. The overall smartphone market grew 50 percent year over year, IDC reported Aug

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Image Source : Kodukup.com The Kodu Kup is a KODU GAME LAB game design competition for students aged 9 – 14 in participating schools across Australia, Malaysia and Singapore Key Dates : July 19th 2010 – Competition Opens August 20th 2010 – Competition Closes August 27th 2010 – Winners Notified Entry to the Kodu Kup 2010 is by invitation to participating schools in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore by Microsoft. Participating schools are those that have participated in teacher training for Kodu, provided by ideaslab (in a formal training class or using web-based training materials) or Science Centre Singapore, and subsequently invited to participate in the Competition. There are two competitions within the Kodu Kup 2010, a student competition and a teacher competition

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Kodu Kup – KODU GAME LAB Game Design Competition for Students

Image Source : Siliconindia.com Bangalore: Neel Joshi, 13 and his brother Deep, 11, class eight and class six students of Thakur Vidya Mandir School at Kandivali East in Mumbai are on their way to become India’s youngest MBA graduates as they have finished their first semester MBA with distinction from an institute affiliated to a U.S. varsity. The teen prodigies are pursuing their MBA from the Indian Management School and Research centre (IMSR) affiliated to the University of Northeast Virginia, reports Bangalore Mirror

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Image Source : 88db.com As a software engineer, this question comes up fairly often “Should you specialize in a technology”. Right now the question is there because the large number of Java developers are wondering whether they should learn Ruby or Groovy. For those asking the Ruby or Groovy question, yes learn one of them

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Should You Specialize in a Technology

YB Nurul Izzah binti Anwar, Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai telah melancarkan C2AGE 2010 pada pagi 17 Julai 2010 yang lalu di Tropicana City Mall. Tujuan acara ini diadakan adalah untuk memperkenalkan subkultur cosplay dan anime, …

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YB Nurul Izzah binti Anwar, Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai telah melancarkan C2AGE 2010 pada pagi 17 Julai 2010 yang lalu di Tropicana City Mall. Tujuan acara ini diadakan adalah untuk memperkenalkan subkultur cosplay dan anime, …

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Finally managed to view my new office/studio for the first time today. View from my front window.

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New office/studio: Centrio, Pantai Hillpark, Kuala Lumpur on …

Image Source : studenthacks.org Companies are doing a poor job of using social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to engage their customers and employees.

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Businesses Failing at Social Networking

Image Source : developies.wordpress.com Many people wonder why Google didn’t manage to build successful social services. Orkut’s success is limited to Brazil and India, iGoogle’s social gadgets aren’t popular, Friend Connect isn’t widely used, Google Buzz has a lot of potential, but not much success.

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Lembah Pantai MP, Nurul Izzah Anwar wants the government to make public the findings of the investigation into the death of PSD officer, Norhashimah Wahid.

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Disclose report on death of PSD staff