Microsoft Build AI Day Highlights – US$2.2 billion investment in Malaysia to accelerate cloud and AI transformation

By Hitech Century | May 3, 2024 |

At the recent Microsoft Build AI Day in Kuala Lumpur, Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft announced that they will be investing US$2.2 billion over the next four years in Malaysia to support the nation’s digital transformation which is the single largest investment in their 32-year presence in the country. The US$2.2 billion investment…

Microsoft Surface Go 3 on preorder in Malaysia from RM1,888

By Hitech Century | September 24, 2021 |

The Microsoft Surface Go 3 is a convertible Windows 10 tablet much in the fashion of their original Surface Go from a while back with a rear kickstand, an optional detachable keyboard and this time around, improved processors. Now, it’s available on preorder in Malaysia. As specifications go, the Microsoft Surface Go 3 is somewhat…

Meet Microsoft’s smallest and cheapest slate yet the Surface Go

By Hitech Century | July 11, 2018 |

Microsoft’s Surface series of productivity slates aren’t exactly the most affordable options for road warriors on a budget but their latest addition to the line dubbed the Surface Go may just be a winner as the brand has espoused that it is technically their cheapest and lightest slate yet. The Surface Go has a similar…

Microsoft Surface Book 2 lands in Malaysia

By Hitech Century | March 13, 2018 |

Microsoft expanded their family of Surface devices in Malaysia today and has added the beefily specced Surface Book 2 alongside the existing Surface Pro and the Surface laptop that hit the market a few months ago. The Surface Book 2 is up for preorders at authorised retailers and will be available for purchase from 15…

Iverson Associates now offers one the world’s hottest courses in Malaysia

By Hitech Century | May 25, 2017 |

The usual trifecta of desirable academic programmes – medicine, computer science and law – are what many students aspire to when signing up for a course but students in Malaysia can now undertake something else that’s beeing touted as one of the hottest courses of the 21st century: data science. For the uninitiated, it’s essentially…

Microsoft launches M-Powered portal to drive opportunities for those with disabilities

By Hitech Century | April 16, 2017 |

Microsoft Malaysia has just launched M-Powered, a unique web portal that aims to help drive employment and entrepreneurship for people with disabilities. The portal was launched on a sunny Thursday morning on April 13 2017 by delegates from Microsoft as well as worthies from the government and other representatives from non-profit organisations such as MaGIC,…

[Review] Asus Transformer 3 Pro – Taking a stand

By Hitech Century | December 4, 2016 |

A powerful, svelte and high performing convertible with a few minor quibbles that make it fall short of being one of the best convertibles out there in the market.

Ministry of Domestic Trade teams up with Microsoft and online e-tailers to combat counterfeit software

By Hitech Century | November 24, 2016 |

It is a rare thing for all of Malaysia’s largest e-tailers – 11street, Lazada, Lelong, Mudah and Logon gather in one place but gather they did as they all took part in a first-of-its-kind initiative to unite together to combat counterfeit software. They, along with representatives from Microsoft and representatives of the Ministry of Domestic…

Lenovo launches Ideacentre Y710 Cube and other Y-series gaming rigs

By Hitech Century | November 15, 2016 |

Lenovo today took the wraps off their VR-ready Y710 Cube gaming tower that comes with an Intel core i7-6700 processor running Windows 10 Home, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU, 8GB RAM and sports a 2TB hard disk along with their Killer DoubleShot Pro Wi-Fi tech for lag free gaming. Two higher specced configurations will…

The new Nokia 216 Dual Sim goes back to basics

By Hitech Century | September 21, 2016 |

The Nokia 216 Dual Sim by Microsoft harkens back to the phones that made the Finnish maker a global titan once upon a time ago. The Nokia 216 comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA LCD screen, has 16MB of RAM and has a microSD card slot that supports up to 32GB cards, has a front and rear…