Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp experience temporary outage of photos and videos

By Hitech Century | July 4, 2019 |

If you’re like the millions of people out there who rely on the services that Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp offers, you’ll likely have noticed that the service started going, how shall we say, a tad wonky from about 10.30PM last night Malaysia time with a commensurate spike in complaints on Down Detector all across the…

Aww, latest Maxis video shows an ‘appy family and open house invites to the public

By Hitech Century | June 26, 2016 |

The obligatory tear jerker short from Maxis is here though this time around it has a more appy message centered on teaching loved ones how to traverse the great tech divide. The clip also has another relevant message – Maxis is inviting everyone to their Raya open house at selected Maxis Centres nationwide on 15 – 17…

[Free Stuff] WhatsApp is now free. Yay?

By Hitech Century | January 18, 2016 |

Image of a phone with WhatsApp installed

If you’ve been hard up paying a dollar a year to use WhatsApp on your phone, you may now rejoice: WhatsApp announced in their blog that they’re now free: “That’s why we’re happy to announce that WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees. For many years, we’ve asked some people to pay a fee for…