Easy programming with ProjectMika
Reading Time: < 1 minutePROGRAMMING has been made fun and easy by ProjectMika, a Malaysian company who started implementing the importance of programming among the young generation. ProjectMika kick started their journey by educating primary students through private classes. With the support and demand received, ProjectMika then started penetrating into primary schools. The modules used to educate school students […]
Picture Power!
Reading Time: 2 minutesDato’ Norhalim Yunus, Chief Executive Officer of MTDC delivering his welcoming speech Members of the media interviewing Dato’ Norhalim Yunus Zeki Aydan, Global Head of Education, Motion Control Systems Siemens AG, Germany talks on Future of Manufacturing and Production: Educating the Next Generation About 500 participants attended MTCE2019 Participants listening to Anders Fogelberg, Managing Director […]
Look ma, no barcodes!
Reading Time: 2 minutesFOR SHOPPERS with cart loads of groceries, especially at hypermarkets, shopping will soon be a wee bit breezier. There will be no more long queues and long waits at payment counters as the process of scanning the products’ barcode will be a thing of the past. The ITxRetail, an ingenious bench-top gadget packed with artificial […]
Pre-empting intruders and fires
Reading Time: 2 minutesA SIMPLE theft can bother us a little too much. Good if we would detect and stop an intruder or a fire from happening immediately. Dr Mohammad Hanif Saad, a senior lecturer from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, (UKM) has invented an intelligent system called CAISER to help pre-empt untoward events that are about to happen and […]
Drones to buzz in digital agriculture
Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE ever popular imagery of Malaysian artists – featuring the buffalo, a plough and a tardy paddy farmer in a kampong scene may soon be iconised in art forever in the near future. Malaysia’s stereotype rural landscape is on the cusp of embracing digital agriculture – a matrix that will change the face of the […]
MTDC pushes Industry 4.0 at conference and exhibition
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE Malaysian Technology Development Corporation which champions the adoption and deployment of Industry 4.0 technologies (I4.0) among the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) convened industry experts at its recent MTDC Technology Conference & Exhibition 2019 (MTCE2019) in Kuala Lumpur. The two-day conference held at the TM Convention Centre featured speakers and panellists from Malaysian companies […]
MTDC, LKM tie up to increase commercialisation
Reading Time: 4 minutesSERDANG: Just last year, the cocoa industry alone had reportedly contributed RM55.5 billion in Malaysia’s export revenue. However, despite the growing number of researches that are being done in the country, there is a discrepancy between the solutions needed by the industries and what can be offered by researchers, especially from the public sector. With […]
MCOM captures Cambodian market in digital payment solutions
Reading Time: 2 minutesTECHNOLOGY is changing how we work, play and live our everyday lives. “To survive and thrive in today’s ever-changing world, businesses have to be fast and fearless,” said Ho Ki Mun, MCOM Holding Berhad Chief Executive Officer. Speaking to The Petri Dish at MCOM’s debutant on Bursa Malaysia recently, Ho said in regard to technology […]
Asthma monitoring gets easier
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew local innovation is world’s first with potential for assessing other respiratory functions. BANGI: A locally innovated asthma monitoring device is all set to create a new revolution in respiratory medicine, especially for the examination of asthmatic attacks in real time. Developed by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Penang Hospital, the gadget called Spironic is […]
Taiace diversifies to serve more industries
Reading Time: 3 minutesTELL us about Taiace and its beginning. How and what made you establish this company? TAIACE ENGINEERING SDN BHD was established on 16th June 1996. We started as a metal stamping tools designer and fabricator after the former company that I worked for ceased operation due to cashflow problems. I invited my friend Hairudin whom I had known for many years and as we share many common […]