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11Street launches new Raya deals, reveals survey results of Malaysian spending habits

By Hitech Century | June 23, 2016 |

Spending habits tell a lot about people and online shopping portal 11Street surveyed over 2,000 Malaysians and how they are aiming to spend their money for this coming Raya festival season. According to the 11Street survey which they showcased at a press conference recently, 90% of the population surveyed believed that expenditures during the coming holiday…

Malaysia’s pioneer contestants for Adobe’s gruelling ACA World Championships are ready to rock and roll

By Hitech Century | June 22, 2016 |

To those who roam the lofty worlds of design and layout, the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) world championships are the trade equivalent of the Olympics meets an Ironman triathlon. Held in Florida every year, the event is a gruelling, strenuous, almost Herculean series of design tasks that are made to recognise the finest in the…

HTC’s sub-RM800 workhorse Desire 628 with octacore chip hits the market

By Hitech Century | June 21, 2016 |

If you’re in the market for a workhorse phone and you still appreciate the aesthetics that HTC offers, you’ll appreciate the charms that their new Desire 628 offers. The phone comes with dual standby SIM card slots, has a 5-inch HD display, a 1.3GHz octacore processor paired with 3GB RAM and 32GB of expandable storage…

[REVIEW] Huawei P9 – The Magical Monochrome Marvel

By Hitech Century | June 20, 2016 |

Huawei’s P9 flagship that comes with a dual camera setup co-engineered with Leica gets put to the test

[Free Stuff] Visit a mutant-cyborg infested starship and ancient Persia for free

By Hitech Century | June 18, 2016 |

If you’re keen on scoring some free games and have a fetish for sci-fi survival horror and fiendishly difficult Errol Flynn-style platformers you’re in luck. In light of Ubisoft’s recent 30th anniversary, they’re offering a free game a month u stretching all the way to Christmas 2016. The first game that they have up for…

The Honor 5C is official – costs RM799 with preorders starting 20 June

By Hitech Century | June 15, 2016 |

Honor’s latest budget phone is now official in Malaysia and will be available for preorders starting on June 20 on Vmall and Lazada. The Honor 5C comes with a 5-inch 1080p display, a fingerprint reader with an encrypted cache and a fast 0.5 second unlock. The chassis is hewn from brushed aluminium and looks surprisingly…

Oracle talks about the implications of the hybrid cloud

By Hitech Century | June 13, 2016 |

Enterprise computing is a different beast altogether from what it used to be back in the 80s when the idea du jour and the pinnacle of success was the establishment of your own data center and your own closed off tech infrastructure. The emergence of more reliable and faster broadband connectivity and drastically cheaper storage…

Honda launches new Civic starting from RM113,800

By Hitech Century | June 13, 2016 |

The tenth incarnation of Honda’s popular Civic sedan gets an overall sprucing up aesthetically and specswise with the launch of not one but three different variants depending on what floats your boat – the 1.8S which retails for RM113,800 (on-the-road with insurance), the 1.5 Turbocharged which costs RM127,800 (OTR with insurance)and the 1.5 Turbocharged Premium…

Gaze upon the glory of the improved Pipboy: Deluxe Bluetooth Edition

By Hitech Century | June 13, 2016 |

If you’re an aficionado of all things related to Fallout, you’ll be aware that there was a mock-up of a Pipboy that came bundled with a limited edition version of Fallout 4. Sure, it looked great but it wasn’t particularly well made seeing as it was little more than an elaborate phone dock with a…

You can create your own Deus Ex augmentations next year

By Hitech Century | June 12, 2016 |

In Square Enix’s dystopian sci-fi RPG Deus Ex: Human Revolution, you play as one Adam Jensen, a post-human cyborg who will never pass a metal detector without it beeping like a Pachinko machine gone bonkers. Almost every single bit of him is augmented from his eyeballs down to his arms and legs with all manner…