Zoom-call gaffes led to someone getting axed, one in four bosses say
The pessimistic findings illustrate how workers are still getting accustomed to working remotely, which has become commonplace during the Covid-19 pandemic. Some Zoom miscues, like New Yorker magazine writer Jeffrey Toobin getting fired for inadvertently exposing himself, have been well-publicised. Virtual-meeting miscues include joining a call late, having a bad Internet connection, accidentally sharing sensitive information, and of course, not knowing when to mute yourself. The slip-ups can hurt businesses, leading to client defections, lost sales opportunities or missed deadlines, the survey found. The findings come a day after Zoom Video Communications Inc disappointed analysts with its sales forecast, sending its shares down about 16% Tuesday.
Source:The Star
September 01, 2021 05:26 UTC
My Say: Striving for societal well-being
The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) updated its 2019 Household Income Survey to account for what happened in 2020 via its Household Income Estimates and Incidence of Poverty Report. There was also the Salaries and Wages Survey for 2020, which complemented the household income survey, with equally startling findings. If resiliency, including economic resiliency, depends on social well-being as it is broadly defined, then policy objectives should be about developing and protecting social well-being. In other words, political continuity alone does not lend itself to enhanced social well-being. Over 60 years of five-year plans and supposed social engineering did not see social well-being being optimised.
Source:The Edge Markets
September 01, 2021 03:33 UTC
Ziyad loses appeal to overturn disqualification at Tokyo Paralympics
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian contingent’s appeal to reverse Ziyad Zolkefli’s disqualification in the men’s shot putt F20 final at the Tokyo Paralympics has been rejected. World Para Athletics released a statement in relation to the counter protest from Malaysia, Ecuador and Australia on Wednesday (Sept 1) morning. “The three athletes from Australia, Ecuador and Malaysia who competed in the men’s shot put F20 final under protest had their appeal rejected by the World Para Athletics Jury of Appeal. The athletes appealed this decision to the jury of appeal, who gave the teams the opportunity to present all the relevant information before making its final decision. “The jury of appeal upheld the referee’s decision and confirmed the athletes’ results as DNS.
Source:The Star
September 01, 2021 03:00 UTC
Imagination and Skittles helped this 5-year-old boy conquer Appalachian Trail
Harvey Sutton is known as the “Little Man” on the Appalachian Trail in the United States. They’d been hiking with Harvey since he was two, so the Appalachian Trail made sense to them. In this Feb 12 photo, Harvey (right) walks hand-in-hand with his dad Joshua, near Hot Springs, North Carolina, while hiking the Appalachian Trail with his parents. So often we’d get to camp and I’d be beaten and tired and Little Man would say, ‘Let’s play freeze tag!’” he said. Some other thru hikers gave Little Man toys, including a pet rock, Hot Wheels and a pocket watch.
Source:The Star
September 01, 2021 03:00 UTC
Earn a sweet suite-deal by getting vaccinated
SubHome and The VIP Pass rewards Malaysians with a one-night free stay. Anyone vaccinated in Malaysia is entitled to a free one-night stay at any SubHome suite within the peninsula. "We know the blow Covid-19 pandemic has dealt to the economy,” said The VIP Pass sales director Nicholas How. ‘We want to help rebuild the tourism and hospitality industry that has been hit hardest,’ said The VIP Pass sales director Nicholas How. It is also to motivate others into getting vaccinated as achieving a population that comprises a majority of vaccinated people will boost the economy while protecting people against the virus.
Source:The Star
September 01, 2021 02:49 UTC
Telegram reaches one billion downloads
The controversial messaging app is now one of the biggest. A year after it made headlines, Telegram has reached a major milestone: one billion downloads. The encrypted messaging app surpassed one billion downloads worldwide on Friday, Aug 27, according to Sensor Tower. Telegram thus becomes the 15th app in the world to have been downloaded a billion times or more. Many Internet users decided to turn to Telegram and Signal to communicate without having to go through the Facebook-owned application.
Source:The Star
September 01, 2021 02:26 UTC
JKJAV: Over 15 million of M'sia's adult population fully vaccinated
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 15,032,301 individuals, or 64.2% of the country’s adult population have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as of Tuesday (Aug 31), according to the Special Committee on Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV). JKJAV, in a Twitter post on Wednesday (Sept 1), said 19,741,754 individuals, or 84.3% had received their first dose, bringing the cumulative figure for vaccines administered under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) to 34,752,340 doses as of yesterday. It said 60.5% of the country’s overall population had received the first jab of Covid-19 vaccine while, 46% had completed both doses. On the daily vaccination rate, it said 261,768 doses were administered yesterday, with 115,473 for first dose recipients and 146,295 for second-dose jabs. PICK was launched last Feb 24 to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
Source:The Star
September 01, 2021 02:17 UTC
Helping women live well despite PCOS
United in their journey of living life with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), three women have joined hands to launch the “My PCOS I Love You” campaign. Together, they share their hardships and a passion to raise public awareness about PCOS while creating a safe space to help improve the lives of Malaysian women struggling with PCOS. “Over the last three to four years, I’ve met many women with PCOS who were misinformed or misdiagnosed. By setting up a support group, the founders of My PCOS I Love You hope to help women living with PCOS lead healthy and active lives. In the support group, women can share their trials and triumphs in living with PCOS, receive the latest research or findings on PCOS, and a guide to effectively treating PCOS long-term.
Source:The Star
September 01, 2021 01:52 UTC
Focus on herd immunity first, booster shots later, say experts
As of Aug 28, some 61.1 percent of the country’s population or 14,297,962 individuals have completed both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV). Later on, when there is enough data and vaccines, then only we could consider to give them booster shots," he said. Dr Zainal said there is a need to have proper planning from the government whether to give mix-matching vaccines and booster shots to prevent the VoC of the virus. It might be confusing people if we implement either mix-matching vaccines or booster shots for now. Lambe advises the public to trust the regulator and take whatever brand of approved COVID-19 vaccine is offered to them without judging.
Source:The Edge Markets
September 01, 2021 01:07 UTC
Instagram wants to know your birthday – and it’s for your own good
Instagram wants to know your birth date! Not to wish you a happy birthday, but to better control the type of content viewers see, based on age. Instagram intends to make it mandatory for you to provide your date of birth if you want to continue using its service. Instagram plans to make this information mandatory: “First, we’ll start to ask you for your birthday when you open Instagram. Young people under 16 years old could see their account switched to private mode by default – a measure taken by the American giant to improve the protection of its young users.
Source:The Star
September 01, 2021 00:22 UTC
Super App soaring on e-commerce
PETALING JAYA: AirAsia Super App is riding on the e-commerce wave to deepen its presence and offer its services domestically and regionally. Airasia Super App chief executive officer Amanda Woo said the surge of e-commerce activities bodes well for the group’s e-commerce business. Airasia Super App is an entity under airasia Digital. The super app currently offers food delivery, ride-hailing, flight ticket booking, grocery shopping and an e-commerce platform for beauty products. Apart from the Klang Valley, our food delivery platform, airasia food, can be found in Seremban, Kota Kinabalu, Penang, Johor, Melaka, and even Singapore.
Source:The Star
August 31, 2021 23:58 UTC
Two held over e-commerce fraud on social media
KUALA LUMPUR: Two individuals were arrested on Aug 8 over suspicion of being the masterminds of an e-commerce fraud on Instagram, which caused losses of over RM153,759. Mohd Kamarudin said the two local suspects, aged 32 and 53, were being remanded to assist in investigations under Section 420 of the Penal Code for fraud. He also shared that there was a total of 15,786 cases of fraudulent online or e-commerce sales involving losses totalling RM110mil from the beginning of 2019 until Aug 30. As at Aug 30, a total of 6,428 cases have been recorded involving losses worth RM41mill this year. “The public are also encouraged to verify bank accounts and phone numbers through http://ccid.rmp.gov.my/semakmule/ to identify if these numbers have been used in previous fraud cases,” he added.
Source:The Star
August 31, 2021 23:55 UTC
Road tax renewal for private vehicles begins at Puspakom today
KUALA LUMPUR: The renewal of road tax for private vehicles can now be done at the Computerised Vehicle Inspection Centre or Puspakom beginning today. “The early phase of the implementation of road tax renewals will only involve privately-owned vehicles that are either individually owned or registered under a company. “Later, the initiative will be expanded to services like renewals of motorcycle road tax and e-hailing vehicles. “Prior to this, all road tax renewal transactions at Puspakom only involved goods vehicles weighing under 7,500kg (decontrolled) which we began doing last year,” said the department in a statement. “Those wishing to make online road tax renewals at Puspakom will have to make online appointments at https://lkm-appoinment.puspakom.com.my.
Source:The Star
August 31, 2021 23:48 UTC
Covid-19 community spread in KK worrying
KOTA KINABALU: Community spread remains a key concern for the authorities in Sabah as the state recorded 2,594 new Covid-19 cases after two days of declining numbers. State Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun (pic) said that although 1,573 (60.6%) new cases were from direct contact, the number of cases from the community was rising as 787 (29.4%) cases were detected from symptomatic screening. It is difficult to pinpoint its origin as the virus is already within the community,” he said. He said that sporadic cases accounted for 44.6% of the new cases in Tawau, Penampang (41.4%), Putatan (38.5%) and Kota Kinabalu (31.9%). Commenting on the overall number of cases yesterday, he said there was a sharp increase of new cases in Papar from 49 to 264 cases.
Source:The Star
August 31, 2021 23:46 UTC
Soccer-Atletico re-sign Griezmann on loan from Barcelona
MADRID (Reuters) -Atletico Madrid on Tuesday sensationally announced they had re-signed France forward Antoine Griezmann on a season-long loan from Barcelona. In one of the most eye-catching moves on Europe's deadline day, Atletico secured the return of a player they sold for a reported 120 million euros ($141.68 million) in 2019. In a club statement Atleti said the deal includes an option for either club to extend the loan arrangement by a year. Barca's statement also added that the deal contained an obligation to buy Griezmann, with LaLiga champions Atletico also paying the player's wages in full. Local media reports in Spain put the purchase option at 40 million euros ($47.23 million).
Source:The Star
August 31, 2021 23:43 UTC