With a reputation as the world’s premier student technology competition, the Imagine Cup by Microsoft is here once again as a platform for students across the globe to bring their ideas forward which could one day become the answer to the world’s toughest problems. This year, 30 teams out of 47 semi-finalists were chosen and flown to the 2012 Imagine Cup Malaysian Finals here in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah to present their project but only one will be able to bring their idea further to the 2012 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in Sydney, Australia this July.

“Having been in Malaysia for almost 20 years now, we are committed to help Malaysia transform education by providing students with the opportunity and tools to unleash their creative and innovative potential and imagine a better world. This is where Imagine Cup comes in: it showcases the inventiveness, maturity and sophisticated thinking of Malaysian students to address the world’s challenges in new ways and deliver innovative technology solutions that can truly change and solve global issues,” - Ananth Lazarus, Managing Director, Microsoft Malaysia.

In addition to the spot at the 2012 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in Sydney, the champion will also walk away with prizes worth RM 10,000. Not enough with that, the 2012 Imagine Cup Malaysian Finals also offers quite a number of other prizes such as Social Cause Award, Innovations Award, Presentation Stars, Windows Phone Challenge and Kinect Fun Labs Challenge as well as special award for top three mentors.

The Microsoft Imagine Cup Malaysian Finals is organized by Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka together with the Universiti Malaysia Sabah as the host and with the support from Prestariang Berhad, TM, Multimedia Development Corporation, Ministry of Higher Education, Sabah Tourism Board and Sabah State Government.

We will be here at Kota Kinabalu throughout the competition to check out these projects by the finalists of Imagine Cup Malaysia, so stay tuned for more. For the meantime, click on the Read More link for the scenes from the Imagine Cup Malaysian Finals welcoming reception last night.

We are pretty sure that you already know that the Samsung Galaxy S III will be available in Malaysia soon enough but you might be asking…how soon? Well, we don’t have the exact launch date for the time being but we believe that we are getting closer to it as indicated by an email that we received earlier today.

Apparently, Samsung Malaysia will be organizing a launch/preview event for Galaxy S III for Malaysian media members sometime next week. Obviously, we are going to be there to give the device our usual up close treatment for your enjoyment and we will also try to dig more information on its imminent release in Malaysia such as dates, pricing and other important details.

For the meantime, do let us know if you have any question or any particular part of Samsung Galaxy S III that we should check out at the event. You know the drill - just post it up through the comment section of this post, Facebook or Twitter.

11 years in the making, the much awaited Diablo III has finally arrived on the hand of gamers throughout the world. As one of two official launch events in Southeast Asia, the Diablo III launch in Singapore attracted massive crowd who started to queue for the game from as early as 6AM YESTERDAY.

Organized by Blizzard and its Southeast Asia’s distributor, Asiasoft, the event is attended by Blizzard’s Brand Director, Ben Hsieh and Project Director for Cinematics, Marc Messenger. Also present at the event are a number of well-known collaborators of both Blizzard and Asiasoft such as J!NX (represented by Malaysia-based Robotica Toys), NVIDIA, SteelSeries, Razer and Alienware, together with other partners such as Mountain Dew, BenQ and Digital Life.

While the picture above might not accurately describe the massive crowd that we mentioned earlier, trust us...it is real. Just click on the Read More link below to check it out together with tons of photos from the launch event that took place earlier today.

The launch event of Diablo III in Southeast Asia might only takes place tomorrow but here at Funan DigitaLife Mall in Singapore, eager fans have already queued up for the event – one of the two official Diablo III launch event in this region - since as early as 6AM. There is no doubt that the game certainly has some of the most hardcore fans around.

The launch area is still pretty empty though when we visited it earlier today at around 7PM and stumbled upon these guys. There were not even any significant structures around to show that the Diablo III launch event will take place at the area but that surely didn’t deterred these hardcore frontliners from camping there. They pretty much organized their own queue, complete with a makeshift signboard.

Well, stay tuned as we will bring you more scenes from the Diablo III official launch event here in Singapore tomorrow!

UPDATE: We've uploaded the quick interview that we had with the first gamer in the queue which you can see above. We also visited the queue once again at around 11:30PM and it has grown...even though it is now outside of the mall. Click on the Read More link below to check it out.