Tech Talk

Cybercrime is now a global issue effecting millions of businesses every day. Asia Pacific, which has the highest number of internet users in the world, has recently witnessed a large number of highly sophisticated cyberattacks targeting well-known and respected companies. Parvinder Walia, Sales Director Asia Pacific at ESET, talks about cybersecurity landscape in Malaysia and how we can tackle the...

According to a joint study between IDC and the National University of Singapore, organizations in Asia-Pacific are expected to have spend USD$138 billion last year dealing with attacks from cybercriminals. In Singapore alone, nearly 2 billion SGD was lost last year due to data loss or unplanned downtime arising from illicit cyber activities. Trent Heisler, Vice President Worldwide Sales Engineerin...

The Geeks talk about Spotify's new features that targets all the runners and how Obama is finally tweeting! Also how you are able to have a drink or two just by using the power of your brain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After watching the new Mad Max movie, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has decided that the only salvation for humanity lies in the stars. But are we ready to start influencing worlds beyond our own? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia.com talks about why Shell Malaysia decided to move their IT department to Bangalore, India and why Malaysia's first tech billionaire (Goh Peng Ooi) will be all smiles this year. Also, he talks about Michael Yap, former head of Singapore's Media Development Authority and his own venture accelerator called The Co-Foundry and his bespoke approach to startups. See...

The Asia Pacific e-Commerce sector is experiencing an unprecedented boom. eMarketer estimates that by 2016, 38% of all business-to-consumer e-commerce sales will come from Asia-Pacific, while Ernst & Young estimates that the number of middle class consumers with disposable incomes and fast internet connections in emerging markets will grow from the current 525 million to some three billion peo...

Security will always be an issue that we’ll continuously talk about. From mobile security to enterprise security to Internet security, it’s a common knowledge that we’ll always be facing threats in any industry. Francis Seaw, founder and executive director of Xtend Services, a homegrown company that provides full integrated security solutions to institutions, businesses, home and...

Data lakes is one of the new technology buzz term that is emerging in the storage industry. Data lake is a large object-based storage repository that holds data in its native format until it is needed. Dmitri Chen, COO of EMC Asia Pacific and also a speaker at this year’s Communic Asia 2015 in Singapore shares more about how you can tap into its benefits for your business. See omnystudio.com...

The Huawei Honor 6 Plus is here! The battle for mid range smartphones with high end specs takes goes up another level as Huawei's recently launched Honor 6 Plus comes with features that could rival premium smartphones. But does on paper specifications relate to real world use? Jeff Sandhu gives us full breakdown on the things that matter to you in a smartphone; selfies! (and more of course). Here...

Hacking seems to be a daily fact of life. One banking hack in February is alleged to have netted the black hats an enormous USD1bn. Is it time to take the law into our own hands and hack the hackers? As usual Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has an opinion.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MaGIC hits 1 and MDeC launches MSC Status for Startups. How MDeC is looking to grow the talent pool in Malaysia? Also, the banks don't hold the future of banking according to John Ellis, the director of Enterprise Security Asia Pacific & Japan at Akamai Technologies. Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com wraps all this and more in this weeks tech thursday. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

Watch Tower & Friends (WTF) and Infinite Ventures (IV) has partnered up with Cyberview Sdn Bhd to come up with its Cyberview Living Lab Accelerator Programme that is in line with its plans to develop Cyberjaya into a global tech hub. Key focus areas include Big Data Analytics, Creative Content, Information Security, Mobile Internet, Cloud Computing, Green Technology, Wearable Technology, Biote...

So all know about 3D printing as Jeff Sandhu and Matt Armitage have spoken about it countless number of times on their Friday’s show. Today we bring in Peter Wee, Chief Operating Officer of Ricoh Malaysia, an expert in 3D printing, to talk about how it works, the role of 3D printing, limitations of 3D printing and every-3D-printing-else. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We speak to Patrick J Clawson, an information security leader, author and speaker and currently is the CEO at Regenersis Software. With more than 25 years of software industry experience and running high tech companies, Clawson has extensive experience in both domestic and international sales, marketing and operations. Joining him is Alan Puah, Country Manager SE Asia for Blancco and we’ll b...

The Geeks talk about how Elon Musk is planning to change the entire energy infrastructure of the world to zero carbon, how Facebook stole 50,000 residents of their nationality and the return of the ultimate mobile phone game; Snake! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s literally been years since we had Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage talk about life streaming. A fad that never really took off, it seems that life streaming is back and maybe about to hit the mainstream. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from  DigitalNewsAsia.com  talks about what Joel Neoh is up to with his new venture, KFit and finds out how it all works. Also on the show, The Star is running an interesting pilot aimed at disrupting its mother ship and how our beloved Nasi Lemak is getting genetically modified and Yelp is finally now here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The cloud computing industry is about to change again with new technologies taking shape and software services like AWS gaining traction compared to hardware services. One solution that aims to drive this accelerated growth is uCloud. We speak to Zeeshan Naseh, the President and CEO of Connectloud to find out what uCloud is doing differently and their focus in Asia. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

It’s not about whether you’ll be attack or not, but when! That’s the underlying theme and focus in this years Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) Vol 20 and it’s only right for us to speak to Nigel Tan, Country Director of Symantec Malaysia and Thailand to explain more and how we can protect ourselves and our business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Analytics has been in the forefront of any number of decision-making discussions, but is not ultimately a crystal ball or magic trick to reveal insights about customer behavior – one needs to ask the right questions. When it comes to implementing a successful digital strategy, it’s even more important for decision-makers to truly understand what their data can do for them. So how can b...

A new study released by CA Technologies titled DevOps: The Worst-Kept Secret to Winning in the Application Economy revealed that 82% of enterprises in APJ region already have or plan to adopt a DevOps strategy in the next year. That’s a staggering 12 point increase from last year’s figure. Ashok Vasan, Vice President Application Delivery for Asia Pacific & Japan for CA Technologies...

They say life gets lonely at the top. But life gets lonely at Internet cafes too. That's why the Geeks have discovered why the people in China have found to not be lonely anymore at Internet cafes! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week we asked Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage to come up with a show based on the Finnish language. He failed. Instead he decided to talk about The Internet of Things. So does anyone really want a talking fridge? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia talks about Astro's Raku App that aims to challenge Spotify and Deezer and why TM is unfazed by Video on Demand competition. Also on the show, he gives Keith Liu's verdict on the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In July 2014, our friends at DigitalNewsAsia.com featured a small company based in Ipoh specializing in computer-aided design or CAD software for electrical engineers that has a list of who’s who of global clients including Apple, NASA, US Army, Space X, GM, Ford and list goes on. Today we speak to the founder and CEO of that company, Thomas Yip of Radica Software and find out how did he ach...