Tech Talk

The geeks warns everyone about the WAYN Social Network as Freda "accidentally" spammed everyone in her contact list and Google's fun query of the day "Do a barrel roll". On a more serious issue, they talk about how Japan plans to backup the entire Tokyo and Anonymous Operation Darknet together with Microsoft's Kinect SDK. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back in the 1950s they honestly thought that the future of everything would be nuclear. Watches, our electricity, even our cars would be powered by this miraculous, clean and cheap energy sources. But dozens of nuclear power accidents plus this year’s incident at the Fukushima power plant in Japan where radiation leaked following the tsunami have shaken our faith in a nuclear future. Not so,...

With earth natural resources getting limited day-by-day, electric power and natural gas public utility has been looked at to replace this valuable resource in the future. Jörg Lohr, the Senior Project Manager Business Development at RWE Effizienz talks about e-Mobility See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the recent report on cyber-robbers in Malaysia, sensitivities around hacking in the personal finance space have heightened. This is especially so, since Malaysia is “renowned” for credit card fraud. Following Murdoch and Drimer’s team at Cambridge University regarding the usage of stolen cards, we’re going to be exploring the feasibility of skimming and cloning in the...

Ever walked into a bar and getting asked “What’s your poison?”. English idioms are something that has never really been tracked down and we tend to come with our very own idioms randomly. Thankfully though, there’s now an app called Gobby that puts users just a tap away from getting to really know their onions. Henry Playfoot, CEO of Stealth Education talks about how techno...

For many people, everyday things such as commuting, managing your household energy consumption and communicating with public authorities create a lot of frustrations. A new research from Ericsson concludes that these frustrations look very much the same across markets and suggests new services that could alleviate these frustrations and could create new opportunities for technology entrepreneurs....

The geeks talks about Nokia's new WinPhone device and the Nokia Kinetic Device followed by Sony's buying out of Ericsson's stake. Who is Ego Leonard? The geeks talks about this giant 8 foot Lego man found in Florida. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Once again, Halloween is nearly upon us. Now, in these Apple-powered days even the gates of hell have their own iphone app. You can check in at your leisure, choose your torment and bypass those horrible queues into eternal damnation. Matt Armitage from MN8 & kulturpop.com has cheated the ferryman for another day and has been looking into the fires of mammon to bring you some of the best and t...

Sebastian Barros from Ericsson Malaysia talks about technology and new dynamics at home See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Allen and Tim Cowie from The Light Surgeons talks about Live Cinema. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leslie Shannon, Mobile Broadband Marketing Manager at Nokia Siemens Networks talks about Smart Networks and also explaines how all this problems started with the iPhone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Geeks talks about the all new Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich alongside with the all new Motorola Droid RAZR and the MotoACTV Smart Watch. The future of mobile gaming with the OggBoard and the future without innovation as well perhaps with Google's new patent. Geek tip of the week is for Star Wars fans! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s 10 years almost to the day since Apple launched its iPod and changed the way many of us look at portable electronics. But what other everyday gadgets and technologies have we come to take for granted over the last 10 years? With us is Matt Armitage from kulturpop.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cost cutting, improving efficiency and yet still operating at optimum level. Sounds very cliché. But with technology moving rapidly ahead of time, nothing stops businesses from venturing out new systems that allows you to do just that. René Arbefeuille, Commercial Director and Ammar Qaffaf, Chief Information Officer from MyEvolution talks about M2M MVNO. See omnystudio.com/listener f...

A couple of months ago, Matt Armitage from MN8 and Kulturpop.com spoke about Gamification. Currently, we see a huge trend of Gamification and its become a word that is increasingly being used outside of the tech community in everyday business. Gabe Zichermann, an author, entrepreneur and the chair of the Gamification Summit NYC 2011 and Zafrul Noordin, Co-Founder and CEO of MotionWorks talks about...

The traditional IT stacks with its tight coupling of software and hardware falls short of supporting customer needs. IT departments are pressured to adapt to rapid changes in business requirements, meet the demand for 24/7 business resiliency and drastically reduce costs. But now, they also have the opportunity to leverage the immense power and attractive economics of cloud computing. Ed Lenta, th...

Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube and LinkedIn’s founder Konstantin Guericke. What do these people have in common? They’re all startups. Not many realize the potential of being an entrepreneur and even fewer knows how to take a startup to the next level, hence the failures along the way. Silicon Valley is here in Malaysia and Azura Rahman spoke to Dhakshinamoorthy or Dash, founder of...

Richard Thieme, a rare breed of fiction writers on cybercrime and espionage – discusses if the matter in itself is fact or fiction. Richard has published hundreds of articles, dozens of short stories, two books with more coming, and given several thousand speeches. He has keynoted conferences around the world and consults to the Pentagon, the FBI, and the US Secret Service. A very good liste...

The Citrix BYO or Bring-Your-Own Index report is a rolling primary research program that provides CIOs’ point of view on the adoption of BYO programs across Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Netherlands, the UK and the USA. Stuart Driver, Citrix Director of IT Services for the Pacific Region talks about this. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Unlike most other countries in the region, travel reservations have topped the rank in Malaysia’s e-commerce spending over the last few years. No wonder, as the heavy competition between carriers have made flights dirt cheap. But there are more goodies in store for the frequent flyer – as loopholes and bugs are discovered on some popular online travel reservations systems. Jeff Sandhu...

In 2050, about 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, putting huge stress on infrastructure and the environment. In a recent research by Ericsson Malaysia, they took a look into possible solutions to some of these problems: smart homes and car sharing. Sebastian Barros from Ericsson Malaysia talks about what is a Smart City? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

Our special tribute to the late Steve Jobs, the father of innovations in the 21st century. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It all starts with the customer. In business, this has always been true. But now a new breed of customer is dictating a new set of terms in the dynamic between buyers and sellers. John Mullins, Business Unit Executive, Lotus Software, IBM ASEAN Software Group talks about Smarter Commerce: The Next Shift See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the days of blistering fast Internet speeds, we tend to forget our technology root of dial up speeds and start to complain whenever there’s a slight hiccup in our connection. Steve Smith, chair and programmer of OMMA Mobile and OMMA Behavioral conferences from MediaPost and is also the Digital Media Editor at Media Industry Newsletter from Access Intelligence talks about 4G Internet Speed...

Dr. Kenneth Geers, U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Cyber Subject Matter Expert talks about Cyber Security. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.