Tech Talk

The Geeks talk about Elon Musk's Neuralink, how technology helped a paralysed man feed himself through the power of the mind, streaming taking over physical albums, the effects of blue light on our phones, endless runways in airports, Amazon's delayed release of their checkout-free physical shop, and Matt's King of the Crowd in this extended version of Geeks Squawk! See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Karamjit Singh, Jinn Xiung Chong, & Goh Thean Eu from Digital News Asia.com talks about:   0:08 - Digital Economy Conference in Sarawak 16:15 - Barcelona Mobile World Congress 23:18 - There Might Still Life in Desktop PC 27:29 - Malaysia's Independent Game Company,Weraku 32:17 - Samsung's Next Major Flagship Phone, S8 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Financial Service Institutions or FSIs all over the world are under immense pressure to stay competitive by adding new, consumer friendly digital services. In an already competitive marketplace, the need to innovate has never been more important. Yet, a recent Forbes report showed that only a handful of enterprises, about 6% of them, are currently capable of seeing the entire breadth of their cust...

Cybercrime is becoming an increasingly lucrative space: the World Economic Forum’s 2016 Global Risks Report estimates that cybercrimes cost the global economy $445 million in 2016. However, the cybercriminals are facing a new threat and it is not from security firms. The traditional process of digital thieves stealing data and selling them to fraudsters for a profit have bred a new type of c...

The Geeks talk about selling your browsing data, Jeff Bezos' spacecraft, Matt's King of the Crowd, and today's Geek Tunez! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Human beings are remarkably resilient creatures. Despite the best efforts of our planet to destroy us, we regularly show the ingenuity to cheat its dastardly attempts at turning us into a new genus; hominis extincti. Yes, you guessed it, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage wants to talk about disease. Again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cities are getting smarter. With the advent of Internet of Things, places are being connected, traffic lights talking to each other, buildings becoming more friendlier to mother nature and citizens living a better life. We live in the world of apps and we speak to Jeremy Lee, CEO of Social Ant, an organisation in Malaysia that helps governments & businesses to develop innovative technology sol...

The World Economic Forum is committed to improving the state of the world and is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. And on January 2017, the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and The Boston Consulting Group,...

The Geeks talk about how our privacy is being threatened by IoT, the spies amongst us and a vault of stories from Wikileaks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Game Time, we speak to Justin Ng of Gattai Games studio in Singapore about making a VR game for consoles with their latest upcoming title called Stifled. We also speak to Yi Wei P'ng of Kurechii Studios about making successful mobile games around the world. And a review of Battlefield 1’s first DLC - They Shall Not Pass. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we head into a cashless economy, digital payment methods brings not only ease of dealing with transactions but also a whole new security challenge. Wave is not new but is not a standard on all cards - be it debit, credit and ATM - which raises security concerns more than before. So how do we manage ease of transactions with new technologies and yet still being secured and safe? Nigel Tan, ASEAN...

The on-demand delivery services in Malaysia has seen some healthy growth over in 2016, as connectivity is at the core of today’s digital world. On the show today is the latest on-demand delivery platform called SEND and we speak to Dato TP Chin, the founder of SEND, to find out what makes them unique and the challenges in the market at the moment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

The Geeks talk about how microwaves aren't spying on Trump, facial recognition apps and how We-Vibe is being sued. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh together with Anushia Kandasivam highlights some of the latest happenings in the tech ecospace as they talk about Zalora's new e-fulfilment hub in Malaysia and what does this mean. Anushia talks about the overall big picture of the online food delivery service and MDEC's 2016 performance report. And we have Anand Krishnan from Endeavour to talk about the Endeavour's platform with 18...

If you’re a Fintech or IoT startups, options are galore for accelerator programmes. So we speak to Mahadhir Aziz of Cyberview together with Wilson Beh from Finnext Capital about the latest CLLA programme and how you can be apart of this. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We speak to a chat bot! And find out how all this is made possible with the creators of it from Hyperlab. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The robots are coming. They want our homes, our jobs, our children. They are hungry for the one thing they will never have: blood coursing through their veins. All nonsense, of course, as Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is here to point out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Geeks talk about the biggest WikiLeaks expos é , NASA's plan to send humans to Mars and the new clean energy island Tesla is building. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of Game Time, Jeff Sandhu speaks to Arata Naito of Sony Interactive Entertainment Singapore about the journey of the PlayStation console and where is it heading in the future. And a review of Ubisoft's double combo: For Honor and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands. Also, a special guest in Umapagan as we do a review of the Nintendo Switch and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild...

2016 was a fairly good year for Malaysia’s digital economy, especially in SME’s not just adopting technology but using it to transform, to innovate, to drive the business forwards. And there’s a good reason to believe it will only continue this year especially with the large industry players like Microsoft, who continue to reach out to a variety of SMB’s. So really, if you&...

Of late, cyber threats such as ransomware attacks are becoming rampant both in public and corporate sectors in Malaysia. In fact, we’re ranked 12th in the Asia Pacific and Japan region in terms of ransomware attacks according to Symantec. In 2015, there was almost 14 cases of ransomware attacks per day in Malaysia. That’s a lot. We speak to Daniel Yeo, Business Development Director for...

Fujitsu Malaysia recently introduced GLOVIAG2 to the local market, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that’s especially useful to manufacturing organisations. However it is also ideal for a variety of small-to-large businesses, including Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers to the automotive, aerospace, defence and electronics industries. We speak to David Teh, Head of Application...

Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about the leaked image of the Samsung Galaxy S8, rumours on Snap making a drone and a new dating app that uses facial recognition to match your "type". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A couple of weeks ago we outlined some of the advances that we can expect to see in science this year. Continuing the theme, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage takes us on a journey through some of the most recent medical breakthroughs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh, Sharmila Ganapathy, Anushia Kadasivam from DigitalNewsAsia.com talk about:   0:28 - TM's Internet business. 2:39 - GetDoc is reimagining their healthcare services. 8:54 - Strong USD is a mixed blessing to semiconductor players. 13:50 - Cradle's new investment product. 17:52 - Dah Makan now raises USD 1.3 million dollars seed funding, kickstarting their expansion. 32:21 - Jeff...