Tech Talk

25 years after Lotus Notes, IBM is back again with a brand new email solution that borrows ideas from Google’s Inbox and adds Watson-powered querying to hopefully change the way you think about email. We speak to David Yong, Country Sales Manager, Software Solution Group IBM to talk about IBM Verse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In addressing one of the biggest challenges facing Malaysia’s Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Ingram Micro Malaysia and Microsoft Malaysia, together with Mercado have launched the Mercado suite of applications to enable small, local companies to embrace IT and boost productivity. Mercado’s one price, one company, one year model makes it more affordable, practical and scalable for SMEs...

The Geeks talk about Star Wars Episode 8 and a short review of BenQ's latest budget smartphone, the B502 and is it worth RM499? Also is the new MacBook worth your money? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the Apple Watch launching in a month’s time, 2015 is looking to be the first real year of wearable technology. Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has been looking at the implications of a world full of sensors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show, Karam talks about his visit to the official opening of Frost & Sullivan's new office is Iskandar, TM positioning to capture growth in smart cities and IOT space, wearable technology trends from the Mobile World Congress and also an interview with Dr Gabriel Walter, the CEO of QEOS on his acqusition of Centric with Dr Joy Laskar, the CEO and founder of Centric. See...

Last year, we spoke to the founder of Catch That Bus on how they came up with the idea and their business model. Recently, they’re again making some waves in the industry as the Alliance Bank SME Innovation Challenge Finalist and also the Microsoft Technology Award Winner. Ashwin Jeyapalasingam, the co-founder of Catch That Bus and Azizah Ali, the General Manager Director, Small and Medium S...

Today there are many consumer Mobile Messaging Apps but few satisfy the enterprise requirements. Sqoope is an enterprise class mobile messaging application by Talaria X, a Singaporean company that focuses in developing mobile messaging solutions. JS Wong, founder and CEO of Talaria X explains why the enterprise market have different requirements and how does Sqoope work. See omnystudio.com/listene...

Seeties is a fast paced Internet Startup that focuses on the SoLoMo or Social Local Mobile space and cherishes the invaluable elements of creativity, local community and forward-looking. Their mission is to build happy and meaningful things that matter to our daily lives. How so? David Lim, co-founder of Seeties explains. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There’s a lot more going on above our heads than you might think. In fact, there’s so much activity going on it the sky that it’s surprising there aren’t more traffic jams. Jeff Sandhu and Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage have had their heads in the clouds all week to bring you a round up of the latest technology and developments in aviation and space transport. See omnystud...

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com wraps up some of the interesting things that has been happneing in the local tech ecosystem including a chit chat with DiGi's incoming CEO and his visions, why FashionValet is now wiser, DNA's Personal Tech channel for consumer products reviews and news from MDeC on the gaming front. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Garpenstahl is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience founding and leading more than 10 companies. He has a successful track record from music, gaming and events industries. He is also one of the pioneers in the gaming and e-sports industry on an international level as he is the former owner and CEO of DreamHack. We speak to him about how Malaysian’s can benefit from ga...

In late 2014, we heard numerous stories on how modified Trojans are being used to hack into point of sale systems to steal payment card data and other sensitive information. Having a good and secure point of sale system is vital, as it becomes more lucrative business for cybercriminals. We speak to Nick Lim, the CEO & Kelvin Loh, the CTO of Vipix on how his Point-of-Sales system, Vipos, is dif...

Hugo Sands is an animation consultant, producer and manager with long experience in character animation and visual effects for TV commercials, feature films, music videos. He has more than 20 years of experience working in London at Passion Pictures and later became the Managing Director. He was instrumental in assisting Passion Pictures to become an internationally renowned innovative and academy...

The Geeks get serious with Pebble Time and give you reasons to why Apple should never make a car. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Armitage from Kulturpop talks about former US Vice President Al Gore and his new music making project Rhythms...... or is it? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about Axiata's results and why it is interesting there. Also, an update on his interview with MDeC's new CEO, Dato' Yasmin Mahmood, and why Sony is not winning the smartphone war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every year, IDC analysts come together to review the current year and discuss the emerging technologies and market changes that will impact and drive the future of Malaysian ICT market. Roger Ling and Alfie Amir will be talking about the top 10 most impactful ICT trends within a diverse set of technology domains such as financial insights, telecommunications, security, big data, enterprise mobilit...

According to recent statistics, nearly 20 million people are connected to the Internet in Malaysia, and another five million are expected to go online next year. A high double-digit percentage of Internet users in Malaysia shop online, motivated by price advantages, product range and availability of reviews. However, there are few factors that business owners have overlooked when it comes to decid...

The world is presently facing the Energy Dilemma. Malaysia itself is currently the 3rd largest energy consumer in SEA with population increasing at 1.2% per annum on average. As our population and economy continue to grow, we will need more energy. Soo Pow Leong, Country President for Schneider Electric Malaysia talks about ISO 5001 and energy management solultions. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Dassault Systemes is a French software company that specializes in the production of 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. We speak to Sharon Toh, Senior Director Professional Channel APAC South for Dassault Systemes about the latest Solidworks 2015 and also benefits of 3D design & simulations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

In November 2014, the Malaysian government has selected four universities and one polytechnic for the first phase of the “Big Data” competency centre development. Launched by Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh, the second education minister, with hopes that it would produce more experts in scientific data, data modeling, data analysis and data mining. Prestariang will be centre operator and the tr...

2014 saw a new wave of connected consumers in Malaysia. Empowered by technology, they used every channel available to make informed choices and by mid 2014, at least 78% of Malaysia mobile surfers shopped online. Malaysian e-commerce players are increasing and thus the increase on mobile ad spend. Dr KF Lai, CEO and founder of mobile ad network BuzzCity talks about the future of mobile advertising...

Today is World Radio Day, so on TechTalk we’re exploring the medium that turned Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage from an alienated geek into a global megastar with the cultural clout of Mark Zuckerberg. Obviously, Matt has been curating his own podcasts rather than living in the real world. And speaking of podcasts, Jeff Sandhu joins in to share some of his favourite podcasts that you should...

A. Asohan and Goh Thean Eu from Digital News Asia.com talks about Karam's conversation with the new MDeC CEO, Yasmin Mahmood, and does Malaysian startups ecosystem have enough tech in it? Also on the show, Goh breaks down DiGi's recent financial results. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Design technology has changed throughout the years and last year, companies from across all industries saw a huge increase in adoption of design technology, one company for example is Proton with their Proton Iriz. CS Tan, Country Manager for Autodesk Malaysia comes in to talk about trends in 2015 and the power of design and technology in the future of making things. See omnystudio.com/listener fo...