Tech Talk

Recently at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 or CES2015, Intel unveiled a button-sized module called Curie. It’s Intel’s smallest ever SoC (or System on a Chip) based on Quark SE processor. It is another sign that IoT has already taken shape around the world and here in Malaysia, we’re about to follow that path. Eric Chan, Head, IoT Group, Intel Malaysia and Hasannudin Saidin,...

Mobilizing your workforce is one of the most important and far-reaching projects a business can undertake. Get it right and your business can improve productivity and performance while becoming an ‘employer of choice’ for talented people. Get it wrong and you can damage employee morale while losing ground to your competitors. So what steps can your business take to get its mobility str...

Another one bites the dust as Geeks talks about Radioshack's Chapter 11 bankrupcy followed by what YouTube stars are actually earning annually and what is Google & Mattel planning to launch on Feb 13th? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the week that Uber announces it’s starting its own research institute for automotive technology, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage gets to imagining what the future will look like, 5 years from now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show, Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com discusses Astro's plunge into e-commerce as they expect revenue from TV shopping to top digital channels initially and why is it a make-or-break time for MyTV and DTTV. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New economic analysis by Cisco reveals that the Internet of Everything is a $4.6 trillion USD opportunity for global public-sector organizations over the next decade, as a result of cost savings, increased productivity, new revenues and enhanced citizen experiences. Albert Chai, Country Manager for Cisco Malaysia together with Hasannudin Saidin, Director of Digital Entrepreneur Division in MDeC ta...

This week on Geeks Squawk, the Geeks talk about The Jetsons as rumours are spreading faster than teleportation that a movie in the making, an app that helps you poo in peace, virtual reality cinema experience and how police hates Waze. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music is something that surrounds us in. At home, at work, on TV, in malls, in lifts, supermarkets, restaurants and bars. We’ve moved from records to cassettes to CDs to MP3s and now to online streaming. Yet although the formats and the way we listen to music is changing, we often think that the way music is made and the instruments it’s played on stay the same. Not so, says Kulturpop&...

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia wraps up some of the big tech stories that happened in the region including a tech conference in Singapore organized by MIT, Vertex Ventures gameplan in Southeast Asia, one of DNA's Digerati50 making waves to grow her BPO business and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hackerscape Malaysia is about blending hardware and software and aims to enable the growing community to tinkerers and makers in Malaysia by providing a platform for co-creation and education. Tan Jia Shern, co founder of Hackerscape Malaysia and Matthew Yeow, speaker for the Raspberry Pi workshop comes in to talk about idea and ambition of the Hackerscape Malaysia and why is hardware so important...

According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few. Hasannudin Saidin, Director of Di...

Ericsson has been performing in-depth data traffic measurements since the early days of mobile broadband from a large base of live networks covering all regions of the world. This is known as the Ericsson Mobility Report: South East Asia and Oceania Appendix release. Todd Ashton, President of Ericsson Malaysia and Sri Lanka talks about the growing appetite for connected services in South East Asia...

First, the Geeks shares a touching story on how an elderly taxi driver's smartphone was stolen from him when he was giving directions and was surprisingly rewarded with a brand new HTC smartphone within hours thanks to social media. Then the Geeks ponder on why regular beings aren't creative enough with their passwords and is Microsoft finally cool? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

Most of the world’s science and tech community are still off skiing according to Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. So in the absence of any breaking news stories, this week we’re going to have a look at what 2015 has in store for Geeks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Warren, Vice President of Shared Services & Outsourcing from MDeC joins Karamjit Singh from DNA today to explain further on what eBantuan Banjir is all about. Also on the show, Karamjit talks on why Frost & Sullivan is now banking on its tech vision and why Unilever Foundry is eyeing Asian startups, starting with Singapore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the last few years and up until recently, majority of the companies have focused a lot on endpoint security in light of the opening of BYOD floodgates. Tablets, smartphones, sensors and the Internet of Things have created dilemmas on the needs to secure corporate networks against those 50 billion devices that will be connected to the internet in a few years’ time. As a result, most IT res...

Last week on Tech Talk we spoke about Malaysia’s readiness on the Internet of Things and why MDeC is putting a lot of focus in driving this trend. Just how big will the Internet of Things be? Today we speak to Victor Lim, Vice President Consulting Operations for IDC Asia Pacific together with Hasannudin Saidin, Director of Digital Entrepreneur Division of MDeC on the stats and numbers around...

2014 was a busy year in the cyber security space with issues such as Heartbleed and Shellshock impacting that landscape globally. We also saw cyber security issues in Malaysia with the ATM hacks and more recently live webcams and CCTV stream webcams around the world. All indication are that this year in 2015, will bring more of the same. Nigel Tan, Director Systems Engineering Symantec Malaysia ta...

The Geeks discuss the SpaceX launch that didn't quite ended as well as planned and 2 most useless gadgets that came out from CES 2015. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage and BFM’s Jeff Sandhu shared some of their favourite finds from CES 2015. This week Matt is being entirely selfish and is going to tell us what he wants to see in 2015. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about hot enterprise tech trends of 2015 that will be discussed during the first Disrupt of 2015, DNA-TeAM Disrupt $27 and how MDeC and partners aim to help aid flood victims via technology. All this and more including Karamjit's gameplan for 2015. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Enemies once, partners today. Apple and IBM announced last year that they have partnered up together to create enterprise based solutions for Apple’s iOS devices. What are some of these solutions that have been created? We find out from Jeff Loo and Kittipong Asawapichayon of IBM Asean. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most organizations are facing rising threats in their information security risk environment, but over a third have no real-time insight on cyber risks necessary to combat these threats. This is one of the topline findings of EY’s annual Global Information Security survey, Get Ahead of Cybercrime. Jason Yuen, Partner IT Risk and Assurance EY Malaysia talks about the survey and the findings. S...

Matt Armitage and Jeff Sandhu gives us some of the best products that have came out from CES 2015 in Las Vegas, including a selfie flash extension. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia.com looks back at 2014 and highlights his Fave Five of the year. Also on the show, Galasys acqusition of iLogic Solutions and MDV goes full stream into funding tech. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.