Tech Talk

Recently, DiGi Telecommunications together with CyberSecurity Malaysia, MCMC and the Ministry of Education Malaysia conducted a study with Malaysian schoolchildren to find out more about their online experience, trends and behavioral patterns using the Internet. Philip Ling from DiGi’s Communications and Corporate Responsibilty talks about this study. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Can cloud and big data to speed up racing cars? That's something Lotus believes as they recently announced its partnership with EMC as the Official 2014 Development Partner of Lotus F1 Team. Lotus will be using technology to do a complete overhaul of the IT infrastructure for Lotus. Lotus felt that the change was necessary to meet its next wave of technological and competitive challenges. The 4-ye...

Today, the geeks talks about an app that solves math problems by scanning the equation with a snap of your camera. Besides that, a company called Hendo has already exceeded its funding goals to raise a quarter of a million dollars to build working hoverboards, similarly used by Marty McFly in the second Back to the Future. Also, thoughts on the new Kindle Voyage.  See omnystudi...

We often talk about the ways in which the Internet has improved our existence and made our working lives easier. According to Matt Armitage the Internet may not be your friend – in fact it may want to make you redundant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A. Asohan of  Digital News Asia talks about Grab Taxi's succesful funding, Hack In The Box conference and sock puppetry which is the use of employing false identities to control online conversations.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to Gartner’s Market Share Analysis on SSDs and Solid-State Arrays Worldwide 2013 report published on June 2014, Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company has been ranked number 2 in worldwide SSA market share behind IBM and has been positioned in the leaders quadrant of the inaugural magic quadrant for Solid State Arrays. Vaughn Stewart, the Chief Evangelist for...

Did you know that the first film to use Dolby Digital technology is Batman Returns? Way back in 1992. And just like the Batman movies of today, Dolby has come a long way since then. Today, Dolby Surround Sound at home is something many urbanites either have it already or wishing they had one. Leong-Yan Yoong, the Regional Director of South East Asia of Dolby Laboratories talks about how Dolby is b...

The geeks talk about how Google got the name Lollipop for Android 5.0 and why Apple did not "accidentally" leaked the images of their new products before the launch. Also, can Will. I.Am actually make a decent technology product that we all want? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Way back in May last year, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage tried to convince us that one day he would be able to reprogram our memories. We told him it was rubbish and slept soundly that night. But here he again and he’s after our brains. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about what happened during MOL's Nasdaq listing and why did Ganesh Kumar Bangah suffered a hit. He also talks about the 5 day MaGIC conference and how me managed to caught up with Mark Chang for an exclusive interview on his 2nd act. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In recent months, the Malaysian government has sent out a strong message about their vision to grow the country’s Data Center space from 0.5 million to 5 million square feet by 2020 and to become a regional Data Center Hub. Tim Takala, Technical Director Asia at TE Connectivity talks about the state of infrastructure in today’s Data Centers and how they can be future ready. --- AD: Che...

With the high internet penetration, growing ecommerce and high social media usage here in Malaysia, it tells a story of a much more mature growth market compared to Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. In fact Malaysians love to shop online so much so that ecommerce revenues were USD$380 million in 2013 and is expected to increase to $530 million in 2017. Christoph Eilers, cofounder of Oizoioi talk...

With heavy investments both by the government and organizations in building their ICT infrastructures to embrace trends of CYOD and harness technologies like the Cloud for enterprise mobility, an area often thought of as in indispensable cost – and often taking up the bulk of expenditures – is network infrastructure upgrade or change. Mike Sheldon, CEO for Curvature debunks this m...

The Geeks talks about Microsoft's Sway and the new social media platform, Ello! Also, reviews of the Jabra Step Wireless and the Jabra Tag. --- AD: Check out Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 3 tablet. Out in stores now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Design is the new rock and roll according to Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. And with celebrated designer Marc Newson joining Jonny Ive at Apple it’s hard to argue that industrial design is hitting a new peak of importance and public interest. --- AD: Check out Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 3 tablet. Out in stores now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A. Asohan from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about what TeAM (Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia) wishlist for the Budget 2015 that will be happening on the 10th of October and also the story MOL and after nearly 14 years, it has now officially gone global with its listing on Nasdaq. --- AD: Check out Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 3 tablet. Out in stores now. See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

ALPS is a project created for startups and aspiring developers and designers to achieve their dreams. Supported by MaGIC, the course helps junior developers to rapidly progress to become a mid to senior level developer while getting paid. And for startups, it is a way to help them build their MVP at half the cost. We speak to Clarence Chew from VLT Labs & Imran Sulaiman, Program Director from...

Fobo was the first to launch Fobo Max, a wireless tag using crowd search platform (WebSearchME) to locate lost belongings or loved ones. Now, they’re back again to launch the world’s first all Bluetooth smart TPMS, or tire pressure monitoring system. We find out how it is creating a wave in the global market through its crowdfunding campaign with George Pan and Ho Chang Tih from Saluti...

The Geeks talks about BlackBerry's new Passport and Samsung's #Gapgate and Google Streetview Malaysia! --- AD: Check out Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 3 tablet. Out in stores now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Geeks will inherit the earth. At least that’s what I dream about every night. At the very least we can stage sit ins in movie theatres and queue our little asses off for the latest crossover hi tops. No idea what I’m talking about? Then you should be ready for Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage and his Fall checklist for geeks. --- AD: Check out Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 3 tablet...

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com comes in again this week to talk about the current status of the Malaysian Broadband service compared to the region and the on-going Uber-SPAD spat, be careful what you wish for. More on this and other topics in this episode. --- AD: Check out Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 3 tablet. Out in stores now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most tech geeks have one common drool, holographic displays. And thanks to technology today, we’re seeing more uses of holographic displays and one, from Malaysia is called Spix. We speak to Zain Almohdzar from Intuitive Ideas about it. --- AD: Check out Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 3 tablet. Out in stores now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week, MyCert received several reports regarding a malware that targets Malaysian Internet banking customers. The malware named Zeus has so far caused millions of Malaysians who perform e-banking via mobile phones or tablets to be vulnerable to financial data theft. Paul Palmer, Vice President APAC Region and Goh Su Gim, Security Advisor for F-Secure Corporation talks about Zeus and ways to pr...

Storing, accessing and directing data effectively and efficiently have become critical for organizations due to exponential data growth, rapid changes in technology and ever increasing complexity of compliance requirements. Jeff Echols, Director of Product and Business Development for CommVault Systems talks about how big data and the cloud are transforming business and IT. --- AD: Check out Micro...

The Geeks talk about the Apple's #Bendgate issue and what Apple could do next to solve this and what Apple needs after an eventful week for them. --- AD: Check out Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 3 tablet. Out in stores now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.