Tech Talk

What gadgets couldn’t you live without? Some of the tech and devices in our lives have been around for a heartbeat yet it feels like forever. And others have their roots in surprisingly old technology. Looking for the link is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the MOL IPO listing on Nasdaq Global Market in September that may raise up to US$300 million. Also, according to TNS, the Internet did not kill the TV star. We still are hooked to that remote control. And not forgetting, with the recent road rage internet sensation, Gabey Goh shares an interesting story by  Foong Cheng Leong on Cyberstalking, har...

The World Cup is over. After a month long of sleepless night, it’s never easy to go back to your usual routine of just work and sleep. Your feet starts tingling and every walk you take feels like a step up for that ultimate penalty kick. ONz is a social network for sports players developed here in Malaysia that aims to put back the “play” in your routine. We speak to William Yap...

Runway 2.0 is the first ever fashion meets technology event to encourage collaboration between the two disciplines. We speak to Jonathan Wong after the event to discuss the future of retail in Malaysia and how the retail industry in Asia and Malaysia needs to reinvent itself with the help of technology. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Sandhu talks about how Bill Gates helped in creating the world's first remote-controlled birth control chip and how a potato salad managed to gather USD$40k from Kickstarter.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. Trying to raise awareness of his 1Mattlaysia plan is Matt Armitage of Kulturpop. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks the possibility of YTL Communications Executivve Director Yasmin Mahmood as a replacement for Badlisham Ghazali as the CEO for MDeC. Also on today's show, the National ICT Human Resource Task Force has submitted a new proposal to the Government to establish the once-controversial Board of Computing Professionals Malaysia (BCPM) and insights from the latest...

The IT industry is witnessing a rapid explosion of new and heterogeneous devices and app platforms, coupled with the rising trend of consumerization, BYOD and increasingly digitally-savvy generation who prefer to work whenever, wherever and however they choose. We speak to Mark Micallef, Area Vice President ASEAN for Citrix on new innovation to equip people with mobile workspaces. See omnystudio.c...

11 years from now, year 2025, represents a horizon that is close enough to project how current trends could play out  - the data centers being commissioned today will be at the halfway point in their project lifecycle in 2025 – and yet far enough away that there is still opportunity to shape what that future will look like. We speak to Tony Gaunt, Director of Internet Data Centres Asia...

The recent World Bank Report has forecasted slower growth of the Malaysian economy, stating the country’s education system as its biggest obstacle to becoming a high-income nation. This came on the back of the recent announcement of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) results, where Malaysia lagged behind even lower-income nations such as Vietnam and according to Jobstr...

Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about a new law in UK that bans users of Google Glass the usage of the device in cinemas and a new class of meteorite that was found recently in Sweden could hold the key that sparked the diversification of life on Earth nearly 500 million years ago. And YO is not the only way to communicate, introducing Emojili, a new instant messaging app that you can send emoj...

Scientist have been probing individual regions of the brain for over a century now and for the first time ever, they have discovered that there could actually be an on-off switch deep inside your brain. Matt Armitage from Kulturpop is not here today. But we have Jeff Sandhu. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about Fusionex's USD12.5 million dollar investment in creating, arguably, the best workspace in the country and how Idyllic Sabah plays home to drone startup Dragonfly Robotix and plans to be a leader in South East Asia in the drones industry. He also shares what happened during the recent Internet of Things roundtable discussion that happened in KL re...

With digital data growth expected to increase globally by 4,300 percent by 2020, businesses today are immensely finding it tough to fulfil the rising expectations of their customers who can easily retrieve any latest information and know about ‘almost everything’ via Internet. This digital revolution is driving businesses to look into the unprecedented opportunities on social related n...

According to eMarketer’s latest forecasts, worldwide e-commerce sales will increase by 20.1% this year to reach a whopping USD$1.5 trillion dollars. In 2014, for the first time, consumers in Asia-Pacific will spend more on ecommerce purchases than those in North Amercia, making it the largest regional ecommerce market in the world. Snap, List, Sell. Create free listings in less than 30 secon...

Last week on Tech Talk, Nick spoke about the 6 trends in the Technology Vision 2014. This week he comes in and shares with us on steps to implement these trends into your business and how to identify what works for you and what doesn’t. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Geeks talks about what happened during Google I/O and why Matt Armitage hates DIY and corrugated cardboards. They also decided that they should just stop speaking in plain English with the rise of the YO app and why "Silence" might be the next big hit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We like good manners here on TechTalk so it’s time our resident grumpy guest updated his list of does and don’ts for this weird, wired world. Unsurprisingly, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage agrees with Hannibal Lecter and thinks we should eat the rude? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com wonders if Dato Badlisham Ghazali can be the bridge that ‘trust chasm’? And he also talks about DiGi’s Challenge for Change and the latest Disrupt #19 talking on Long Term Earnings or LTE. He then highlights Goh Ai Ching from the Digerati50 list and talks about Ericsson’s report on why mobile data plans need to evolve. See omnystudio....

Books. A set of written or printed on blank sheets made of ink on paper or other materials and usually fastened together to hinge at one side. Fast forward to today, books are still one of the most important means of education and self-knowledge, but the reading culture is slowly dying. That though is not stopping Hossein Arabi and Lian Shen, the creators of Bookurve, a new online bookstore. See o...

The Accenture’s Technology Vision identifies 6 trends that can change the way you do your business. We speak to Nick Taylor from Accenture to break down these trends for us and share some examples of how it changing businesses today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the tiki-taka football fever and how many devices are connected to this year's World Cup. He also talks about telco tales with DiGi, Maxis and Celcom and Badlisham's last PC as the MDeC CEO. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cybercriminals are working overtime during this World Cup season. From spams to phishing to hacking and even ATM machines, they’re all out in full force as the world has its focus on the tournament. We speak to David Emm, Senior Security Researcher at Global Research and Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab about some of the security threats to be wary of during this World Cup. See omnystudio.com/li...

Will your bank go extinct? The rise of technology and mobile devices has disrupted many industries. Today, businesses operate differently, and consumer behaviors are changing. How will out banks work in the future? How many brick-and-mortar branches will be left in Malaysia in five years time? In twenty? Robert Wilson, Global Head of Retail Banking, Global Financial Services for SAP talks about th...

In November 2013, the government enacted the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), aimed at protecting the interest of individuals and to give them more control over their personal data. While the PDPA has increased the protection of invaluable data that has the potential of being commoditized, one of the main challenges facing some businesses is the lack of IT capacity or technology know-how to im...