Tech Talk

The Geeks talked about a solution for Matt's hair loss problem thanks to Matt's favourite technology, 3D Printing! The Geeks also talk about why your friends were replace their profile pictures with a giraffe, what's the big deal?! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gesture technology. Fingerprint scanners. Bio retinal scans. Even the way you move a mouse can tell someone – friend and foe – who you are both on and offline. Someone whose privacy is worth less than most people’s is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage as he talks about being anonymous. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia.com talks about Malaysia's Internet consumption growth and the governments plans from Budget 2014 to drive this even further. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Benjamin Humphrey, User Experience (UX) Designer for Atlassian. Benjamin is a designer based in Sydney and has been the Design Lead for Delicious, overseeing the rebuild and redesign of delicious.com, a co-founder of successful news startup OMG! Ubuntu! and its parent company Ohso, and has worked as a freelance designer. Here he speaks about how to make enterprise softwares sexy again. See omnystu...

Earlier in February this year, Thales e-Security sponsored a study by Ponemon Institute called the 2012 Global Encryption Trends Study. Jiro Shindo, Senior Product Manager APAC for Thales comes in and talks about  encryption technology today and some of the key findings from that study. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maximizing building efficiency and reducing operating costs are essential in today’s technology for engineers and contractors with more focus and emphasis on “green” technology. Therese Leong, Vice President of Building Business from Schneider Electric talks about SmartStruxure and "green" buildings in Malaysia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jonathan Hirsch is a UX Consultant at Hirschworks.com. He has worked both directly with client-side commissioners and agency-side, on a wide range of projects for organisations encompassing small startups, multinationals, government agencies, charities and academia. Jon is also a guest speaker during the UX Malaysia 2013 event happening in November and here he talks about about Real-World UX...

The Internet has helped open many channels of communication and flow of information and resources for employees. However it also invites Botnets, Spyware and Malware that poses risks to the company. Matt Bennett, Vice President for Asia-Pacific & Japan for Zscaler talks about mobility and security in enterprises and their recently launched cloud-based solution to combat Advanced Persisten...

Security threats are ever-changing in today’s world. It is critical for businesses as well as government organizations to do more than just blocking malware or stopping targeted attacks. Brian Contos, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Advanced Threat Protection Group, Blue Coat Systems talks about advanced and zero-day threats and data-loss. See omnystudio.com/liste...

In the latest report by a retail firm, Retail Group Malaysia, reported that growth rate for the retails sector for the whole year is expected to come in at 6.2% compared to 5.5% in 2012. And contributing to that growth is the rise of ecommerce trends in Malaysia. Chan Kee Siak, Founder and CEO of Exabytes Network talks about the drive behind this growth and a new ecommerce site that aims to be a o...

The Geeks talk about a test for underwater "wi-fi" using sound waves, the same concept used by dolphins and whales. And for all you Skype users, beware! Microsoft will disable all Skype recordings plug-ins come December 2013 and speaking of Microsoft, Windows 8.1 update is out now. Moving along to Google, the geeks talked about how a young boy from India that was lost from home and adopted by an A...

Less than a decade ago – it seems so long already – Apple popularized a minimalist design trend for new technology. We’ve already grown used to the whole ‘less is more’ ethos. But where can it go from here? The future is invisible, says Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia.com rounds up the Global Entrerpreneurship Summit 2013 KL and talks about a couple of startups from Penang making some noise. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Japanese and Chinese language website have always been deemed as messy and cluttered but despite all that, they serve their functions very well. How is that possible? What makes their writing system so influential in their websites desing? We speak to Bram Pitoyo, User Experience Designer for Mozilla and also a guest speaker for UX Malaysia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

These days, everything can be hacked as long as it’s connected to the Internet. Even smart toilet in Japan are getting hack. We ask Chris Farrow (SANS Community Instructor) & Dennis Moreau (RSA Security)  about this new wave of hacks and why do hackers do it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu gives a review of the Jabra MOTION Bluetooth/NFC headset and realizes that he might be partially deaf and his ears are not the same size on each side. However, if you're looking for ways to pick your lock, head on down to KL this 16th & 17th October for HITB CommSec Village as there are demonstrations on how to pick your lock including a whole bunch of other stuff...

Edwin Yapp from Digital News Asia talks about some of the past, present and future tech events happening in Kuala Lumpur. Starting off with the Global Entrepreneurship Summit KL 2013 happening this Friday (11th October) & Saturday (12th October), and the two satellite events around it, the Global Startup Youth and MSC Malaysia Cloud conference. Edwin also talks about the Hack In The Box s...

Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives. Just look around you and you'll see how wired we are. Thanks to the Internet, virtually anything you desire can be delivered to your door in a matter of days. The same could be said about businesses as well. Many businesses have failed simply because of the lack of innovation. We speak to Keith Dodds, Director ThoughtWorks Australia and Karin Ve...

Recently, a Hong Kong based startup launched a mobile only service that aims to replicate the last minute hotel-booking trend in the US and Europe here in Asia, as it’s still a developing trend. We speak to Marijn Booman, Co-Founder & Country Manager for Singapore and Malaysia for Hotel Quickly about this. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dennis Moreau, Technology Strategist at RSA Security and speaker during ZebraCON 2013 has over than 35 years of experience in designing and developing systems to address complex information security and infrastructure management problems. Here he talks about risk management strategy development. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Sandhu and Matt Armitage (Kulturpop) talks about the largest study to-date of personality and language done by PLOS ONE that revealed pretty much what everyone thought is true; parents and teens really do speak different languages online. They also discuss about Delta Airlines plans to purchase 11,000 Microsfot Surface 2 tablets and some of the issues they might face. And of course, there a s...

This week we’re laying it on thick on TechTalk. Matt Armitage from Kulturpop is going to answer the ultimate questions about Life. The Universe. And everything. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia.com talk about the two Global Entrepreneurship Summit satellite events that will be happening very soon (Ideas2Invest & Global Startup Youth). He also talks about the battle TeAM is about to embark on as  its notice of opposition against US technology giant Apple Inc’s move to register the word ‘Startup’ as a trademark in M...

Social media might just be a tool for you to get in touch with your family and friends but for some, social media is a business. We speak to Jaunique Sealey, a social media expert that has experience with working with celebrities like Lady Gaga for their social media profiles. We find out what it takes to be a social media rockstar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Farrow has over 22 years of experience in system engineering and security and background spans with several industries including the Department of Defense (USMC). Recently he was down in KL for ZebraCON 2013 and we speak to him about Information Risk Management best practices for organizations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.