Tech Talk

Squawking alone again, Jeff Sandhu (with profanity filtering turned on to maximum level) talks about the Google's Loon project and why Moto X is not taking Apple or Samsung as friends. And before ending the show, a story that Matt Armitage would be proud, the world's safest car is the electric Tesla Model S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We hear a lot of talk about all the fantastic valuations of tech start-ups and the billions their founders make at IPO. But not all of that money goes into developing social skills and building three-storeys tall Kaijus. Some of them are trying to use their money to make the world a better place. One man who isn’t is is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Earlier in June, a 37-year-old Malaysian man has joined the growing number of people worldwide whose lives have been significantly improved by 3D printing. Wim Michiels, General Manager for Materialise Malaysia, the company that provided the 3D printing expertise for the surgery came in to talk about the 3D printing scene here in Malaysia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 'measured' Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com gives a shout-out to Piktochart and talks about why the Global Entrepreneurship Summit that will be happening soon is going to rock and why is everybody watching ABN. All this and more in today's episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

IBM SmartCamp, an initiative to recruit ‘superstar’ startups with niche unique solutions that meet IBM’s vision of delivering a Smarter Planet is happening soon KC Hong, General Manager of IBM Software Group talks about this. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over the years, retails banks have innovated to make personal banking more convenient and consumer-friendly. Stated first with automatic teller machines and then now mobile banking apps in its latest evolution. The fact is that everything is going mobile. Sandeep Bagaria, CEO of Tagit talks about the Malaysian mobile banking industry and what can local banks do to more attract consumers. See omnys...

Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about Elon Musk's Hyperloop and how it plans to make a 6 hour journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles to only 30 minutes! Following that is a shocking news on an employee of Geek Squad (no relations to us Geek Squawks) found guilty of sharing nude picture found in his customers hard drive. Looking for something for the weekend, check out boootube.com for all th...

It’s been a sci-fi dream for more than 50 years. Machines that can think and reason. But what happens when your dream comes true but you don’t understand it? Is Skynet a possibility we ask Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Because last week there was no show due to Raya holidays, Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia comes back to talk about last weeks news regarding CSF's founder Adrian Yong 24-hour resignation letter and what was the bigger picture in the story. He also talks about a story on how Lau Kin Wai of Fatfish Group believes that Malaysian founders feels there are better opportunities in Singapore. Keepin...

Software skills are now an important role in shaping the world for tomorrow and this was quite evident in last year’s SOFTEC 2012 with the focus on soft skills in software testing. Dr. Jasbir Dhaliwal, Director Systems Testing Excellence Program for FedEx Institute of Technology and Associate Dean for The University of Memphis and also contributor to the Malaysian Software Testing Board (MST...

For the past few years, smartphones, tablets, laptops and other mobile devices have entered the corporate workplace in increasing numbers. The BYOD phenomenon is one of the most significant clear incarnations of the wave of consumerisation surging through Information Tech. Bai SooHan, Regional Sales Director ASEAN at eWall Asia talks about some security concerns and gateway appliance for BYOD impl...

If there’s one app that we’ve all been hooked when it first came to Malaysia, it’s gotta be Spotify. The online music streaming services came to our shores on April 16th earlier this year and since then, we’ve seen more online music services coming to Asia. Sunita Kaur, Director of Asia for Spotify talks about what’s next for Spotify See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

There’s a perception around the globe that the people who are involved in the creative industry are those who generally did not excel academically. Is this true? What does it take to be a part of this industry? How influential is the creative industry? Hussin Khan, Technical Advisor for MSC Malaysia’s National Occupational Skill Standards (NOSS) Development for ICT or better known to s...

According to IDC, 132 minutes is the average amount of time each day that smartphone users spend communicating and using social media on their phones and 79 percent of smartphone users have their phone on or near them for all but two hours of their waking day. Our life has become digital but how are we protecting it? Goh Su Gim, Security Advisor Asia for F-Secure shares some crucial basic tips for...

Cooliris is a photo-sharing app for the iPhone and iPads with over 4 million installs and a billion photo views and ranked 9th in the Top US Mobile Apps by comScore. With them now making their presence in South East Asia, we speak to Soujanya Bhumkar, co-founder and CEO of Cooliris about what can entrepreneurs here learn from these great thinkers in the tech industry? See omnystudio.com/liste...

Freda Liu and Matt Armitage talked about payment transactions with faces, food printing and more cars! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re going under the hood on Tech Talk today. As our cars become more sophisticated we have to wonder, are they becoming less safe. One man who should stay off the road is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talk about MDeC's plans to launch ‘App Economy Baseline Study’ this year. He follows up a story on the latest telco player, Altel and they measured approach to their launch. Owe$ome looking for sponsorships and the underlying point. All that and more in today's episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3D TV’s and surround sound systems have found a much affordable way to reach our homes. What does this mean to the cinema industry? Gerald Dibbayawan, CEO of TGV Cinemas talks about how they are planning to bring you back to the cinema every week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scott Brinker is the Co-Founder & CTO at Ion Interactive, Marketing technology entrepreneur, agile marketing advocate, and author of the Chief Marketing Technologist blog. He came onto the show to talk about what being a 'chief marketing technologist' means, how the world of marketing has changed in past years, and what key issues are marketers missing out on today. See omnystudio.com/listener...

In 1992, Beyond 2000, a TV programme based on technological innovations and scientific breakthroughs, predicted 'Wearable Computers' that will take over our lives in 2003. It's now 2013, have their predictions came through? We give you a review of some products in the wearable technology space and also a short review of LEAP Motion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the millions of sim cards that are 'vulnerable to hack attack' and the hack can be done. She also talks about MDeC is hitting up the Valley and a round up of the last Disrupt event. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s hard to think a world without apps. Imagine not having apps at your fingertips to give you a review of that restaurant you’re looking to go, to give you traffic update to your way to the restaurant, to give you on the spot table booking while you’re on the way. But what happens after the food has been wiped cleaned and time to take that wallet split the bill with your collea...

The success of cloud computing as a platform for deploying web-applications has led to a deluge of applications characterized by small data footprints but unpredictable access patterns. An autonomic and scalable multitenant database management system is therefore an important component of the software stack for platforms supporting these applications. Kaleen Chaundhry, Senior Director Enterprise T...

Recently, DiGi Telecommunications announced the winners of the fourth edition of its Challenge for Change programme so we spoke Joachim Rajaram, DiGi Head of Communications & Corporate, Wan Mohd Adzha (MyNeighbourhood App developer winner) and Michelle Fung (Earth’s Green Heroes App idea winner) about what's next for the winners. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.