Tech Talk

Sam Gibbs is the CEO at Aerospace Education and was here on the show to talk about the World Science and Technology Conference that will be held in Kuching in September. Topics included the objectives of the conference, key speakers and how it will benefit Malaysia and the South East Asia region. Lastly, he discussed the importance of Science and Technology in education and the role it plays in ou...

Whilst Apple’s WWDC 2013 event was not to be missed, many had neglected the E3 conference that happened on the same day. Fortunately, we provided the roundup of the E3 conference, with the main talking point the next-generation consoles that is the Xbox One and the Playstation 4. We shared our opinions, what we liked and disliked about each system, the exclusive titles that will be released...

Matt Armitage, Jeff Sandhu and Freda Liu come together to discuss what happened in the tech world this week. Topics include: Google buying it's own airport, the acquisition of Waze and the successful kickstarter project: Omni. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Armitage came on the show to talk about the security and privacy concerns brought about by the US government's global intelligence surveillance. He discussed what roles we play in their scheme, what the government can collect and Edward Snowden, the source of the leak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gabey Goh from Digital News Asia talks about PRISM, the Microsoft Surface Pro that was recently released in Malaysia and the rise of cybercrimes in the world. The main topic of the show will be about Frank Abagnale who turned from imposter and escape artist to now consultant and lecturer for the FBI academy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dino Soepono is the Director of Enterprise Mobility for Citrix in Asia Pacific. He talked about the trend of BYOD, Mobile Application Management and how it can be used in coherence with the BYOD trend within firms.  Dino also discussed the pros and cons of BYOD and told us how precautionary measures can be taken to adopt the BYOD trend.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

Rated by PC magazine as among the 50 most important people on the web, Mikko Hypponen has been working for F-secure for 22 years and is now the Chief Research Officer for the firm. Having led the team through the largest outbreaks in history, he discussed the future of cyber crimes and how it has developed into a much more potent threat than ever before. Also, knowing the importance of smartphones...

With  a 4.7 Super LCD3 display surrounded by an aluminum unibody, the HTC One has been  getting rave reviews all around the world. But does it really stand a chance to win the hearts of  our product reviewers on Tech Talk? All three of them decided to get themselves the  HTC One and put it through some abuse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Sandhu and Matt Armitage come together to discuss what's happening in the tech world this week. Topics will include: the Chicago Sun Times laying off all its photographers and the privacy concerns with Google Glass. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Armitage from Kulturpop discuss what it is like to not have a brain, what a real life zombie would be like, finding a live squirrel on Mars and the latest Tumblr sensation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjt Singh from Digital News Asia talks about the WebCamp KL event that featured Dave McClure of 500 Startups and Khailee from 500 Durians. He also discusees the Echelon event in Singapore that happened on Tuesday to Wednesday and the interesting bits that resulted from it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harindran Narayanan is Managing Director of NTT  Data Business Solutions in Malaysia. This company has been ranked as 8th in the world for SAP consulting and has recently acquired Business Formula Sdn Bhd, whom he founded. On the show, Harindran talks about how the SAP industry has changed under the influence of today's technology, his decision for Business Formula Sdn Bhd to be acquired by a...

In the past, architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) team could take care of their collaboration and data management needs an ad-hoc basis, but these methods no longer scale to serve the growing needs of the industry. Gianluca Lange, Regional Industry Manager for ASEAN at Autodesk Inc talks about this. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Geeks discusses Tim Cook's interview at D11 and some of the key takeaways from his vague responses. Following that, 3D printing has never tasted so sweet before until the introduction of the world's first 3D sugar sculpture printer and how Xbox One kinect might be biggest stalker you've ever had. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One thing regular listener to this show will know only too well is that Kulturpop’s resident smart alec Matt Armitage doesn’t have the greatest memory. He’s always blamed it on age but as we’re about to find out, age and our brains are not as closely linked as we thought. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia talks rounds up stories about Maxis eKelas, Clarion's Regional Engineering Centre in Penang, Enabling Asia's MVNA and MVNO launch and Maxis eKelas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to IDC, “Phablet” devices spell a winning combination for Indonesian Marketing in 2013 and Sudev Bangah, Associate Research Director & Head of Operations for IDC Indonesia talks about how it compares with Malaysia and what are some of the potential areas that we can tap into. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wing K Lee (CEO of YTL Communications), Caesar Sengupta (Product Management Director, Google), Felix Lin (Director, Product Management, Google) steps in the studio and gives us a low down on what to expect from the recently launched YES Samsung 4G Chromebook. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about money, big money, and even bigger money! From Easy Uni to Zalora to YTL Communications 1BestariNet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to a report by Cisco, by the end of 2013, there will be more mobile devices on Earth than people. And to put that into perspective, a new Sophos survey has revealed that an average user is carrying more than one mobile devices today. Rob Forsyth, Director for Sophos Asia Pacific talks about this and the implications it will have in your daily life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

We’re taking an inside look intro the digital media landscape in Malaysia, particularly in the areas of pay TV and over-the-top or OTT media. Akmal Abdul Wahab, Market Analyst, Telecommunications for IDC Malaysia explains the difference between Pay TV and OTT players and how service providers play an important role in this expansion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Online music streaming services have been around in countries like UK and US but still a relatively new thing here in Asia. And although we’ve seen local players trying to get in the game, the giants like Spotify and Pandora have yet to make their presence here felt, but that’s all about to change. Spotify is here in Malaysia and we speak to Sriram Krishnan, Head of New Markets, APAC f...

The Geeks celebrate World Telecommunication and Information Society Day and talk about some initiative on road safety and self-driving vehicles. Following that is a story on how Google wants to have its own country with no data restrictions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Internet of Things is a topic we’ve covered from time to time here on TechTalk. But are we underestimating the power and convenience of so called smart utilities? One person who thinks so, is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DigitalNewsAsia.com (DNA) turns ONE! We bring Karamjit Singh, A. Asohan, Edwin Yapp & Gabey Goh on air to share with us how did DNA came about and what's the secret that keeps them together? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.