Tech Talk

According to IDC’s Asia Pacific quarterly PC tracker, the 4th quarter 2012 shipments of Malaysia PC market increased by 22% to 768,000 units quarter-on-quarter. What does this mean? We find out more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Quietly Brilliant no more. Recently HTC has decided to drop its popular tagline from its product ads, which is a bold statement of their intent. Benjamin Ho, HTC’s Chief Marketing Officer talks about the HTC Brand and how they plan fight with the likes of Samsung and Apple. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's all about Microsoft in today's show. From their wifi-enabled print ad to Nokia's shareholders losing patience with Windows Phone platform. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It must be like all of his Christmases have come at once! Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has been banging on about 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, for the past two years. Now someone has made a real bang with 3D printing. This week an American law student Cody Wilson, successfully test fired a handgun that he designed himself and then printed off. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Gabey Goh and A. Asohan talks about how the telecommunications infrastructure in Malaysia managed to accommodate the onslaught of SMSes, website updates and browsing and social media chatter during the 13th General Elections despite fears and rumours that there will be network disruption. Following that, they say congratulations to Jobstreet for crossing the RM1 billion market cap and is now...

Open Source technologies have been around for years now but enterprises around the world, especially in South East Asia, have been skeptical in adopting enterprise technologies that are open source based. Ed Boyajian, President and CEO of EnterpriseDB talks about Mainstream Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Databases and the importance of employing it in organizations today. See omnystudio.c...

In a recent study by Accenture, understanding technology change – the trends that will impact your business – is no longer just the realm of IT. This year’s Accenture Technology Vision lays out the major technology trends affecting organizations in the public and private sectors. Trent Mayberry, Managing Director – Technology, ASEAN for Accenture talks about the seven trend...

Firefox OS is in its final stage and some are saying the potential in it is huge. Why? We speak to Lucas Adamski, Director of Security Engineering at Mozilla Corporation about their company structure and how they work with developers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your very own personal geek love doctors talk about the Durex Fundawear and how it is NOT the World's First! And for those couch travellers, check out hyperlapse.tllabs.io to create your own hyper lapse photography all using Google Street View. The Geeks also talks about Facebook Home's disappointing user review on Google Play. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What’s mine is yours. It’s an old motto but one that the world seems to be taking to heart. The Internet and Social Media, not to mention those ubiquitous smartphone apps are letting us rent out everything from spare rooms to a wedding dress. Someone who’d rather throw the toys out of his pram than share them is Matt Armitage from Kulturpop. See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

A. Asohan, Premesh Chandran and Goh Su Gim gets together and talk about the intense political campaigns online, DDos Attacks on independent news portals and possible solutions from Su Gim, security advisor from F-Secure.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You as the tough questions and they make sure it gets answered. That’s what a new social platform built for political leaders to communicate and answer our dying questions. We speak to Eyal Hamish, CEO of OurSay &   Jay Sonn, IT Consultant, Social entrepreneur and currently working with oursay.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We speak to Fyodor Yarochkin, a security analyst and software architect for P1sec about Russian Cyber Gangs. Formely a security analyst with Armorize Technologies and security anlyst and co-founder of GuardInfo, a taiwan based security consulting companies. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and was a speaker at Hack In The Box Security Conference 2012. See omnystudio.c...

How many times a day do you use Wikipedia? If you’re anything like Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage then you consider it to be the font of all wisdom. But are there darker forces at work? Is a dark eye casting its malevolent shadow over the world’s leading information source? What’s with all the Lord of the Rings terminology? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

The Geeks talk about CISPA, a new bill that has been passed by House of Representatives in the US that is focused on Cyber Security threats and protection to businesses who handle your personal information. Should YOU be concerned? They also talk about the new Xbox and an app that will give Lytro a run for its money. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about what happened during Disrupt event on April 24th. He also talks about STEM, MOL and Joel Neoh. And wrapping up today's show, he talks about a report from a media watchdog that says the online world has most balanced GE13 coverage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With poling day approaching very soon, many still are unregistered and some who are registered may not even be able to attend. Citizens that are dealing with disabilities face a variety of barriers to cast their vote. We speak to Daniel Castro, Senior Analyst for Information Technology & Innovation Foundation or ITIF from Washington DC, USA about Accessible Voting Technology Initiative. See om...

According to Gartner, one of their top predictions for 2013 and beyond includes "Through 2014, employee-owned devices will be compromised by malware at more than double the rate of corporate-owned devices." As employees increasingly rely on their own devices to be their lifeline to business critical data and assets, this process has created risky business practices that expose organizations to inc...

Every system is hackable. It’s a fact and even Apple’s almighty iOS system is jailbreakable. We speak to Eric McDonaly or better known as Musclenerd. He is, too many, known as one of the original developers for Jailbreaking and currently part of the iPhone Dev Team providing free jailbreaks and carries unlock since 2007. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Geeks talk about Google's Person Finder in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. Next on the news is Spotify finally arrived in Malaysia (and cheap too!) and how there's an app to stop Icelanders dating their relatives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is text speak ruining the languages we speak? Texting and services like Twitter, Whatsapp and BBM are not only changing the way we write but also the way we speak. Someone who doesn’t know his lots of love from his laugh out loud is Matt Armitage from Kulturpop. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com explains why the launch of The Star's RM20 million fund is causing him a minor migraine just before coming on the show. On a brighter side things, he talks about Echelon Malaysia 2013 and some quick updates about QEOS, Answers-in-Law, Driven Communications and AppsForAsia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A butterfly is mainly day-flying insect and its life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Trying to achieve this relationship with a different kind of Butterfly is Jeff Sandhu, our resident Techmaestro as he gives us a full review of the HTC Butterfly. See omnystudio.com/liste...

Over 1 in 2 PC’s running counterfeit software in Malaysia is infected with malwares. Dr. Dzaharudin Mansor, National Technology Officer for Microsoft Malaysia and Dr. Amirudin Abdul Wahab, CEO for CyberSecurity Malaysia talks about the findings from the Computer Security Study Phase II. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Due to the massive explosion of data and increased requirements to deliver application services to users at a faster pace, businesses in ASEAN are slowly finding it increasingly difficult to respond to service requests in a timely manner, and systems that require periodic downtime or frequent maintenance create challenges in delivering an always on computing infrastructure. John Foster, Product Di...