Tech Talk

Undoubtedly, Asia leads the world in mobile internet access. The region's mobile data pipes are getting not just bigger but "smarter", so as to keep pace with growing smartphone and tablet populations. As mobile data pipes get bigger and smarter, what new applications will take off? Leon Perera, CEO of Spire Research & Consulting & Leon Perera, Business Development Director for Spire...

Is technology important in teaching kids these days? We have seen technology creeping in high schools and universities but what about pre-schoolers? Freddie Chan, General Manager of Q-dees shares with us his projects. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Armitage from MN8 / Kulturpop.com squawks alone in this episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How Safe Is Your Online Life? We may seeing the end of passwords according to Matt Armitage, MN8 & Kulturpop.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Karamjit Singh, CEO of DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the Malaysian Entrepreneurs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Malaysian SME sector remains a robust and growing market; approximately 99.2% of businesses in Malaysia are SMEs and they account for almost 47% of Malaysia’s GDP. Of the overall SME numbers, there are at least 350,000 sole proprietors in Malaysia. Yet, most banks offer the SMEs, especially the sole proprietors, only online Consumer Banking services; they do not provide a holistic soluti...

Most recently on the 5 and 6th of November during the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), Seeburger offered a Secure Document Exchange System as complimentary to support the entire diplomatic communications between Laos and other diplomats from 51 ASEM countries. James Hatcher, Regional Director for Seeburger Inc, APAC talks about how the Document Exchange System was deployed and used for highly confi...

One of the biggest impacts of the economic recession is that people spend lesson food. People are eating out less and swapping dining out in restaurants with more home-cooked meals. Not that it’s a problem for you but it’s a problem for small and medium sized F&B outlets. James Sun, CEO of PIRQ and Benson Tan, CEO of PIRQ Malaysia aims to help SME's with their busine...

While leaving an empty seat for Matt Armitage, Jeff Sandhu reviews the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard for the iPad and wonder if this could be the answer to his problems of not being able to do "work" on the iPad. He also talks about the lady who was so obsessed with her smartphone that she nearly commited suicide when her husband forcibly took it away. Talk about being addicted! And then, there's th...

Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia talks about what happened during the 3rd DNA TeAM Disrupt Series. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to IDC, there are over 80% of new apps will be distributed / deployed on clouds in 2012 and cloud services spending will exceed $36 billion, growing at 4X the industry rate. The shift to Cloud is undeniable. Richard Wern, Senior Director, Regional Cloud Computing for Fujitsu Asia talks about this. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We speak to Preethika Ruth, Ho Jean, Nikhael Neil and Dominic Wong or better known as The Gladiators. From a 150 entrants, it is now down to the last 30 and they are the only team in Southeast Asia left for the MoonBots competition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The rise of tablets in today’s world is immense. We’ve seen Apple breaking all sorts of sales records with their iPad’s and we’ve seen a number of Android tablets breaking into the scene as well trying to get some piece of that pie. However, there’s one pie that no one actually realizes how big it is until only recently. We’re talking about affordable tablets wi...

In this weeks show, Bond takes a backseat in the tech side of things and how you can now channel surf using just your voice with Google TV. Do you like to be stalked? Then get your personal stalker app "Watching Cute Girl" available on the Apple App Store now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one sees it, does it make a sound?” It’s the favourite discussion topic of bored, sandwich-eating students the world over. But according to some computer scientists, our world could be even weirder than their first year existentialism. Glad that reality is grinding to a halt is MN8 and Kulturpop? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...

Matt Armitage goes solo this week as he talks about the most retweeted tweet of all time. And we all know Matt is not a gamer but there is one game that Matt loves and that is GTA. Grand Theft Auto is back for round 5 and Matt ponders if this means the end of PC gamers? Also, what is missing the most in your life currently? You may not realize this but you've been yearning for a touch illuminated...

Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about whether are Malaysians ready for e-commerce? Also, Ovum has released its CIO Executive Insights: Asia-Pacific tool which it claimed allows IT vendors to target the right message to the right people at the right time so Gabey takes an insight look at it. And finally Gabey talks about the danger with Google Play. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

Recently in the news we’ve seen Yahoo and Nvidia hit hard with hacks and security breaches and they were not the only ones. Sony also faced the same issue some time last year. And you might think that it’s only these big giants are the targets and not you. But have you though about your Social Networking sites? David Hall, Regional Consumer Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific for Symantec...

We love stories about cyber attacks, so we brought back Krishna Rajagopal, CEO of Akati Consulting, to talk about Cyber Warfare! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever lost data on your hard drive? Only to realize that you don’t have a backup, or that your back up failed. And the cost for data recovery doesn’t come cheap and you’re stuck with having no backups and a failed hard drive. Kenneth Teh from Dareco Origin talks about Data Recovery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to Norton Cybercrime Report 2011, in every second, 14 adults become a victim of cybercrime. Today’s threat landscape is evolving faster than it did even a year ago and cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated and determined in getting consumers to unwittingly fall for those scams. Effendy Ibrahim, Internet Safety Advocate & Director for Consumer Business Asia Syma...

Social media industry has a big influence in our daily lives. With personal targeted ads and private social media space, businesses already know that their reach is now global. A new social media player is now here and we speak to Siang Ng, Marketing Associate for Gushcloud about it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So, Windows 8 is out. What are you thoughts? And what about Windows Phone 8? Anyone liking this? The geeks also talk about Google's new Nexus devices. And they get all groovy with Movember! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How often do you hear someone complaining that the latest dazzling gizmo that has soaked up thousands of dollars of their credit card company’s hard-earned  money has broken after a minor knock or simply failed to live up to its own glimmering advertising. Someone who’s used to failure is Matt Armitage from MN8 and Kulturpop.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

Gabey Goh & A. Asohan from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. They also talk about the e-commerce space heating up with Rakuten going live in Malaysia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.