Tech Talk

Dr Horacio Gonzalez Velez is an associate professor and head of the cloud competency centre at the National College of Ireland in Dublin. Dr Horacio directs NCI’s cloud and data analytics infrastructure, postgraduates programmes, and research with a clear focus on innovation. He has also been given the European Commission ICT award for his efforts on scientific dissemination and is the vice-chair of CHIPSET. We speak to him about how Big Data is going to change the way we work, with everything being connected in the future.

If you have purchased something online from a Malaysian e-commerce recently, chances are you would have paid using iPay88’s gateway. With more than 60% of the market share in the country, they are looking to dominate not just Malaysia, but the entire South East Asian market. We speak to Chan Kok Long, the co-founder and executive director of iPay88 about the growing ecommerce landscape in Malaysia and the opportunities for businesses to grow in a tough economic environment.

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What makes a scientist mad? What role do mad scientists in today’s digital world play? We speak to the maddest scientist of them all, Dr John Cohn, an IBM Fellow, to get his thoughts on the next big thing in the technology space, including Cognitive and the Internet of Things.

If you have purchased something online from a Malaysian e-commerce recently, chances are you would have paid using iPay88’s gateway. With more than 60% of the market share in the country, they are looking to dominate not just Malaysia, but the entire South East Asian market. We speak to Chan Kok Long, the co-founder and executive director of iPay88 about the growing ecommerce landscape in Malaysia and the opportunities for businesses to grow in a tough economic environment.

The Geeks pay their respects to the godfather of email, Ray Tomlinson, and question how black magic works in the Internet world.

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Last week he was trying to turn people into corporations. This week he’s exploring why crowdfunding may make the future better and worse at the same time. We just want Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage to be happy.

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It's a tough month for our resident 'bad' gamers Jeff Sandhu & Richard Bradbury as they explain why it has been a tough month trying to get some good games to play and review. In this episode, they speak of their frustration with Uncharted 4 and The Division as well as their disagreement on Star Wars' new map, Survivors of Endor.

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The Geeks pay their respects to the godfather of email, Ray Tomlinson, and question how black magic works in the Internet world.

Last week he was trying to turn people into corporations. This week he’s exploring why crowdfunding may make the future better and worse at the same time. We just want Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage to be happy.

Technology has already disrupted many industries and services and now it’s seeping into education as well. Snapask is a mobile tutoring startup from Hong Kong that raised US$1.8 million last year in pre-Series A and now has expanded into Shanghai, Taiwan and Singapore as well. We speak to Timothy Yu, Co Founder of SnapAsk to find out more about how they plan to disrupt the classroom forever.

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