Tech Talk

Hugo Guerra is a award winning VFX Supervisor and Art Director working in the industry since 1999. Currently working as a Cinematic Director & VFX Supervisor for Fire Without Smoke, an agency specialised in Video Games marketing. His portfolio includes game titles like Gran Turismo 5, Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Patriots, Call of Duty Ghosts & Just Cause 3 to name a few. We speak to him to find out the cinematics industry of the gaming world and what he thinks about virtual reality in the gaming scene.

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In July last year, Hacking Team was a victim of a major hack where information about its client list was leaked and posted on Twitter. In that list of clients, 3 entries were very close to our hearts: The Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission, Malaysia Intelligence and the Prime Minister’s Office. One of the software purchased by the Malaysian government was the Da Vinci remote control system, a Trojan horse. However recently, the government has denied any truth in purchasing any of those. We bring back Keith Rozario, tech evangelist from keithrozario.com to explain to us what a system like Da Vinci can do and why it is vital for us to understand the risks involving spyware.

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Jeff Sandhu gives us Chinese New Year Geeks Squawk special with steps on how to win US$120 million (if you're in China!).

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What’s going to be hot in 2016? Every year around this time Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage picks his top tech trends to watch out for over the next few months. This year, it seems, is a little different.

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about whether is US$12 million dollars enough for Joel Neoh and his K-Fit adventure and what's Belazee Group's investments plans after raising a pre-seed A round.

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The financial technology sector better known as FinTech is believed by many as The Next Big Thing and is already slowly taking its place here in Southeast Asia. We speak to Igor Pesin, Investments Director and Partner for Life.SREDA, a venture capital firm focusing on investments in FinTech mobile and Internet projects, to find out what is making fintech a buzzword here in Southeast Asia.

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Finding free Internet connection when you’re on a holiday is a pain and it becomes a bad habit walking into every restaurant asking for the WiFi password. Hello Roaming is here to save you from that trouble by providing you a local SIM card of the country you’re traveling to before you even get there. We find out about how it all works with the co-founders, Serene Gan and Yoke San.

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What do you call a device that is portable like a tablet, has a brilliant keyboard and trackpad, has a stylus and running a full operating system? - It’s called the Surface. Jeff Sandhu takes the 4th generation of Microsoft's laptop killer to see if this is finally the real deal?

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Jeff Sandhu squawks alone as he talks about Netflix’s problems in Indonesia and are we next? Also he uncovers the history behind the “Be Like Bill” meme.

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According to one of his Facebook post’s from a few weeks ago, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is not a human being. He is, in fact, a silicon based life-form. And while he refuses to tell us which planet he’s on, he does have some handy tips for locating alien life.

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